Adrienne Crew

In case you haven't heard, or you're blind to all those glittering "Welcome Home" billboards posted around town, Disneyland turns 50 years old today. Or at least, the corporate behemouth that birthed the happiest place on earth has opted to celebrate the anniversary today. Notebook LA has all the dirt, as its owner attended the press preview yesterday. We'd be lying if we said we're sure looking forward to the new "Walt Disney's Parade...

This week's Los Angeles Times Food Section produces an special issue focused on farmer's markets. This year they not only update the masterlist of Farmer's Markets area but also includes a special survey of the smaller, neighborhood markets. Susan LaTempa writes, "But at the smaller markets, that mission -- bringing fresh produce to city dwellers while making it possible for small farmers to sell directly to consumers at retail prices -- is thriving. As...

In the May 1, 2005 edition of the Los Angeles Times, Lynell George's piece "Soundtrack for a Lost L.A." chronicles the evolution of Ry Cooder's latest album, "Chavez Ravine," and unearths a tangled episode in LA's history. Scheduled to debut June 7th, the album, named after a Mexican American neighborhood that was bulldozed in the early '50s to make way for a promised public housing project that eventually became the site of Dodger Stadium,...

There's something for everybody in LA today: Sports Fans • 6:30 pm : Odalis Perez, the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher will be signing autographs, with a purchase of $35 or more from the Major League Baseball feature shop at Toys "R" Us,. 4/28/05 6:30 PM at Toys-R-Us - Los Feliz Blvd. Glendale, CA. Art/Design Fans • 6:30 pm -7:00 pm : Jeremy Strick, Visual Music co-curator and MOCA director on Visual Music exhibit at...

We're so relieved to learn the real story behind the death of one of Carrie Fisher's houseguests on Oscar eve. Today's New York Times story "The Mystery of Hollywood's Dead Republican" by David M. Halbfinger and Dennis McDougal, via LA Observed, elaborates on how R. Gregory Stevens came to expire at Carrie Fisher's house and publishes her first interview on the subject. It appears that Mr. Stevens did die of a drug overdose and...

This LA Weekly story about millner Corinna Myla Haywood inspired us to address a sore sartorial subject: LA hipster-boys who still sport that tired trucker hat look. Fellas, and ladies if we must, it's time to consider a new hipster chapeau. Summer's almost here and we know the trucker hat bill comes in handy as a sunshade and unwashed-hair disguiser, but enough is enough. LAist has taken the liberty of combing the web for...

Passover begins this weekend and we've seen plenty of Angelenos stocking up for seders. We saw items for the holiday at the Burbank Costco (but they didn't have the dancing Matzo Man (shown at right) for sale like at Walgreens on Wilshire Blvd near Formosa): Yehuda Passover Matzos at $5.99 for 5 1lb boxes. But how do they taste? Costco also had 64 oz jars of Rokeach Gefilte fish for $5.79 and 6.75 oz...

The L Word for this week's episode should have been "Learning Curve" because everyone learned something new: Bette learned that Tina has learned a few new tricks; Helena learned that Tina has learned a few new tricks; Shane learned that she's got something special, afterall; Mark learned that Carmen's had an ulterior motive; Jenny learned that Mark holds the key to many secrets; Dana learned that strap-ons come in all shapes and sizes; Kit learned...

We sure hope the folks at World of Wonder transcribe and post the presentation of Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey (WOW's principals) when they discuss Paul Verhoeven's STARSHIP TROOPERS on Thursday, April 21 at the Skirball Cultural Center. Wouldn't it be great if they then added a video copy of the presentation to the inevitable "Starship Troopers Special Edition"? That would another DVD release of the same film special indeed. The fun starts at...

Readers of the LA Weekly may already be familiar with the party photographs taken by Mark Hunter AKA Mark The Cobrasnake. Mark seems to frequent all the spaces where the young like to frolic and documents their fun on his website thecobrasnake.com. Click through his site, you may see someone you know doing something they shouldn't... This week, Mark brings his unique perspective to the LAist Interview: Age and Occupation: Under 21 and a photographer...