Adrienne Crew

We're sure there's a special ring of hell specially reserved for Angelenos and their crazy-making ways. In fact, we're certain there is. We're so sure that we're launching a new semi-regular feature called "The Intolerables" that reimagines these folks as mythic super villains, worthy adversary of any superhero, who are destined to populate Hades and every other mythic universe. Today, we're inspired by those folks who just cannot share. We're sure they were intolerable...

Ever since our tour of Body Worlds, we've been looking at the world in a whole new way. Everything seems more corporeal. Therefore, we did a double take when we spotted this SUV in the Mid- Wilshire district. The black SUV has a Harly Davidson grille in front and handicap sticker on its license plates. We like the driver's style and think he'll go far; after all he's already got a foot in the...

WRAD, a non-profit organization for the deaf and hard of hearing people and their families and friends, has started a new group called the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Professionals Happy Hour. The gathering will be held once a month on the SECOND Friday of the month and provide deaf and hoh folks with the opportunity to meet other professionals in any field for the purpose of exchanging information and to have a good...

The Oscar statuettes are coming! PAGE SIX reports that the 50 trophies will arrive today in Los Angeles via Chicago on United Airlines Flight 854 at 10:19 p.m. Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Noreen Prohaska, a rep for R.S. Owens and Co., which manufactures the Oscars, will accompany the shipment. The duo and their gold men will arrive with 4-foot-tall Oscar decals on the nose of...

According to the press release we've recently dug up from the Grammy Foundation, Warner Music Group chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. will deliver the keynote address at the 7th Annual Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Luncheon & Scholarship Presentation on Feb. 11, 2005, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The event begins at 11 a.m. and will feature live performances by special guest artists, in addition to the scholarship presentations. Wonder...

Is it us or is there a coffee war brewing on Cahuenga and Selma? We've counted 3 coffee places opening up in the last 4 weeks. To wit, we now have Karma Coffee House, Coffee Groundwork and Caffe Etc...c'mon, Los Angeles Film School students can't consume that much caffeine. We know the Cahuenga/Selma area is a hot spot for hipsters now that Tokio has landed up the street, but do they really need all...

On February 5th, we posted an item about taxis in Los Angeles. The entry inspired a former cab driver to write in and share interesting insights into how the LA cab scene really works. We thought we'd share it with everyone. As a young former cab driver, and for a year or so one of only a handful of native-English-speaking drivers to prowl the streets of LA, I feel uniquely qualified to comment on this....

Hilary MacGregor of the Los Angeles Times reports on a roundtable discussion at UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History, organized in conjunction with exhibit "Botánica Los Angeles: Latino Popular Religious Art in the City of Angels," which closes March 6th. The exhibit focuses on the artistic, religious and cultural aspects of botanicas. Patrick Polk, a visiting professor at UCLA who has studied botanicas for more than a decade, believes there are more here in...

Bob Pool reports in the 2/5/05 edition of the Los Angeles Times about how the current Topanga Canyon roadblock affects residents in the canyons and beyond. An 80-foot washout has forced the off-again, on-again closure of the heavily used route since Jan. 10. And now state highway officials say a 17-hour-per-day shutdown will likely continue through the end of March. Some residents are happy about the slower pace but commuters are growing frustrated, many...

Seems many restaurants have theme nights in LA. We've noticed that Monday's become a popular night for restaurateurs to cook up specials to entice patrons in on a school night. Gayot.com's has posted 2 separate announcements from restaurants regarding Monday specials: Wine & Cheese Tastings Maison 140 hotel in Beverly Hills (near the Peninsula Hotel) has partnered with The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills to host monthly wine and cheese tastings in the hotel's...