Email Author MATT COKER

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 4, 2010

  "Douchebag Does Sundance"

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1999 Stories by MATT COKER

• A Game Played on Grass

  published April 1, 1999

  Art by Bob AulWillie Mays had the catch. Bobby Thomson had the shot heard 'round the world. Me, I had the greatest two innings of the Pomona... More >>

• The Anus of Aliso Viejo

  published April 1, 1999

  Aliso Creek once ran only after storms. But years of development along the creek-which runs from Modjeska Canyon in Cleveland National Forest... More >>

• The Religious Right Stuff

  published March 25, 1999

  Gary Bauer reportedly told an Orange County audience on March 11 that he does not want to be characterized as a member of the "religious Right"... More >>

• In the Shadow of the Mouse

  published March 18, 1999

  Legend has it that after Disneyland's gates closed for the night, Walt Disney sometimes enjoyed a cocktail atop the Matterhorn. On one... More >>

• Sex and the City

  published February 25, 1999

  Irvine Mayor Christina Shea wants to make her megaplanned burg ssssssexy. She's forming an all-female panel (because, she says, women are "more... More >>

• Smoke on the Water

  published February 18, 1999

  Peter Brierty likens the "natural phenomenon" unfolding near Devore to a trash can filled with grass clippings. Hours after the grass has been... More >>

• And Out the Door You Went

  published February 11, 1999

  The Buena Park City Council on Jan. 26 approved on first reading an ordinance that would require landlords to evict tenants arrested for... More >>

• Lightning Rod

  published February 4, 1999

  California's Republican Party is at "death's door," new Assembly GOP leader Rod Pacheco told a group of Orange County faithful on Jan. 22. "Our... More >>

• Heard It Through the Grapevine

  published January 28, 1999

  Disneyland never notified police about the Christmas Eve accident on the Columbia sailing-ship attraction that ultimately claimed the... More >>

• How I Spent My Christmas Vacation

  published January 14, 1999

  In the Dec. 11 Clockwork, we mentioned that the Orange County Water District and Orange County Sanitation District are going to treat sewage... More >>

• The Year in Oval Office Bootie Calls

  published January 7, 1999

  What's the Beltway, 10,000 miles away or something like that? It would have been easy for us out here on the Left Coast to have missed word of... More >>