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Chris Kluwe, Gay Rights Advocate Vikings Cut, "Wouldn't Have Changed Anything": Update

See the update at the end of this post about an extensive interview Chris Kluwe gave a colleague at a Voice Media Group news site in which the punter cut by the Vikings says, "I wouldn't have changed anything."ORIGINAL POST, MAY 6, 2:23 P.M.: Chris Kluwe, who these days may be better known as a stra ... More >>

Abdel Chehada, Ex-Teacher, Accused of Illegal Sex with Female Los Alamitos High Student

A former North Orange County Regional Occupation Program (NOCROP) teacher assigned to Los Alamitos High School was arrested near his Huntington Beach home over the weekend for allegedly having engaged in unlawful sex acts with a female student in 2012. Abdel Chehada, 43, who left NOCROP the same y ... More >>

Chris Kluwe, NFL Punter Out of Los Al High and Marriage Equality Champion, to be Feted in OC

Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter, has been honored in Minneapolis-St. Paul and around the country for being a straight champion for marriage equality. But where's the love where the professional athlete's road to sporting fame began, Orange County, because . . . he . . . uh . . . check that ... More >>

All Things Considered, Chris Kluwe Would Rather Be in His Costa Mesa Hobby Shop

A recent Weekly cover boy is among those being thanked today for Minnesota voters rejecting a referendum Tuesday that would have stipulated marriage in the Mary Richards State can only be between one man and one woman.He is, of course, Chris Kluwe, the Vikings punter via UCLA and Los Alamitos High S ... More >>

Your Chris Kluwe OC Weekly Cover Story Extra Credit Reading Assignment

Andy Mannix's excellent cover story on Chris Kluwe, the pride of Los Alamitos High School, shows how a Minnesota Vikings punter managed to eclipse his NFL career by becoming perhaps the nation's leading straight proponent for marriage equality. The story mentions a video Baltimore Ravens linebacker ... More >>

Chris Kluwe's Game Changer

The Los Al High grad and Minnesota Vikings punter is prying open America's last closet: major-league sports

James Rivas and His Sad Puppy Eyes Held in Brutal Attack on Rossmoor Jogger

As longtime Navel Gazers know, this blog routinely devotes a Friday post to the Ugliest Police Mugshot of the Week. Well, today, we bring you instead the Saddest Puppy Dog Eyes Police Mugshot of the Week.The "honor" goes to 18-year-old James Rivas, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder T ... More >>

Adam Kolkin, Young Actor from Last Night's Glee, Hopes It'll Be His Big Break

​Did you get a look at the kid who played Kurt at age 8 on last night's Glee? Talk about a dead ringer!It turns out the young actor who played the younger version of Chris Colfer's character in flashbacks is a 13-year-old freshman at Los Alamitos High School, which was where Glee star Matthew Morr ... More >>

Matthew Morrison of Glee and OCHSA Fame May Not Be a Top Earner, But He's a Giver

​Here's a depressing revelation: Matthew Morrison, the Orange County High School for the Arts alum who sings, dances and acts his ass off as teacher Will Schuester on Fox's hit high school musical-comedy Glee, earns the same per episode as Snooki.Morrison and Jersey Shore's Nicole Polizzi each tak ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Juri Julie Kibuishi and Samuel Eliezer Herr, OC Homicides No. 19 and 22: Both Executed, He Was Also Dismembered

UPDATE: They have found Sammy Herr's head (details after the jump) . . . Courtesy of Costa Mesa Police DepartmentDaniel Patrick Wozniak has been arrested for Juri Julie Kibuishi and Samuel Herr's murders.​Samuel Eliezer Herr's father went to his 26-year-old son's apartment in Costa Mesa Saturday ... More >>

Interview: Half Past Two Is Way Past Ska

​You could probably call Half Past Two the band that Aaron Barrett of Reel Big Fish built. Notwithstanding the fact that members of the band have been together since they were members of the Los Alamitos High School marching band, ska veteran Barrett has been instrumental in their development. He ... More >>

Natural Reborn Killingtons

The Long Beach noise-rockers try to stitch together the loose ends of their messy breakup

Bad Religion/Tenacious D Drummer Brooks Wackerman Steps Up to the Mic With Kidneys

This Saturday: 9th Annual Taste 4 Los Al (Alamitos, That Is!)

​Orange has its International Food Fair, Irvine has its Global Village, Newport Beach has not only one food fest, but two (more on that later), and this Saturday, October 17th, Los Alamitos will have one. It will mark the 9th year for the Taste For Los Al, which takes place at The Shops at Rossm ... More >>

As Relevance Wanes, Another Mr. Irrelevant Comes to Town

Photo by Christopher VictorioThe one, the only, the 256th Ryan Succop.If you were out at Newport Dunes last evening and heard a lot of, "S'up, Succop?" that probably was not from someone suffering from uncurable hiccups but greeting the Man of the Hour, whose last name is pronounced "suck up," as in ... More >>

Rage Against the Classical Machine

Christopher Russell leads the OCHSA orchestra into new terrain

Good Times

Remembering the days when gay clubs were cool with everybody!