Adrienne Crew

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Silver Wear on Rowena in Silver Lake doesn't sell clothes made of cutlery or tin foil, but we still like its store front style....

Gabrielle Middaugh Pascoe is a journalist and webentrepreneur determined to enlighten Angelenos about every fascinating activity that our metropolis has to offer. She edits and distributes a daily email newsletter called Single Shot, which delivers tips and information on the very best people and places and things in the city of Los Angeles. Age: 35 Occupation: Founder, Single Shot How long have you lived in Los Angeles, and which neighborhood do you live in?:...

Today's Los Angeles Times reports that famed ventriloquist and kid TV vet, Paul Winchell, died at his home in Moorpark on Friday. The Times obit says: Although he was a legendary ventriloquist and built a career attracting legions of followers of that dwindling art, Winchell's most durable legacy may be his rich voice as Tigger and other animated characters on television and in motion pictures. He became the lovable Tigger in 1968 for Disney's...

David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary has just gone bi-coastal. He informs readers that, beginning today, a NYSD West Coast edition will be published every Friday in the form of a new column by "The DuPont Twins in Hollywood" (pictured above). We welcome the idea of a society column about Los Angeles, but we wish DPC (as Columbia's affectionately known by his society swans and readers) would direct his correspondents to focus more...

that this weekend is packed with all sorts of activities: *Taschen, the high-end dirty art book publisher, is having a warehouse sale: Friday June 24th - Sunday June 26th, 10am to 8pm TASCHEN Store Los Angeles 354 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Open every day *"Is It Really So Strange" film by Los Angeles artist William E. Jones about Latino Morrissey fans will screen this weekend as one of projects funded in...

Writers Bloc presents prolific author Joyce Carol Oates in conversation with David Ulin at the Skirball Cultural Center tonight, June 21st, at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $20. Reservations suggested. You can call Writers Bloc at (310) 335-0917....

When asked by "Entertainment Weekly" about the biggest difference between London and LA, actor Hugh Laurie replied "People here drive like baboons on crack--they've stolen the keys and sort of figured out how to switch the thing on. I'm staggered by it." He's not wrong. We're constantly amazed by the traffic manuevers we witness on the streets of Los Angeles and the greater Southern Californian region. After consulting the 2005 California Drivers Handbook, LAist...

Rodger Jacobs is an author, journalist, documentary producer, blogger and familiar gadfly in the LA blogosphere. He has just published his latest project about one of Los Angeles's most well known murder cases in the 80s. Called the Wonderland Killings, the brutal murder of 4 people in a Laurel Canyon home gained even more noteriety when authorities discovered that porn star John Holmes had played a mysterious role in the case. Age and Occupation:...

Did you feel the quake today? Here's the first details-- MAP 5.3 2005/06/16 13:53:25 34.058N 117.007W 12.5 4 km ( 2 mi) NE of Yucaipa, CA It felt like a 4.5 or so... Update: It was a 5.3 quake in Yucaipa followed by two smaller aftershocks. No damage or injuries have yet been reported. It is the third decent sized quake in California since Sunday morning (--ed)....

We're still chuckling over ABC Carpet & Home co-founder Evan Cole's pronouncements in today's "New York Times" Home and Garden profile(found via Apartment Therapy). Cole has come to LA to reinvent himself with a new home furnishings emporium called HD Buttercup, which is located in the Helms Bakery building in Culver City. A new Brentwood resident, Cole should fit right in with the area's other visionaries. "I take A.D.D. to a new level," he...