Rock 'n' Roll High School News

December 8, 2009 by Vernon Parker , published online 12-08-2009 Mary Woronov was born in Brooklyn on December 8, 1946.

From its freeze-frame credits onward, this indie horror flick by Ti West aspires to the silent, low-boiling dread of 70s drive-in shockers like Black Christmas and Last House on the Left .

With featured roles in Brian de Palmaa TMs Carrie , John Carpentera TMs Halloween , Allan Arkush's Rock N Roll High School , and Rob Zombiea TMs The Devil's Rejects , P.J. SOLES has appeared in some of the most iconic cult/horror films of all time.

Mary Woronov may not have been up there with Edie Sedgwick, Viva, and Jane Holzer as one of Andy Warhol's "superstars," but she got a lot of mileage out of terrorizing International Velvet in his 1966 Chelsea Girls .

The members of Shonen Knife are deeply in love with the Ramones . The Japanese trio's sound is a mirror image of the short three-chord assaults that their miscreant forebears perfected decades ago, but unlike the hordes of American imitators, they've done away with the leather jackets and druggy angst, crushing the underlying menace of punk with ...

P.J. Soles starred in films like "Carrie," "Stripes," and "Rock 'n' Roll High School," but is perhaps best known as one of Jamie Lee Curtis' doomed friends in the 1978 horror classic " Halloween ." Guess what she looks like now ! Permalink: http://www.tmz.com/2009/10/06/one-of-the-friends-in-halloween-memba-her/

Formed in 2003, Roxy Monoxide launch their album Another Day, Another Episode on Friday, October 9, with a release party at Tio Leo's in Linda Vista.

The final day of the 57th annual Capitola Begonia Festival begins with a fishing derby at the Capitola Wharf.

One of the best-loved rock and roll movies of all time. Why? Uh, well maybe because THE RAMONES ARE IN IT and they fucking rock like hell takes over tomorrow, stupid! The cast is a seventies B-movie fan's dream, starring "big" names like PJ Soles, Mary Woronov, Clint Howard, Vince Van Patten, Dick Miller, and Paul Bartel.

Like the flicker of a Bunsen burner's flame, so goes another school year. But before you start celebrating, there's this one last final exam.

Maybe you remember her from "Halloween" or "Private Benjamin" or "Breaking Away" or "The Devil's Rejects." But for me and many, many others, P. J. Soles will always be the perky Ramones fan Riff Randell from Alan Arkush's camp classic "Rock 'n' Roll High School." As it happens, this year marks the 30th anniversary of that unlikely film's release, ...

There was once a time when the Pontiac GTO was so cool that the Ramones paid tribute to the muscle car in the lyrics of "Rock 'n' Roll High School." "Well the girls out there knock me out, you know/ Rock, rock, rock 'n' roll high school/ Crusin' around in my GTO." It was 1979, and Joey Ramone's voice made the GTO sound like the ultimate teenage ...

THE Ramones may have gone to the CBGBs in the clouds but their spirit lives on in the shape of four young women who prove being a girl group doesn't mean you have to be The Saturdays.

Clint Howard orders a big tuna salad and a Diet Coke at Jo's on Second Street, and mere moments into the transaction the cashier, a young, clean-cut man, compliments the actor's Cheap Trick T-shirt, a florid garment that catches then blisters the eye.