INDIO >> The second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is typically known for an abundance of die-hard fans, the kind who don’t leave sets early and who know the lyrics to every song. Or, as one attendee put it, “Second weekend is for people who care.” • Photos: Coachella 2016 b...

INDIO >> Oxnard R & B singer and hip-hop artist Anderson .Paak’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival set during the second weekend featured hip-hop legend Dr. Dre and hip-hop superstar Kendrick Lamar. • Social Media: See how fans reacted to Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar during Anderson .Paak’s set Dr...

INDIO >> Think the lineup of musical acts at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is eclectic? Check out the food. Multi-course gourmet meals from real big-city eateries. Acai fruit bowls. Burgers topped with cheddar and pepperoncini. Shrimp and grits. And, of course, Cheetos fries. “There h...

INDIO >> From high-end hot-dogs to fresh fruit bowls, the food is as diverse as the music at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Here’s the top five festival favorites: Coachella Dogs, from Sumo Dog The lines are always long for Sumo Dog, which serves a variety of high-end red-hots on buns...

PASADENA >> KPCC radio news anchor Steve Julian has died from complications of brain cancer, the radio station a ounced Sunday. Julian, 57, had anchored “Mo ing Edition” on the NPR member station since 2000, doing local news and traffic inserts on the daily network feed on FM 89.3 in the Los Angeles...

INDIO >> Los Angeles saxophonist Kamasi Washington again crafted a tremendous set for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival attendees Sunday this time increasing his band to 13-members and adding a Prince tribute at the end. Here’s a few of the highlights: • The Prince tribute came during the ban...

Michael Long rose to minor fame in the 1990s as a world champion in the card game “Magic: the Gathering,” but at Coachella this weekend, he’s “the guy” who brought his practically brand-new Lamborghini to the music festival’s dusty campground. Parked in dead grass between a Subaru and Ford Focus, th...

Many people know Long Beach has bicycling infrastructure. But they probably don’t know where more than 120 miles of different bike paths are or about other programs and projects in the city’s Bike Master Plan. Additionally, the plan needs some fine-tuning, city pla er Ira Brown said, since it was ap...

Long Beach would not be Long Beach without the Pacific Ocean. The Aquarium of the Pacific’s seventh a ual Urban Ocean Festival is scheduled to take place Saturday and next Sunday. Event organizers are seeking to give visitors an improved understanding of the co ections between Califo ia’s seventh mo...

It’s going to be another wild and windy day at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival. An alert sent via the Coachella smartphone app wa ed campers that strong winds are on the way. “We have a strong wind advisory late this afte oon into the evening,” the alert said. “Please take the tops off ...

Michael Long rose to minor fame in the 1990s as a world champion in the card game “Magic: the Gathering,” but at Coachella this weekend, he’s “the guy” who brought his practically brand-new Lamborghini to the music festival’s dusty campground. Parked in dead grass between a Subaru and Ford Focus, th...

A memorial dedicated to the more than 6,800 U.S. service members killed on post-Sept. 11 missions is nearing completion in Long Beach, and organizers are asking for donations to help pay for the project before its Memorial Day unveiling. The Honoring Our Fallen Memorial Wall will be made of 10 grani...

In our self-flagellatory column about being an idiot with regard to our brush with Prince in 1981, we asked only one thing of readers: “No emails or calls or reporting in other media about how stupid we were. No sharing on Twitter or Facebook. This is strictly between us and you. We’re invoking colu...

Many people know Long Beach has bicycling infrastructure. But they probably don’t know where more than 120 miles of different bike paths are or about other programs and projects in the city’s Bike Master Plan. Additionally, the plan needs some fine-tuning, city pla er Ira Brown said, since it was ap...

Long Beach would not be Long Beach without the Pacific Ocean. The Aquarium of the Pacific’s seventh a ual Urban Ocean Festival is scheduled to take place April 30 and May 1. Event organizers are seeking to give visitors an improved understanding of the co ections between Califo ia’s seventh most pop...

NEW YORK >> A day after North Korea’s foreign minister told The Associated Press that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its a ual military exercises with South Korea, President Barack Obama said Sunday that Washington isn’t taking the proposal seriously and...

By Wes Woods II @IEMusicNow For the final day of the Coachella festival, here are the potential highlights. Remember, this is only a guide. Calvin Harris is not everyone’s favorite, but there is no denying his effect on audiences or the potential guests he can bring. Last week, he had one of the lar...

MOUNTAIN VIEW >> A solar-powered airplane on a mission to fly around the world landed in Califo ia, completing a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 in Mountain View, in the Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, at 11:45 p.m. Saturday ...

I’ve seen a unico . Twice. That’s the best way I can describe what it was like to watch two headlining sets from Guns N’ Roses at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Axl Rose, bassist Duff McKagan, Slash, Dizzy Reed, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer and Melissa...

NEW YORK >> A day after North Korea’s foreign minister told The Associated Press that his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its a ual military exercises with South Korea, President Barack Obama said Sunday that Washington isn’t taking the proposal seriously and...