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Elvis Presley

  • Music

    March 8, 2012

    Wanda Jackson, the Growler

    She ain't called the Queen of Rockabilly for nothing

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Inteview: Wanda Jackson

    ​ Wanda Jackson has been performing for nearly 60 years. But the woman who once stole Elvis Presley's heart, and was one of rock n' roll's original bad girls, recognizes a good year when one comes around. "It's been a good ride, I'll tell yah," the 74-year-old Hall of Fame-inducted rockabilly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Holiday Gift Guide: Handmade Food-Related Gifts

    Etsy user fingerfooddelight​We've gathered some handmade food gifts that will make you go "yum" or "huh?" (Above).

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Etsy: We Sift Through the Crap and Find Twelve Really Cool Gifts

    diylol.com​As we circle the parking lots, wait in the never-ending lines, push through an ungodly amount of people, we might ask ourselves, "Why do we even have to give gifts for Christmas?" It's a fusion of several pre-Christmas winter traditions ranging from the Roman Saturnalia to the demanding ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Justin Bieber, You Are Not Alone: 4 Baby Daddy Dramas in Music History

    ​Poor Justin Bieber--the 17-year-old isn't even legal to bone yet, and already there's a lady claiming that he's the father of her baby. Meet 20-year-old (uh, statutory rape, or at least a misdemeanor in California, anyone?) Mariah Yeater, the classy broad whose claiming to have taken the heartthr ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 25, 2011

    Three Bad Jacks

    Galaxy Concert Theatre

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Four Music Museums Worse than the Danish Graceland

    ​ A replica of Elvis Presley's Graceland opened in Denmark this week, proving that the creators of Lego are a lot less classy than they've always let on. To be fair to the Danes, we figured there must be an even stranger assortment of music-related museums here at home. We were right. The places ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Food Profiling: Candied Bacon Confections From The Sticky Pig

    Tara backs her brand...​With a nickname like the Bacon Vixen, you know whatever Tara Simon brings to the table is fabulously gluttonous. She's the driving force behind her confection brand, The Sticky Pig. It's all handmade, utilizing an entire strip of candied bacon to wrap in a bite-sized rush o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    He's Back! Andrew Dice Clay Talks Internet Porn, Lady Gaga, Charlie Sheen and Comedy Nepotism

    ​Andrew Dice Clay may have matured into a family man, but when it comes to comedy, he's still got what it takes to bring to bring the dirty and keep the fans laughing like he never left. If you've wanted to see him live for like...ever, now is your chance. Comedy's legendary bad boy is stepping in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    Stray Cat Lee Rocker Drops Solo Album, Talks Rockabillyland

    www.leerocker.com​Time to break out the hair pomade: Lee Rocker, the man behind the giant upright bass in the Stray Cats, is back with his latest solo set, The Cover Sessions EP. It's not a rockabilly album, nor is it a country album--but Rocker says it's definitely something in bet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Sevendust at the House of Blues Anaheim Last Night

    Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​SevendustOctober 31, 2010House of Blues AnaheimTrick or treat? Sevendust definitely provided a treat to the faithful fans at the House of Blues Anaheim on Halloween night. Billed as the "Hard Drive" tour, Sevendust brought along 10 Years, Since October and Anew Revoultion ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Lee Rocker Says You Don't Have to Cuff Your Jeans to Be Rockabilly

    Andrew Youssef / OC WeeklyLee Rocker rocks with the Stray Cats in 2008 at the OC Fair.​Last Friday, we posted a Burger Records interview that didn't make it into this week's feature about Orange County's music scenes. Today, we've got a Q&A that we did while trying to figure out what was up wi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 19, 2010

    On the Verge

    Long Beach Playhouse

  • Music

    June 10, 2010

    Not the Same Old (Karaoke) Songs

    [Summer Guide] Competitors in Karaoke Fest’s Crème de la Crème tournament face a tough panel of judges

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Classics Revisited: Elvis Presley, 'Elvis '75-Good Rockin' Tonight'

    ​Unless you're the type who attends candlelight vigils at Graceland, this is all the Elvis you'll ever need: Good Rockin' Tonight, four CDs, 100 songs that range from his first self-financed demo "My Happiness" from 1953 to Presley's final live and home recordings shortly before his death on a toi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Today in Music News: Shooter Jennings, Stephen King, Mariah Carey, Elvis Presley, Iggy Pop

    Shooter Jennings--one of country's coolest acts--working on concept album featuring Stephen King.Mariah Carey admits to being pretty much plastered when she gave acceptance speech at Palm Springs International Film Festival. If it wasn't for pharmaceutical cocaine, Demerol and fried peanut butter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Summ Summ Summertime

    I was on the treadmill last night when Rocket from the Crypt's "Summer Survivor" came on the ol' iPod. It's an upbeat ditty that appears to be about people taking over San Diego beaches. Some of my favorite lines include "wet t-shirt/in piss/sun block/with shit I don't care," "bougeouis vikings/dead ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    7 Newport Beach Film Festival Bottom Feeders

    To gear up local filmgoers for the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens Thursday, April 23, and continues through April 30, the Weekly compiled "10 for the Tenth," brief reviews of some of the best festival features, documentaries and shorts we pre-screened for your consumption. We a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 5, 2009

    Raul Malo

    To gear up local filmgoers for the 10th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens Thursday, April 23, and continues through April 30, the Weekly compiled "10 for the Tenth," brief reviews of some of the best festival features, documentaries and shorts we pre-screened for your consumption. We a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    To Do Tonight 10/22

    Wayne Brady, 8 p.m. He's got a singing career now. $32.50-$35 House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim, CA 714-778-2583 The Elvis Show, 9:30 p.m. The self-proclaimed “greatest Elvis impersonator in Fullerton, Brea and Whittier,” Kirk Wall knows how to rock that white sequined jumpsuit like ... More >>

  • Features

    April 24, 2008

    Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

    Wayne Brady, 8 p.m. He's got a singing career now. $32.50-$35 House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim, CA 714-778-2583 The Elvis Show, 9:30 p.m. The self-proclaimed “greatest Elvis impersonator in Fullerton, Brea and Whittier,” Kirk Wall knows how to rock that white sequined jumpsuit like ... More >>

  • Film

    August 30, 2007

    Surf City Celluloid

    The SoCal Independent Film Fest goes big

  • Music

    January 4, 2007

    Hits!

    Big Ed's Records

  • Features

    November 16, 2006

    The Song Remains the Same

    Covering the bands that play other peoples music

  • Music

    July 13, 2006

    I Got Kinda Lost

    Eight greats that never made it

  • Film

    June 15, 2006

    New Reviews

    Dog Lover's Symphony; Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties; The King; Korn Live on the Other Side

  • Culture

    June 1, 2006

    Tiny Miracles

    The anthropological art of Polaroid photographs

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2006

    Another Star Chamber Turn

    My colleague Alex Brant-Zawadzki is right about the potential of television for doing good– his pro-having-sex-with-George Clooney stance, I'll pass over in silence– but Edward R. Murrow is long dead, and TV nowadays seems to be mostly offering up "the evil of banality", to use Alex Cock ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2006

    Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

    Dale Crover and the unstoppable killing machine

  • Music

    November 3, 2005

    Limp Who?

    Mos Def mostly def

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    Best Hot Bartender

    Cheryl at Rock's Cocktail Lounge

  • Unknown

    August 25, 2005

    Like Dogs in the Street!

    Nightlife and More:
    Aug. 25 - Sept. 1

  • Features

    May 19, 2005

    Taco TuesdaysToo . . .

    Nightlife and More:
    Aug. 25 - Sept. 1

  • Features

    March 24, 2005

    Give Him Some Water so He Wont Die

    South By Southwest by OC Weekly

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    Eight Days

    South By Southwest by OC Weekly

  • Music

    January 15, 2004

    James Brown is Innocent

    His crime is that hes James Brown

  • Features

    November 20, 2003

    How to Be a Rockabilly Guy

    His crime is that hes James Brown

  • Culture

    March 6, 2003

    The Seventh Annual OC Weekly Theater Awards!

    His crime is that hes James Brown

  • Music

    February 6, 2003

    How Swede It Is

    Five bands besides Laura Lee

  • Music

    November 21, 2002

    DOA Lives!

    The Shithead who would be king

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Beard Science

    A Weekly public-service announcement

  • Music

    June 20, 2002

    Dare I Say Icon?

    Nancy Sinatra can walk all over me any time

  • Music

    April 4, 2002

    Screamadelic and Copasetic

    Nancy Sinatra can walk all over me any time

  • Music

    November 8, 2001

    Richard B. Very, Very Bad

    And Prines more useful than Zimmerman

  • Music

    October 11, 2001

    Unmasked!

    The genius of Los Straitjackets is genius

  • Features

    September 27, 2001

    Garden Grove

    Those were the days

  • Columns

    August 30, 2001

    Letters

    Those were the days

  • Music

    July 12, 2001

    Hootenanny Hoedown

    Those were the days

  • Music

    October 5, 2000

    George Fryer

    What the hell are you listening to?

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Hippie Dick

    Raising psychedelic furs at Nixon Library kids camp

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