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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2008 Stories by Matt Smith

• Chronicle Armageddonr

  published Dec 30, 2008

  In the second paragraph of the final post of SFGate.com's "World Views" blog, Edward Gomez teases what reads like an impending massacre at the Chronicle. To wit: "...Numerous other, familiar feature... More >>

• 2008: The Year S.F. Grew Up

  published December 31, 2008

  Nine years ago, San Franciscans went to bed with dread and giddy anticipation. Either the Y2K bug would spawn a man-against-machine dystopia,... More >>

• SF Weekly Exclusive -- It's Official: San Francisco Repeats as Soweto USA

  published Dec 23, 2008

  By Matt SmithFor the third year running San Francisco has managed its public housing as the equivalent of a Third World slum. New information from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Develop... More >>

• Criticism From SF Weekly Worse Than Global Financial Meltdownr

  published Dec 22, 2008

  By Matt SmithHere's a pop quiz(R): Which is worser A.) A U.S. banking crisis sparks a chain reaction in global financial markets leaving no economy unscathed, spawning talk of unemployment, pover... More >>

• No Dickensian Christmas in SF as Harlots, Peaceniks, Go to Washington

  published Dec 19, 2008

  Traditional Christmas in San Francisco is a colorful Charles Dickens pageant of ragtag peaceniks and harlots on Market. Street, in the Tenderloin, and in the Mission. Most years, they recreate the moo... More >>

• Iraqi Shoe Guy Disses San Francisco

  published Dec 19, 2008

  By Matt Smith When Muntadar al-Zaidi of Cairo-based al-Baghdadia TV threw his size 10 shoes at President George Bush, San Franciscans were thrilled. It now appears, however, that it's not just Geor... More >>

• City Attorney Joins "SF Weekly = Nostradamus" Bandwagon

  published Dec 18, 2008

  By Matt Smith Knowing a bandwagon when he sees one, City Attorney Dennis Herrera today indirectly proclaimed SF Weekly to be a newsprint-based All Being, All Knowing, Mistress of Sight and Sound.... More >>

• Purged From SF Schools, Scientologists Woo Weeuns Out of State

  published Dec 17, 2008

  By Matt SmithFour years after San Francisco Chronicle reporter Nanette Asimov repelled a Scientology infiltration of California classrooms, the cult has moved to New Mexico, where believers hoodwinke... More >>

• Department of Shut the F*** Up Already: UC Berkeley Cunnilingus Lessons

  published Dec 16, 2008

  SF Mayor Gavin Newsom, apparently unaware that moralists were plotting to ban gay marriage, stood in front of a video camera and gave them the perfect radio spot for promoting Propositi... More >>

• Mad SF Scientists Unwittingly Resurrect Herb Caen

  published Dec 15, 2008

  People loved Herb Caen for many reasons, but perhaps his most passionate advocates were  among followers of a recurring feature called "namephreaks." Caen would often sprinkle his colu... More >>

• Precious Cargo

  published December 10, 2008

  During World War II, U.S. soldiers were temporarily stationed on Vanuatu, an archipelago 1,000 miles north of Australia. The natives were... More >>

• Kids These Days More Concerned With Term Papers, Lunch, Than Welts, Diarrhea

  published Dec 08, 2008

  Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweat... More >>

• SF "Nostrudamus" Weekly Update: Copia Copeth Not

  published Dec 08, 2008

  By Matt SmithParanoid fantasists consult the prophesies of Nostradamus for guidance on current events. The smart set, meanwhile, consults back issues of SF Weekly. This publication firmly established ... More >>

• Yuletide Good Will Spells Ruin For SF Law Firms

  published Dec 08, 2008

  By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, m... More >>

• The Day The Music [Subsidy] Died -- Peskin to Take Symphony Off Dole

  published Dec 05, 2008

  By Matt Smith SF Weekly wasn't the only one annoyed to discover that SF Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas pulls down in the ballpark of $3 million annually from symphonies that happen to be p... More >>

• Car Alarm

  published December 3, 2008

  Standing across the highway from the Altamont Landfill, which receives more than 80 percent of the garbage produced by San Francisco, Rick Lymp... More >>

• Junk in the Trunk

  published December 3, 2008

  When old vehicles wear out, many motorists call Habitat for Humanity, one of several charities that raise money by asking for automobile... More >>

• Business Conductor

  published November 19, 2008

  These are trying economic times — unless you're Michael Tilson Thomas, the baton-waving tycoon at the head of the San Francisco Symphony... More >>

• Has Gavin Gone Roguer

  published Nov 17, 2008

  This campaign poster, obtained by SF Weekly, suggests Gavin Newsom is stealing from Sarah Palin's handler-stuffing playbook as he runs for governor of California. We missed the old hearty partying N... More >>

• Change Hasn't Come to S.F.

  published November 12, 2008

  After he was spotted crying at Barack Obama's victory speech, Jesse Jackson noted the historical portent of the president-elect's status as the... More >>

• Barack Obama and Screamin' Doc Howie

  published Nov 07, 2008

  SF Weekly columnist Matt Smith files the following I-Team investigative report exploring the historical context of the Obama victory: SF Weekly cracks open the history books to trace the strat... More >>

• Train Wreck

  published November 5, 2008

  When San Francisco is forced during the coming months to triple bus fares, let parks turn to weeds, fire librarians en masse, and allow... More >>

• The Failed Experiment

  published October 29, 2008

  Imagine having a father like Emmett Brown, the crazy tinkerer from Back To The Future. Among friends, one could brag about genetic... More >>

• On the Waterfront

  published October 22, 2008

  Some might perceive mere assaults on good taste amid the knickknack stores, greasy spoons, and sea-lion stench at San Francisco's Pier 39.... More >>

• The American Dream's $700 billion price tag

  published October 8, 2008

  During the past few weeks, obscure economics professors have appeared on television screens and in the text of countless newspaper articles to... More >>