Subject: Matt Coker

• About A Clockwork Orange

  After having successfully ripped off the "I, Anonymous" column in The Stranger of Seattle and renaming it "Hey, You!", OC Weekly editor Will Swaim set about pilfering The Stranger's week-in-review column, "Last Days." Matt Coker drew the short straw to compile the thing, and "A Clockwork Orange" was born on Sept. 20, 1996. Actually, a Coker column called "The Week in Review" appeared a week earlier, in the first issue of the Weekly's second year, but since that sounded so boring, Coker decided t

  November 21, 2005

• This Week In The OC Weekly

  July 18, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  August 1, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  August 29, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  September 5, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  September 26, 2008

• Letters

  July 29, 1999

• Excerpts: Part 2

  September 14, 2000

• VeggiePhallus

  May 10, 2001

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  October 17, 2008

• Letters

  April 24, 2003

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  October 31, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  November 7, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "The Reformer" Matt Coker educates us about longtime OC GOP legislator Ross Johnson finding a new life as a campaign-finance watchdog in Sacramento. R. Scott Moxley explains the reason behind Mike Carona's smile in "The Crooked Sheriff Chuckled". And Matt Coker dictates departing OC Register columnist, Gordon Dillow's final screed in "Dillow Unbound".

  November 14, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "War & Water" Matt Coker interviews Hasan Nouri, the developer who pitched plans to stabilize Aliso Creek and his native Afghanistan, but no one listened. News has Matt Coker explaining why rising radio star Leyla Fatima is a patron saint for parents of drug addicts in "Lady Fatima."And R. Scott Moxley takes a look at the top 16 witnesses for the prosecution in the Mike Carona corruption trial in "Moxley Confidential." Plus... • The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!

  December 12, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  Find out what film critics, Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Jim Ridley, Ella Taylor and Robert Wilonsky agreed were the 12 best movies of the year. Also: Jeffrey Katzenberg in 3D and the state of indie filmmaking.And news has Matt Coker explaining why the Native American battle over the possible disturbance of an Indian burial site at a Mission San Juan Capistrano garden is getting ugly in "Grave Situation." Plus... • The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey You! and Savage L

  December 24, 2008

• This Week in the OC Weekly

  In "Chief Belardes Makes His Stand" Matt Coker discusses OC's most controversial Native American leader drawing a line in the cemetery.And R. Scott Moxley takes a look at Dr. George Kooshian's guilty plea for charging big bucks for bogus injections in "Moxley Confidential." Plus... The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey, You! and Savage Love.Restaurant reviews of Bai Plu in Long Beach and Eat Chow in Costa Mesa.Culture focuses on the Laguna Playhouse's "Around the World

  February 9, 2009

• This Week in OC Weekly

  In "The Man Who Isn't There" Daffodil J. Altan discusses Orange County's new Mexican Consul, Carlos Rodriguez y Quezada. And Matt Coker takes a look at the infighting among Juaeno Indian factions as Anthony Rivera's tribal council says Chief David Balardes is not Juaneno in "Blood Feud." Plus... The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey, You! and Savage Love.Restaurant reviews of Villa Roma's carne and Macksan's Cafe.Culture focuses on SCR's "Noises Off" and Trendzilla talks

  February 23, 2009

• [Election 2008] Obama, McCain (Who Sucks, By the Way) and the Gayest Election Ever

  October 23, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 14, 2008

• Letters

  October 27, 2005

• Excerpts: Part 1

  September 14, 2000

• Letters

  March 4, 1999

• Letters

  December 6, 2001

• Letters

  November 27, 2003

• Letters

  'Give us all a breakthe Mexican wetback has become the majority.'

  March 1, 2007

• Special Screenings

  Movie of the Week: Greg's Last Picture Show

  December 28, 2006

• The Year in Letters

  Keep It Up. You Rock. Dont Ever Change. All That Crap.

  December 28, 2006

• Letters

  September 7, 2006

• Letters

  'Im not just saying this cause I stayed up all night wacked out on Vicodin and Sparks watching V for Vendetta'

  August 10, 2006

• Letters

  August 5, 2004

• Letters

  December 25, 2003

• Letters

  August 28, 2003

• Scorecard

  May 15, 2003

• The Adventures of John Moorlach

  March 27, 2003

• Confessions of a Dangerous Mime

  February 13, 2003

• Letters

  June 6, 2002

• Hate-Filled Letters

  January 3, 2002

• Letters

  December 13, 2001

• Letters

  November 29, 2001

• Letters

  July 19, 2001

• Letters

  March 15, 2001

• 2: Chowtastic Achievement in Grubby Yum Yums and Brown Liquid

  October 26, 2000

• Letters

  July 27, 2000

• Letters

  February 10, 2000

• Letters

  June 3, 1999

• Letters

  April 1, 1999

• Letters

  October 29, 1998

• Letters

  August 20, 1998

• Cypress Home Wins Fantasy 9/11 Sweepstakes

  Photo by Matt Coker Winner!The winner of the just-made-up Remember 9/11 by Decorating Your Home Sweepstakes is this house in Cypress. Of course, it's possible the abode always looks this way. But a girl can dream, can't she?

  September 14, 2009