Emma G. Gallegos

Happy Bike Week, guys! The numbers are out, and it sounds like there are more of you celebrating it this year.

Southern California is a blessed place where skateboarding is not just a way to while away adolescence, but a way of life and a legit mode of transportation for grown-ups.

You did it, transit nerds. You successfully shamed a man who quit his bike for his car and turned him into one of you.

A new survey out by Metro this week asks riders about sexual harassment, and the results, while not surprising, aren't good: about one out of every five riders say that they've been sexually harassed in the past month.

Ever since news broke that Donald Sterling had been barred from the NBA, the rumormill about who might—or who should—make a bid to buy the Clippers has kicked into overdrive.

Metro is pretty pleased with its experiment in converting 25 miles of carpool lanes into toll lanes. The board considers it such a success that it wants to make those toll lanes permanent and consider expanding the program to the other 435 miles of carpool lanes in the county. The next carpool lanes in its sights? The 405.

The New York Times came out with a map today showing how baseball fans' allegiances shake out on Facebook.

Everything takes on the air of suspicion when you're at an airport: old ladies who need applesauce, moms carrying breast milk for baby and alt girls with their nipple rings.

Actor William Hurt has pulled out of his starring role in the troubled production of the Gregg Allman biopic "Midnight Rider."

Behind-the-scenes workers in the film industry have vowed to boycott production of the movie "Midnight Rider." Production was halted on the Gregg Allman biopic after a 27-year-old assistant camera operator was killed by a train on the set during the first day of shooting.

Oscar-winning screenwriter and alumnus Dustin Lance Black was slated to speak at Pasadena City College's commencement this spring, until the college found out that in 2010 someone had leaked nude photos that showed him—gasp!—having unprotected sex with his boyfriend.

When we heard Texas politicians making overtures toward the embattled Sriracha factory, we initially brushed them aside. This just sounded like Texas' way of making a point that California is more in love with its red tape than its red rooster sauce. Huy Fong Foods would never leave the Golden State where its chilies come from, right?