I came to dance!

Dance Dance Party Party encourages ladies to get down with their bad selves

Mia Horberg loves Nico Vega

Melissa ‘Melicious’ Joulwan

The Texas roller-derby queen chronicles her double life with her book, Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track

Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love   Issue #30

By Courtney Love (Faber & Faber, 304 pages, $35)

Brazillian Girls   Issue #30

Sabina Sciubba wants you to make love — not war — to her music

Bolt Risk   Issue #26

by Ann Wood

Renegade gals

Before the third anniversary of Renegade Craft Fair, co-founders Sue Blatt and Kathleen Habbley reflect on the Gap, weird vendors, and global expansion

Loquat

Frontwoman Kylee Swenson teaches you all about Italian sonnets and iambic pentameters to create your next makeout song

The fashion diet

Veteran dieter Mia Horberg goes Coco over the kitsch advice of the Karl Lagerfeld Diet

M.I.A.   Issue #33

With big love for her mama and her signature punk approach to dance music, is she the modern girl next door or the most exciting thing since riot grrrl? We're convinced she's both.

By Anne-Marie Payne

Get into Flower Arranging

By Cortney Heimerl

Elsie Flannigan of A Beautiful Mess

By Amy Strauss

Venus Zine Crowns the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll!   Issue #44

PART 1: STAFF PICKS

By Venus Zine Staff

The Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time, H–M   Issue #35

By Venus Zine Staff

Fans get double doses of rain and Radiohead at All Points West

August 8-10, 2008, at Liberty State Park

By Dominick Mastrangelo