Matt Coker

LA Records' Music Editor Has a Naked Scene in Cacophony Documentary (Presumably)

​If you recall, last week news blogger Matt Coker wrote that Vicky Baxter, executive director of Downtown Incorporated of Santa Ana, received a call from Homeland Security asking the Santa Ana Art Walk and Cacophony Society to explain themselves (!) before giving them the go ahead to display their ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

​If you recall, last week news blogger Matt Coker wrote that Vicky Baxter, executive director of Downtown Incorporated of Santa Ana, received a call from Homeland Security asking the Santa Ana Art Walk and Cacophony Society to explain themselves (!) before giving them the go ahead to display their ... More >>

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​If you recall, last week news blogger Matt Coker wrote that Vicky Baxter, executive director of Downtown Incorporated of Santa Ana, received a call from Homeland Security asking the Santa Ana Art Walk and Cacophony Society to explain themselves (!) before giving them the go ahead to display their ... More >>

Killer Quince

Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

Mickey Not Bombs: Guess That Mystery Substance!

This brilliant graphic was expertly made by me, Vickie Chang​A portion of Disneyland's shuttle arrival and departure area was shut down for less than an hour today after a mysterious golf ball-sized "clay-like substance" was discovered, reports the OC Register.

UPDATED: ACLU Announces Settlement of Suit Tied to Corona del Mar High's Production of "Rent"

Photo by Matt Coker Karyl Ketchum and Mike Wiggins talk about the hell their 17-year-old daughter Hail endured at Corona del Mar High School last school year.​Three varsity football players at Corona del Mar High School posted a video on the school's Facebook page in January in which they describe ... More >>

The Alley Owner Planning To Open Shabu-Shabu/Yakiniku Restaurant in Costa Mesa

Edwin Goei ​This tip comes from fellow Weekling, Matt Coker, who was at The Alley in Newport Beach recently when owner Jeff Chon told him that he's planning to open a new Japanese shabu-shabu/yakiniku joint near Mother's Market on 17th Street in Costa Mesa. The target opening date will be s ... More >>

Clockwork's WGA-CAIR Dream Sequence Makes the NY Times

​Writing years ago for OC Weekly--so many years ago that it was before online archiving was invented by the Druids--yours truly assumed a new identity to infiltrate the Orange County Republican Party. Part of the ruse--which is referred to online in the LA "By God" Times--involved "Matt Stanfil" s ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

​Writing years ago for OC Weekly--so many years ago that it was before online archiving was invented by the Druids--yours truly assumed a new identity to infiltrate the Orange County Republican Party. Part of the ruse--which is referred to online in the LA "By God" Times--involved "Matt Stanfil" s ... More >>

OC Weekly Wins 3 Los Angeles Press Club Awards

Photo by Karyn LawrenceA scene from Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble's "W.A.C. Iraq: A Work in Progress," which Beers reviewed.Yes, that does seem like an odd headline given that Orange County is not located in neither the city nor county of Los Angeles. Despite this, three Weeklings were awar ... More >>

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." Pl ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

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." Pl ... More >>

This Week in the OC Weekly

In "Out of Tune" Gustavo Arellano interviews Bob Gunn, the man who helped Mariners Chruch become an evangelical giant. Then the church fired him for being gay, and they've been in and out of court since. News has Matt Coker explaining why Pastor Wiley Drake thinks he still has a unseating Barack Oba ... More >>

Tandoori Thanksgiving Turkey!

So you just heard about a vegetarian turkey from Matt Coker, how about an Indian one? No, not the "Indians" who joined the Pilgrims for dinner in story of the first Thanksgiving. The real Indians! The ones the European mistook the indigenous inhabitants of America for. Think about it: Indian coo ... More >>

This Week in the OC Weekly

In "Less is Mor" Vickie Change educates us about Hollywood nightlife mogul Anton Posniak, who set out to remake the OC scene. Now he’s got more lawsuits than restaurants here. Gustavo Arellano mocks California's fires in "The Fire All the Time: Create Your Own Inferno News Story!". And Matt Co ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

In "Less is Mor" Vickie Change educates us about Hollywood nightlife mogul Anton Posniak, who set out to remake the OC scene. Now he’s got more lawsuits than restaurants here. Gustavo Arellano mocks California's fires in "The Fire All the Time: Create Your Own Inferno News Story!". And Matt Co ... More >>

Has It Been a Year Already?

2007: A year to remember

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'Im so sorry you were bored in the Tridentine mass. Im bored in Bishop Browns chintzy rock band masses with aging hippies doing modern dance in the aisles.'

Best of OC, Nos. 26 to 50

From the Bowers patio to Merry's

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'Its incredulous that Dave is so hateful. The fact that Rex was caught with marijuana paraphernalia at an airport should have made him a "hero" at the "weakly," but you allowed Dave to trash him'

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'If I were to have an extreme case of Montezumas Revenge and there was no toilet paper in sight, and the only thing in the bathroom at that time was an OC Weekly, I still wouldnt p

After the Crash

2006 Newport Beach Film Festival has a tough act to follow

Revised for the Web!

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Comparing Rand to Kolasinski Would be Similar to Comparing the Revolutionary Marx to the Revolutionary Jefferson

Staff Infection

Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

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Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

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Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

Scorecard

Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

Letter From the Unknown Soldier

Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

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Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

The Adventures of John Moorlach

Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

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Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

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Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

Why Punk Had to Happen (Reason No. 8235G)

Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

New Music

Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

35 Great Things About Summer in Orange County

Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

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Every now and then, a Weekling steps up

VeggiePhallus

Stood up by Christian icons

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Stood up by Christian icons

Letters the Editor

Stood up by Christian icons

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Stood up by Christian icons

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Stood up by Christian icons

My So-Called Political Life

Diary of a mad Libertarian

Orange Countys 31 Scariest People

Diary of a mad Libertarian

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Diary of a mad Libertarian

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Diary of a mad Libertarian

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Diary of a mad Libertarian

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Diary of a mad Libertarian