Email Author MATT COKER

Awards

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

  "Douchebag Does Sundance"

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2004 Stories by MATT COKER

• Sea Sick and Twisted

  published December 23, 2004

  Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, The Life Aquatic And The American Way More >>

• Season 2, Episode 6

  published December 16, 2004

  The boys and their just-put together band To End All Seasons play a battle of the bands contest at a fine Westminster establishment called... More >>

• The Beat Farmers A.D.

  published December 9, 2004

  Photo by R. Nichols/D. Boss DesignsThe Beat Farmers A.D. Coach House, San Juan Capistrano Saturday, Dec. 4 All that... More >>

• Season 2, Episode 5

  published December 9, 2004

  It's time for that annual Harbor winter dance to end all frigidity: The SnO.C., which, ironically, was the real-life name of the Harvey... More >>

• Season 2, Episode 4

  published December 2, 2004

  For the first time in...uh...like...FOREVER! Marissa goes an entire hour (or 22 minutes when you lift the commercials and promos) without tears... More >>

• Season 2, Episode 3

  published November 18, 2004

  It's gotta be as old as Aesop's very first soap opera: Boy separated from Girl we've been led to believe he's supposed to be with forever and... More >>

• Season 2, Episode 2

  published November 11, 2004

  Now that the Cohen brothers—Seth and essentially adopted Ryan a.k.a. "Chino"—are back in Newport Beach (where they belong,... More >>

• Season 2, Episode 1

  published November 4, 2004

  Just look at the mess the writers left to clean up after the end of Season de Numero Uno: Caleb about to lose not only his fortune but perhaps... More >>

• Pretty Vacant

  published October 7, 2004

  MTV goes from polluting to numbing minds with Laguna Beach More >>

• Beautiful Loser

  published September 16, 2004

  Character counts in Cowboys & Angels More >>

• The Great Rock & Roll Radio Swindle

  published August 19, 2004

  Is ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones helping Indie 103.1 become cool or corporateand does it matter? More >>

• Mohr is Less

  published August 12, 2004

  Fan turns on flat-faced weasel More >>

• Blended Burgundy

  published August 12, 2004

  Will Ferrells anchorman: Equal parts Dunphy, Moyer, Snyder, et al. More >>

• Wont Stop Till We Get Enough

  published August 5, 2004

  Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story More >>

• Pussies Galore!

  published July 29, 2004

  What local candidates dont want voters to know More >>

• How Will We Function?

  published May 13, 2004

  The O.C. is gone for the summer More >>

• Episode 27

  published May 6, 2004

  Year One limps to a close with Caleb and Julie coming together as man and wife--and everyone else going their separate ways. Ryan's going back... More >>

• Episode 26

  published April 29, 2004

  The boys from THE O.C. go to THE Vegas because you can't be a right proper Nouveau Riche manchild unless, like Seth and Sandy Cohen, you love... More >>

• Episode 25

  published April 22, 2004

  The 909 comes to the 949 in the form of Aunt Cindy, Julie's uncouth sister, who Marissa secretly invites to Jule's "elegant couples wedding... More >>

• Episode 24

  published April 15, 2004

  This week's interlocking themes are drinking, crying, driving, drinking and crying, drinking and driving, drinking and crying while... More >>

• Beat on the Farmers

  published April 1, 2004

  CD release party opens old wounds More >>

• Episode 23

  published April 1, 2004

  Those meshuggeners at The O.C. pull off the impossible: they boil 63 years worth of Jackie Mason shtik down to a single one-hour... More >>

• The Muck Stops Here

  published March 25, 2004

  Anyone who has passed an Orange County Water District(OCWD) percolation lake and spotted what appears to be a swimming pool... More >>

• We have ways of making you subscribe

  published March 18, 2004

  From one set of ink-stained wretches to another, we offer condolences to our fellow scribes across the way in Santa Ana, as they are forced to... More >>

• Sweet and Loh Down

  published March 11, 2004

  Photo by Johan VogelA sage once wrote—we forget where exactly—that the five best words ever printed in the Los Angeles... More >>