Email Author Joe Eskenazi

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

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

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 9, 2011

  "The Art of the Steal"

• 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"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published April 14, 2010

  "The Muni Death Spiral"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published June 17, 2009

  "Service with a Smile"

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

  "The Worst-Run Big City"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published January 7, 2009

  "Baggage"

• 2010 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published June 17, 2009

  "Service with a Snarl"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published November 19, 2008

  "Voodoo on the Vine"

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2008 Stories by Joe Eskenazi

• The LOL Year in Review

  published December 31, 2008

  Just check out any newsstand right now and you'll see that 'tis the season — for year-in-review issues. While the annual lookback is an... More >>

• R.I.P: Dr. Dan Kliman

  published December 10, 2008

  In death, unlike life, Dan Kliman was easy to describe. In death, he is the man who fatally plunged down the elevator shaft of a San Francisco... More >>

• Long Shot

  published November 26, 2008

  After striking the ball past Chinese goalkeeper Gao Hong, Brandi Chastain whipped off her shirt in what was likely the world's most-watched... More >>

• He's No Menace

  published November 19, 2008

  As the implosion of the No on Prop. 8 campaign devolves into a melee of finger-pointing — Blacks! Mormons! Black Mormons! — the... More >>

• Voodoo on the Vine

  published November 19, 2008

  In a remote corner of the Benziger Family Winery, you can just barely hear the tour guide's voice from over the adjacent ridge. Sightseers will... More >>

• Take the Rude Train

  published November 12, 2008

  If you're looking for chivalry, search elsewhere than on the 8:05 a.m. BART to Millbrae. With the recent birth of her first child, a Bay Area... More >>

• Landlords no longer holding General Hospital bond hostage

  published October 15, 2008

  In the film John Q., a disgruntled Denzel Washington takes hostages in a hospital. Here in San Francisco, we do things differently.... More >>

• Controversial police ticketing program gets makeover

  published October 15, 2008

  The San Francisco Police Department wasted no time overhauling the Safe Paths of Travel (SPOT) program, which was the subject of SF... More >>

• Building Overtime

  published October 8, 2008

  Six hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-one cents. This is a figure virtually every builder toiling within San Francisco city limits has... More >>

• Law Requires Lobbyists to Disclose Little

  published September 10, 2008

  When it comes to obfuscation, some city lobbyists have apparently taken Bill Clinton's seminar regarding what the meaning of the word "is" is.... More >>

• Treasure Island museum in witness protection program

  published August 27, 2008

  It may sound strange, but both the president and vice president of the Treasure Island Museum are uncertain exactly where their museum... More >>

• Going for Gold

  published August 27, 2008

  A quick glance through a propped-open door at Kezar Pavilion reveals a dozen or so women of Amazonian proportions outfitted in snazzy black... More >>

• S.F. schools sometimes rely on kids to translate bad news to parents

  published August 13, 2008

  According to the San Francisco Unified School District, thousands of conversations take place each day with parents who do not speak English at... More >>

• Guv candidate Gavin Newsom eligible for $48,000 campaign donations

  published July 30, 2008

  If you've got a soft spot in your heart for Gavin Newsom — and, say, $48,200 burning a hole in your pocket — the mayor would like... More >>

• The 12-year-old behind the Craigslist cockatiel scam

  published July 30, 2008

  John Fetto's wife, Rita, loved their bird, Valentine. Five years ago, Rita died of breast cancer at age 47. So when Valentine flew out of... More >>

• Blood, Sweat, and Tutus

  published July 23, 2008

  In retrospect, the skirt was just too damn long. "I was a little concerned. But they said, 'Can you please try it at this length?' And... More >>

• The Price of Failure

  published July 9, 2008

  On a recent sweltering evening, Big Mike (aka Cab Man) took out his frustrations on a heaping plate of thighs and wings at Louisiana Famous... More >>

• The queer race to be chair of SF's Democratic Party

  published July 9, 2008

  A koan for San Francisco: If an election pits a straight candidate against a gay candidate, and if a straight member of a gay political club... More >>

• FlounderAde

  published June 11, 2008

  City dwellers may have noticed an eye-catching set of ads around town featuring a Godzilla-sized version of 49ers quarterback Alex Smith... More >>

• The Gay Divorcees

  published June 4, 2008

  Barring a last-minute stay of the California Supreme Court's May decision, the state will begin allowing same-sex couples to wed on June 17.... More >>

• Pay to Sway

  published May 28, 2008

  Stop us if you've heard this one: A developer and a city planner walk into a bar ... Actually, it's not so much a bar but a "gala." And all the... More >>

• Neither rain nor snow, nor heavy campaign mail sidelines mail carrier

  published May 28, 2008

  An ascent up the 250-odd steps of Harry Street — a street in name only — carries you past wildly painted cottages, verdant gardens,... More >>

• Postal employees not happy about working in the Tenderloin

  published May 21, 2008

  Life seems so much simpler when you only read press releases. Take the one issued last week by the United States Postal Service. The residents... More >>

• Comcast ads anger taqueria owners

  published May 7, 2008

  While it may not rise to the level of Fajitagate, a series of local advertisements have some San Francisco taqueria owners crying... More >>

• An Inconvenient Plant

  published April 16, 2008

  A beer bottle cap sails off the porch and glides toward Baker Beach far below. Videogame music and howls of trash talk waft downward, along... More >>