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Gutierrez holds a degree from the School of Electronic Engineering in Medellin, Colombia. He serves on the Board of Directors for Eyes of Innocence, a charity that benefits children worldwide.

In 1987, U2 did a little guerrilla music video shoot on top of the Republic Liquor Store at 7th and Main in Downtown Los Angeles. Only announced hours before the shoot on the radio, thousands and thousands of fans poured into what many considered a bad part of town prompting the LAPD to have a little freak out and try shut down the show before anything happened. Luckily, in the name of rock n'...

- Bakersfield man pissed off that the local school district was changing the names of the winter and spring breaks to the Easter and Christmas break lit an American flag, a fake Revolutionary flag, and a Christmas tree on fire. When he saw the sheriff coming towards him, he set himself on fire - AP - "With the Wiimote strapped firmly on your hips, you must thrust and gyrate in a 'pleasing' manner. For...

As we continue to celebrate LA poet Charles Bukowski this week, we turn our attentions to rock stars Tom Waits and Bono, who read two poems that were written at the end of the master's long life. Waits was clearly a fan of the work, and one can hear quite a bit of the Bukowski style in some of Waits' tunes, in particular the song/story "Swordfishtrombones." And Bono is just jumping on another bandwagon,...