Sasha Grey

The Drama of Chelsea Wolfe

The gloomy singer-songwriter deals with the shit that comes her way

Mainstream Movie Porn Sucks: How Real Sex in Real Movies Is a Real Distraction

The long, hard truth

10 People Who Are Transforming Hollywood

This year's People issue celebrates the 56 Angelenos we find most intriguing. Among those 56 are fashionistas, musicians and novelists -- and, of course, the movers-and-shakers in Hollywood. Check out all of our People 2013 profiles Their influence can be felt on both the screen and behind the ... More >>

Jessie Andrews: The Porn Star as a Brand

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Jessie Andrews was a 17-year-old American Apparel salesgirl in Miami Beach when company founder Dov Charney, impressed with her abilities, hired her to instruct the other area e ... More >>

Dave Navarro Made Me Cry

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with guitarist Dave Navarro, of Jane's Addiction and Camp Freddy.] 7:47 p.m.: I'm standing in the lobby of guitarist Dave Nav ... More >>

10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks

See also: *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Rare Mostly Nude Photos *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Top 10 Artworks Inspired by Cult Movies Using celebrities as artistic inspiration is certainly nothing new -- just ask anyone who ever tacked up an Andy Warhol poster in a dorm room. Yet, there is ce ... More >>

Porn Tour of Los Angeles Will Give You Mild Version of Adult World

Huge update here people. Can you say half-price? Details at the bottom. First posted at 8:02 a.m. on June 6. Best idea ever: Tour the world of L.A. porn for a night for only $399. See where the magic really happens. Even better: L.A. Porn Tours is glitzing it up with a party bus, two live porn sta ... More >>

Skyy Fisher, Compton School Board Member, Calls Superintendent a 'Bitch' and Trayvon Martin a 'Faggot' (VIDEO)

Could the Compton Unified School District get any sleazier? A concerned father named Sergio gave us a call this afternoon and directed our attention to a horrendous interview that CUSD Board Member Skyy Fisher, elected last November, recently gave to a bunch of his former buddies on their podcast, ... More >>

Pinterest Porn? 'Snatchly' is Adult Version of Virtual Pinboard

Pinterest is the "virtual pinboard" site that lets you post photos and arrange them around a theme, like inspiration for home redecoration. It has, apparently, been wildly successful, particularly among women who seem to use it the same way you might tear pages from a magazine and pin them on a cor ... More >>

Sasha Grey Uses Porn Imagery to Decry Unequal Pay Between Men, Women: VIDEO

Sasha Grey was a hardcore porn star and she's proud of it. And now, women of the world, she wants you to know that too. In a recent NSFW YouTube video she boasts about how many "dirty things" she's done in her former career (she has since gone mainstream). All this in the name of equal pay between ... More >>

Channing Tatum and Gina Carano in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire

Aurora Snow, L.A. Porn Star, Sees Her Fully Clothed 'How to Make a Banana Happy' Video Censored by YouTube

Update: Here's the original, uploaded to Snow's personal site. Just as tame as she described it. Wrong day to err on the conservative side of content regulation, YouTube. (See: #StopSopa.) Los Angeles porn star Aurora Snow -- a real fan favorite, best known for her inimitable deep-throating skills ... More >>

I Melt With You Review

Sasha Grey Reads to Compton Kids; Failing School District Embarrasses Itself Again

TMZClearly, Sasha Grey did not read to first-graders.​Yeah, so former L.A. porn star Sasha Grey is not the first person we'd pick to read children's books to our first graders. But she's been out of porn for a couple years now, and in the new TMZ photos of Grey allegedly reading aloud at Emer ... More >>

Does L.A.'s Porn Industry Inspire More Than Half The Divorces in America?

Homewreckers.​Porn is killing the American family! So says a recent piece in the otherwise liberal Huffington Post, which cites research from the conservative Center for Research on Marriage and Religion, which concludes that porn is a "family killer" and that smut was a factor in more than h ... More >>

L.A. City Council Passes Buck on Forcing Condoms on Porn Shoots

Sasha Grey did not use condoms.​The Los Angeles City Council should adopt the motto "the buck does not stop here," because this week they passed off the condoms-in-porn issue as if it were a soggy, used-up roach. After much talk and even a City Attorney's report that said the city could, if i ... More >>

Porn Addiction: The Global Industry Based in Los Angeles is a Growing Problem For ... Women?

Merrick Monroe.Women account for one out of three porn site visitors.​When you think about the audience for the multi-billion-dollar, LA.-based porn industry, you usually think men. That would be a good instinct, but not entirely correct. In fact there's some evidence that women are a big sli ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Had 'Extensive' Porn Collection: L.A.'s Adult Video Industry Was Aiding a Terrorist?

Vice BooksSasha Grey: All-American.​Ah yes. Like the conservative, Christian Republican who turns out to have an oversize appetite for gay sex, you knew we'd find the other side of Osama Bin Laden. Yeah, the who thought we were the devil because of our decadent, Hollywood-loving, consumerist ... More >>

PornWikileaks' Exposure of Porn Stars' Personal Info Inspires Likely Lawsuit From Attorney Corey Silverstein

Vice BooksSasha Grey, leaked?​It looks like a porn industry attorney is preparing to sue "individuals using the PornWikileaks website for illegal activity" after that site exposed the health records of the hundreds of the Valley's adult performers, according to a statement from the Free Speech ... More >>

Porn Legends Who Love Vinyl, Part 2: Jasmin St. Claire on Record Store Day (and Being Metal 4Ever!)

Diamond Bodine-FischerJasmin St. Claire at The Rainbow Room​Yesterday we found out where crossover porn queen/indie musician Shash Grey goes to get her vinyl (read "Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!") Today we were lucky enough to corner one of West ... More >>

Porn in America is a Human Rights Abuse in China's View: Agree?

Is porn a right, or a human rights abuse?​China has a problem with porn. Our porn. Being that we're in the adult video capital of America, we have to sit up straight whenever a world superpower calls us out for an industry that is a staple of Los Angeles. Here's what the annual Chinese Human ... More >>

Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!

​ Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>

Porn Star Health Records Leaked, Might Have Come From L.A.-Based Industry STD Testing Service Known as AIM

joannaSasha Grey's records might be out there.​Updated after the jump: A clinic spokeswoman calls this a crime, says prosecution will be sought. A big deal was made of a months-old leak of porn stars' health records after Gawker connected the breach to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Fo ... More >>

National Health Group Urges Mandatory Condoms For Porn

Vice BooksPorn star Sasha Grey.​A major health professionals' group this week weighed in on the ongoing battle over condoms in porn, and the industry probably isn't going to like it's, er, position. American Public Health Association just posted an apparently long-simmering, uh, "position pap ... More >>

Capri Anderson, the Porn Star at Ground Zero of Charlie Sheen Saga, Signs Adult Film Deal

VividCapri Anderson.​Porn star Sasha Grey has used her fame to get into mainstream movies. Capri Anderson, whose famous run-in with Charlie Sheen at a New York hotel last year seemed to be Ground Zero for his unraveling of late, is using her notoriety to ... do more porn. But not just any po ... More >>

Sasha Grey, L.A. Porn Star, Does Artsy Photography Book; James Franco is Jealous (Pictures)

Vice BooksSasha Grey does hot, banging art.​Update: The folks at Vice Books tell us they weren't going to officially announce the release until tomorrow (although the book's already listed at Amazon), so here's a minor look into the future. What is it about L.A. porn star Sasha Grey? The inno ... More >>

L.A. Officials Consider Mandatory Condom Use for City-Permitted Porn Shoots

joanna8555Porn-turned-indie star Sasha Grey.​L.A. leaders are pondering a law that would make mandatory condom use a condition of permitting porn shoots inside city boundaries. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation on Monday hailed the City Council's recent vote to have the L.A. City Attorney's offi ... More >>

Alleged Porn-Star Killer Dies After Police Shoot And He Falls Off A Cliff

The suspect with porn actress Sasha Grey.​[Updated throughout at 10:20 p.m.] Alleged porn-star killer Stephen Hill died Saturday night following a day-long standoff with police that ended when officers used what they said was a stun-gun/Taser against him -- although at least one other cop appe ... More >>

Porn Star At-Large Charged With Murder

MySpaceThe suspect with porn star Sasha Grey.​Porn star Stephen Hill was charged Friday in the alleged murder of a fellow adult actor even though he remained at large. Hill, who worked as Steve Driver, was charged with one county of murder and five counts of attempted murder, according to the ... More >>

Porn-Star Murder Suspect Was Chris Tucker To Victim's Jackie Chan

MySpaceThe suspect, Steven Hill, with porn star Sasha Grey.​Steven Hill, the man police allege killed fellow porn actor Herbert Wong, was close to the victim, according to Adult Video News (NSFW). Once source called the two "the Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker of porn." Wong reportedly helped Hil ... More >>

Filmmakers of the Decade: Steven Soderbergh

At the end of the '00s, the chameleonic filmmaker once again shed his skin and captured the zeitgeist

The Girlfriend Experience: Two or Three Things He Knows About Her

Sasha Grey bares not quite all in Soderbergh's latest

The Last House on the Left: That’s So Craven

Rape. Revenge. Yawn

The Sundance Experience

So-so-Soderbergh, and then some

Che, Cannes and Hi-Def Video

Steven Soderbergh, 20 years after his Sundance hit