Email Author MATT COKER

Awards

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

  "Douchebag Does Sundance"

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2010 Stories by MATT COKER

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  FEATURED STORY

  Dana Point's Legal Ping-Pong Match Over Cannabis Collectives is in Full Swing

  published Apr 20, 2010

  Sheriff's deputies served search warrants at a Dana Point medical marijuana dispensary and four homes in San Clemente associated with the business. The Orange County Register's Vik Jolly has the scoop... More >>

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  "Last Paradise" Director Clive Neeson's Outback Stake Out

  published Apr 19, 2010

  "Going to Extremes to Get the Shot" looks at filmmakers who hiked through mountains, hung out of helicopters and waded in shark-infested waters for their action-sports movies playing at the 2010 Newpo... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  "Bombshell" McGee, Jamie Jungers Set to Host "Celebrity Cheaters"; Jesse James and Tiger Woods Lead Virtual Sex Tours

  published Apr 19, 2010

  Michelle "Bombshell" McGee and Jamie Jungers--among the dozens of alleged mistresses of Sunset Beach's Jesse James and Cypress-born Tiger Woods--would host a reality show called Celebrity Cheaters cur... More >>

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  Bayron Reyes Lopez, Who Choked Dog Before Smashing It Into Sidewalk, Gets Jail, Probation, Possible Deportation

  published Apr 16, 2010

  When sheriff's deputies arrived the morning of Dec. 30 at the Rancho San Clemente Tennis Club in San Clemente where Bayron Reyes Lopez worked as a maintenance man, they found him nude and lying on his... More >>

• Article Asks: Is UCI Safe for Jewsr

  published Apr 16, 2010

  Lisa Armony has an exhaustive piece in the April 13 Jewish Journal whose title tells it all: "Is UC Irvine Safe for Jewsr"Her conclusionr Yes and no.UCI has made international headlines in recent year... More >>

• Chuck Ridal Bowls for the Gold in Vegas

  published Apr 16, 2010

  An amateur bowler from Orange County has made it into the sport's version of the Final Four.Chuck Ridal, who bowls out of AMF Cerritos Lanes, represents OC in AMF Bowling Centers' $500,000 National In... More >>

• Ross Johnson "The Reformer" Retires

  published Apr 15, 2010

  In November 2008, the Weekly presented "The Reformer: Longtime OC GOP legislator Ross Johnson finds new life as a campaign-finance watchdog in Sacramento."Well, The Reformer is hanging up his cape.Jo... More >>

• Cynthia Ongamsing-Jenkins, Ex-Rite Aid Supervisor Staged Fake Robberies

  published Apr 15, 2010

  Cynthia Ongamsing-Jenkins, 43, of Tustin, was sentenced Wednesday to two years and eight months in state prison for falsely claiming to be the victim of armed robberies of Rite Aid stores in Costa Me... More >>

• Progressive Stars Mimi Kennedy, David Clennon, Norman Solomon to Attend Newport Coast Reception Tonight

  published Apr 14, 2010

  If out-of-town Republicans can sweep into Newport Beach every campaign cycle to scoop up cash for their causes and candidates, why can't DemocratsrSome actually will tonight, when a 6 p.m. reception w... More >>

• Behold Animal Liberation, Veneration at Long Beach State, Chapman University

  published Apr 14, 2010

  Animals: They're so hot right now.Mere days before the start of "World Week for Animals in Laboratories," Cease Animal Torture (CAT) kicks off its second annual four-day conference at Cal State Long B... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Going to Extremes to Get the Shot

  published April 15, 2010

  Hunter Weeks and his camera crew spent two weeks roughing it in the Colorado Rockies, encountering snow, grizzly bears and hungry... More >>

• 'Living It Forever': Positively 22nd Street

  published April 15, 2010

  Rick Chatillon is sitting next to his wife, Ann, in the Starbucks near Newport Boulevard and Via Lido in Newport Beach, roughly facing the Lido... More >>

• Ten Don't-Miss Films at the Newport Beach Film Festival

  published April 15, 2010

  American JihadistDirector Mark Claywell’s film, which won the Best Documentary prize at January’s... More >>

• Angels Go Over Suicide Squeeze in Pre-Game Against Those Damn Yankees

  published Apr 13, 2010

  Your Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles have always excelled at the suicide squeeze, but this is ridiculous: About 15 Angels headed for the team bus taking them to today's game against the Yankees (5-0 NY ... More >>

• [CORRECTED:] Torch 'Em for District Weekly Freelancers

  published Apr 13, 2010

  CORRECTION: Film promoter clarifies how fund-raiser came out (details below) . . . rThe District Weekly, the Long Beach alternative newsweekly started by former OC Weeklings, went up in smoke last mon... More >>

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  Police Report Details Rape Allegations Against Westminster Police Detective

  published Apr 13, 2010

  Anthony Nicholas Orban--a 30-year-old Irvine resident who served in the Marines, fought in the Iraq War and was recently promoted to detective in the Westminster Police Department--is one sick fuck, i... More >>

• [UPDATED AND CORRECTED:] Today's Sentencing for Smuggling Songbirds From Vietnam

  published Apr 12, 2010

  UPDATE AND CORRECTION: Changes throughout (see below) . . . rDuc Le of Garden Grove pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally bring live Asian songbirds into the United States by attaching them ... More >>

• UCI Seminar Addresses Explosive Growth of MMOs/Virtual Worlds Among Children

  published Apr 12, 2010

  Today's Computer Games and Virtual Worlds Seminar at UC Irvine focuses on the huge growth of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) among young virtual world denizens in recent years.Currently, mor... More >>

• Jason Russell Richardson's Death Penalty Trial Begins Today

  published Apr 12, 2010

  The death penalty trial for a man accused of the 2007 killing of the manager of a Home Depot in Tustin is scheduled to begin in less than an hour.Opening statements are to be heard beginning at 9:30 a... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Laguna Beach Parents Frazzled by Facebook War Get Web Safety Lesson

  published Apr 12, 2010

  In light of the recent Facebook war that turned bloody, a free presentation is being held at Laguna Beach High School tonight to answer questions parents have about "learning to deal with children gro... More >>

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  [UPDATED:] Yanira Valderrama Held in Newborn's Murder

  published Apr 09, 2010

  UPDATE: Just when you thought this couldn't get worse (details below) . . . rA 20-year-old Fullerton resident has been arrested for the September 2009 murder of her newborn baby boy.Yanira Valderrama ... More >>

• Jered Weaver to Receive 1st Nick Adenhart Award at Big A Tonight

  published Apr 09, 2010

  Jered Weaver will receive the first Nick Adenhart Award during tonight's game at the Big A against the Oakland A's.Bestowing the award will be charged with emotion. Tonight also marks the one-year ann... More >>

• Judge Denies Restraining Order to Keep Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Open

  published Apr 09, 2010

  A federal judge has denied a restraining order aimed at keeping medical marijuana dispensaries open in Costa Mesa and Lake Forest while the court considers a lawsuit filed on behalf of four MedMar Pat... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  [UPDATED:] Waldo De Paz, Jr., OC Homicide No. 10: Shot After Party

  published Apr 09, 2010

  UPDATE: Victim is identified (details below) . . . View Larger MapUPDATE: The Orange County Coroner has identified the 20-year-old man shot to death in Fountain Valley Sunday as Waldo De Paz, Jr. of ... More >>

• Angelique Smith of the Breakers Makes First National Women's Football Team

  published Apr 09, 2010

  Angelique Smith, a women's pro football player from Costa Mesa, has been selected to play for USA Football's 2010 Women's National Team--the country's first--which competes in the inaugural women's w... More >>