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

• Jesus Un-rises

  published March 4, 2004

  After a year of pre-release news articles, alleged death threats to filmmaker Mel Gibson and star Jim Caviezel, the actual death... More >>

• Episode 21

  published March 4, 2004

  So who did Riviera magazine blow to get such prominent product placement tonight? As Kirsten finds out how crooked her mega-developer... More >>

• Burning Bush-Whacked

  published February 26, 2004

  UC Irvine atmospheric-chemistry and climate-science professor F. Sherwood Rowland is among a bipartisan slate of Nobel Prize winners and... More >>

• Episode 20

  published February 26, 2004

  Finally, a fair representation of Orange County's hefty Latino population! Okay, at least there are Latino faces and references as we get Seth... More >>

• Green No More

  published February 19, 2004

  The California-coast-protecting Blue Water Networkruns full-page advertisements in national newspapers on Feb. 4 blasting Bill Ford... More >>

• Episode 19

  published February 19, 2004

  Four days after Valentine's Day, it's the big Valentine's Day show, so we get a steady dose of the Fox network's "Due to the sexual nature of... More >>

• E-GATE

  published February 12, 2004

  Assemblyman Lou Correa(D-Santa Ana) on Feb. 2 asks the Assembly Rules Committee to investigate dozens of mysterious e-mails that... More >>

• Episode 18

  published February 12, 2004

  Just when you thought they'd milk the Ryan-Marissa-Oliver love triangle for the rest of the season, your favorite teen sudser mercifully ends... More >>

• They put the ass in association

  published February 5, 2004

  Anyone living under the rule of an inflexible, power-crazed homeowners'-association boardin Orange County knows the horror stories. Dogs... More >>

• Hypocritic Oath

  published January 29, 2004

  John McCaslin's Jan. 19 "Inside the Beltway" column in The Washington Times—the Moonie paper—reports that... More >>

• Mars Barred

  published January 22, 2004

  Photo by Tenaya HillsIt occurred to Weekly reader Randy Rausin that something about Dubya's call for a manned mission to... More >>

• Episode 17

  published January 22, 2004

  Crazy-eyed Oliver's plan to win Marissa by driving Ryan away--actually, by getting Ryan to drive himself away--works to perfection. But what's... More >>

• Watching the Carbon Detective

  published January 15, 2004

  UCI prof Sue Trumbore is out to find the Missing Sink More >>

• Pussy Galore

  published January 15, 2004

  A British Airwaysflight to the U.S. is cancelled at the last minute on Jan. 2 amid fears that a female Al Qaedaoperative is... More >>

• Episode 16

  published January 15, 2004

  Before we get to this week's rather ho-hum episode, a couple more notes about the previous installment: Modern Amusement was already deemed the... More >>

• Grin and Ferret

  published January 8, 2004

  Photo by Davis BarberGovernor Ahnold has, according to reports published Dec. 27, given hope to California's thousands of illegal... More >>

• Episode 15

  published January 8, 2004

  Kirsten's leech of a sister Haley is cluttering up the TiVo with her E! shows and eating the Cohens out of house and manse, so Sandy, Seth and... More >>

• 14 episodes of The O.C. in 1,260 words

  published January 1, 2004

  The Year in Soaps More >>