Jen Chung

San Diego's Big Bay Boom is a popular July 4th fireworks event, with over 500,000 attending last year. Last night, it really outdid itself: Due to a technical issue, all of the fireworks planned for the 18-minute spectacle went off at one, resulting in an amazing but only 15-second show. Take a look:

Frank Ocean wrote, "Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless."

For his 50th birthday, Tom Cruise flew back in Los Angeles—he had been filming his new film Oblivion in Iceland—yesterday. It's believed that he's meeting with lawyers to discuss the divorce filing wife Katie Holmes surprised him with last week... and apparently Holmes refused Cruise's plea to meet with him in Iceland for reconciliation.

Los Angeles-based designer Jeremy Scott is trying to weather the controversy over his collaboration with Adidas. The JS Roundhouse Mids, which were supposed to be released in August, feature ankle shackles, which sparked some talk that the sneakers were racist and recalled slavery.

As Los Angeles—and the country as a whole—reflects on the death of Rodney King, it's notable that King ultimately managed to forgive the extreme police brutality that nearly killed him in 1991.

In the world of art, does copyright for origami patterns matter? A group of renowned origami artists are suing a painter, accusing her of copyright infringement by adapting their design for her works. But the painter, Sarah Morris, claims using found images is an accepted practice, "Whatever you think of, say, Warhol, Lichtenberg, Rauchenberg, imagine you lost all of that work. Imagine that wasn’t there in the 20th century. That’s what would happen, you know?"

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has charged U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson after a series of traffic incidents in the San Gabriel Valley. Apparently authorities, who eventually found Bryson, 68, unconscious and alone in his vehicle, do no believe drugs or alcohol were involved. Here's how LASD describes the incident:

After Tupac Shakur performed at Coachella via hologram, the jokes started about an all-hologram line-up. But Digicon Media has been planning a hologram Marilyn Monroe concert—and her estate is not happy!

Oh, Madonna. After doing a mash-up of her "Express Yourself" with Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" during a rehearsal, the superstar has now offered up another reference to a fellow diva singer: At her MDNA concert in Turkey last night, she showed off her right nipple.

A controversial author wouldn't mind writing a screenplay for the controversial BDSM bestseller.

No occupying this plane: A New York-based banking executive was not allowed to travel on a LAX-Sydney flight due to bad behavior on May 22. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, there were two incidents which apparently pissed off Qantas flight crew members.

A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $900,000 for pain and suffering after she contracted genital herpes from a man she met on eHarmony.