He’ll go down as the most influential California chronicler since Charles Fletcher Lummis, who was the 19th century sunshine to Davis’ 20th century noir, to borrow one of Mike’s most famous ...

By the end of the ’60s, Davis had not only joined the Southern California Communist Party, he was running its Los Angeles bookstore. (His FBI file, by one estimate, exceeded 100 pages.) ...

Author Mike Davis, who wrote the quintessential Los Angeles book "City of Quartz," offers a final call to action. Essential California: Prophet of Doom delivers sage advice in twilight hour - Los ...

Mike Davis, who died Tuesday ... Eton-educated Anderson saw the promise in the truck-driving student from Southern California, and in 1980 Mike accepted Anderson’s offer of a full-time job at ...

When author and historian Mike Davis died, it sent waves of grief across Southern California. And in San Diego, where he lived up until his death, some of those waves washed ashore in his family home.

His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated For decades, the southern California writer Mike Davis has obsessively ...

Mike Davis, a omnipresent and combative presence on right-wing media, has also positioned himself to be a key adviser on judicial selection for Donald Trump if he is reelected.

After burning his draft card, in Oakland, to protest President Lyndon B. Johnson’s deployment of U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic, Mike Davis arrived in Los Angeles. It was 1965. He wasn ...

Mike Davis’ final email to me captured the L.A. ‘sewer explosion’ – and reminded me to write, not mourn We had last talked in July, when the two of us spent hours at his San Diego home ...

Annie Wells x77020 –– – 076320.CA.0117.et–reynol Mike Davis, the LA watcher and author of City of Quartz, is known for being a doom and gloom soothsayer of the city 's future.