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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2003 Stories by Matt Smith

• Critical Masturbation

  published May 14, 2003

  I ain't going to spend me no money On women or drink I'm saving for a Schwinn Pixie Painted shiny... More >>

• Vicious Cycle

  published May 7, 2003

  David Evans, the slight, soft-spoken program director of the Castro's Stop AIDS Project, and the group's publicist, Shana Krochmal, share a couch... More >>

• Hosed

  published April 30, 2003

  San Francisco Fire Chief Mario Treviño -- a summa cum laude college graduate and one-time Seattle engine captain who has served at... More >>

• Remembrance of a War Past

  published April 16, 2003

  Eventually, it will be over. America's troops will return from Baghdad. The country's acrimonious spring will warm to summer. Peacenik parents... More >>

• Risk Reassessment

  published April 9, 2003

  When it comes -- and the day will come -- San Francisco hospitals and delis and apartments and shoe stores will lie in rubble, singed by... More >>

• alt.war

  published April 2, 2003

  On Le Conte Avenue, a couple of doors uphill from the edge of the UC Berkeley campus, there's a small apartment building that may, just may... More >>

• A Gift That Stands Out

  published March 19, 2003

  In the annals of gift-giving, certain moments stand alone. In the year 32 B.C., Mark Antony gave Cleopatra the Riviera. In A.D. 36, God gave... More >>

• Fajita Backlash

  published March 12, 2003

  I think I've found a silver lining to the awful fix our city's police department has found itself in. Now that Assistant Chief Alex Fagan Sr. has... More >>

• Industrial Nightmare

  published March 5, 2003

  R&R French Bros., a commercial floor-covering showroom and warehouse on Alabama Street, has been part of the economy of San Francisco's industrial... More >>

• Losin' It

  published February 19, 2003

  As San Francisco enters a season of political upheaval in which more than $300 million must be cut from the city's budget, just as voters prepare... More >>

• Abort. Abort.

  published February 12, 2003

  It was only by happenstance that PricewaterhouseCoopers released a scathing financial audit of NASA just two days before the space shuttle... More >>

• Fun with Pipe

  published February 5, 2003

  By one measure at least, America is living a gilded age of journalism. In years past, investigating a story meant contacting the staff librarian... More >>

• Common Cents

  published January 22, 2003

  There are few vocations less appreciated, yet more essential to the launching of the modern era, than that of the pamphleteer. Two hundred... More >>

• Nuclear, Dude

  published January 8, 2003

  It's another quiet day at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer snores at his desk while his dog licks doughnut crumbs from his limp... More >>

• Fissilingual Predictions

  published January 1, 2003

  With 2002 emitting death rattles and 2003's cervical mucous plug just popping out, it seemed again time to fustigate(1) that reliable bromide: New... More >>