Email Author Benjamin Wachs

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "The Worst Run Big City in the U.S."

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 14, 2010

  "The Muni Death Spiral"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published October 20, 2010

  "Let It Bleed"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published October 20, 2010

  "Let It Bleed"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 16, 2009

  "The Worst-Run Big City"

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2011 Stories by Benjamin Wachs

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  FEATURED STORY

  The Cat's Pajamas Goes Out with The Bang -- But Promises to Return

  published Mar 01, 2011

  Ginger Murray dances onto the Make Out Room's stage wearing a perfectly cut red dress and black boots. The crowd roars like it's seeing a hometown girl accept an Oscar. "Welcome to The Cat's Pajamas!... More >>

• How Is Whole Foods Adapting to the Haight?

  published March 2, 2011

  The long-awaited and sometimes controversial Whole Foods has opened in the Upper Haight. What steps is the chain store taking to blend in with... More >>

• More Theater Reviews

  published March 2, 2011

  Farragut North. At first glance, this play about backroom politicking during a presidential primary campaign shows us nothing new... More >>

• What Questions Do People Really Want Ed Lee to Answer?

  published February 23, 2011

  Mayor Ed Lee has started appearing in front of the Board of Supervisors to answer their questions. What questions do members of the public most... More >>

• Billboard Liberation Front Unveils History of Guerrilla Art in Unauthorized Stunt at City Lights

  published Feb 18, 2011

  Last night the world's premier book on unauthorized urban art had an unauthorized urban book-release party. Somebody should have seen this coming. The book is Trespass: a history of uncommissioned u... More >>

• Literary Death Match: Marshmallows, Comedy -- and, Oh Yeah, Literature

  published Feb 14, 2011

  Friday proved once again why Literary Death Match is San Francisco's premier literary series for people who don't like to read. "Episode 36," like all Death Matches, featured host Alia Volz, and a gu... More >>

• Will You Be My Ultrahip Valentine?

  published February 16, 2011

  What did San Francisco couples do for Valentine's Day? • Confessed to each other how deeply disappointed they are in President... More >>

• Quiet Lightning Gives SF Poet Sam Sax 30 Minutes to Prove Himself

  published Feb 08, 2011

  r Did poet Sam Sax permanently change one of San Francisco's most unique reading seriesr No -- but they asked him to. They begged him. Quiet Lightning's particular claim to fame amongst Bay Ar... More >>

• Eight Top Things Twitter Wants from San Francisco

  published February 9, 2011

  Social networking company Twitter is threatening to move its offices to Brisbane, Calif., unless San Francisco makes concessions. What... More >>

• Nine solutions to San Francisco's pension crisis

  published February 2, 2011

  Last week an elite group of city power brokers, including Ed Lee, Warren Hellman, David Chiu, and several labor leaders, met privately at City... More >>

• Diplomacy by the Bay

  published January 26, 2011

  San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has invited Chinese President Hu Jintao to visit San Francisco. What enticements has the mayor offered China's... More >>

• More Theater Reviews

  published January 26, 2011

  Dirty Little Showtunes. What if Riff and Tony borrowed 'Nardo from Anita?" Either you get that reference or you don't — and... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  How the Happy Meal ban explains San Francisco

  published January 19, 2011

  In August 2010, San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar decided that city intervention was... More >>

• Open season on drivers

  published January 19, 2011

  Because of a budget shortfall, city officials are tightening traffic regulations and have told parking cops to issue more tickets. What can... More >>

• More Theater Reviews

  published January 19, 2011

  Dirty Little Showtunes. What if Riff and Tony borrowed 'Nardo from Anita?" Either you get that reference or you don't — and... More >>

• Bored of the Supervisors

  published January 12, 2011

  New members of the Board of Supervisors have been sworn in. How is the new Board of Supervisors different from the old one? •... More >>

• "Three Viewings": Theater Review

  published January 12, 2011

  You walk into a chapel, you sit, and when the lights go out, you listen to three grieving people — one at a time — tell you how the... More >>

• We're Not So Resolute

  published January 5, 2011

  What New Year's resolutions have San Franciscans already broken? • To not hit so many pedestrians • To stop tampering... More >>