INDIO >> Major Lazer, the electronic group famously featuring Jack U’s Diplo, added some special guests to their Coachella party Sunday night. Reggae star Sean Paul, clad in glasses, red hat and T-shirt, came on stage to perform toward the end of “Light It Up.” Singer Mo sang during the hit song “Le...

They come to Coachella from everywhere, for every reason. Want to camp in the desert heat with thousands of like-minded souls? C’mon out. Care to wander the expansive grounds on which the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is based, wild and beautiful art installations, eating everything from ...

INDIO >> Surprise guests were definitely the fashionable accessory onstage during the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival as several una ounced performers tu ed up during sets by Guns N’ Roses, Ice Cube, Zedd and more. That there would be some surprise performers, however, ...

Twice a year, a small village grows inside the Empire Polo Club. Thousands of campers set up outside the Coachella Music Festival’s gates like partying invaders sieging a castle. The seemingly never-ending rows and rows of tents and cars, complete with their own street signs and addresses, cut acros...

Five months after the pending deal was a ounced, a new Smart & Final Extra store is set to open in the next few weeks on 25th Street and Weste Avenue in San Pedro. “When the Haggen locations became available we certainly thought this was a good location for a Smart & Final so we jumped at the opport...

With the sun begi ing to set on the last night of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s weekend one, traffic and wind also began to wind down. A National Weather Service report issued Sunday afte oon said the gusty winds that have ruffled festival-goers all weekend were diminishing and by n...

Another race on the streets of Long Beach, the best of its kind in the country, is in the books. It wasn’t as exciting as some in previous years, though Simon Pagenaud and Scott Dixon did their very best to keep television viewers and those on hand entertained. Of course, anytime a wi er can edge se...

INDIO >> No Wi ebago-size snails trailing behind packs of festival-goers. No gargantuan butterflies spreading their multi-colored wings across Indio’s Empire Polo Club grounds. No 36-foot-tall astronauts moon-walking across the festival’s earthscape. The dominant art installation at this year’s Coac...

A woman crashed her vehicle into a center median and then into a house on Paramount Boulevard in Downey early Sunday, and police said she was drunk. The crash was at about 12:55 a.m. on Paramount Boulevard at Gallatin Road, and it caused “major structural damage,” a Downey police officer said. Nobod...

Tenor saxophonist and bandleader Kamasi Washington put together an amazing 3 p.m. set at the Sunday Coachella festival at the Outdoor Theatre with his 11-musician group. Here are the top 6 moments (because 5 were not enough): Father’s day: Washington brought up his dad Ricky Washington to play flute...

LOWELL, MASS. >> Hun Manet, a lieutenant general in the Cambodian military, said this weekend he was “puzzled” by opposition to his visit to this country, but portrayed the criticism as coming from a vocal minority who closed themselves off to an exchange of ideas during his stop. Manet’s stop in Lo...

That adorable bike helmet for little boys, with the stuffed shark protruding from the top? It cost $14.99 at Target. That adorable bike helmet for little girls, with the stuffed unico protruding from the top? It cost $27.99 at Target. And so it goes for toys, clothing, shampoo and even adult diapers...

A man was struck by a car and killed early Sunday while he was “ru ing in circles” on the Gle Anderson (105) freeway in Downey, authorities said. It occurred at 1:49 a.m., according to the CHP. A 50-year-old Riverside woman was driving eastbound on the freeway in Santa Fe Springs in a 2010 Honda Ody...

LOWELL, MASS. >> Hun Manet, a lieutenant general in the Cambodian military, said this weekend he was “puzzled” by opposition to his visit to this country, but portrayed the criticism as coming from a vocal minority who closed themselves off to an exchange of ideas during his stop. Manet’s stop in Lo...

Lyon Housing, the owner of the Pumpkin Patch east of the Marketplace shopping center on Pacific Coast Highway, has agreed to pay the city’s consulting costs for a proposal to move oil operations from the Los Cerritos Wetlands on the other side of Second Street. The proposal to restore 152 acres of t...

When you’re in the business of building the world’s largest land-based telescope you need room to grow. That’s what prompted the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization’s recent move to a larger 46,000-square-foot location at 465 N. Halstead St. in Pasadena. It’s a significant step up from the organiz...

NEW YORK >> The Walt Disney Co.’s “The Jungle Book” opened with $103.6 million in North America, making it one of the biggest April debuts ever at the box office and continuing the studio’s streak of unearthing live-action riches buried in its animated classics. Jon Favreau’s update of Disney’s 1967...

LOS ANGELES >> Firefighters from the Los Angeles County Fire Department are on alert to scramble to Ecuador today, in the aftermath of the earthquake that killed at least 238 people. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the central Ecuador coast Saturday, leveling buildings and rupturing roadways, accor...

On Saturday, April 16, Guns N’ Roses delivered an electrifying jolt of rock ‘n’ roll to the Empire Polo Club in Indio. The band played a 2 1/2-hour set of its biggest hits and deep cuts at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The entire show was epic, but here are the 10 defining moments. •...

LOWELL, MASS. >> Hun Manet, a lieutenant general in the Cambodian military, said this weekend he was “puzzled” by opposition to his visit to this country, but portrayed the criticism as coming from a vocal minority who closed themselves off to an exchange of ideas during his stop. Manet’s stop in Lo...