Emma G. Gallegos

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Halle Berry has one on the way, Nora Ephron is the subject of a documentary and a banana slicer gets reviewed. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Rihanna gets swatted, newlyweds gain weight and Cat Marnell's crazy book proposal. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

There are many excellent reasons to not drink and drive, and just one of them is that you could get caught at one of four checkpoints that LAPD is planning for the weekend. LAPD and other police agencies do like to announce these checkpoints, because it reminds would-be drunk drivers that police officers are on the lookout for them (and not just at checkpoints!).

This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation from Trader Joe's, Melrose and other places that remind us a little of the 405. Our Overheard in L.A. feature relies on you to send us the strange conversations you overhear in this city.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a drug addict gets a book deal, GPS devices don't work and a Fountain Valley teen loses her limbs to a bacterial disease and a Google Doodle backlash. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

Get out so you can celebrate spring, head to the opera or catch some classic movies.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, a 12-year-old is inspiring us to read and film locations still hate those green bike lanes. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

Police have named one of two men that they suspect of kidnapping a 10-year-old Northridge girl from her home last Wednesday. Police are asking for the public's help finding Tobias Dustin Summers, 30, who was named as a suspect. They said he has short blond hair, large tattoos of a flaming skeleton and a woman on his right arm.

Brace yourselves: parts of Los Feliz Boulevard is going to be shut down during the daytime starting this week while crews from the Department of Water and Power replace underground electric lines. The project won't let up until fall.

In tonight's Extra, Extra, JT is a Coachella cliche, a former president's fascination with bald heads and a not totally kosher scandal. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

In tonight's Extra, Extra, what it was like writing "heart moments" for "Full House," how to Real Housewives fare against real housewives in divorce and justice (or lack thereof) in California. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. You can also find us on Pinterest, Storify, Foursquare, and Instagram (laistpics).

Lil Wayne is speaking out for the first time about how he ended up in the ICU at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Yesterday he told Power 106 in L.A. that he suffers from epilepsy and that he often has seizures, though he hasn't spoken out publicly about them: "Like, this isn’t my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh seizure. I’ve had a bunch of seizures, y’all just never hear about them."