Subject: Snoop Dogg

• Thank You, Jann Wenner

  Last year, the heads of the Literary Journalism Program at UCI sent out an email regarding an internship opportunity with Rolling Stone. That tempted me for about two seconds. Then I realized that it was Rolling Stone and that MTV Networks was slated to turn the whole thing into some awful reality program. That's how I want to jumpstart my journalism career! A year later and their mass-media-clusterfuck is here in the form of I'm From Rolling Stone.The surefire guilty pleasure (okay, probably n

  December 15, 2006

• Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: An OC Blog Coward

  What did the OC billionaire do when the wife was away? Computer-chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III won big in a 1998 public stock offering for his Broadcom Corp., and to celebrate, he built an extravagant $30 million underground “personal brothel” at his Laguna Hills estate. That's according to the latest allegations discovered by E. Scott Reckard and Kim Christensen, two Los Angeles Times reporters who dug up court documents containing the dirt. Last week, newspapers disclosed FBI interes

  July 18, 2007

• The 100 Most Important OC Musicians of All Time

  DJ Nobody: Twice as important as most OC musicians. Orange County has been a fertile breeding ground for musicians of many stripes since the beginning of electricity. We at Heard Mentality would like to ask you—the good-looking, intelligent readers of this blog—for your opinions on this important matter [see headline]. Let us know who you think deserves to be on this auspicious list; and if you wish to explain why they merit inclusion, by all means shout it out loud in the comments box. [

  September 11, 2007

• Snoop Dogg Pleads Guilty to OC Felony

  The Orange County District Attorney's office announced late this afternoon that rapper Snoop Dogg has pleaded guilty to knowingly carrying a dangerous weapon into John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana a year ago. The 35-year-old international celebrity, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus, was sentenced to three years probation plus 160 hours of community service. He must also pay $10,000 to the charity Right Trak, according to prosecutors. DA officials say they blocked the rap singer from

  September 20, 2007

• N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton Turns 20, Gets Deluxe Reissue

  The album that launched Left Coast gangsta rap into white suburban consciousness and mainstream culture, N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton, will be reissued Dec. 4 with a bonus live track and covers by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Snoop Dogg and C-Murder, Mack 10, and WC to anticipate its 20th anniversary. Marked by more profanity than a Richard Pryor LP and provoking almost as many laughs as same, Compton established Dr. Dre as a production savant, Ice Cube as a lyrical humorist par excellence and Eaz

  October 9, 2007

• Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Darth Vader Chases Janet Nguyen

  October 11, 2007

• New Snoop!

  How mind-blowingly off the hook is Snoop Dogg? Bangin' you say? Supa dupa fly? Funktastically shalackin' even? No no, my friends. He's even more groovy than that. His new video for Sensual Seduction says it all:

  November 28, 2007

• Snoopermarkets?

  In an interview with MTV, famed Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg shared a few of his New Year's resolutions with the kids. No, he's not talking about leaving his weapons and/or marijuana at home before he tries to board airplanes, and no, he's not promising to finally release a rap album that doesn't totally suck. Instead, Snoop says he's going to open a chain of grocery stores called "Snoopermarkets." That's right: Snoopermarkets. Get it? One can imagine how Snoopermarkets will compete with larg

  January 10, 2008

• WrestleMania 24 results (final)

  Before anyone asks what this has to do with Orange County, I'll tell you: Headliner John Cena received his training right here in OC, at Rick Bassman's Ultimate Pro Wrestling. and Eight years ago, this year's co-headliner Triple H became the first ever "bad guy" to win the main event at WrestleMania...in Anaheim at what is now the Honda Center. WWE and OC have a history. Results, as they happen: -Kane won a battle royal to become number one contender for the ECW title. -JBL defeated Finlay

  March 30, 2008

• What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XX

  Friday night found Dave Segal attending the Good Foot at Que Sera to see DJ Nobody, Dennis Owens and Scott Weaver spinning world-class funk and soul. Then he had his mind blown by psych-rockers Magic Lantern and the Antarcticans at the Prospector Saturday. Meanwhile Rich Kane reviewed The Register and unfortunately, the review was unfavorable once again. Poor Register. It just keeps getting kicked while it's down. Speaking of kickin' it, Christopher Victorio attended KIIS FM's Wango Tango in Ir

  May 12, 2008

• Snoop Dogg, Of Montreal Coming to Glass House

  While other venues are taking it relatively easy during the holiday season, the Glass House has bravely continued to announce shizows, including Snoop Dogg, Warren G and The Twins on Dec. 26 (Boxing Day!)--tickets on sale noon Thursday, Dec. 4 for $50. Also on the docket: Of Montreal on Feb. 19 ($25, on sale today at noon) and Bleeding Through, Acacia Strain, As Blood Runs Black and Impending Doom on Feb. 14 ($15, on sale now). Sounds like the perfect Valentine's Day show!

  December 2, 2008

• Musical Advent Calendar: Snoop Doggy Dogg, et al, 'Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto'

  Death Row Records--co-founded by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight in 1991--was, of course, incredibly influential in the world of west coast rap in the early '90s. And incredibly controversial.But not everything released on the label was quite as provocative as say, "Deep Cover." There was also 1996's Christmas on Death Row album, which boasted songs like opener "Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto"--not to be confused with, but likely inspired by the James Brown song of the same name--by Dat Nigga D

  December 11, 2008

• Last Night: Snoop Dogg, Warren G, The Twins at the Glass House

  BY RYAN RITCHIELast Night: Snoop Dogg at the Glass House in Pomona, Dec. 26, 2008.Wanna know if you're old? Go see Snoop Dogg and ask yourself which category of fans you fall in to. You're either in a) the group of shaggy-haired teenagers who wouldn't mind if he played "Sensual Seduction" twice, or b) the group of 30-somethings who've been listening to tha Doggfather since his "Deep Cover" debut and want nothing more than to hear that song, a few verses from Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" and all of "D

  December 27, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  Find out what film critics, Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Jim Ridley, Ella Taylor and Robert Wilonsky agreed were the 12 best movies of the year. Also: Jeffrey Katzenberg in 3D and the state of indie filmmaking.And news has Matt Coker explaining why the Native American battle over the possible disturbance of an Indian burial site at a Mission San Juan Capistrano garden is getting ugly in "Grave Situation." Plus... • The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey You! and Savage L

  December 24, 2008

• [Hey, You!] Better Watch Your Mouth . . . Payback Is a Lady

  November 20, 2008

• Quik's Groove: DJ Quik Live with Orchestra

  March 12, 2009

• [CD Review] E-40, 'The Ball Street Journal' (Warner Bros.)

  January 1, 2009

• It's Still a Snoop Doggy Dogg World

  December 25, 2008

• Ruling and Regulating

  October 30, 2008

• Baby Got Back

  May 8, 2008

• [hits!] Top-Selling Records at Rhino Records

  April 3, 2008

• [Hits!] Top-Selling Records at Borders Books, Music and Café at the Block in Orange

  March 27, 2008

• [Hits!] Top-Selling Records at Stacks the Vinyl Authority

  March 6, 2008

• Hits!

  V.I.P. Records

  May 24, 2007

• Stupidity

  August 4, 2005

• Snap to It

  WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Comeback kids, rhymin Limeys and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

  December 28, 2006

• Prostate Orgasm

  GET OUT! Nightlife and more: Dec. 7 - Dec. 14

  December 7, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  Oct. 25 - Oct. 31

  November 2, 2006

• Live Review

  August 10, 2006

• Where Is the Kitsch?

  Art of Advertising takes on Style of Country Musicand loses

  April 27, 2006

• Bo$$ Dogg

  August 25, 2005

• VIP Records, Long Beach

  March 3, 2005

• Live Previews

  January 27, 2005

• Virgin Megastore

  January 13, 2005

• Live Previews

  December 9, 2004

• Live Previews

  December 2, 2004

• Beat Vinyl & Life

  November 4, 2004

• Dont Give Up on Them Baby

  March 4, 2004

• Doggy Fizzle

  October 23, 2003

• Gourmet Gone Wild!

  October 2, 2003

• OC Weekly Marks the Passing of . . .

  January 2, 2003

• Chase Frank

  September 5, 2002

• Long Beach

  September 27, 2001

• Snoop Doggy Dad

  January 21, 1999

• Happy 4/20!!!!

  To boring people, April 20 means two things: the anniversary of the Columbine massacre or Hitler's birthday. To stoners, it's something way cooler.Because stoners can't agree on anything other than, yes, they should smoke another bowl, the origins of 4/20 vary. Some say it's police code. Some say it has something to do with the Bible. But again, like only stoners can, they overlook the past and keep their eyes on the prize, ie getting stoned.Now, I have something to admit. This 4/20 will be the

  April 20, 2009

• Incoming: Snoop Dogg, Slightly Stoopid and Stephen Marley at Verizon in July

  Conventional wisdom says that smoking pot makes you lazy, but here comes Snoop Dogg, back up in our area this coming July, just a little more than six months after his day-after-Christmas 2008 Glass House show. (That our Ryan Ritchie reviewed here.) The industrious young(ish) man will be coming to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on July 11, along with Slightly Stoopid and Stephen Marley. The whole shebang is called, wait for it, the "Blazed & Confused Tour."Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. this

  April 27, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 6/11

  Thursday Night Cheese & Wine Tasting, 5:30 p.m.Get an informal education on wine and cheese while enjoying a flight of the evenings' tasty offerings. Three tasting flights of two wines and three cheeses are offered each week for $15 per flight, and are described to you at tableside by friendly and knowledgeable staff. Reservations are recommended.Laguna Culinary Arts, 845 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, CA; 949-494-4006Salsa Suave, 11 a.m.Salsa dance class especially for those over 65. Gra

  June 11, 2009

• Cheap lawn tickets on sale today

  Concert promoters LiveNation are offering a pretty good deal for upcoming shows at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (and other venues across the country that, if you are reading the OC Weekly, you probably don't care that much about). The catch is, it's good only today.Anyone who buys lawn tickets to shows at the mega Irvine venue will pay only $24.99. And to make the deal even sweeter, there are no additional fees. Yeah, you're sitting a mile away, but the lawn's where all the good weed is, so

  June 17, 2009

• [Locals Only] I&I Have Street (and Harbor Boulevard) Cred

  August 20, 2009

• On-Sale Saturday: Morrissey, Dokken, More

  ​OK, we can stop complaining about the Morrissey show at the Fox Theater in Pomona on December 7 not going on sale yet.

  October 16, 2009