Emma G. Gallegos

Which corners of the world are doing their best to rep at Coachella? The Atlantic's Richard Florida crunched the numbers and found that Swedes, Brits, Austinites and Angelenos are overrepresented at the festival.

A passenger on a bus punched a 26-year-old lady in the face twice, took her cell phone and ran away early in the morning about a week ago, police say. The robbery happened at 6:15 a.m. on January 9 near the intersection of Pico and La Cienega boulevards.

Deputies announced today that they found some interesting clues: it appears that the skeleton—whose gender is still undetermined—had a gunshot wound to the skull, and there was a handgun nearby.

The last time anyone saw Bree'Anna Guzman she was stepping out to pick up some cough drops at a drug store on December 26. Nearly a month later, there's been no trace of the 22-year-old mother of the two from Lincoln Heights. She never came home and she never reported to work.

It's redistricting season in the city of Los Angeles, and the Log Cabin Republicans want to have their say in how city council district lines get redrawn. The local chapter is lobbying for gays to have their own district. Right now the neighborhoods that (anecdotally at least) have the highest concentration of gays are split up.

The infamous sprawl of the Southland and its many municipalities makes it a challenge compared to other cities. That's why Metro is hosting meetings to think about the big picture: what would a county-wide bike-sharing program look like?

A Hollywood photo agency is shopping for a buyer willing to fork over big bucks for a grisly photo: a woman posing with the severed head that some dog sniffed out on a stroll through the Hollywood Hills.

A year ago a plastic surgeon in Orange County agreed to surrender his medical license after he was accused of coming onto one patient in for breast implants and having sex with a tummy tuck patient—while her husband and children waited outside.

The ACLU is suing the Sheriff's Department, claiming that top commanders knew that inmates were being brutalized but failed to do anything about it. "This suit is directed at them because they have allowed deputies to go unpunished, covered up their behavior and for years made no effort to reform this broken system," said Peter Eliasberg, legal director of the ACLU of Southern California.

Are you worried that the chemicals you're using to turn you into a Oompa Loompa bronzed goddess might not be totally organic? This sign sent into us—spotted in the window of an Atwater Village salon—assures you there's nothing to worry about.

Can piped-in bird songs fight crime? The mayor of Lancaster R. Rex Parris claims it's the truth, it's actual, everything is satisfactual. Ten months ago the city installed speakers in a "crime infested" stretch of downtown Lancaster.

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