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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2009 Stories by NICK SCHOU

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  FEATURED STORY

  Al Qaeda's Goat Boy: Back from the Dead and as Annoying as Ever

  published Sep 23, 2009

  Apparently, your teabagging grandma isn't the only person who thinks the election of Barack Obama spells doom for America. In celebration of the eighth anniversary of 9/11, Al Qaeda has just released... More >>

• EVEN MORE UPDATED (W/DA RESPONSE): ACLU Files Class Action Suit in Orange Gang Injunction Case

  published Sep 23, 2009

  About four months after the Weekly first highlighted the controversy surrounding a gang injunction filed against numerous Latino residents of the city of Orange, the ACLU of Southern California announ... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Unsolved Murder of Joe Avila Is Only One of Many Loose Ends From OC's Coked-Out '80s

  published September 24, 2009

  Blown AwayThe unsolved murder of Joe Avila is only one of many loose ends from OC’s blood-drenched, coked-out... More >>

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: "Weed 'Em Out!"

  published Sep 18, 2009

  Hello haters! Here we go with another edition of...rLet's talk about illegals, shall werTwo fun stories this week. The first one is by Cindy Carcamo--and we know where this senorita's sympathies lie, ... More >>

• Weekly Story Cited in Major Bank Lawsuit!

  published Sep 17, 2009

  Remember that ongoing controversy over Medical Capital Holdings, Inc, (MCH) the Orange County-based medical lender who the SEC claims bilked investor funds to dole out cash to its own executives while... More >>

• How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Is Connected to the Weather Underground Via the Black Panthers

  published September 17, 2009

  OC’s Brotherly Connection With the WeathermenPerhaps the most surreal operation the Weather Underground ever... More >>

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Disappearing Comments Edition

  published Sep 11, 2009

  Not sure why, but when I sat down to write up this column today, all the comments on all the hot-button stories on the OC Register website appear to have been disabled. Could it be that the overworked... More >>

• MSNBC's Olbermann: OC Register Editors Suck Ass

  published Sep 10, 2009

  In case you've been living in a...wait a sec, let's just not go there...uh,if you haven't been reading the newspaper or reading the internets for the past few days, you might have missed the dumbest f... More >>

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Laguna Edition

  published Sep 04, 2009

  Usually this column focuses on folks who hate Mexicans, immigrants, poor people, non-white people and "Third World peasants" who come to this country to build "clown houses"--yes, we're still scratchi... More >>

• Moxley Wins Best American Crime Reporting 2009

  published Sep 03, 2009

  For the second year in a row, OC Weekly has been honored with inclusion in Harper Collins' annual Best American Crime Reporting compilation, which just arrived on bookshelves this week. Moxley's "Hate... More >>

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Special Kennedy Appreciation Edition

  published Aug 28, 2009

  Until brain cancer ended his career, Senator Ted Kennedy was one of the hardest working legislators in American history, someone who even right-wing ideologues like Orrin Hatch admired and loved for h... More >>

• Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Week: "Stupid Asians!"

  published Aug 21, 2009

  So far, this column has focused on stories with headlines and subject matters--gangs in Santa Ana, white people voting more often than Latinos, Latina columnists being employed by the Register and dar... More >>

• SEC Investigation of Medical Lender Sets Sail for a Party Yacht

  published August 20, 2009

  They’re On a Boat!The SEC’s investigation of a local medical-lending company highlights executives’ ties to an... More >>

• Justice Department Probing OC Jail Brutality

  published Aug 14, 2009

  Front page stories in both the LA Times and Register today report that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Orange County's jail system in the wake of recent brutality allegations. "Officials ... More >>

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: "Go Whites!"

  published Aug 14, 2009

  This week's story is an Aug. 7 column by the Orange County Register's Martin Wisckol, "Whites a minority in California, but still a majority of voters." The story was based on recent Field Poll data t... More >>

• Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Week: Bullets for Bangers!

  published Aug 07, 2009

  Nothing like a good old gang-related murder in Santa Ana to set off all the Register readers who would like nothing more than to see the city cordoned off by immigration cops and the entire non-Englis... More >>

• Video: Birther Nutjob Orly Taitz Suffers MSNBC Meltdown

  published Aug 04, 2009

  Just in time for Barack Obama's birthday--it's today--the queen of the so-called "birther" movement, Orly Taitz, appeared yesterday on MSNBC to talk up her latest "evidence" that Obama is not an Amer... More >>

• OC Racist Reign of Lameness Continues Over Weekend

  published Aug 03, 2009

  What is the deal with Freedom 14r This pesky little group of Nazi skinheads apparently believes it is going to establish Southern California as an all-white enclave simply by passing out leaflets in n... More >>

• New Complications In the IHHI Saga

  published July 30, 2009

  More ComplicationsThe SEC files suit against the lender for the owner of several OC hospitals, while another lawsuit reveals a... More >>

• New Column: Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Week!

  published Jul 24, 2009

  Greetings, racist psychobabble fans!Every Friday, we'll bring you this innovative and occasionally interactive web column featuring the five most racist comments by Register readers. Okay, so maybe th... More >>

• Anti-Immigrant Racist Group Will Protest at HB Pier This Saturday

  published Jul 23, 2009

   Last Saturday a bunch of anti-immigration activists from a group called Freedom14.org gathered at the Huntington Beach pier to, in the group's own words, "inspire White people to take up its cau... More >>

• A Medical-Pot Activist Spends a Night in Jail for Talking Back to Deputies at the OC Fair

  published July 23, 2009

  Where There’s Smoke . . .A medical-marijuana activist says he spent a night in jail for trying to educate sheriff’s... More >>

• "Birther Nutjob" Orly Taitz Becomes OC's 2nd "World's Worst Person" This Week

  published Jul 17, 2009

  Earlier this week, it was Orange County's own Reverend Wiley Drake, who prays for the death of President Obama on a daily basis and who has filed a lawsuit seeking his removal from office because he's... More >>

• Big Week For Birthers and Their Crusade to Unseat Obama the Usurper!

  published Jul 14, 2009

  The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia, reports today that Orly Taitz, the Orange County attorney who reigns as queen bee to the Obama "birther" movement, is representing a "conscientious objector" ... More >>

• Alleged Hate Crime Sparks Reg Reader Racist Fusterkluck!

  published Jul 10, 2009

  On July 4, two young white male suspects, one described as a skinhead with a swastika tattoo, allegedly attacked a Latina custodian in Ladera Ranch. In a press conference held with Sheriff's Dept. off... More >>