Do not continue reading if, like millions who clamor for the latest Multihousing Professional magazine, you do not want to know what's in the March/April 2006 issue. The cover boy is former California Governor/current Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, whose face is fuzzed out enough to make you wonder if he's a hologram. Guess they don't just do that for Elizabeth Taylor. The headline? “Uptown, Turn Around Jerry Brown.” Cute, no?
But there's something even cuter. Under the “Also in this issue” heading are these cover lines: “Higher education: opening doors in the industry”; “The human cost of Eminent Domain”; and our all-time fave, superimposed just about left bicep level over Brown's charcoal coat: “Evictions made simple.”
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.