Mike Davis

LA Riots Remembered

Two decades later, the world still burns

UC Irvine Faculty, Students, Staff to Teach In, Turn On, Walk Out Today

​Ah, the first day of school. Time to roll out of the dorm-room bed five minutes before class, throw a cap on to cover up the bed head and quickly jaunt to class . . . . . . So you can storm out of it in protest.UC Irvine faculty, students and staff will stage a walkout today--the first day of sch ... More >>

Moyers Picks Brain of Last Socialist (and Weekly Pal)

Saturday Night Live had this skit years ago where they presented a Fugitivesque TV show called The Last Liberal. With all the talk on Fox News and conservative talk radio about the rise of Socialism in Obamerica, Bill Moyers decided to go out and find The Last Socialist to get the other side of the ... More >>

The Assassination of Sheriff James Barton by the Mexican Juan Flores

The Fire All the Time: Create Your Own Inferno News Story!

Miss Your Commie Girl?

Remember Rebecca Schoenkopf? The Weekly's beloved, wildly popular Commie Girl? Whose column skewered the rich, mega-rich, and other idiots? Who unceremoniously bid our paper adieu in February--and who was unceremoniously booted out of the Weekly offices afterward? You can always read her oeuvre on ... More >>

The Fire of the Century . . . of the Year

Hellish fires now, Sahara Desert later, says UCI doom prophet Mike Davis

Jumping Down the Memory Hole

'The War Within: Dissent During Crisis in America'

Brilliant Moments

Mike the Poet takes Polaroids

Letters

'I Want a Refund on My Free Subscription'

This Week in Cecile Whiting Loves Los Angeles

Pop LA: Picturing the City in the 1960s

OC's 31 Scariest People

Now 25 percent more terrifying!

Fear of a Silver and Black Planet

Academics descend into the black hole with Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire

A Clockwork Orange

Next Stop: Immobility

An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine

Eight Days

Silver Lining

Macarthur, The Market And Mary Reilly

An Apocalypse of Our Own Making

Mike Davis on the perfect fire

Did Matt Lamont Try to Blow Up Hitlers Birthday Party?

For Matt Lamont, the worst thing about jail is the Nazis

Letters

The Hot 14!

Theyre hot! Theyre 14! (Not 14 years old. That would be wrong.)

Letters

The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Against Mike Davis

UC Irvine history prof Mike Davis cant write a damn thing without the nuts going nuts. This time, the controversys over an obscure reference to Winston Churchill.

No Justice, No Teach

UC Irvine lecturers strike, students sleep in late

This Is Nowhere

Stages True West

Hey, Professor!

UC Irvine snares renegade historian Mike Davis

Our Remotest Reader

Radioactive Beagles Here? Sure!

Secret Hate Pop Cult Vomit Cornerstone Ras/Skunk.com

Bigger Than the Beatles

UC Irvine professor Jon Wieners fight for John Lennons FBI file reveals something ugly about democracy in America

An Indelicate Balance

Sam Shepards True West is the Great Southern Californian Play

More Bitter Than Sweet

Getting it up for Swifty can be hard

Beach Boulevard Breakdown

A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare