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Things can get crazy at Coachella: Not only do dead rap superstars get resurrected as holograms for a performance, but a helluva lot of people lose their cellphones.

What better spot than The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) for a space in the city devoted to our interactions with nature? Today the NHM opened up a portion of their 3.5-acre North Campus that will serve as an "urban nature experience" for kids and adults ready to learn a little more about the wonders of the natural world.

As part of the ongoing repairs stemming from a fiery April 7th crash on the 134 Freeway near Glendale, Caltrans will be closing down sections of the freeway for three consecutive nights this weekend starting Friday.

DNA evidence has allegedly provided the link between a man who celebrated his 51st birthday this week and a three-decades-old crime. Joseph Allen Thornton is accused of the rape and murder of Blanca Stella Negrete, 21, who was killed June 27, 1981.

The Los Angeles Police Department say they have taken a juvenile into custody in connection with the shooting of a teen boy in Pacoima Thursday.

A controversial plan to erect a 175-foot Ferris wheel on Venice Beach has been scrapped, reports Venice Patch, and it was the City of L.A. that pulled the plug.

A group of sixth graders at Rancho Dominguez Prep School in Long Beach say they discovered their substitute teacher had possibly set up a camera under his desk to record them in the classroom. Now that teacher has been removed from the school while the Los Angeles Unified School District launches an investigation into the allegations.

Your hit of Whit was listed as available--temporarily--at 45 Cap Elite Herbal Center, according to the Huffington Post, who found the strain included on the venue's page on WeedMaps.com.

Are our local cities paying the price for legal troubles? A data set compiled and released by the L.A. Times ranks spending on city attorneys in the 88 cities in Los Angeles County.

Since Tupac's hologram one-upped the Nat "King" Cole duets of the early 1990s and hit the stage this past weekend at Coachella, naturally the web has given rise to a spoof poster detailing an imagined all-hologram lineup.

Maybe we should back up: Did you know the City of Los Angeles has an official plant? Okay, as of this week, we do. And what is that honored bit of botany? It's the Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), and it's about to be all over the city's main civic grounds, City Hall.

We are definitely not trying to break your heart (unless you don't get tickets): KCRW has just announced that Wilco will close out the summer season at the Hollywood Bowl with a special "encore concert" in the station's popular World Festival series on September 30.