Adrienne Crew

The New Beverly Cinema regretfully informs its loyal audience that it's had to raise admission prices after 10 years in its latest calendar. Are you ready for the price increase...$1. We wish our landlord would resort to such tactics. Hats off to the New Beverly for fighting the good fight and only bump ticket prices up in a gentle manner to off set what is likely a growing expenditures budget. We appreciate the sentiment....

There's a nifty guide to 10 hikes in the Southern California in yesterday's "Outdoors" section of the Los Angeles Times. Speaking of walking, we noticed that this 3/14/2005 Los Angeles Times story about a growing grass-roots movement that encourages the growth of walking-friendly neighborhoods and suburbs has a SoCal slant- In at least 18 states, including California, a grass-roots movement called Safe Routes to School has won public funding to improve sidewalks, crosswalks and...

Here's some upcoming events happening around town: Tonight: If you haven't been able to get your hands on James Stewart's "Disney War," you should be able to buy one at the Central Library tonight when the author converses with Marty Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center and Associate Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication, about dramatic, inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war. During the Q&A ask the prize-winning journalist if...

Each week we're compelled to watch the "L Word," motivated by the same impulses that force motorists in traffic to gape at a car wreck on the freeway. We just can't help ourselves. We keep searching in vain for the real Los Angeles to make her appearance in this Showtime series about the lives and loves of a crew L.A.-based lesbians and their pals. After all, LA is an L Word, too. So far...

We've been away on vacation so we're just getting caught up on LA doings. We've just learned from the the always amusing Celia at her blog, called 5th and Spring, that Golden Gopher Liquor now delivers. We hope that their delivery range includes Angelino Heights...Now we're curious, what other eastside liquor stores provide home delivery?...

Filmmaker Daniel "Blair Witch Project(s)" Myrick unveils his latest projec, called "The Strand" debuts today online at www.strandvenice.com. Why does LAist care? Well, these webisodes center around characters living at Venice Beach where, as the press kit tells us, "the debris meets the sea"...and it can't suck as bad as "Fat Actress," which also takes place in Los Angeles and we watch that, too. Why do all the out-of-town filmmakers set their stories at...

North Carolina resident and Huntsville Monitor columnist Judy Rozzelle gives her readers a bracing view of Los Angeles. While the weeks of rain spoiled her pre-fabricated impression of perpetually sunny city, Ms. Rozzelle still found stereotypes to amuse the folks back home. In January, Lee [her friend in Los Angeles] and I were visiting a boutique with my two small Pomeranians, Jipper and Sassy. While I was browsing, a saleslady petted my dogs. Jipper and...

Defamer alerts us that Sharon Waxman filed a story about the Lisa Marie-Tim Burton Garage Sale in the 03/12/2005 issue of the New York Times. As predicted, the sale was a bit of a disappointment. Anxious fans, dreaming of a huge score like the mint jazz collection discarded by an angry ex in "High Fidelity," failed to find much of value in Ms. Marie's Azusa-based storage unit. [But] by 9 a.m. on Friday, not...

A couple of weeks ago, a Girl Scout in our extended family solicited our order for a box of cookies. How could we resist her pitch, which went something like this: "when are you gonna sign up for cookies?" Yep, it's time for the great spring ritual known as "Girl Scout Cookie Program," the official Girl Scout literature calls it that so LAist has adopted it, too. As any good Girl Scout already knows,...

It used to be that fiction writers came to Los Angeles to live out their remaining days as screenwriters. Like most LA "truths," this is no longer the case. More and more screenwriters and other creative professionals are turning to fiction to satisfy their expressive urges. Seth Greenland's career has taken a similar turn. Greenland is a screenwriter and playwright who uses the Los Angeles stand-up comedy scene as a backdrop for his first...