Look, I should be the last person to criticize someone's physical appearance, what with my high forehead, scarred cheek, splotchy beard, lanky frame and teeth more crooked than the chompers of the Prince of Wales. But the Orange County Register's recent trend to allow its BBR (Big Beautiful Reporters) to write about their weight problems and print accompanying pictures must stop now. On Feb. 19, former Weekly writer Nguyen Huy Vu and longtime Reg obit columnist Robin Hinch filled in readers on t
Vu with his wifeOn Friday at a Harbor City hospital, Nguyen Huy Vu's family decided to take the 34-year-old reporter off artificial life support following a Mother's Day heart attack that had left him brain dead.Suzie Suh filed this report at KCAL's Channel 9.Chuyen Nguyen, Vu's father and a longtime Little Saigon community leader, said his son's body will be cremated after Catholic services.During his career, Vu worked at OC Weekly, The Orange County Register, Seattle Times, Associated Press, N
Nguyen Huy VuNguyen Huy Vu, one of the most beloved, award-winning reporters in OC Weekly history, is on artificial life support tonight in a Los Angeles County hospital and, according to doctors, isn't expected to survive. The 34-year-old, who was my ambitious, idealistic first intern nearly 10 years ago, collapsed during a Mother's Day soccer game after scoring a goal, suffered cardiac arrest and has not regained consciousness. Vu--who also worked at the Orange County Register, Seat
Vu and his wife HeatherA funeral mass has been scheduled for journalist Nguyen Huy Vu for 10 a.m. on Monday, May 25 at Saint Callistus Catholic Church in Garden Grove, according to Chuyen V. Nguyen, Vu's father.There will also be a visitation this weekend (Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.) at Melrose Abbey Memorial Park in Anaheim.Vu, 34, died from an apparent stroke while playing soccer on Mother's Day.Tomorrow's Weekly contains our farewell salute to Vu, who had
Vu Nguyen​The Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois at Springfield has created a website and scholarship in honor of former OC Weekly intern Nguyen Huy Vu, who died from a stroke on Mother's Day at the age of 34. Vu, who grew up in Orange County's Little Saigon, also worked at the Orange County Register, Seattle Times, Nguoi Viet, the Associated Press and finally at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, where he covered education issues. For more information about Vu's life, g
