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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2007 Stories by Matt Smith

• Portrait of a Capitalist

  published December 26, 2007

  For a version of San Francisco history from the perspective of the masses, visit the Rincon Annex at Mission and Spear streets. The cartoonish... More >>

• Demo Sale

  published December 19, 2007

  Proverbs 16:19 — "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"—is more than a biblical verse. It's a... More >>

• Unhealthy Union

  published December 12, 2007

  Rarely do I find myself wishing the best for a journalistic competitor. But I'm hoping that an early obituary on California health care reform,... More >>

• Blogos-Free

  published December 5, 2007

  My neighbor across the street, who not long ago bought one of those near-million-dollar S.F. condos that are popular nowadays, has a business... More >>

• SEIU's Rosselli Resigns as State Boss -- Sac Bee

  published Dec 03, 2007

  Bay Area labor leader Sal Rosselli has resigned his post as president of the California umbrella organization for one of America's most powerful labor unions, the Sacramento Bee reports. Rosselli ... More >>

• Roll of the Die - Human Life Speculators Bet on Elder Deaths

  published November 28, 2007

  Plymouth, California, a town of a little more than 1,000 souls in the Sierra Nevada foothills just east of Sacramento, seems an unlikely site... More >>

• Gavin Newsom Can Help Cure Global Warming's Effects ... with High-Rises

  published November 7, 2007

  It's now well established that leadership on the issue of global warming is a ticket to political stardom. Lest you doubt that, consider the... More >>

• Mayor Newsom Announces "Audaciousness" Program

  published October 31, 2007

  This week's Matt Smith is a comic. Click here to view. More >>

• The Vice Hotel

  published October 10, 2007

  The biceps of 53-year-old ex-boxing coach Emmett Marcel Oliver bulge to the size of cantaloupes as he demonstrates his punching technique... More >>

• Russian Sergey Brin and Google: A KGB-style Propaganda and Spying Machine?

  published October 3, 2007

  When a national cult-watcher has to beg San Francisco's mayor to stop luring young people into a dangerous mind-control sect, we have a... More >>

• Wal-Mart 'R' Us

  published September 19, 2007

  Leftists passing by newsstands last week saw an image of their movement's former poster boy. On the cover of the current issue of Fast... More >>

• Leno's Hemp Screen

  published September 12, 2007

  In 2000, between the March launch of Vividence.com at a poshed-up Exploratorium and the November bankruptcy... More >>

• Meet the Candidate

  published September 5, 2007

  This week, Matt Smith did a comic called "Meet the Candidate" instead of a column and our web templates can't handle it. Ha! More >>

• The End of Our Progress

  published August 22, 2007

  Art Agnos, the old political lion many lefties had pegged as the best possible hope for unseating the incumbent mayor, arrived here last month in... More >>

• New College of Weirdness

  published August 15, 2007

  New College of California, the small liberal arts college occupying two former mortuaries and an ex-home for unwed mothers on the 700 block of... More >>

• Governor Newsom?

  published August 8, 2007

  Except for insurgent Matt Gonzalez entering the race at the last minute and nearly pulling off an upset, Gavin Newsom's 2003 campaign for mayor... More >>

• Burning Brew

  published August 1, 2007

  Early last month my father, a retired Methodist pastor in Red Bluff, three hours north of San Francisco, ordered a cup of coffee for himself at... More >>

• Pollution Absolution

  published July 18, 2007

  Leave it to the Vatican to place itself on the wrong side of yet another great moral divide. In 1517 Pope Leo X offered indulgences in... More >>

• Profits for Developers Initiative

  published July 11, 2007

  Campaign cash, deceptive advertising and the machinations of professional political strategists long ago undermined the Progressive movement's... More >>

• Mother Nature or Nurture?

  published July 4, 2007

  Russ Bradley spends summers on the craggy guano-strewn paradise at the far western edge of San Francisco's city limits, poking about in a rain... More >>

• iPhoney iDol?

  published June 27, 2007

  Best-seller lists have lately been topped with a proselytic brand of atheism, contained in books such as Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not... More >>

• Fore Play

  published June 20, 2007

  Gardener Zachary Salem, 44, hoists five brass sprinkler heads from the cement stair leading up from the end of California Street to Lincoln Park... More >>

• Stern Reprimand

  published June 13, 2007

  A once-secret power struggle between one of the Western United States' most powerful labor leaders, and America's most famous union boss, has... More >>

• Mazzola Is Slippery

  published June 6, 2007

  According to the U.S. Department of Labor, beginning in the 1990s some $76 million was siphoned from union worker benefit funds under the... More >>

• Lacking (Progressive) Definition

  published May 30, 2007

  If there's one thing that a certain development lobbying group representing the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Wells Fargo Bank, Lennar... More >>