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Chris Kluwe Cover Story Wins GLAAD Award

Remember our Nov. 1 cover story on Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter out of Los Alamitos High and evolving national, straight advocate for marriage equality? Andy Mannix, the writer of that fine piece, just won GLAAD's 2012 award for Outstanding Newspaper Article.

Christopher Dorner Ditched Cops' Favorite Tool

[Moxley Confidential] The Ex-LAPD cop and suspected serial killer denied his pursuers their favorite tracking device: his cell phone

4 Orange Countians Tied to Excel Investments Arrested for Alleged 3-State Condo Bailout Scam

The feds have arrested five people, including four from Orange County, for allegedly pulling a "builder bailout" real estate scam that fraudulently purchased more than 100 condos around the country with mortgages that mostly went into default. The scheme, which was operated out of Excel Investme ... 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 >>

STEC Inc. Spins and is Spun Back in My Inbox

I swear I am not making this up: Last week, I received two emails, one immediately followed by the other in my inbox, concerning STEC Inc., the Santa Ana-based multinational company that creates solid state drive technologies and products.The photographic proof follows after the jump . . .

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 >>

'The Bay' Aspires to YouTube

Auteur goes amateur in Barry Levinson's found-footage, eco-horror cheapie

Chris Kluwe's Game Changer

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

On The Line: David Kesler of Bistro Bleu, Part Two

A common theme we've noticed during interviews is how chef owners tend to worry. They worry about how slammed they'll be at dinner service, or conserving energy and resources so the bills aren't high. It's these and a hundred other thoughts that ruminate every day, yet the diner only sees the end re ... More >>

OC's Scariest People 2012!

Child molesters, Shaheen Sadeghi, serial killers, Dana Rohrabacher and so many more!

Monster Energy Drink Possibly Linked To Five Deaths

The FDA is investigating reports of five deaths that may be linked to Monster Energy, the popular caffeine-and-taurine beverage in a big black can.A lawsuit against Corona-based Monster Beverage claims that a 14-year-old Maryland girl with a heart condition died after drinking two cans of the energy ... More >>

Diatribe With Dave: The Rise of Ryes

Every second and fourth Wednesday night of the month, legendary bartender/chef/restaurant insider Dave Mau hosts Dinner with Dave at Memphis at the Santora, where he treats drinkers to a free meal and live music as the evening progresses. To remind ustedes of this great night, Dave treats us ev ... More >>

Juicy J, Smoke DZA, Joey Badass, Fat Trel - The Observatory - 8/4/12

See Also*Did MTV Really Snub Waka Flocka Flame's Rapping Rooster?*Big K.R.I.T. Keeps His Beats Homemade and His Rhymes Country*Slaine Opens Up About New La Coka Nostra Record, Friendship w/ DJ Premier and La Coka Nostra Without EverlastThe lineup the Smoker's Club tour at the Observatory read like a ... More >>

3 OC Beaches Ranked Among Cleanest in U.S. by NRDC, But Dirty Doheny Gets Spanked Again

Three Orange County beaches are among the cleanest of 200 popular beaches around the country, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).However, the NRDC's "Testing the Waters" survey also identified three separate stretches of Doheny State Beach in Dana Point as be ... More >>

Orange County Register's Freedom Overlords Sell 8 TV Stations to Conservative Concern

Freedom Communications, the Irvine-based media company whose flagship newspaper is the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, has completed the sale of its eight television stations to the company that famously ordered its ABC affiliates not to show an April 30, 2004, Nightline tribute to American sol ... More >>

Local Record Review: George Hartline and the Harmless Doves

​George Hartline and the Harmless Doves George Hartline and the Harmless Doves EP www.reverbnation.com/georgehartline OC's been on a pretty steady kick of classic rock inspired bands lately--not perhaps all that surprising given that it's an easy way to contrast against the club rush--but the lead ... More >>

Get This In Your Belly: Coloradito de Puerco at El Moctezuma #2

Dave Lieberman​I've been to El Moctezuma many times. I'm slowly working my way through its menu of Oaxacan specialities such as memelas; tlayudas; huge, banana-leaf-wrapped tamales; and of course plenty of moles.Until we took a visiting Marylander for Oaxacan food last week, I had never had the co ... More >>

[UPDATED] Rachel Ann Hicks Busted for Allegedly Raping Maryland Boy She Met in X-Box Chat Room

​Update, Jan. 17, 3:14 p.m.: Lake Forest resident Rachel Ann Hicks, 36, signed a court waiver last week allowing her to be extradited to Maryland to answer to charges she had sex with a 13-year-old boy in his bedroom around Thanksgiving 2010.Hicks was being held without bail in Orange County for t ... More >>

Congressman Darrell Issa to Oversee Federal Food Regulation: Good or Bad?

​With the newest Congress sworn in comes Capitol Hill's traditional musical chairs of parties switching leadership roles for committees and the like. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is charged with investigating the government's regulations to see if they're overreaching. Th ... More >>

Grab Bag o' Goodies

Nine great posts from our Stick a Fork In It blog you might've missed

Five Great Regional Burgers McDonald's Offers That They Should Offer Everywhere

Flickr user fugutabetai syashin​If you spent your youth with the McRib, you're just happier than a hog in slop right now with the re-launch of that sandwich at every US McDonald's franchise. I admit it: I liked them as kid, but I've since learned about real barbecue, and welcomed the news with a s ... More >>

Animals As Leaders Riff Out

There's more to Tosin Abasi's instrumental prog-metal outfit than guitar heroics

Jim Gilchrist Saves Journalism

God bless Jim Gilchrist!​So, on C-SPAN: THE DEUCE the other day, John Nichols of The Nation and co-author of The Death and Life of American Journalism was telling an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that 140 newspapers closed down in the past year, 1,000 newspaper employees ... More >>

Prop 8 Testimony Cited as "Ex-Gay" Materials Sent to High School Students

​Report cards aren't the only thing they gave out at a Maryland county's high schools recently. The Washington Post reports that Montgomery County high schools distributed fliers from Parents & Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays Seeking Tolerance for All (PFOX).The fliers included the following mes ... More >>

On the Line: Bobby Bognar of History Channel's "Food Tech"

Courtesy of Bobby Bognar​It's ironic that the latest food show to hit the airwaves isn't on the Food Network (they're much too busy showing pointless, boring challenge shows) but on the History Channel.Though the format is a lot like "Unwrapped" and "Follow That Food", the last time Marc Summers i ... More >>

Eight Questions With Alfunction

​There's not much to say about the Costa Mesa man/myth/legend that is Alfunction.that hasn't already been said, so I'll keep it at this. When he's not playing guitar in SiX, he's screen printing t-shirts, stickers and whatever else he can put ink on and currently he's the guitar tech for Maryland- ... More >>

On the Line: Marc Cohen of Watermarc

watermarcrestaurant.com Marc Cohen's newest restaurant, Watermarc, is a flat out hit, even by Laguna Beach standards.  If you haven't heard of it, you will.  And if you haven't had his food, you need to.Here are his answers for our list of 8 frivolous questions.1. Dish that you cook that ... More >>

Nick Adenhart Memorial Fund Presents First $5,000 Check

The Nick Adenhart Memorial Fund, a charitable fund set up in the name of the Angels pitcher who was killed along with two other in an April 9 auto accident in Fullerton, has presented its first $5,000 check benefiting Little League baseball in Adenhart's home state of Maryland. Jim Adenhart, N ... More >>

State Budget Mess Takes Toll on Annual Easter Seals Camp

Due to California's budget mess, $52,000 in annual state support for Easter Seals Southern California's week-long camp for people with disabilities is likely not coming July 1, so the nonprofit will be scrambling over the next five weeks to make up for the loss and continue the 36-year run at Camp ... More >>

Attention Coupon Holders: Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries Is Open at Metro Pointe

Edwin Goei In what seems to be the second documented case of "jump-the-gun-itis" we've seen in recent weeks, it's been widely reported that Maryland-based chain Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries sent out coupons to eager customers prior to the opening of its first ever California store.  This w ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Sources Say Paul Walters Won't Run for Sheriff

Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries Almost Open

We broke the news last March that Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries, a Maryland-based chain, was opening its first California outlet here in the space vacated by Irezumi Sushi. Well, it's mid-June now and things are getting closer to being open, but not quite. In fact, some Yelpers (actually, jus ... More >>

WTF!?! Pastor Wiley Drake Opens Dialogue With Muslims

CORRECTED...In stark contrast to Muslims hating Jews--and vice versa--at UC Irvine comes a revelation from Buena Park that must be accompanied by visions of flying pigs, a frozen-over Hell and galloping steeds of the Apocalypse. First Southern Baptist Church Pastor Wiley Drake is hosting an appearan ... More >>

It's a Quick Read 35

Orange County Register: Cypress father and Long Beach Memorial hospital pharmacy manager Hugo Bustamante, 46, was one of the two victims slain by a fellow pharmacy worker Mario Ramirez, 50, who then took his own life. . . . Harold Edward Trees, a 36-year-old Orange man who is believed to be a member ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

Finally, some fire at at Taco Bell joint. From Maryland: Discarded cigarettes cause a two-alarm blaze that destroyed a Taco Bell restaurant in Germantown on Monday, firefighters said this week. "What the fire didn't damage, smoke and water did," said Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services spoke ... More >>

Angels Pitcher Nick Adenhart Killed in Fullerton Crash

*Moved up by Gustavo, because dumb-ass trolls have hijacked a tragedy to go on and rail about Mexicans. Give 'em hell, gentle readers...Nick Adenhart, the Angels starter who pitched six scoreless innings in last night's 6-4 loss to the A's, was one of three people killed in a collision involvin ... More >>

Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries To Take Over Irezumi Sushi Spot at South Coast Metro Pointe

Photo Courtesy of Boardwalk Fresh Burgers & Fries As long as we're talkin' about chains from The South penetrating our borders and tickling our tongues, let's talk about Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries. It will open at South Coast Metro Pointe, next door to Arriba's (no word yet on an a ... More >>

Local Political Bloggers Dangerous? You Don't Say.

gorriti / Flickr / Creative CommonsThe Associated Press put out an item to the national wires last Friday about the mayor of Salisbury, Maryland who took some time from his state-of-the-city address to carp about the bloggers and gadflies whose antics have placed their city "under siege": Daily, I r ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

I thought people in Maryland gorged themselves on crab cakes? From the Old Line State: Two occupants of a vehicle parked at the Taco Bell in Solomons on Feb. 12 at 8 p.m. were found to be in possession of suspected marijuana.  DFC James Smith subsequently arrested Derek Craig Bradley, 20, and B ... More >>

The Hibbleton Exhibits Photographers With the Rot Stuff

Orange County Bishops and Their Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card: A History

I'm getting disappointed with Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. As of recently, I've been reporting more on the kooky actions of former Orange bishops, whether it was homo-hating or homo-hypocrisy, than the current head of the county's Catholics. So it hurts me to report that the latest in Oran ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Feathers and Fringe, the Native American Look

Marine Land

Dorothy Green: remembered Academics, government officials, business people and clean-water advocates have been meeting since Tuesday at the seventh annual Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference at the Westin Long Beach, and unless they all got swallowed up by the creatures they gawked at during free ... More >>

Camera dCheatin

The movies cant get enough of marrieds getting it on outside marriage

The Year the Superstar DJ Died

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Archiving Nixon

Perp Walks

No Escape