Adrienne Crew

Deep in Monrovia, just off the 210 heading east, lives a magical place that lifts, holds and separates the hearts of women. The kind folks at the Wizard of Bras shop take the time to help customers find bras and bathing suits that really fit and sell the most beautiful bras from Europe. It's such a jewel that our naughtier friends refer to it as the Emerald Titty....

As if there's no greater proof that there's a higher power at work in LA, may we draw your attention to the fact that Oliver Stone & David Corn will be conversing about politics tonight 7 PM at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Westwood, while across town four past governors of California will discuss whether California is governable at 7:00 p.m. in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center. Talk about a...

We just read in the July 4-11, 2005 issue of "New York" magazine that singer-iconoclast Michelle Shocked has resettled in LA. Don't know who Michelle Shocked is? Well, she's just your garden variety "orginal punk-bluegrass artist with a big mouth," as "New York" put it. The magazine says her abode is "a Craftsman bungalow, decorated in a style she calls "hillbilly minimalism" which means austere design but sparkly colors." Shocked lives in Koreatown and has...

Jim Pascoe is an author, independent publisher, and man of style. Jim and his writing partner Tom Fassbender run the crime-fiction publishing house called UglyTown. As explained in the LA Weekly's recent Literary Supplement section on local independent publishers, Jim and Tom invented the company on a lark by printing up business cards for a non-existent novel, called "By the Balls, a Bowling Alley Murder Mystery" under the pen name Dashiell Loveless, as marketing...

Editor's Note: Here is the second part of our Interview with author Domenic Priore. Since he's such an expert on SoCal in the 60s, we've asked him to answer our questionnaire as a resident of the Sunset Strip in 1966. Domenic will be discussing "Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece" at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena next Saturday, July 23, 2005 at. 3:00 PM. He'll be joined by Van Dyke Parks, Danny Hutton &...

Southern California is lucky to have Domenic Priore, 45, as a native son. The author and documentary filmmaker has focused his considerable energy on documenting the heyday of the Sunset Strip music scene and Beach Boys hagiography resulting in books like his latest "Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece," which can be considered an adjunct to the documentary on Brian Wilson called "Beautiful Dreamer," and his upcoming book "Riot on Sunset Strip:...

Jim Ruland is one prescient lit organizer. How could he have known that the Governator would be in the news (and in hot water over his deal with American Media) when he modeled this month's Vermin on the Mount poster, the Verminator, after our our governor's signature role? Anyway, Vermin on the Mount hosts a reading of works by Jacob Forman, Lizz Huerta, Wendy Molyneux, and Daniel Olivas. Saturday, July 16th 8 PM Mountain...

Rumour has it that the latest chapter in the Harry Potter saga, "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince," goes on sale Saturday, July 16th. We wonder if the release date for the new flick "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was deliberately set to coincide with this most auspicious date. This LAist just realized that the media and hoopla that's developed around Harry Potter perfectly matches the mania depicted in the "Charlie" book and...

9:05 Here we are, Catatonic drink in hand, blogging to you live from the Lounge in the Red Cat. We couldn't get into performance artist Ron Athey's Outfest 2005 offering "Judas Cradle" but we will be there for the after-party hosted by Vag Davis. The Lounge is open to the public after all. Party starts around 10 PM so come on by. Right now, crews are setting up lights and cool theater types with...

It's that time of year again...the summer's mid-point when the posh stores in Beverly Hills discreetly put up sale signs. We were on Little Santa Monica a few minutes before 10 AM and found this line of Bridezillas waiting for Monique Lhullier boutique to open their doors for the first day of its sale of wedding gown samples. Let the fun begin!...