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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2009 Stories by Lauren Smiley

• Strippers Bring in 2010 By Dropping Their Drawers ... Or So The Sign Says

  published Dec 31, 2009

  As you're honing your last minute New Year's Eve plans, the Snitch wanted to suggest one more option for ways to usher in 2010. We spotted this bad boy (or should we say girlr) on the seedy stretch o... More >>

• Get Some New Year's Lovin on Craigslist

  published Dec 29, 2009

  Besides the obvious Valentine's Day, which holiday is most associated with having a lover at your sider It's coming up Thursday. You know the drill: count down to midnight and kiss your honey while th... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Perverting Justice

  published December 30, 2009

  If you were to track the location of the GPS unit cinched to Mr. C's ankle on a recent Thursday at dusk, the red dot would veer northeast on... More >>

• Location of Tonight's Sobriety Checkpoint Revealed: North Beach Revelers Beware

  published Dec 19, 2009

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• Note To the Egg Nog-Sloshed: Get Ready To Get Nailed By Holiday Sobriety Checkpoints

  published Dec 18, 2009

  Not just Santa Claus is coming to town this holiday, folks. State, federal and city law renforcement will be out in force for 17 days starting this weekend to nail your drunk ass if you get behind the... More >>

• You, Too, Can Check Out Your Hood's Seedy Underbelly Online

  published Dec 17, 2009

  Do you like that warm feeling you get knowing that random acts of crime-ness are being committed around you every moment of the dayr Well, if so, you're in luck.  The latest addition to the city'... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  San Francisco Woman Sues -- Well, She Doesn't Know Who -- For Posting Her Nude Pics

  published Dec 11, 2009

  No need to dream of being Pamela Anderson or Paris Hilton or even former Miss California Carrie Prejean. You, too, can have your own internet sex scandal. Or nightmare.A private citizen of San Francis... More >>

• Supervisor Sics City Attorney on Mayor

  published Dec 10, 2009

  Supervisor David Campos upped the ante in his showdown with Mayor Gavin Newsom regarding the city's controversial sanctuary city policy today, requesting the city attorney rule on whether Newsom ... More >>

• Fourth Suspect Arrested For Allegedly Beating Up Movie Actor on Muni

  published Dec 07, 2009

  We've been keeping tabs on the campaign of Supervisor Bevan Dufty and the police department to make it less likely you'll be pummeled or robbed on Muni, which seems to be happening a lot these days. W... More >>

• Entertainment Commissioner Says Raid of Latino Bar Not Tainted By Racism -- But Neighbors' Complaints Are

  published Dec 04, 2009

  The owner of SoMa's Club Caliente is gearing up to contest the first of a series of citations by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control following three busts in October and November fo... More >>

• Club Caliente Owner Cries Racial Profiling As Cops Make Case To Punish Him

  published Dec 01, 2009

  The Entertainment Commission will review Club Caliente's entertainment permit at its meeting this afternoon after the SoMa bar was busted three times in recent months for having minors on the premises... More >>

• Murder Most Foul Update: DA To Decide On Charges Tuesday For Alleged Tenderloin Killer

  published Nov 30, 2009

  View Larger MapRepresentatives of the District Attorney's office will meet with homicide inspectors Tuesday to decide on charges for Patrick Sullivan, 46, the alleged knife-wielding killer responsible... More >>

• The "No Sex" Sign Guy: What Happened to Subtletyr

  published Nov 30, 2009

  Just feet from a gay pride flag flapping in the breeze, Owen Dias squats on the fire hydrant five days a week like Dorothy landed in Oz. In a city renowned for free love, the first topless club, and a... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Mexican Man Completes Pilgrimage To S.F. For Best Buy Laptop On 'Viernes Negro'

  published Nov 27, 2009

  Laptops. They were there for the $197 HP laptops. At 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, while you were likely curled up in a turkey coma, the Black Friday pilgrims had already made their annual peregrin... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Report On Google Shuttles In the City: You May Hate 'Em, But the Environment Doesn't

  published Nov 26, 2009

  So maybe you've heard Mission and Noe Valley dwellers complaining about the huge shuttle buses huffing through their small residential streets to whisk 2,500 daily commuters away to their Silicon Vall... More >>

• City Sewers' Message: Don't Even Think About Pouring Gravy Down Drain

  published Nov 25, 2009

  The SF Weekly isn't big on preaching and we don't do it often. But for Thanksgiving, we thought we'd give a voice to one of the most taken-for-granted and under-represented sectors of our city: the se... More >>

• Muggings and Beatings on the Bus, Oh My! Bevan Dufty Plays Wizard of Muni

  published Nov 23, 2009

  The winners of the Top-3 Most Dangerous Muni Routes are: the 14-Mission, the 9X-San Bruno Express, and the 38-Geary. In that order.But be not afraid: Supervisor Bevan Dufty is on it (or so he'd like y... More >>

• The Amazing Spinning Sign Samurai Wows Fourth Street

  published Nov 20, 2009

  No, we have not sped up or in any way enhanced this footage. In the world of mind-numbingly boring jobs, swinging a sign to advertise mattress sales or open houses along Bay Area roadways ranks prett... More >>

• Partial Settlement in Carpenters' Racial Discrimination Case

  published Nov 20, 2009

  Eight of the 28 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against companies at a Bayview construction site for alleged discrimination and labor law violations -- including running segregated work crews, turning a... More >>

• Bayview Activists Threaten To Recall Sophie Maxwell. Yes, Again.

  published Nov 19, 2009

  Critics looked into recalling Supervisor Sophie Maxwell in 2003, and collected signatures to do so in 2004.  But the District 10 supervisor's vote this week to help the Navy circumvent a citizen'... More >>

• End of "Trauma" and 18+ Nights at El Rincon

  published Nov 19, 2009

  After a five-year run, the weekly 18-and-up drum-and-bass night "Trauma" will throw its last Thursday night party tonight at El Rincon. In an effort to snazz up the image of the Mission dive, the bar'... More >>

• Bike vigilantes: Victims strike back

  published November 18, 2009

  A couple of weekends ago, Malcolm McMahon was on his way to buy a steel U-lock for his bike when he stopped at the Mission Branch Library,... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Sanctuary Sellout

  published November 18, 2009

  If you were to compile a list of threats to San Francisco's public safety, Oscar Martinez probably wouldn't make the cut. The quiet 15-year-old... More >>

• SEIU Besieges Mayor's Office; Shouted Down By Angry Native American

  published Nov 12, 2009

  r And we thought the most interesting spectacle at the SEIU protest Thursday afternoon was going to be the 14-foot puppet. True, the affair to protest the upcoming layoffs of 600 health care and cleri... More >>

• Couple Biking from Alaska to Argentina Make San Francisco Stopover To Assemble Pot Pies

  published Nov 12, 2009

  At the central Salvation Army kitchen in SoMa Wednesday morning, two line cooks wore cycling jerseys along with their hairnets. You could consider kitchen hands Roland and Belinda Hinmueller a type of... More >>