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Navel Gazing's Project Un-uncensored

Looking back at 2012 news that was fit to blog but not to print . . . until now

Share & Do Good Is Consciously Fashionable

[Trendzilla] Lilly Tokuyama's Fullerton boutique sells cute products to help fund charities worldwide

Peter Ngugi, OC Weekly's Kenyan Intern Reviews Kony 2012 Part Deux

KONY 2012, Part Two: Beyond Famous, the second installment of San Diego-based non-profit Invisible Children (IC) about Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, has dropped. Gone are Jason Russell and his five-year-old son, who are replaced by IC's CEO Ben Keesey, a former cor ... More >>

Merida of Disney/Pixar's "Brave" Coming to Disneyland

Disney/Pixar's new animated film Brave hits theaters this June, but, as expected, Disney theme parks are rolling out the film's marketing blitzkrieg starting right... now!After the jump, learn where you'll soon be able to meet Merida, Brave's lead character, in the parks, and check out some of the a ... More >>

Why The Voice Project, America's Latest Anti-Kony Project, is B.S.

​Editor's note: OC Weekly's infamous Kenyan intern, Peter Ngugi, still doesn't have his own blog account, so once again, I'm posting this on his behalf. Take it away, Peter...As former President George W. Bush once said, "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again."U ... More >>

[UPDATE: Jason Russell Detained For Public Masturbation] KONY 2012: A Kenyan OC Weekly Intern Calls B.S. on the Film

​UPDATE, March 16, 5:15 pm.: It's being widely reported that Jason Rusell, co-founder of Invisible Childen and narrator of KONY 2012, was arrested yesterday morning in San Diego for masturbating in public.[Editor's Note: No, we're not making this up. Yes, this is the weirdest update to a film rev ... More >>

31 Bits Sells Merchandise That's Good

[Trendzilla] The Costa Mesa company helps women in Uganda sell their wondrous jewelry

Detroit Bar Benefit for Rebecca Willis Tomorrow Night

​Detroit Bar is hosting a benefit tomorrow night for Rebecca Willis, a 22-year-old Newport Beach resident. While crossing Newport Blvd. in Costa Mesa early last Saturday morning, Willis was hit by a car. The Register says "Willis broke bones throughout her body and is in an induced coma." Family ... More >>

Eric Dondero, Now Blasting Ex-Boss Ron Paul, Used to Beat Up the Register's Steven Greenhut

​Ron Paul's former aide Eric Dondero blogged over the holiday weekend that his former boss was anti-Israel, isolationist on foreign policy, uncomfortable around homosexuals and out of touch with black and Hispanic cultures. Naturally, that kicked up a shitstorm as Paul continues to poll well in ea ... More >>

TOMS-Foolery

[Trendzilla] The hipster shoemaker is involved with the reprehensible Focus On the Family

'Nu Thang': How an Uber Awkward Jesus Rap from the '90s Reached 500k Views and Found its Star in a Week

​ You may have seen it: a Christian video from a '90s has a kid in a purple "Jesus is Lord" shirt covering DC Talk's "Nu Thang" in MC Hammer acid wash pants and hi tops. Since it was uploaded on YouTube on a week ago, it's been viewed more than 500,000 times.What's even more amazing is a few days ... More >>

Krochet Kids' Third Annual Gala

Lido Theatre

War! What's It Good For? Five Comics for People Who Don't Like War Comics

Dynamite/Gary Leach; Vertigo/Dave Johnson​War comics can be an acquired taste, mostly because the traditional model plays around with some formula of tortured soldier, brutal combat, victimized civilians, heavy pathos. Rinse. Repeat. If these elements don't appeal to you, odds are high the comic-- ... More >>

Lt. Dan Choi Makes Daily Show Cameo

​Last night, in a segment brilliantly titled "Gay Reichs," Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones examined the claims made by one Scott Lively: that the nazis were gay. It includes the invention of the excellent term "glitzkrieg."Towards the second half, Tustin military-man-turned-gay-rights-activis ... More >>

The Last of 'The Hills'

Remembering what Spencer said to Brody about Lauren and all that crazy drama

Self-Caffeination As It Was Meant To Be Done

Our coffee culture, sadly, tends to run toward Starbucks and drive-through at It's A Grind. Largely missing from la naranja is the local, artisanal small-batch roaster whose singular focus on the product raises the coffee bar. Sure, we have Martin Diedrich, and the lines out the door at his two coff ... More >>

Patriot Fame: 10 Captain America Moments That Make Us Proud to be Americans

Marvel/Marco Djurdjevic​Captain America has had a tough past five years. He led the losing side of a civil war, was murdered (well, not really, but everyone thought he was dead), and when he finally returned, he found out that Chris Evans is set to portray him in a movie next year.But that's ... More >>

Ex-Rated Criticism of Exodus International

Michael Bussee and other activists denounce the upcoming conference of the 'ex-gay' ministry

What You Missed: The Anti-"Ex-Gay" Conference

Christopher Victorio / OC WeeklyExodus founder and critic Michael Bussee.​A small but impassioned group of gay-rights supporters convened in Irvine on Saturday in response to the upcoming Exodus International Freedom Conference. Exodus' notoriety for "praying the gay away" has effectively prayed ... More >>

Michael Bussee Promises Fresh Dirt on the Ex-Gays at Saturday Counter-Conference

​We mentioned on Monday that a coterie of local pro-gay-rights groups were organizing a counter-conference to critique the convention being held in Irvine by Christian "cure the gays" organization Exodus International next week. Now, we have the details on a planned protest, as well as a prev ... More >>

Locals Gather to Ixnay the Ex-Gay Conference

OC WeeklyMichael Bussee​Among the many charming events that Orange County attracts year after year--ranging from conferences held by holocaust deniers to 9/11 truthers--none might be more charming than Exodus International's "Freedom Conference" in Irvine, at which panels and workshops are he ... More >>

Bai Ling, Muslim Punks, Black Star Canyon's Warlock Among 15 Newport Beach Film Festival Highlights

Here are 15 things I'm looking forward to at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which kicks off tonight and continues through April 29. These are based on preview screenings, festival descriptions and even less-informed nonsense.Ling-Bai.blogspot.com​1) Bai Ling on the red carpet tonight. Years ago, ... More >>

Rick Warren Reaps the Anti-Gay Pastors that He Sowed in Uganda

​The big story in the international gay community in the past couple of weeks has been a proposed bill in Uganda that would essentially make homosexuality punishable by death. Much heat has been placed on Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren, because he had a long-term partnership with one Martin ... More >>

Rick Warren Tweet Catches Wonkette's Wary Eye

​It's safe to say Wonkette, "the D.C. gossip blog," is no fan of Rick Warren. The Saddleback Church pastor's Twitter page tweet above generated the following response:Here we have the most recent entry from smarmy hippopotamus Rick Warren's Twitter page, the rest of which is SO. GRATING. GAHH. (Ex ... More >>

Invisible Children: Together We Are Free

Folino Theater

Orange Video Producer Reaches Out to Uganda's Poor

Post Factory, an Orange-based film and video production company, recently hooked up with the nonprofit A Way To Help to create a video aimed at raising funds to provide clean drinking water to the people of Northern Uganda. It's the brain child of Jonathan Hicks and Patrick Martinez in Post Factor ... More >>

Rick Warren Offers to Save Homo-Hating St. James Anglican Church, But Where's Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr?

Rick Warren has finally crossed the Rubicon of homo-hating with his invitation to St. James Anglican Church in Newport Beach to set up camp at Saddleback Church because the California State Supreme Court recently ruled they can't stay on their Balboa Peninsula property. A quick primer: St. James spl ... More >>

Doctors Without Borders' Mary Jo Frawley Lives in OC, But Her Heart's in Sri Lanka, Somalia . . .

Last Night: The Alex Benefit at the Detroit Bar

The Alex Benefit at the Detroit Bar, April 19, 2008 with We Barbarians, Nathan Willett, Delta Spirit, and Jonnie Russell from the Cold War Kids Better Than: Donating money to the Presidental Election Campaign Fund. Download: Delta Spirit's "Trashcan" from Ode To Sunshine Benefit concerts often re ... More >>

A Little Help?

A Benefit for Alex

Reality Bites

"Invisible Children"

Virunga Roots

Samba Mapangala

Charity, Church and Puppies

Claira's Daze Are Cuter Than You'll Ever Be

Weather or Not

Andrea Polli fights a tornado with a peach tree switch

Commie Girl

Everyone Has AIDS! (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS, AIDS!)

Absolute Power

A chameleonic Forest Whitaker dominates Idi Amin biopic

Do As I Say and As I Do

Break Simon at the Anaheim Heritage Forum

Less Christ, More Right

Rick Warren unveils his strategy to fight AIDS: the gospel of the GOP

By the Book

A biblical, African safari in the heart of Newport Beach

VH1 Behind the Music: Saddam Hussein

Can the Baghdad Fad Stage a Comeback, or is he Vanilla Iced?

War! Huh?

Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

Heroine Fix

Never mind Sandra Bullock

Dis Nixon?

Richard Nixon! Helen Gahagan Douglas! All in a new play at SCR!