Billy Gil

This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation about Valentine's Day, Trader Joe's and questionably exciting celebrity sightings.

After looking like it wasn’t going to win much of anything, '12 Years a Slave' pulled an upset and picked up Best Film at the 2014 BAFTA Awards. The British film award ceremony took place Sunday night in London.

Anklet monitors for high-risk convicts on probation may seem like a good idea on paper, but Los Angeles County probation officers are reportedly ignoring a lot of the alerts from them. That's because they're getting bombarded with "tens of thousands" of messages.

If Mayor Eric Garcetti has his way, a “people mover” will link the Crenshaw Metro line to LAX. Garcetti also said he’d like to provide more incentives for the local film industry to thrive and bid for the 2024 Olympics while speaking to KABC-TV Channel 7 in a Sunday morning talk show.

In the ongoing saga of Rufus the pacu fish, it’s “95 percent sure” he is going to be housed at Damon’s, the tiki restaurant in Glendale.

Lots of celebs posts cute photos of themselves and their loved ones over Valentine’s Day, while some predictably went over the top. See a few of our favorite funny valentines.

Police are looking for two suspects who allegedly punched a UCLA student and stole his shoes on Saturday. Police say the man was walking near Ophir Drive and Midvale Avenue around 1 a.m. when the two suspects approached him, punched him several times, took off his shoes and ran away with them.

A man was hit and killed by a car going northbound on the 405 Freeway early Sunday. The man was struck near Brookhurst Street in Fountain Valley just before 1 a.m.

Skywriting is one of those things that’s perhaps better in theory than practice, as these Valentine’s Day mishaps showed. These skywriting fails popped up on Instagram over Valentine’s Day, some of which were for Uber’s $500 skywriting service.

There’s a pig in Hawaii who can surf, and it’s ridiculously cute. Kai Holt discovered his pet pig could swim, so he decided to take him surfing.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day: The owner and operator of a revenge porn website was arrested Thursday night. Attorney General Kamala Harris announced the arrest Friday of Casey E. Meyering, 28, of Tulsa, Okla.

An Echo Park parents group has started a petition to build a fence around the playground near Echo Park Lake. The group Echo Park Parents feels that the playground is dangerously close to the lake, citing incidents where children have allegedly almost fallen into the lake or where dogs have come in from the neighboring dog path, creating a hazard for toddlers.