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

Venuszine.com seeks concert writers and photographers

By Venus Zine Staff

Frightened Rabbit gets intense at its last U.S. tour stop

July 2, 2008, at Southpaw

By Carlye Wisel

G. Love & Special Sauce

Superhero Brother (Brushfire)

By Catherine Cole

How to survive Dude Fest as a dudette

By Jessica Blumensheid

We want to feature you in our fall issue

By Venus Zine Staff

Sunrise to sunrise at Bonnaroo 2008

June 12-15, 2008, in Manchester, Tennessee

By Lauren Trzaska