LA Weekly, March 2, 2009: Hell's Belles: Sexy Speedsters and Mayhem on Wheels @ Derby Dolls Bout

Long Island Lolita's skates are a blur.

She tears around the banked track and slams full speed into Kiki Diaz, brutally crashing her into the rail. The pack of tattoo-sleeved rollergirls breaks apart suddenly as Tae Kwon Ho quickly weaves through the sea of fishnets scoring a much needed point for the Varisty Brawlers. The crowd cheers, Tecates are raised and spilled; it's just another day for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls. Now in their sixth year of sexy mayhem, the Dolls have gone from a grassroots group skating in the shadow of downtown to a full-blown phenomenon that consistently sells out their Filipinotown-based facility, the Doll Factory.

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