Email Author NICK SCHOU

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Don't Start a Riot"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 20, 2010

  "Will This Pot Case Get Weeded Out?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 29, 2010

  "Crash First..."

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 19, 2010

  "Murder? Are You Crazy?"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published November 21, 2007

  "Just a Random Female"

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2007 Stories by NICK SCHOU

• Caricature Assassination

  published December 27, 2007

  How I ended up with an amputated arm and a fountain pen for a hand is a story that begins on a hot summer day with a bunch of angry Vietnamese... More >>

• A SCOWL in the Night: Anonymous Poet Bemoans the Self-Inflicted Demise of the OC Register

  published Dec 07, 2007

  This week, an anonymous source sent the Weekly a poem called "Scowl," which appears to be a riff on Allen Ginsberg's famous and similarly-titled manifesto of 1950s beatnik angst, "Howl." The poem also... More >>

• Beasts of Burnin'

  published November 29, 2007

  An outlaw animal-rights group targets a local bank branch in its war on animal testing More >>

• Blowing Smoke

  published November 22, 2007

  Did a landfill explosion cause the Santiago Canyon Fire? Umm . . . More >>

• Just a Random Female

  published November 22, 2007

  Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed? More >>

• The Fire of the Century . . . of the Year

  published November 1, 2007

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

• Smiley Coyotl

  published October 11, 2007

  When is a prosecutor not a prosecutor? The answer spared a Santa Ana activist/punk rocker from criminal charges More >>

• Who (almost) Dunnit?

  published September 27, 2007

  The world may never know who leaned on UCI's Michael Drake to unhire Erwin Chemerinsky More >>

• CD Review

  published September 13, 2007

  Manu Chao, La Radiolina (Nacional) More >>

• Hail Jesus: The Weekly and Pastor Wiley Drake Save America, One Day at a Time!

  published Dec 03, 2007

  Dearest brethren and sisters of the Internet, God's children all: Let us all join our hands in prayer and thank the Lord for both the Orange County Weekly and Wiley Drake, the Buena Park-based, homel... More >>

• Return of the Rocco Files: Rocco Lives!

  published Nov 27, 2007

  An article (if you can call a 10-sentence blurb, including the writer's contact information, an article) in yesterday's Orange County Register confirms that Steve Rocco, Orange County's favorite edgoo... More >>

• Sheriff Carona Takes Two-Month Vacation

  published Nov 06, 2007

  Halfway through today's intensely dull OC Board of Supervisors meeting, during which the supes hemmed and hawed about whether to allow county voters to demand elected officials under indictment take a... More >>

• Conviction Overturned for OC's Most Famous Anarchist

  published Sep 28, 2007

  Three years ago, Orange County's most famous anarchist pleaded no contest to several felonies relating to his alleged attempt to blow up La Habra's Moose Lodge in 2002. On Wednesday, the California Su... More >>

• Gordon Dillow Betrays Our Precious Bodily Fluids

  published Sep 25, 2007

  Gordon Dillow is best known as the barely readable OC Register columnist and professional boot-licker who's never seen an officer-involved shooting or excessive use of taser on an unarmed suspect he d... More >>

• Waiting With Red-baited Breath

  published August 23, 2007

  Little Saigon’s latest wave of anti-communist fervor spreads beyond Viet Weekly More >>

• A History of Violence

  published August 16, 2007

  A brief history of anti-communist attacks in the United States More >>

• Red Scare in Little Saigon

  published August 16, 2007

  Le Vu's Viet Weekly newspaper endures OC's latest anti-communist witch-hunt More >>

• Mission: Implausible

  published July 19, 2007

  The CIA has disavowed any knowledge of the alleged plot against Laos by Vang Pao and others. At least one defense attorney doesnt buy it More >>

• Suicide By Cop 101

  published July 5, 2007

  A few free lessons for Surf Citys Finest, courtesy of the Newport Beach PD More >>

• The General's Last Stand

  published July 5, 2007

  Vang Pao devoted his life to fighting communism in Laos—until his onetime ally, the U.S. government,... More >>

• Hero or Heroin?

  published June 14, 2007

  Alleged coup-plotter Vang Paos shady past eludes mainstream media More >>

• Big Easy Barbecue

  published June 7, 2007

  Memphis chef Diego Velasco shares his secrets to the perfect backyard summer feast More >>

• Eternal Sunshine

  published June 7, 2007

  Director William A. Kirkley rediscovers the dark side of OC’s Summer of Love More >>

• Dude, Where's My Pot?

  published May 17, 2007

  Ten years after California legalized medical marijuana, OCs war on cannabis continues More >>

• Tased and Not Confused

  published May 10, 2007

  To lawyer in OC jailhouse-tasing incident, missing footage is no shocker More >>