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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2010 Stories by Lauren Smiley

• Nudists Chicken Out On TSA Scan Protest

  published Dec 23, 2010

  You know how these things go. All talk, no action.Rusty Mills planned, organized, researched, and recruited other nudists for his naked protest of the TSA airport scanners. But in the end, he didn't g... More >>

• Party Bus Operators Divided Over Proposed Regulation of 'Booze Buses'

  published Dec 23, 2010

  The Mexican Bus says bring it on. Partybus.com says no way. San Francisco-based party bus owners are divided over a proposed Assembly bill that transfers the responsibility for underage drinking onpar... More >>

• Booze Bus: Assemblyman Targets Underage Drinking on Party Buses

  published Dec 22, 2010

  San Francisco officials are doubting that party bus operators will self-police underage drinking on their rolling bacchanals -- which is the basis of what's called for in legislation introduced in the... More >>

• Michael Savage Sues Talk Radio Network Over 'Indentured Servitude'

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage is trying to dump Talk Radio Network, but claims in a federal lawsuit that the radio syndicate is not taking to the split nicely, threatening him with a $4 ... More >>

• Nudists Planning Airport TSA Protest. Cops Planning Arrests.

  published Dec 21, 2010

  The TSA might just get the chance to make good on its claim that the agency has no problem with people going through the airport security line naked. San Francisco nudist Rusty Mills -- whom you ... More >>

• Nudists Not Welcome On American Airlines

  published Dec 17, 2010

  SF Weekly has been uncovering the naked truth this week, discovering that San Francisco nudists will not face problems if they opt to walk through TSA inspections in the buff. As far as strolling, nud... More >>

• Nude Travelers No Problem For TSA

  published Dec 16, 2010

  The TSA has taken a lot of heat recently from travelers peeved that the new body scans reveal their naked forms a bit too sharply. Well, that's not an issue for Rusty Mills, a San Francisco nudist fro... More >>

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  Will San Francisco Nudists Streak At SFO To Protest TSA Body Scansr

  published Dec 15, 2010

  Rusty Mills, one of the ringleaders in our recent cover feature on the San Francisco nudists, is plotting a possible new stunt: to go through the TSA security line at San Francisco International Airpo... More >>

• Polly Klaas' Father Calls Woman Dating His Daughter's Killer An 'Extremely Disturbed Girl'

  published Dec 15, 2010

  A few SF Weekly readers have sounded off about our cover story last week, remarking that Samantha Spiegel, the 19-year-old art student from San Francisco who says she'd consider having a baby with Pol... More >>

• Yahoo Paying Your Shipping Bill At Polk Street UPS Store

  published Dec 13, 2010

  Here's a heartwarming announcement for this gray Monday morning: Yahoo is paying for the shipping of selected people at the Polk Street UPS store (at Washington Street) from now until 12:30 p.m. today... More >>

• Homeless Sex Offender Dies; Van Amasses Tickets

  published Dec 10, 2010

  While passing the Caltrain station earlier this week, one of the men we'd interviewed for our story on homeless sex offenders last year flagged us down. He'd said no one had seen Thomas Craig, another... More >>

• DREAM Act Senate Vote Looming For Bay Area Illegal Immigrant Students

  published Dec 09, 2010

  With the Senate vote on the DREAM Act this morning being pushing back to next week, Bay Area illegal immigrant students are looking to buoy yesterday's victory in the House into a win for the bill tha... More >>

• Brandon Lee, S.F.'s Porn Star Chef

  published Dec 08, 2010

  Jimmy T., a pharmacy fraud investigator who'd prefer not to give his last name, wanted to make sure people showed up for a Halloween party at his SOMA apartment. So he booked porn star Brandon Lee. ... More >>

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  Brandon Lee Starred in Gay Porn While Serving in Navy

  published Dec 08, 2010

  A Pentagon study released last month urged repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, revealing that a majority of servicemen and women had no problems working alongside people who are ope... More >>

• Filipina Caregivers Win $70K In Back Wages From Richmond District Rest Home

  published Dec 07, 2010

  Meg Whitman isn't the only one forking over thousands of dollars in back pay to her hired help. While "Queen Meg" made her problem go away with $5,500, a Richmond District care home had to pay far mor... More >>

• Human Rights Campaign To Move Into Harvey Milk's Camera Store

  published Dec 06, 2010

  In what some grassroots gay activists are calling an "insult," the Human Rights Campaign is about to move into the location of Harvey Milk's old camera store at 575 Castro Street. It will be the new S... More >>

• TSA Policing Media's Use of Scanner Images

  published Dec 03, 2010

  We knew the TSA was sensitive about this whole scanner thing, but not this sensitive: This morning, SF Weekly got a phone call and a wrist-slap from the Transportation Security Administration's press ... More >>

• Sex Offender Eugene Melendres Ramos Allegedly Rapes 2-Year-Old In Dollar Store

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Well, it doesn't get much more horrifying than this. Union City police have announced the arrest of a registered sex offender for allegedly raping a 2-year-old girl in a Dollar Tree store Wednesday af... More >>

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  Only In San Francisco: Cops Can't Force Naked Men To Put On Clothes

  published Dec 01, 2010

  On Black Friday, Rusty Mills and Lloyd Fishback stripped off all their clothes and headed down to Union Square with their genitalia flapping in the stiff winter wind. Mills wore only an Indian headdre... More >>

• Washington First State To Spurn Feds' Secure Communities Fingerprinting Program

  published Dec 01, 2010

  Washington State just did what San Francisco tried so hard to do but ultimately failed at: It gave the metaphorical finger to Secure Communities, the controversial fingerprinting program that identifi... More >>

• San Francisco Nudists Reveal All Their Personal Bits (VIDEO)

  published Nov 30, 2010

  This week's cover story, "Overexposed," dissects the growing trend of naked men taking advantage of San Francisco's laissez faire interpretation of indecent exposure laws. At SF Weekly's photo shoot, ... More >>

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  Nudists find opposition in an unlikely place: The Castro

  published December 1, 2010

  In Chinatown, it may be the Year of the Tiger, but in the Castro, it's almost... More >>

• 'Bikini Traveler' Corinne Theile Strips Again at Sonoma Airport

  published Nov 29, 2010

  Corinne Theile, the woman who got everyone's attention (including Conan O'Brien's) on Thanksgiving day by stripping down to a black bikini when gallivanting through a TSA security checkpoint at LAX, r... More >>

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  TSA Scanners: U.C. San Francisco Radiologists Debunk Radiation Fears

  published Nov 24, 2010

  Update 12/3: TSA slaps us on the wrist about using this picture. This is an old image. The newer ones look more like Egyptian hieroglyphics. Among the elements of paranoia and righteousness emanating ... More >>

• Michael 'Dog Boy' Tsan, Extortionist Who Slapped Mah Jongg Maven, Gets 52 Months

  published Nov 23, 2010

  The man who slapped and then threatened the life of a Chinese mah-jongg parlor owner has gotten a legal bitch slap of his own: Michael "Dog Boy" Tsan was sentenced to 52 months in prison by a federal ... More >>