“She got a whole bunch of nothing in there,” Frank Zappa sings in “Valley Girl,” his 1982 novelty tune and the original source for a certain Southern Californian, well-to-do, teen-bimbo stereotype.

In the cult-classic 80s movie “Valley Girl,” Nicolas Cage gets to beat up a rival while singer Josie Cotton is onstage, then kiss his beloved as the Plimsouls play a Hollywood punk club. We should all ...

The first and only time I was on national television, I was giving a food tour to a travel TV show host around the San Gabriel Valley, proudly extolling the virtues of Cantonese roast duck, ...

A well-crafted script is essential for a film, but casting is significant. “Some Like It Hot,” Billy Wilder’s finest movie and arguably the greatest feel-good flick of all time was originally set to ...

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Over a week ago, a hardcore act named Valley Girl quietly uploaded a demo to YouTube. The four-song project spanned the songs “See No Peace,” “Pepper Spray,” “Mad Dog” and “Addicted To Suffering.” ...