Email Author MATT COKER
Awards
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2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 4, 2010
"Douchebag Does Sundance"
1998 Stories by MATT COKER
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Let's Get Mikey
published December 31, 1998
In this issue, Machine Age columnist Wyn Hilty mentions a Dec. 17 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on the Council of... More >>
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You Gotta Keep 'em Separated
published December 24, 1998
Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Dec. 10 accused Calvary Chapel in Santa Ana of violating federal laws in the November... More >>
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Whose Online is it, Anyway?
published December 17, 1998
Funnyman Rodney Dangerfield-he of "I don't get no respect" fame, of "my wife's cooking's so bad the flies go to our kitchen to die" fame, of "I... More >>
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Tourists Trapped
published December 10, 1998
Japanese tourists with expensive cameras dangling around their necks had always been as easy to spot at Disneyland as lines around the... More >>
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Yo Quiero Mocha Java
published December 3, 1998
YO QUIERO MOCHA JAVA Irvine-based Diedrich Coffee on Nov. 16 inked a deal in which Taco Bell franchisees will build... More >>
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Primordial Ooze
published November 26, 1998
Wendy Leece, a Newport-Mesa Unified School District trustee, on Nov. 10 refused to endorse the science component of the state's new recommended... More >>
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The Weekly's Week in Review
published November 19, 1998
HEAD SHOPPerhaps you've seen the big cannabis leaf on advertisements plastered across bus benches along major thoroughfares and told... More >>
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Teach Your Children Hell
published November 12, 1998
Among the endless accusations fired at Steven J. Frogue has been the notion that the embattled South Orange County Community College District... More >>
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Things That Really, Really Scare Me
published November 5, 1998
Rescinded invitations More >>
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Show Stopper
published October 29, 1998
It's two, two, two weeks in one as Clockwork plays catch-up after the hiatus brought on by last week's boffo Best of OC issue. More >>
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Ron Packard, Military Whore
published October 8, 1998
Beneath the South County Congressman's Mr. Vanilla exterior beats the heart of an old-fashioned, log-rolling, back-scratching, pork barreling... More >>
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What Happened?
published October 8, 1998
Members of Santa Ana's Latino community-outraged over a police shooting that left an unarmed stolen-car suspect dead-demanded answers from the... More >>
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Out of Sight
published October 1, 1998
The California Supreme Court ruled on July 16 that grand jury testimony about Merrill Lynch & Co.'s involvement in Orange County's 1994... More >>
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Opening Shot
published September 24, 1998
Two days before Kenneth Starr's report came to a . . . uh . . . head and guaranteed Bill Clinton the cover for the next issue of Cigar... More >>
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Dad Must be So Proud
published September 17, 1998
Laura Rooney and her husband, Mickey Rooney Jr., reportedly filed a lawsuit against the Newport Beach Police Department on Sept. 1, alleging... More >>
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Smile, You're on Candid Camera
published September 10, 1998
Ruling that the area under a woman's skirt is private, an OC judge on Aug. 25 issued an arrest warrant for David Wayne Lyman, an Irvine... More >>
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Way Overruled
published September 3, 1998
James M. Brooks reportedly said that if his daughter had been the victim of child molestation at the hands of second-grade teacher Jerome... More >>
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Mommy Nearest
published August 27, 1998
Forgive Clockwork for this week's Andy Rooney-esque opening, but have you ever noticed that people who attack welfare are often the same ones... More >>
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The Kids Aren't All All Right
published August 20, 1998
In a study of a dozen randomly selected U.S. communities with populations of more than 200,000, Orange County ranked near the bottom in the... More >>
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Diver Down
published August 13, 1998
Disneyland revealed on July 29 that it will close its 39-year-old Submarine Voyage ride after Labor Day weekend and not reopen that section of... More >>
