Abu Ghraib

The OC Weekly Reader On the Iraq War: Our Coverage Over the Past Decade

I still remember where I was when we first started bombing Baghdad in 2003--at some concert with some chilanga at the late, great Key Club in Los Angeles, still just a freelancer for this infernal rag. Everyone at the Weekly opposed the Iraq War, because we knew it was unjust, would accomplish nothi ... More >>

Pat Oliphant Exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Through This Sunday!

By Dave BartonThat instantly recognizable signature. The O an open mouth yawping in protest. The dot of the I like a projectile being thrown. The remaining letters leaning forward to attack. You don't even have to know his work to recognize political cartoonist Pat Oliphant is a confrontational indi ... More >>

In 'Compliance,' You Are Implicated

Fast-food strip-search drama looks hard at what movies usually look at

'Tabloid' Offers the Truth According to Miss Wyoming

Cloned dogs! Mormon sex! Scandal and subjective reality in Errol Morris' film

Disney Looks to Trademark "SEAL Team 6": Five Ideas for Disneyland

​Yes, as odd as it may sound, just two days after Osama bin Laden was killed the Walt Disney Company submitted an application to trademark the term "SEAL Team 6." (Learn more details about the story here.) For what? No one is 100 percent sure, but rumor is that it's for a new It's a Small World ... More >>

Atrocity Becomes Art at OCCCA's 'Just How Does a Patriot Act' Show

Erik Ruhling's Book 'Infernal Device: Machinery of Torture and Execution' Brings the Pain

What Is It Good for

Sandow Birk goes to war

Walk Through the Valley

Don’t let Paul Haggis’s heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

New Reviews

We recommend: Brand Upon the Brain!, DOA: Dead or Alive, The Golden Door, Nancy Drew

Bring the Pain

TV torture isnt as tidy as you might have heard

A Boot Stamping on Your Face

The Actor's Gang Presents 1984

Sympathy for the Devil

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs

Making Dana Parsons the Times Orange County Columnist

Seemed like a good idea at the time . . .

Print the Legend

Clint Eastwood strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation

Money for Nothing

Iraq for Sale loads more anti-war cannon fodder

Commie Girl

Bullet Dodged! Dancing on 9/11 minus four

We Forget

Five years after 9/11, Cornel Bonca finds your memory wandering around Vegas

The Alchemist

Rick Frausto recycles everything into art

Diary of a Mad County

May 30 - June 6

Baghdad Diaries

One womans two-year adventure in Iraqs Green Zone

Triumph of the Sum-bitch

Larry lays some cable across America

Baghdad Boozin'

Or: Vodka and Vicodin in Iraq

Histories of Violence

The Year of Atrocities

Commie Girl

My Little Boy's First Gang!
The year I temporarily gave up trying to love Orange County

Hey There, Hi There, Ho There, You're As Incarcerated As You Can Be ...

A "preacher" dropped us a line to say that he and his 30 red-robed gospel singers spent Christmas day in that most inhospitable of jails. Not French Guiana or Abu Ghraib or even the severly overcrowded, abusively run Orange County Jail. No, this was the most frightening pokey of 'em all: the Disneyl ... More >>

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

Aug. 24 - Aug. 29

Justice Takes a Beating

OC court greenlights torture in local jails

Montezumas Revenge

I go to Mexico, and America falls apart

Ironys Siren

Pat Boone grapples with his demons

FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE CAMPING TRAIL

Ex-Minuteman Bryan Barton puts the party in partisan agenda

Welcome to Pope Week!

Now love it or leave it

Elvis Is Everywhere

(Vagina!)

The Year the Music Died

First They Came for the Communists . . .

Call Me Irresponsible

Yes, Its Undeniably True

Letters

Ladys Chattering Lover

My gay husband can outtalk your gay husband

Homage to Babylonia

Fall of Baghdad offers Orwellian view of Operation Iraqi Freedom

Monkey Business

Koos bring you Potus. Fear him!

Letters

The Church of Bush

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president

Letters

Devil Inside

100 Artists See Satan gives Lucifer the beauty treatment

Aerosmith and Shakespeare together at last

Theater notes

Assclown

Readers Write About the Haidl Case

Its Only Rock & Roll

Spontaneity rules at Memphis Cafes Easy Rider

Jailhouse Iraq

Brutalizing inmates is a proud American tradition

XXX Files

How Abu Ghraib echoes Robert Mapplethorpe

Abu Huh?

The mean bouncer, the mad waitress and the bad valet