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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2012 Stories by Lauren Smiley

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  FEATURED STORY

  S.F. Ballet Masters the Joy and the Tragedy in Heavy Russian Onegin

  published Feb 02, 2012

  It's winter in San Francisco, it's cold (or at least gray), and the San Francisco Ballet's 2012 season has kicked off this week with a heavy, Russian tragedy. (Save the whimsical Don Quixote for sprin... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Prison Break: Realignment Inmates Enter Rehabilitation in S.F.

  published February 1, 2012

  Illustration by Ellen Weinstein. Until a massive change in... More >>

• Neighbors to Hold Memorial for Precita Park Homeless Man Who Died

  published Jan 27, 2012

  For all the complaints about the homeless in the city, we can admit this: The vagrants who frequent our neighborhoods are often familiar fixtures we've come to appreciate. Since the lives of homeless ... More >>

• Ross Mirkarimi Loses Fight to Lift Restraining Order, More Texts from His Wife Revealed

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Mirkarimi's wife told neighbor about potential child-neglect episode in which son was left in the car and not fed. Mirkarimi has gone to three counseling sessions. A Superior Court judge refused to li... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Occupy My Street: S.F. Woman Starts Petition Against Out-of-Control Parking Tickets

  published Jan 25, 2012

  Drivers in San Francisco may rightly suspect they are merely rats in a giant SFMTA experiment designed to make them spit up as much money for parking tickets as possible before breaking down and buyin... More >>

• SF State Contract Fraud: Investigation of Alleged Corruption Continues

  published Jan 24, 2012

  In August, when we wrote about an investigation into potential contract corruption at San Francisco State that could have potentially cost the cash-strapped university hundreds of thousands of dollars... More >>

• Ross Mirkarimi's Attorney: Charges 'Overblown' as Sheriff Trial Date Set

  published Jan 23, 2012

  San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's trial has been set for February 24, when the progressive politicians will have to defend himself against charges that he physically abused his wife, Eliana Lopez... More >>

• Massage Pallor: S.F. Anti-Prostitution Squad Faces End

  published January 25, 2012

  In 2007, city officials celebrated a victory over the Asian massage parlors sometimes suspected of being fronts for brothels and human... More >>

• 49ers Game to Air On All Six Cumulus Stations

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Even you hipsters out there who are completely ambivalent about all things football, who got your ass kicked by the jocks in high school, who would only wear a 49ers sweatshirt to a theme party, and, ... More >>

• Ross Mirkarimi Update: Eliana Lopez Admits She Talked to Neighbor, But Denies Abuse

  published Jan 18, 2012

  Eliana Lopez once again publicly denied having been abused by her husband, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, this time telling a Venezuelan radio station that she spoke to her neighbor, Ivory Madison, detailing... More >>

• SPCA Raising Money for Stolen Dog Found with Eye, Ear and Teeth Missing

  published Jan 18, 2012

  As if we needed any more reason to doubt the future of humanity, here's yet another horrifying tale. Yvette Acevedo's 12-year-old Yorkie, Toto, was stolen out of her backyard in Hayward early last yea... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Trent Arsenault, Prolific Sperm Donor, Is a 36-Year-Old Virgin Pleasing Women Everywhere

  published Jan 18, 2012

  As if the story about Trent Arsenault -- the Bay Area's unstoppable Sperminator -- couldn't get more bizarre. To gasps, laughter, and applause from the studio audience on Anderson Cooper's talk show, ... More >>

• Superhero in Exile: The Ray Goes It Alone

  published January 18, 2012

  If real-life superhero The Ray were to have his own comic book series, the current storyline would chronicle his fallen dark period. In a... More >>

• Bay To Breakers Registration Opens Today -- No Booze, No Floats

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Hey people, why keep complaining about last year's puritanical Bay to Breakers race when you could sign up for this year's race -- nowrZazzle announced today that registration for the 101st footrace i... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Lisa Ling Looking for Bay Area Swingers -- Just Not Freaky Ones

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Here's a good chance for Bay Area swingers to satiate America's legion of voyeurs. The producers of Our America With Lisa Ling on Oprah's new TV network, OWN, are coming to town, looking for some swin... More >>

• Cesar Ascarrunz, Failed Mayoral Candidate, Fights for Mission's Only Legit Hot Dog Cart

  published Jan 10, 2012

  Cesar Ascarrunz is the Don Quixote of mayoral candidates -- dreaming the impossible dream, valiantly stabbing at City Hall like a windmill again and again, with no chance of success. Much to the chagr... More >>

• Epic Beard Man Movie Glosses Over Challenges of Bay Area Crank

  published Jan 06, 2012

  Check it out: Epic Beard Man is finally hitting the big screen. But wait, Epic Beard Man, is that your  Where is the mentally unstable San Francisco crank who was in the fateful bus fight on AC T... More >>

• Trent Arsenault, Local Sperm Donor, Upsets Family for Using Photo of Baby That's Not His

  published Jan 05, 2012

  rLauren Stromquist, a mother from Minnesota, was struck with a feeling of familiarity when she read a Fox News story on Bay Area sperm-machine Trent Arsenault. She recognized the blonde Silicon Valley... More >>

• Superhero Motor Mouth Intervenes in New Year's Eve Shooting

  published Jan 04, 2012

  Motor Mouth -- the Bay Area's stout, real-life superhero who fights crime in a costume and with an alias -- ushered in the New Year with a bang. He made the news for spending the first hours of of 201... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Trent Arsenault, Bay Area Man Flooded with Sperm Requests, in New York for Media Blitz

  published Jan 04, 2012

  The national news just can't get enough of the Bay Area's one man sperm-donor, Trent Arsenault. The 36-year-old, who claims to have fathered 14 offspring with his super-potent sperm he ejaculates duri... More >>

• Shoe-Shamers: Aggressive Scammers Trap Tourists at the Wharf

  published January 4, 2012

  The daily roster of Fisherman's Wharf peddlers runs the gamut: There's the Bushman, charging for scares from behind his leafy bough. There's... More >>