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

• Mean People's Court

  published June 28, 2006

  If bumper stickers had subheads — newspaper jargon for the teaser sentences that dangle below headlines — then "Mean People Suck" would... More >>

• Filling the Civic Gap

  published June 21, 2006

  It's three hours into the last day of school at KIPP Bayview Academy, a nonprofit, 160-student, fifth-and-sixth-grade charter school run out of a... More >>

• Believe It or Not!

  published June 7, 2006

  First, a pop quiz. (A) Could it possibly be true that Dudley Perkins Harley-Davidson, a San Francisco institution since 1913 and the world's... More >>

• A Bridge Too Costly

  published May 31, 2006

  The nearly re-constructed Fourth St. Bridge — a piece of Dr. Frankensteinlike patchwork engineering whose design revolves around... More >>

• Back to the Future

  published May 24, 2006

  In a future San Francisco, workers disembark at Downtown factories at space-age, rooftop zeppelin moorings, then assemble high-tech clipper-ship... More >>

• Powerful Advice

  published May 10, 2006

  Does the sensation of omnipotence that comes from stomping on the gas pedal and surging uphill, with time, addle the brain? Might the miracle... More >>

• Doublespeak With Forked Tongue

  published May 3, 2006

  Rarely does testimony at official City Hall gatherings meet high literary standards of eloquence and pith. But then few forums want so badly... More >>

• Methodist Acting

  published April 26, 2006

  When gay families from San Francisco and elsewhere lined up outside the White House lawn last week to participate in the president's annual Easter... More >>

• Bank of Indifference

  published April 26, 2006

  Kathy Brown, 63, a legally blind, wheelchair-borne former Richmond District shopkeeper, is not ordinarily one to complain. "Talk to me,... More >>

• Artistic Deception

  published April 19, 2006

  At only $70 per year, membership in The Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums, referred to in promotional materials as a "de Young membership," is... More >>

• Olive Woo Murphy 1/08/03 – 3/29/06

  published April 12, 2006

  Despite the depth of the tragedy, there was a sense of relief associated with the aftermath to the recent asphyxiation death of three-year-old... More >>

• Technology Disassembled

  published April 5, 2006

  New York Times online tech columnist and CBS News contributor David Pogue is a real card in the geek world. He writes funny computer... More >>

• Beat Back

  published March 22, 2006

  One-third of a century ago, painter Arthur Monroe and his longtime patron, Reidar Wennesland, gathered up what then may have been the largest... More >>

• The Free Press

  published March 15, 2006

  I was working on my laptop last week when it suddenly appeared: the dreaded spinning pinwheel of death. It's a multicolored rotating ball that... More >>

• Missed Connection

  published March 8, 2006

  To hear AC Transit President Greg Harper tell it, Mayor Gavin Newsom and his underlings are cooking up a conspiracy to commit chicanery on the... More >>

• The Free Press

  published March 8, 2006

  I was working on my laptop last week when it suddenly appeared: the dreaded spinning pinwheel of death. It's a multicolored rotating ball that... More >>

• Doping Scandal

  published February 22, 2006

  San Francisco physician Prentice Steffen has a radical-fringe medical philosophy that has made him persona non grata in his chosen... More >>

• Greening the Left

  published February 15, 2006

  I'm standing in an upscale Mexican-themed San Mateo fern bar, drinking red wine with three dozen or so earnest and articulate young people,... More >>

• Clang, Clang, Clang Went the New Subway

  published February 1, 2006

  Smoke screen alert! When our mayor churns hoopla, you can bet he's obscuring a problem. In early 2004, when deep-pocket opponents crushed the... More >>

• Pouring Money Down a Hole

  published January 25, 2006

  The official guidebook to San Francisco politics goes like this: On one side of the political isle are "progressives," including many of the... More >>

• Unintended Evictions

  published January 18, 2006

  The law of unintended consequences is more than a popular turn of phrase. It's a fundament of economics describing a situation in which government... More >>

• Please, In Our Backyard

  published January 11, 2006

  For San Franciscans, 2005 was a year of intellectual enrichment, and the combined lessons just might add up to a way to improve life for some of... More >>

• Tilting at Political Windmills

  published January 4, 2006

  There are attorneys who, after impoverishing and humiliating a prominent client, aggrandizing a sworn enemy, and spending $19,000 out of their own... More >>