University of Virginia

Erwin Chemerinsky and Rick Hasen of UCI Law Weigh in Far and Wide on Voting Rights Act

Something more supremely has overshadowed the news that UC Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has been named a new endowed chair in First Amendment Law through a $1.5 million gift from Raymond Pryke, owner and publisher of the Valleywide Newspapers chain based in Hesperia. Chemerinsky and ... More >>

Calling All Bibliofolk: Resist the Transformers, Save UCI's Bookstore, and Take Back the University, Too.

This week, Mr. Bib happily shares a rant-analysis-thought piece by a fellow scholar-activist who takes on the dismal decision-making at our shared alma mater and place of employment. My biblio-pal Michelle Chihara is a PhD candidate, an MFA, a creative writer and sometime journalist, and knows how t ... More >>

Orange County Register Columnist Committed Libel, Climate Scientist Says

​A climate scientist has fired back at an Orange County Register columnist who suggested he could be at the center of another ClimateGate.Michael Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, Tweeted that a March 2 Orange Punch blog post by Mark Landsbaum--in which the columnist wr ... More >>

Donald Bren's Highway Robbery

[Moxley Confidential] The developer's role in creating the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road is the county's most embarrassing un-prosecuted crime.

Timothy Naftali, Nixon Library Chief, is Leaving

"One lie I corrected was this big."​Timothy Naftali, the George H.W. Bush biographer and respected historian the National Archives chose to run the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda after the disgraced 37th president's loyalists from a private foundation first built and operated the ... More >>

Jay-Z Course, Now Offered at Georgetown University

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​When MTV broke the news that educator Michael Eric Dyson, who teaches at Georgetown University, was offering a 3-credit course called "Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z" this semester, the Interwebz went wild. But really, isn't it about time? After all, Lady Gaga has been a sub ... More >>

SPF Yourself

[Trendzilla] And stay away from those Lita shoes!

California Considers Banning Teens From Tanning Beds

​Teens who want that dark, leathery glow may soon have to get it the old-fashioned way--with a bottle of Crisco and some aluminum foil.  Twelve U.S. states have bills pending that would put age restrictions on commercial tanning salons, reports The Huffington Post. California is among them.&n ... More >>

UC Irvine's New Computer-Games Major Gets Its Game On

The school is banking big on computer games as an emerging discipline

Another University Gets Schooled on Lady Gaga

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Remember when we told you about the University of Virginia's Graduate Studies program that had a class on Lady Gaga?  It seems that now the University of South Carolina is also offering a course on the pop star called "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame."

Pencils Up, Little Monsters: Lady Gaga Now a College Class

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Is knowing all the lyrics to "Bad Romance" a prerequisite for the University of Virginia's Graduate Arts & Sciences student Christa Romanosky's "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity" class?

Vietnamese American Scores Film's Lead Role

​John Wynn takes the lead​Move over Bruce Lee?It's not often when an Asian lands a leading role in a movie, so the folks working publicity for "Beyond the Mat" are proud that John Wynn is the main character.More to the point: Wynn--a Virginia native born from a Vietnamese mother and a half- ... More >>

UCI Anteaters Can't Eat Selves Out of Four-Run Hole

OC Weekly intern David Nicolas reporting . . . UC Irvine's baseball team was enjoying a dream season. They even got to host the NCAA regional tournament leading up to the College World Series in Omaha. What could possibly go wrong?Three words: this past weekend. And three more: University of Virgini ... More >>

Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Fr ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Spring? Sprung, With Help From Shiseido, Kiehl's and Shu Uemera

It's a Living

Tanorexics Anonymous: Lifes not always sunny at the tanning salon

Dr. Z, Sun God

UCI's Dr. Christopher Zachary gives the sun what-for

Aliso Viejo

When The Sick Get Serious

Gwar Now Rip from the Headlines

The Sore-Losers Club

A Bitter Ex-Congressman Secretly Feeds Voter Probe