Last Thursday, artist/director Vena Virago (MySpace) celebrated the release of her new Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Honey Bunny, her second directorial effort for the imprint, with a party at Little Joy in Echo Park. With Honey Bunny, "Virago offers a unique insight into her own persona as artist and pornographer, delivering a multifaceted work that exists as a film, a performance piece and an art show." In attendance were stars Adrianna Nicole (MySpace), Max Mikita,......

Last Sunday, director Benny Profane (MySpace) celebrated the release of his new Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Hospital!, his first directorial effort for the imprint, with a party at the Redwood Bar and Grill in Downtown LA. In attendance was star Mandy Morbid (MySpace) with boyfriend Zak Sabbath (MySpace). Also present was Vivid-Alt head Eon McKai (MySpace) and Sarah, director Dave Naz (MySpace) with Ashley Blue, director Vena Virago (MySpace), pornstar/director Kimberly Kane (MySpace) with boyfriend......

Last Tuesday, pornstar/director Kimberly Kane (MySpace) celebrated the release of her new Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Morphine, her second directorial effort for the imprint, with a party at Beauty Bar in Hollywood. Inspired by Kane's experiences working at the Sugar Shack in Portland around 2003, Morphine "...paints a dark picture of a young woman (Audrey Hollander) struggling to leave the tawdry life of prostitution and drug addiction to follow her dreams of being a Nashville......

Last Wednesday, Vivid-Alt (MySpace) head, director Eon McKai (MySpace), celebrated the release of his new movie The Doll Underground with a party at the Little Cave (MySpace) in Highland Park. As reviewed by Violet Blue, The Doll Underground "...is one of the best porn films I've ever seen, and it feels like anti-porn — it's almost against the system it came from by being all that it is — a deep investigation of culture......

Last Thursday evening, photographer/director Octavio "Winkytiki" Arizala (MySpace) celebrated the release of his Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie The Bad Luck Betties at the Redwood Bar & Grill in Downtown LA. Also in attendance, besides Bad Luck Betties' "Smoking" Mary Jane (MySpace) and Mika Tan (MySpace) and newcomers Sochee and Mika, were Vivid-Alt head Eon McKai (MySpace), photographer/director Dave Naz (MySpace) and his girlfriend Ashley Blue, and director Vena Virago (MySpace). The party was presented in......

On Friday evening, pornstar and director (as well as recent UC Irvine guest speaker and former Howard Stern Show guest) Dana DeArmond (MySpace) celebrated the release of her Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Role Modeling with a party at the 6th Street Warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles. Donations of canned food at the door benefited the Downtown Women's Center. Also in attendance, besides DeArmond's boyfriend Daniel and Vivid-Alt head Eon McKai (MySpace), were photographer Dave Naz......

Last Thursday, Book Soup in West Hollywood hosted an autograph signing for photographer Dave Naz's latest book, L.A. Bondage, featuring covergirls Ashley Blue (Naz's girlfriend) and Nadia Styles, along with Dana DeArmond (MySpace), Flower Tucci, and Gia Jordan (MySpace), and even a live bondage performance by rope artisan Damon Pierce and model Claire Adams. Also in attendance was Coop, photographers Steve Diet Goedde, Eric Kroll, and Carlos Batts (with wife April Flores), Vivid-Alt (MySpace)......

Last Thursday, pornstar and director (and Fleshbot Crush Object, link NSFW) Dana DeArmond (MySpace) and her boyfriend Daniel (MySpace), along with pornstars Justin Long (NSFW) and Jon Jon (NSFW), were featured guest speakers in Professor Kassia Wosick-Correa's Sociology of Sexuality course at UC Irvine. According to TIME, the study of pornography on a collegiate level originated in the early 1990s, as the article mentioned Professor Linda Williams' Film and Rhetoric course at UC Berkeley,......

On Halloween, pornstar and director (not to mention a former girlfriend of Howard Stern Show staffmember JD Harmeyer) Kimberly Kane (MySpace) celebrated the release of her Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Triple Ecstasy with a party at the self-described "industrial disco-tech" Das Bunker (MySpace) in Los Angeles. Among those in attendance besides Vivid-Alt head Eon McKai (MySpace) and director Octavio "Winkytiki" Arizala (MySpace) were pornstar-turned-photographer Gia Jordan (MySpace), former porn journalist(?) Luke Ford, and starlets Sasha......

On Friday evening, Vivid-Alt (MySpace) head Eon McKai (MySpace) threw a DVD release party for his alternative remake of of the 1978 classic Debbie Does Dallas, called Debbie Loves Dallas (or D), at Miss Kitty's Parlour in Hollywood. D is also among the first adult releases on the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format. Among those in attendence at the party were starlets Dana DeArmond (MySpace) and Charlotte Stokely (MySpace), DeArmond's boyfriend Daniel (MySpace), Alex Gonz,......

There's a lot of bad bands playing tonight, here are some good ones. For the NSFW Louis XIV vid starring Suicide Girls and directed by Eon McKai, meet us after the jump. Louis XIV, Gran Ronde, The Shys @ The Roxy The School of Rock @ The Malibu Inn (6pm)' Simon Stokes @ Taix Japanther, DD/MM/YYYY, The Pope @ The Smell Kastle Greyskull, Veer Chasm @ Mr. T's Bowl The Groovy Rednecks, The Cheatin'......

Earlier this month we asked our readers how they'd feel if we started covering the adult video world, you know since it's a huge part of the LA economy and everyone who commented were totally into it. The only thing they asked us to do was to keep the nudity after the jump. Deal. OK after the jump, enjoy a lil photo essay from last week's "Man's Ruin" dvd release party sponsored by Vivid-alt,......