American Hardcore, the documentary about the rapid-fire aggro punk that exploded in Orange County circa 1980 (we just wrote about the film here and here), was last week's No. 1 movie at Edwards University in Irvine. That, of course, means it'll be sticking around awhile longer for you tatted, jack-booted, leather-jacketed, chain-dangling, orange-spiked, tackle-box pierced captains of industry who have not seen it. Go already!
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.