Frequent Marilyn Manson collaborator Johnny Depp joined the paint-face rocker on stage at the Roxy in Los Angeles this Halloween, where he shredded on guitar and kept his sunglasses on. Ninja from Die Antwoord was also there, and the whole thing was very strange.

Where do you have to be born to say that you're from a given city and not be lying? Back in August, prompted by a New Republic article called "Don't Say You're From the City If You're Really From the 'Burbs," we asked you—Gawker readers—to tell us the real borders of some of America's largest cities. Here are your answers.

Bummer city: Los Angeles' Bureau of Street Services has nixed a plan to run a giant slip 'n slide through downtown streets next weekend for fear that it might be a bad look given California's ongoing historic drought.

Danièle Watts, an African-American actress who played Coco in Django Unchained and appears as Martin Lawrence's daughter on FX's Partners, says she was handcuffed and detained on Thursday by police in Los Angeles who suspected she was a prostitute.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Christopher Richard Garcia, a deputy city attorney for Los Angeles, was arrested Thursday on multiple charges of possessing and suspicion to distribute child pornography. He had reportedly been under investigation for a year.

Ezell Ford, 25, was shot and killed by LAPD officers near his home in Los Angeles' Florence neighborhood Monday evening. Ford was unarmed, and a man who identified himself as a witness told local news outlet KTLA that cops shot Ford multiple times in the back while he laid down on the sidewalk.

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." —Jake Barnes, in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, 1926

A lightning strike in Venice Beach, Los Angeles yesterday killed a 20-year-old man and injured 13 others, one critically. Firefighters believe lightning struck the ocean and spread through the water, ABC reports.

Two weeks ago, XO Jane published an essay by a woman who told of being sexually harassed in high school by a teacher who touched her and flirted with her. Now, the incident has become a full blown scandal at one of L.A.'s most prestigious private day schools.

A cop in Los Angeles was captured on video beating a woman who had been walking along the Interstate 10 freeway in Los Angeles, endangering herself and others, officials say. After the video began to spread, the California Highway Patrol has vowed to investigate the circumstances that led to the violent beating.

A car chase in Los Angeles this morning ended with the suspect fleeing his car with a rifle and climbing to the roof of a building, where he's currently in a stand-off with the LAPD.

Two more little earthquakes hit the Los Angeles area this morning. Imagine me saying that in the most ennui-laden voice possible, since it happens all the time now. Does this portend L.A.'s final doom? Maybe.

An oil pipe in Los Angeles county ruptured early Thursday morning, spilling at least 10,000 gallons of crude oil into streets. The spilled oil covers roughly half a mile in Glendale and is reportedly knee-deep in some areas, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

A 4.4 magnitude earthquake just hit Los Angeles.

It was only a few weeks ago that Rosa Torres and her young son lost Raffiki, their Rhodesian ridgeback puppy, out of their L.A. backyard. But now Raffiki has a new name and a new home—and her fate has some animal lovers questioning the ethics of the group that "rescued" her.

Meet Creeper and Wino, two "homies" learning to hold AK-47s like OGs and trying to take the piss out of Bashar Al-Assad's "enemigos" in the middle of Syria's civil war.

Now that every Oscar attendee has been freed from Spanx hell and the self-aggrandizing celebrity beatoff ceremony has come to a close, we can return to discussion of who's hot in Los Angeles and who is a wet pile of poorly performing public duties. Hot off the presses: the LAFD has been sleeping on the job.

Decades of accumulated weather data show that Los Angeles, California has more pleasant days per year than any other city in America, which is all the more reason to bulldoze Los Angeles and move New York City there.

A new weekly magazine called California Sunday was announced this morning, and reaction was immediate and joyous. The very creative business idea is to put the print mag inside the state's biggest Sunday papers, while having all the websites and apps that are exciting to new-media people but can't charge Sunday paper ad rates.