Dining and entertainment suggestions that might fly under your radar.

A lavishly-illustrated companion book to the current cinematic smash Dreamgirls: The Movie Musical features essays exploring the film, the Broadway musical and the historic Motown revolution that inspired both.

Books

David LaChapelle’s latest photo tome, Heaven To Hell, is loaded with the provocative color-saturated images of famous faces (Courtney Love recreating Michelangelo’s Pietà with a Kurt Cobain stand-in) and marginalized figures (transsexual Amanda Lepore sipping from her own nipple) we’ve come to expect from this unique talent.

DVDs

Although Barbara Eden had to keep her bellybutton covered in I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Third Season, she does get some double exposure as she donned a black wig to play her character’s evil sister. Location filming in Hawaii and guest spots by gay faves like Paul Lynde made this the most magical season yet.

Coasting on lesbian cred for her turn in the seminal lesbian romance Personal Best, not to mention planting one on Roseanne Barr on her sitcom, Mariel Hemingway goes for a trifecta as a lesbian Secret Service agent in the campy action flick In Her Line of Fire.

Eats

If you love the hot dogs at Pink’s (709 N. La Brea, L.A.)—and who doesn’t?—but don’t want to wait in the mega-long lines for lunch, here’s a hint: Show up between 11-11:30 a.m., and you can virtually walk up and place your order.

Music

Out saxophonist Dave Koz turns his love of cinema into his latest CD. At The Movies features the distinctive vocals of India.Arie, Anita Baker, Donna Summer and Vanessa Williams on theme songs from classics like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Tootsie and The Way We Were.

Tube

With the six-part new series Lesbian Sex & Sexuality, award-winning filmmaker Katherine Linton takes viewers on an uncharted journey inside sex shops, erotic dance clubs and lesbian-owned porn companies. This documentary series airs through March on Here! Networks.

Web

If you grew up in L.A., you probably had a favorite TV show you rushed home to watch after school. Now you can relive those memories at www.tvparty.com/lostla.html, where they have clips posted from such favorites as Hobo Kelly, Shrimpenstein or lunchtime classic, Sheriff John’s Lunch Brigade.