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Film School @ Little Radio's Summer Camp, 7/6/08 It may be months late, but Little Radio's weekly Summer Camp series finally returns on Sunday, August 16th, with performances by The Living Things, Har Mar Superstar, and Restavrant as well as DJ sets by Ana Calderon, Daisy O'Dell, and Clifton Weaver. Summer Camp runs every Sunday thereafter until September 20th. "That's three Sundays in August, then 3 more in September," according to Little Radio. "Let's...

After his company received a whopping 30 nominations for the 2009 AVN Adult Movie Awards earlier this year, Vivid-Alt head and alt-porn auteur Eon McKai shot Content, his fifth directorial effort for the Vivid Entertainment imprint. During the making of the movie, McKai often deadpanned that "It's just content." And yet Content is more than just paint-by-numbers gonzo pornography, as Fleshbot editor-in-chief Lux Alptraum described in her review yesterday: "Translation: this is just stripped...

Last Wednesday, the inaugural edition of "Sex, Drinks, and Rock 'N Roll Freedomfest," hosted by Hustler Hollywood and benefiting the Free Speech Coalition, took place at the Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood. While it's easy for recent punching bag Perez Hilton to snark that "...porn stars want to be able to say what they want in and out of the filmed orgies," the reality is that the adult industry has been targeted...

Part of an ongoing series At a time when Hollywood has scaled back significantly on Web video productions, The Guild, an independent series focusing on Cyd Sherman, her MMO alter-ego Codex, and her dysfunctional group of gamers, has become the proverbial Little Engine That Could. Named one of "The Net's Best Serial Shows" by Rolling Stone, The Guild won Best Comedy Web Series, Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series, and Best Female Actor...

Part of an ongoing series Last Thursday, pornstar, entrepreneur, and radio host Belladonna was hostess to a foot fetish-themed party at her San Fernando Valley home. Filmed by her husband, business partner, and director Aiden for Evil Angel, the aptly-titled Party of Feet features an all-star cast of nine industry favorites and relative newcomers to the adult industry, including Kimberly Kane, Bobbi Starr, Adrianna Nicole, Lexi Belle, Alexis Texas, Alexa Jordan, Madison Ivy, Evie...

You've probably seen the billboards and other advertising promoting this weekend's Erotica LA at the LA Convention Center. While smaller in scale than AVN's Adult Entertainment Expo, the 13th annual incarnation is still the city's largest yearly adult consumer exposition, with predictions of over 40,000 people in attendance, many of whom will be women and couples. Featuring pornstars (over 70 confirmed thus far), burlesque, fashion, dance shows, seminars, and hundreds of vendors, among the...

Part of an ongoing series LAist favorite Sasha Grey has been quite a media sensation due to her leading role in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, with film critic Roger Ebert even observing that "I haven't seen any of [her adult work], but now I would like to see one, watching very carefully, to see if she suggests more than one level." But we would be remiss if we didn't sing the praises of...

Juliette Commagere (read her interview with LAist's Michele Reverte) Local songstress Juliette Commagere has had the Monday night residency at The Echo, and last week, she was joined by Ceci Bastida, Commagere's brother Robert Francis, and Fresno-based Rademacher. Tonight, Commagere concludes her month-long residency with locals Landy, The Chapin Sisters and Jogger. And in June, she embarks on a month-long tour through Europe, with stops in Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, England,...

Since LAist's last report on Kidrockers, the monthly event entertaining families with live music and stand-up comedy, two more shows have taken place -- a Dangerbird Records presentation with The One AM Radio and Eulogies on April 26th at The Echo, and a special pre-Mother's Day Spa Retreat benefiting Kid's Play International with Le Switch and Afternoons on May 9th at Castle Ivar in Hollywood. Kidrockers continues on May 31st at The Echo with...

Earlier this month, LA-Underground co-presented a showcase, with KXLU and Manimal Vinyl, at The Smell in Downtown LA, featuring Alexandra Hope, VOICEsVOICEs, EXITMUSIC, and Warpaint. As described by the notable local music blog, which celebrates its fifth anniversary next month, "...this is a lineup that needs no introduction by us or anybody. Simply put, this musical gathering represents four bands at the forefront of L.A.'s new world order of ethereal post-rock. Not that any...