Email Author Lauren Smiley

Awards

• 2011 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published February 3, 2010

  "The ABC's of Ditching School"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 21, 2009

  "Exporting the Dead"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published May 14, 2008

  "Score!!!"

• 2008 - GLAAD Media Awards, published July 11, 2007

  "Girl/Boy Interrupted"

• 2008 - Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, published October 3, 2007

  "Escape from San Francisco"

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2007 Stories by Lauren Smiley

• No Linkup for You!

  published December 12, 2007

  Firinn Taisdeal will tell you straight up: "It's tough being around me. No secret there." Yes, his relationships have been volatile: His... More >>

• Supervisor Aaron Peskin threatened with yet another recall campaign

  published December 12, 2007

  The Committee to Recall Aaron Peskin failed to live up to its name earlier this year when the effort fizzled with a lack of signatures and... More >>

• Stunt Brides: SF Ad Exec Zach Slow’s $50K Online Marriage Contest

  published November 28, 2007

  Last year, San Francisco advertising exec Zach Slow raised $10,000 on the Internet to take snarky British hip-hop artist Lady Sovereign on a... More >>

• The Angry Moped Gangs of San Francisco

  published November 7, 2007

  First the Hells Angels blazed down Bay Area highways on their hogs. In the '80s and '90s, hipsters revived vintage scooters until the yuppies... More >>

• New Republic won't run Ward Schumacker's illustration along with story about cussing

  published October 10, 2007

  Call us tasteless for affronting your notions of decorum and decency, dear SF Weekly readers, but we thought you were mature enough to... More >>

• Maimed Brothers Flee San Francisco Violence

  published October 3, 2007

  Lela Jones said her son Devron could invite friends over while she was gone, as long as he followed one rule: No hanging outside. Her... More >>

• Green Graves

  published August 22, 2007

  People have doubted Six Feet Under consultant Tyler Cassity's environmentalist credentials ever since he broke into the green burial... More >>

• A Cuddly Rapist

  published August 8, 2007

  Muni riders have been doing double takes at the posters for the "Men Surviving Rape" campaign launched by the district attorney's office and... More >>

• Arroz Con Caca

  published July 25, 2007

  A handwritten note posted in the window of La Rondalla Bar and Restaurant states the 50-year-old Mission establishment "will be closed temporarily... More >>

• Vote for a Real Clown

  published July 25, 2007

  Well, folks, it's mid-July and Mayor Newsom's campaign consultant considers the biggest threat to the mayoral throne a clown — the job... More >>

• No Peace Prize for You

  published July 18, 2007

  Many Jewish customers have refused to enter Rainbow Grocery — the hippie-dippy worker-owned cooperative that preaches an "inclusive... More >>

• Girl/Boy Interrupted

  published July 11, 2007

  The breast bud popped up about six months ago, and Marty knew something had to be done. It was the slightest of puckers, just on one side, so... More >>

• No Hail Caesarean

  published April 25, 2007

  Kilty Vahle planned to deliver her first baby as Mother Nature intended. No painkiller. No cutting. But as labor stretched on while her cervix did... More >>

• Tight Agenda

  published April 11, 2007

  The latest word from the man-lube marketing grapevine: A commercial featuring a man rubbing cream on another man's hand got nothing more than... More >>

• Coming to Terms

  published April 4, 2007

  So the Castro's reigning supervisor, Bevan Dufty, is tinkering with his Board of Supes term limit extension charter amendment, hoping to nab five... More >>