Email Author MATT COKER

Awards

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

  "Douchebag Does Sundance"

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2003 Stories by MATT COKER

• Ring of Ire

  published September 25, 2003

  Photo by Jessica CalkinsIs this a great country or what? Manhattan Beach-based website More >>

• On the Outside Looking In

  published September 18, 2003

  A few weeks ago, Clockwork was dragged away kicking and screaming from our Costa Mesa manse and forced into a Balboa Peninsula flop house. The... More >>

• Episode 6

  published September 18, 2003

  If there were any doubts that real estate developer Kirsten Cohen's mega-rich father was not patterned after Irvine Co. chairman Donald Bren,... More >>

• Damn you, Kirby Dick!

  published September 11, 2003

  Filmmaker exposes more than ta-tas in Showgirls: Glitz & Angst More >>

• Episode 4

  published September 4, 2003

  DATELINE: NEWPORT BEACH -- To get a true sense of what makes The O.C. characters tick, for this installment The O.C. Watch... More >>

• Episode 3:

  published August 28, 2003

  Yet another thing The O.C.gets right about Newport Beach is mommy hotness. We've been to the coffeehouses and shopping atriums... More >>

• Deep Do-Do

  published August 21, 2003

  Treading Red Water More >>

• Episode 2

  published August 21, 2003

  Episode 2: Ryan, the trouble-finding teen fish out of Chino, is foster-care bound. His new Newport Beach buddy Seth Cohen--or "Queer" to thug... More >>

• Were not dead yet

  published August 14, 2003

  Beat Farmers survivors reunite without Country Dick More >>

• Its a Mans World

  published August 14, 2003

  Raise your phalli for Spike TV More >>

• He Really Is Like Mike

  published July 31, 2003

  Kobe and adultery More >>

• Whered My Beach Go?

  published July 3, 2003

  Map by Bob AulSan Clemente-based Surfrider Foundation just issued its fourth annual State of the Beach report. Conclusion: privatization is the... More >>

• Anti-Porn Star

  published July 3, 2003

  An anonymous midget and two Christians are fighting to save you from sins of the flesh More >>

• HotFlix

  published June 5, 2003

  10 must-see summer movies Whale Rider. A New Zealand Maori chief is heartbroken that the birth of a granddaughter—as... More >>

• Balboa Fun Zone

  published May 29, 2003

  Photo by Tenaya HillsAs a young boy from the Inland Empire, I first learned how the monetary system works at the Balboa Fun Zone. It wasn't the... More >>

• Dude, Wheres My Electric Car!?!

  published May 15, 2003

  Can one activist fight off Detroit, Japan, Big Oil and the Bush administration to keep EVs alive? More >>

• Strangers With Pokin Sticks

  published May 15, 2003

  Wigfield mocks literary journalism and small-town life More >>

• Niedermayer vs. Neidermeyer

  published May 15, 2003

  ROB NIEDERMAYER -Center for the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim -Born on... More >>

• The Endless Sunny

  published May 8, 2003

  Drew Brophy is killer More >>

• Everybodys All-American Mexican

  published April 17, 2003

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• Thank You, George W. Bush

  published April 10, 2003

  Photo by Jack GouldFor showing the leadership to invade Iraq, thank you, George W. Bush. For forever ending... More >>

• Keep Your Hans Off My Blix

  published April 3, 2003

  PARTY OUT OF BOUNDS After being away since, hell, winning the 2000 presidential election, it was nice to see Democrats returning... More >>

• Shock and Awe and Shuck and Jaw

  published April 3, 2003

  An OC Weekly editor who has since gone on to bigger and better things once wrote of a drinking game wherein any time the words "Orange... More >>

• Driving Through the Valley of Malls

  published March 27, 2003

  Photo by Johan VogelSTILL "B-1 BONKERS" The sole drawback in seeing Robert K. Dornan ousted from the seat now holding the kiester... More >>

• We Must Be Butter Cause Were on a Roll

  published March 13, 2003

  Photo by James BunoanPEACE'D OFF We've written before about the weekly anti-war demonstrations that have sprung up all over and a... More >>