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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2006 Stories by Matt Smith

• For Sale, Not Cheap

  published December 27, 2006

  Can a concept be too tacky for the ad biz? Advertising Age suggests so in a recent item surveying Bay Area ad-company honchos about the... More >>

• Year of the Blockhead

  published December 27, 2006

  As I look back happily on 2006, the year Bay Area residents were taken for fools, I notice changes that sort of crept up on me. Early last... More >>

• They Put Up a Parking Lot

  published December 20, 2006

  During a recent interview with local newscaster Barbara Taylor, a thinner, softer-voiced, more nattily besuited Supervisor Chris Daly than I'm... More >>

• Been There, Done That

  published December 13, 2006

  As San Francisco's Board of Education chooses a headhunting firm to find a replacement for acting Schools Superintendent Gwen Chan, its members... More >>

• Allegation 101

  published December 13, 2006

  A sedan emerges from the tiny parking lot off Valencia between 18th and 19th streets and turns into traffic. A 36-year-old man hangs his torso out... More >>

• Murderers at Large

  published December 6, 2006

  A day or so before Halloween 2003, Victor Bach, 71, the handsome, soft-spoken owner of Western Plumbing & Heating Co., confronted his much-younger... More >>

• Boycott Feinstein

  published November 29, 2006

  Thank goodness the Dems took Congress. Now we can expect no more clamping down on civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism, no more... More >>

• Let Us Now Praise Tough Cookies

  published September 20, 2006

  Pat McGinnis, founder of the SOMA nonprofit California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), is in my view of a kind in spirit to Gov. Ann... More >>

• Two Cents Too Much

  published November 22, 2006

  As starving artists' paintings are to Motel 6 rooms, "man-on-the-street" features are to newspapers — that is, their cliched way of punching... More >>

• Recount Needed

  published November 8, 2006

  Wasn't Tuesday's voting experience satisfying? We inked-in neat, black arrows beside our favorite and next-favorite candidates, watched the ES&S... More >>

• Patriot Act

  published November 1, 2006

  In 18 years of doing his thing, anti-gay hate-monger Fred Phelps' biggest accomplishment may have been to turn military funerals into motorcycle... More >>

• Vulgar Posing

  published November 1, 2006

  District 6 Supervisor candidate Rob Black's dress, demeanor, life-trajectory, political ideology, even mode of transport combine to send a... More >>

• The Double Life of John Leary

  published October 25, 2006

  "I sometimes think that if the time ever comes when I lose all sexual desire, I'll probably be nothing but a blob or stone. I will have lost my... More >>

• Dirty Laundry

  published October 18, 2006

  Livia Barrueto, an 11-year Sunset District resident who runs a child-care business out of the bottom floor of a faded 20th Avenue plywood triplex,... More >>

• Hot Air

  published October 11, 2006

  In the trickle-up theory of journalism, bloggers enliven the news business by pushing ignored stories mainstream. So it was a few weeks ago... More >>

• Troublesome Pastimes

  published September 27, 2006

  Fremont warehouse worker and aspiring author Thomas Loudamy, 27, has the most killer hobby. Or, rather, his hobby involves the most killers.... More >>

• Dopey Bid

  published September 13, 2006

  It's fair to say our mayor has taken up with sleazy types in the past. Secretive moneybags behind favored development deals, and behind campaign... More >>

• Systematically Disabled

  published September 6, 2006

  Brandy Rigsby, a Sonoma County 26-year-old who used to bounce from job to job caring for the elderly and disabled, has lost the easy ebullience... More >>

• Rotting on the Dock of the Bay

  published August 30, 2006

  The Port of San Francisco is preparing for a city land fire sale. Port officials are attempting to lay the groundwork for the sale of a... More >>

• Mexico Burning? Don't believe it.

  published August 23, 2006

  Global Exchange is a San Francisco nonprofit known for pressing leftist causes by crashing sessions of Congress, stalking Hillary Clinton,... More >>

• The Darthies

  published August 16, 2006

  Noble villains and incorrigible heroes, such as The Incredibles' morally conflicted "Syndrome," or the X-Men's... More >>

• Western Confusion

  published August 9, 2006

  On the first weekend in November functionaries from the Guatemalan Consulate on Market Street will head to Renton, Wash., set up folding tables in... More >>

• This Is Your Sport Off Drugs

  published July 19, 2006

  Imagine that George Mitchell's conflict of interest-ridden whitewash-in-the-making of a baseball steroids investigation somehow turned into an... More >>

• I Wish I'd Written That

  published July 12, 2006

  A week ago last Monday, I rode down the elevator with a thin, short-haired reporter who wore a long-sleeved T-shirt, cotton pants, and a battered... More >>

• Hard to Be Really Green

  published July 5, 2006

  Now that S.F. media impresario Al Gore has burned a tanker's load of jet fuel toting his PowerPoint presentation around the globe, and compelled a... More >>