Joan Didion

Ang Lee Ruins Woodstock

[Summer Guide] Lisa Alvarez's Summer Reading List

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Can The Borg Show Compassion?

Car Booting Violence: The folks over at Universal Guaridan Holdings, Inc. in Newport Beach are smiling today because their Cobra StunLight (pictured) “was successfully used to help disable an armed assailant” recently in downtown Atlanta. They say Jeremiah Day was booting illegally parked cars ... More >>

Three's a Crowd

'What I learned from being the other woman, even if I was only a girl

Selling Out

Talented new novelist Maile Meloy needs to burn her bridges

Tiny Miracles

The anthropological art of Polaroid photographs

Tapping the Source... and maybe your phone

Perhaps because it's in the Drinking Issue, Cornel Bonca's review of Paula L. Woods' new novel Strange Bedfellows (featured in Selected Reviews from the Weekly on the sidebar) reminded me both of my own experiences with bad novels and my favorite quote from one very good novel, Waguih Ghali's Beer i ... More >>

Grief Works

Joan Didions Magical memoir on death

Imagining Orange County

Its not the O.C., not Disneyland, not Newport. Eight writers imagine the real place you call home

Cleveland Rocked

Vote for Change and Vote Often

Art of War

Howard Zinns Artists in Times of War

The Fire Inside

How many of us secretly love the ashes

Mass Forgetting

Joan Didion tells you how we live in the greatest state in the greatest country on the greatest planet!

The Anti-Rebel

Maile Meloys brittle Southern Californians are real, no kidding

Rock & Roll Detox

The Sharp Ease are an apocalyptically charismatic band for these apocalyptically Republican times

UC Irvine vs. the Shrinking J

Already a creative-writing machine, Irvine turns to literary journalism

Retrospective Fatigue

Is it still too early to say something smart about Sept. 11?

Our Man in San Salvador

Notorious generals U.S. ties ran through an ex-OC cop

Why They Hate Us

The American Scenesters bubbleheaded Californians

Shut Up and Take It

Joan Didions insiders guide to the insiders

The Gay Inferno

Fabulous Hell doesnt try to promote the upbeat living-with-AIDS story

Punk Junkies

How to be part of the Zeitgeist without being onto it