Email Author Matt Smith

Awards

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  "Distressed Properties"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  "City Hounds the Homeless"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  "Hypocritical Mayor"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 17, 2009

  "On Thin Ice"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 3, 2009

  "Domestic Spouses"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 6, 2009

  "Bumping Frights"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  Matt Smith columns

• 2008 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  Matt Smith columns

• 2007 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 26, 2006

  "Bank of Indifference"

• 2007 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  Matt Smith columns

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2002 Stories by Matt Smith

• Off the Waterfront

  published June 5, 2002

  For the modern social anthropologist, there's no better place for fieldwork than the business convention. A researcher entering the George R.... More >>

• Ross Stores Take Over San Francisco

  published May 29, 2002

  Ross Stores Take Over San Francisco The clothing chain Ross Dress for Less... More >>

• Soft Firm

  published May 29, 2002

  As manager of a Tehama County home for people with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a gene flaw that renders patients terminally hungry, Caroline Cannon has... More >>

• Miracle at the KK Cafe

  published May 8, 2002

  Its creators call it peanut milk. It tastes, unfortunately, exactly like its name. It is made from a secret recipe of just four ingredients:... More >>

• Intended Consequences

  published April 24, 2002

  Despite a strenuous workout that involved eliminating the Redevelopment Agency, leasing out 118 light-rail cars, banning big-box stores,... More >>

• The Ghost of Scandals Past

  published April 17, 2002

  I was sitting in a smallish, undecorated conference room with a city bureaucrat, discussing a plan to lease the city's fleet of light-rail cars to... More >>

• Runaway Train

  published April 10, 2002

  It's April 2002, and the city budget is suffering the aftereffects of a half-decade of financial fakery that might be called the Internet-Enron... More >>

• Now That's Amore

  published April 3, 2002

  When Lyndon Johnson ran for Congress, legend says, he wanted to spread the rumor that his opponent was a pig-fucker. Johnson's campaign manager... More >>

• Staying Alive

  published March 27, 2002

  At 7:30 a.m. last Wednesday, a day after a roundtable about HIV among Native Americans, and a few hours before a discussion of spirituality and... More >>

• No Parking Zone

  published March 20, 2002

  For years, denizens of the academic world -- planners, architects, and ecologists; physicians, engineers, and sociologists -- have disparaged... More >>

• Truth Over Death

  published March 6, 2002

  In New York, 18 refrigerated trailers contain one of the more bizarre mathematical problems ever contrived. The human remains within the trailers... More >>

• Mark of Effectiveness

  published February 27, 2002

  I think it's precious that George Deukmejian's legacy -- the one now being claimed by Republican gubernatorial candidates -- would, if it were... More >>

• Bound and Gagged

  published February 20, 2002

  Gloretha Caldwell, 63, an employee of the California State Disability Insurance Office who lives not far from the Mervyn's on Geary Boulevard,... More >>

• Attack of the Self-Serving Pol!

  published February 13, 2002

  Actor/producer/writer J. Stephen "Rock" Peace's 1978 film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! set such a high standard of campiness that for two... More >>

• Brownout at SFO

  published February 6, 2002

  At about 10 minutes past the mixed green salad, halfway through a plate of stuffed chicken, some 1,000 gourmands at the annual San Francisco... More >>

• Legends in Our Own Minds

  published January 30, 2002

  Once upon a time -- a time that now seems long, long ago -- San Francisco was seduced by a legend. Dot-com yuppies were moving into the city by... More >>

• Horse Senseless

  published January 23, 2002

  A horse in a reclining frame of mind will drop down onto its front knees, tuck one hind leg inward, and roll over on its side. "It's a sort of... More >>

• Balkans by the Bay

  published January 16, 2002

  Jutting from the northern wall of the S.F. Maritime Museum's bottom floor are mementos of a more civilized era: bright chrome shower heads lined... More >>

• Serfing the Web

  published January 9, 2002

  Sometime during the last two decades of the Technology Age -- perhaps it was after the publication of the 250th touchy-feely management best... More >>

• Chump Changes

  published January 2, 2002

  Some people imagine writing for a living as a blessed existence. What fool, they surmise, couldn't chat with a few sources, type awhile, then... More >>