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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2005 Stories by Matt Smith

• The Storm of the Teeth

  published May 18, 2005

  Norman Hobday sits at the north end of his SOMA fern bar in a wrinkled T-shirt, stained overalls, disheveled short gray hair, and gray stubble,... More >>

• Gridlock

  published May 4, 2005

  On a drizzly Thursday afternoon in April a pair of construction workers in orange Mitchell Engineering vests mucked around with shovels on the... More >>

• The Politics of Cynicism

  published April 27, 2005

  Ordinarily, to keep my cynicism levels in check, I write about politics the minimum amount that allows me to hold onto my job commenting on our... More >>

• The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations

  published April 13, 2005

  Publicists have a dreary and emotionally exhausting job. Daily, they must cold-call and suck up to journalists in attempts to forge relationships... More >>

• Dumb as a Potted Plant

  published April 6, 2005

  I like Mark Leno. He has the straight-laced disposition of a mortician, which juxtaposes nicely with his role as one of the California Assembly's... More >>

• I Picket, Ergo Sum

  published March 30, 2005

  Last Monday I received a note titled "PHILOSOPHERS TO PICKET IN SUPPORT OF HOTEL WORKERS" from Phil Gasper, a philosophy professor at a school in... More >>

• Wrong Prescription

  published March 23, 2005

  Let's say you're happily planting tomatoes, stalking an ex-boyfriend, or whatever it is you do, when a vein in your brain sprouts a bulge like a... More >>

• Anus, Already

  published March 2, 2005

  Peeking from the clutter of my desk screams the infuriated text of a newsletter sent to me monthly by the Small Property Owners of San Francisco.... More >>

• The Daly Show

  published February 23, 2005

  In the usually spite-soaked rag that is local San Francisco politics, it was refreshing to run across Supervisor Jake McGoldrick last week sharing... More >>

• Unbalanced Budgeting

  published February 16, 2005

  The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency -- the bureaucracy that runs our bus and light-rail systems, city-owned parking garages, and... More >>

• Chemical Welfare

  published February 9, 2005

  When Bechtel Corp. inflates federal infrastructure contracts, manipulates politicians into serving the company's economic ends, and egregiously... More >>

• Tsunami Politics

  published January 26, 2005

  As Supervisor Chris Daly weaves, bobs, and grandstands in an attempt to squeeze $1 million in tsunami relief from within San Francisco's budget... More >>

• Make Public Dog Sex Legal

  published January 19, 2005

  A few months ago, in the warren of back yards that stretches east from our third-floor rear window, my wife heard a chorus of yawps, yells, barks,... More >>

• The Parmalat Syndrome

  published January 12, 2005

  There is a huge unfolding American corporate scandal that U.S. officials don't seem to consider an American corporate scandal, a scandal so... More >>