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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 >>

[UPDATE: Hearing Scheduled, But Where?] SCE Scrambling For Ways to Turn On Troubled San Onofre Nuke Plant

*See end of post for an update.Original Post, March 22, 12:41 p.m.: For months, Southern California Edison has been trying to avoid having to go through a lengthy regulatory process that would force the company to prove that continued operation of the company's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ... More >>

Scott Devours' Call to Greatness

How a local drummer scored a gig with the Who but had only four hours to learn 'Quadrophenia'

Scraps: The Real Asian Tapas

This Huntington Beach restaurant serves small plates with promising, if as-yet unfulfilled, results

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 >>

5 Sets of Stats on How We Viewed Porn in 2012

As you'e been looking at Pornhub.com, "the world's biggest XXX porno tube" has obviously been looking at you and the choices you make with each click.After the jump are results culled from Pornhub.com's new national report titled, "What Frisky Americans Viewed Online in 2012."

Jenni Rivera Had Ovaries of Steel

The ballsy, brash, brilliant, too-short life of the Mexican regional music queen and Long Beach girl

Doug DeCinces, Former Angel Who Paid $2.5 Million to Settle Insider Trading Suit, Now Faces Possible Prison Time After Indictment

Los Angeles Dodger and Baltimore Oriole Hall of Fame first baseman Eddie Murray agreed in August to pay $358,151 to settle a federal lawsuit tied to an insider-trading tip he received from his buddy and former teammate Doug DeCinces.On Wednesday, the former Oriole and California Angel third baseman, ... More >>

Is John Eastman Hiding Homo-Haters?

Former presidential candidate Fred Karger wants the former Chapman University law professor to reveal who's donating money to his fight against gay marriage

Scott Boras: Baseball's Savior?

You don't normally see Scott Boras hailed as a savior of baseball--usually, the Newport Beach super-sports agent is referred to as the complete opposite.But with the Nationals becoming the first Washington, D.C., team since 1933 making it to the playoffs, some in the nation's capital are crediting B ... More >>

Animal Collective's Josh Dibb On Returning to the Band and Writing Their Latest Record in a Barn

Here's some random, sort-of-inconsequential stuff you didn't know about Animal Collective's Josh Dibb: He was born in the city of Orange, his mom is a spiritual educator who runs "a consciousness school that teaches people how to be," his dad taught at the University of California in Santa Barbara w ... More >>

[UPDATED with Traps Sabotaged:] Typhus Report Leads to Santa Ana Cat Killing

UPDATE, MAY 31, 12:54 P.M.: Outrage over the controversial Orange County Vector Control campaign to eradicate fleas carrying typhus by eradicating Santa Ana cats that may be carrying fleas has moved from the virtual world--in the form of online opposition--to the real world. Though one of six traps ... More >>

Fitz and the Tantrums Sweat it Out

We were all melting like popsicles from the heat on Sunday at Coachella last weekend, but that didn't stop festival goers from checking out bands performing under the beating sun. Before hitting the main stage, we talked to band Fitz and the Tantrums about their festival experiences, the sweaty wal ... More >>

Is the Laguna Beach Massage Envy Rubbing Women the Wrong Way?

​A Laguna Beach Massage Envy masseur, who is already facing criminal and civil allegations that he sexually assaulted one woman, has been accused this month of molesting a second female customer.According to a plaintiff identified only as "Jane Doe," masseur Mark Pergil Valenzon masturbated during ... More >>

The Subbasement Tapes of 'Last Days Here'

Tracking a heavy-metal near-casualty

Wanted: Richard Nixon Library Director

​Tim Naftali left last month as the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum since the National Archives in 2005-06 took over the tapes, documents and most of the facilities from the private foundation that dedicated the Yorba Linda tourist trap 15 years before. You'll n ... More >>

Five Ballsy In-N-Out Copycats

In-N-OutSee that trademark logo? Anybody? ​Trademark lawyers for Irvine-based In-N-Out are busy folks. The iconic burger chain has spawned ripoffs across the world--and that means war.  But the company is smart, and understands that where there's a clone, there's a hungry market. In response ... More >>

Thrice Talk About Their Evolution in Albums, From Identity Crisis to Major/Minori

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Lest you forget about last week's cover on Irvine post-hardcore band Thrice, we've unearthed some pretty portions of the interview with the Breckenridge brothers that didn't make it onto print. Here, both Eddie and Riley talk about how the band evolved musically, and disse ... More >>

George Hartline Goes From South to South OC

[Locals Only] He and the Harmless Doves bring roots rock blues music to Southern California

Kenneth Joseph Lucas II Gets 13 Years for Running International Phishing Scam and Indoor Pot Farm

​UPDATE, JUNE 28, 2 P.M.: Sentences totaling 13 years for convictions in two cases have been given to Kenneth Joseph Lucas II, the "kingpin" of an international "phishing" operation that used spam e-mails and bogus websites to collect personal information used to defraud American banks. The 27- ... More >>

'The Conspirator' Is a Boring Lincoln Memorial

Robert Redford helms another dull history lesson

'Doctor Cerberus' and Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa

The triple-threat writer's tense, hilarious family drama is a highlight of SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival

Andrew Thomas Gallo, Accused of Killing Angel Pitcher Nick Adenhart and 2 Others, Wants His Murder Trial Moved Out of OC

Photos courtesy of BackCountry.comAndrew Thomas Gallo is shown in bookings photos following arrests for being (from left): drunk in public in 2006, drunk and disorderly in 2007 and drunk behind the wheel in a triple-fatal crash a year ago.​Andrew Thomas Gallo, who is charged with killing Angels pi ... More >>

Busy Days Ahead at the Nixon Library

​A birthday celebration, the arrival of important records and some good old fashioned revisionism: yep, busy days are ahead at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. (Which is where you'll also find the creepy bust above.)

Looking Back: 2009 Orange County Deaths

​Turn on the weepy, string ensemble music: It's time for us to look back on the year that (almost) was and remember some of the figures from Orange County who have left us. There was unexpected tragedy, there were some suspicious circumstances, there were rich legacies... there's even the possibil ... More >>

Cops, Judges, Prosecutors, Police Chiefs, Prison Wardens, FBI/DEA Agents: Legalize All Drugs

Tom Angell caught Clockwork's recent post "As Cannabis Initiative Heads for Ballot, Former Police Chief Advocates Legalizing All Drugs." It was based on a recent column by Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief and 34-year veteran cop, of the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). An ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

And Speaking of John Dean in Orange County . . .

UPDATED WITH CORRECTED GENDER FOR ONE MAN, JOB DESCRIPTION FOR ANOTHER (THANK YOU, REV. TAYLOR). Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, whose June appearance drew 300 people to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and the wrath of the private Richard Nixon Library & Birth ... More >>

Executive Director John Taylor Leaving Nixon Foundation for Clergy

The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation announced today that John H. Taylor, the foundation's executive director since it opened in 1990 and before that Nixon's chief of staff, is leaving Sunday to become the full-time vicar (or priest in charge) at St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church ... More >>

When the Going Gets Tough, the Rick Warren Scandal Gets Weird

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has today's best assessment of the Rick Warren-Barack Obama invocation dust up: "Not only is it getting worse, it's getting weirder."Yesterday, there was Pastor Wiley Drake of First Baptist Church in Buena Park demonizing Warren's participation in the Jan. 20 inauguration of ou ... More >>

[Aural Reports] Expat Baltimore DJ Charles Feelgood Gives a Boost to Huntington Beach's Street Cred

The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

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

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, homeless-person-feeding, gay-bashing, Southern Baptist Pastor. Why blesseth we the Weekly and Pastor Dra ... More >>

Hypocrites Unite!

As everyone surely now knows, The Drudge Report has solved the Mark Foley mystery. As you know, Republicans are all about taking responsibility for one's actions. As they demonstrate here, they are indeed taking responsibility--for having an innocent "prank" about pedophilia (nice sense of humor, gu ... More >>

Tricky Dicks

Academics ask Congress to deny Nixon Library presidential documents after conference cancellation

Diary of A Mad County

Down With George Bush The Usurper

OC man files largest civil-rights lawsuit in U.S. history

Diary Of A Mad County

Heavy is the Crown

The Year in Sports

FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. ROHRABACHER

Daddy, Are You Listening to Nixon?

What its like to listen to the former president all day, every day

La Malandrina

How Jenni Rivera changed Mexican culture forever

Gary Mendoza: Consumer-Rights Warrior?

A daily reporter endorses GOP candidate for insurance commissioner

Steven Hatfill's Big Idea

Scary Movies

Joe Berlingers worked-over Blair Witch 2, Mark Singers lovely Dark Days

Gay-Baiting Brown

Did a smear campaign force Republican ''caveman'' out of key Assembly race?

This weeks featured NFL game: Chicago Bears (3-4) vs. Washington Redskins (4-2)

Scars and Stripes

What's behind those yellow flags in Little Saigon?

Between the Generations

Sexual politics and moral ambiguity take the stage