Email Author MATT COKER

Awards

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

  "Douchebag Does Sundance"

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2006 Stories by MATT COKER

• Uncomfortably Numb

  published April 13, 2006

  Truth is no stranger than fiction in Self Medicated More >>

• America, Fuck Yeah!

  published April 13, 2006

  Manners, shock value, traditional values and freedom of speech all collide in More >>

• What the Pho?

  published April 6, 2006

  Vietnam Pearl serves just what the doctor ordered More >>

• Timothy Leary Meets the Muppets

  published March 30, 2006

  Wonder Showzen is back. Be afraid. Be very afraid More >>

• Ryan's Hope

  published March 30, 2006

  It came from Chapman U: believe it or not! More >>

• Oh, the Incongruities!

  published March 23, 2006

  A black Newport Beach filmmaker with a Nordic/Israeli/Italian-sounding name? Meet American Gun More >>

• Building a Scene with Long Titles

  published March 16, 2006

  Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School More >>

• The Streets of San Francisco

  published March 9, 2006

  Expanded for Web! Filmmaker points camera at citys unseen side and... More >>

• This Week in Off-Season Surf Porn

  published February 16, 2006

  Destination Point More >>

• This Week in Softcore Products

  published February 16, 2006

  The Changing Surf Industry at Newport Beach Surfrider More >>

• This Week in Mutaytions

  published January 19, 2006

  The Mutaytor More >>

• Live Review

  published January 5, 2006

  Los Lobos and the Hacienda Brothers More >>

• Paging Prognosticators

  published Dec 19, 2006

  Will the Ducks win the Stanley Cupr Will the Angels make it to the Seriesr Will Tawny Kitaen stay out of jailr Will terrorists hit one of our local targets: Disneyland, the San Onofre nuke plant or TB... More >>

• Roughed Up on the Waterfront

  published Dec 06, 2006

  Never in a million years would we have thought that our August cover boy and esteemed UC Irvine professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o would suffer indignities and racial profiling in that ethnic melting pot San... More >>

• Think for Yourselves, Young Folks, so Long as You Think Like Me

  published Dec 04, 2006

  You know what's funnyr We ask our young adults to throw themselves into the youth versions of established adult institutions—your governmental bodies, your newspapers, etc.—but when the ki... More >>

• Gunning for an Indie Spirit Award

  published Nov 28, 2006

  Newport Beach filmmaker Aric Avelino's American Gun was announced today as an Independent Spirit Award best picture nominee. Half Nelson, The Dead Girl, Pan's Labyrinth and Little Miss Sunshine round ... More >>

• Got Sony Playstation 3r

  published Nov 17, 2006

  If so, Steve Lowery wants to talk to you. Have a trying-to-get-Sony-Playstation-3 horror storyr Steve'll talk to you, too. In the midst of trying to acquire the hottest gaming console around, our intr... More >>

• Borat-i-tat-tat

  published Nov 13, 2006

  Borat clung to No. 1 again this past weekend, no doubt bouyed by countless favorable reviews, exceedingly positive word-of-mouth and Steve Lowery's article on the climactic scenes filmed at the Block ... More >>

• The Party's Over

  published Nov 08, 2006

  Our R. Scott Moxley reports that, by the end of the night at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, the older Republicans in the room showed on their faces exactly what they felt: worry, frustration, indignation. ... More >>

• It's Mansore and Wendy Looney Tunes early in Mesa

  published Nov 07, 2006

  The racist-goosestepping-Stepford duo--Alan Mansoor and Wendy Leece--are outpacing the pack in the Costa Mesa City Council race with 11 of 70 precincts counted, according to the Orange County Registra... More >>

• So Dana Rohrabacher Walks Into a Bar...

  published Nov 07, 2006

  Moe's Tavern, Baghdad, would have been an safer outpost for our R. Scott Moxley than the Hyatt Irvine bar a coupla minutes ago. Approaching him like a man on a mission was none other than Congressman ... More >>

• The Natives are Getting Restless

  published Nov 07, 2006

  Remember how congenial the OC GOP gathering at the Hyatt Regency Irvine seemed a few minutes agor Fuck that shit. Election-loss testiness reared its ugly head at 10:20 p.m., our R. Scott Moxley repo... More >>

• Glum Old Partyr

  published Nov 07, 2006

  With the Democrats taking the House and threatening to take the Senate at this hour, you might expect the Orange County GOP election night party at the Hyatt Regency Irvine to be a mopey affair. After... More >>

• Less than an hour until the polls close...

  published Nov 07, 2006

  ... and I'm soooooo confused. I was out of town last Thursday through Sunday, and when I returned there were 17 messages on my phone from the likes of Pete Wilson, Dick Ackerman, Hillary Clinton, some... More >>

• Night of the Living Election

  published Nov 07, 2006

  Tonight we're going to be blogging like it's 1984! Check back here and check back often for new blog posts as we'll have reporters out in the field, in front of the tube and under wherever it is upski... More >>