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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2009 Stories by Matt Smith

• New York Times' YouTube Investigation: Bicyclists Sometimes Run Stop Signs

  published Nov 06, 2009

  The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in the Ne... More >>

• 'Signs' Point to Better Times Ahead for Cyclists

  published Nov 06, 2009

  For San Francisco's ever-growing cadre of bicyclists, this week opened with both good news and bad.On Monday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch postponed until Nov. 12 his decision on wh... More >>

• iPod App Lowers Hipster Bar

  published Nov 02, 2009

  For those wishing to become "hipsters" -- scrupulously dressed young adults with strong ideas about white-person music -- but uncertain how to begin, a new iPhone/iPod application points the way.BeVid... More >>

• Once a joke, SFPD is actually solving murders these days

  published November 4, 2009

  On the night of Aug. 5, inspectors at San Francisco's homicide detail got a call about a Pontiac Aztek abandoned on Terry Francois Boulevard, a... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Update -- S.F. Pledges $250,000 to Settle Diesel Spill Lawsuit

  published Oct 29, 2009

  San Francisco has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle an EPA lawsuit demanding that the city  prevent a repeat of a 2005 Muni diesel fuel spill.SF Weekly obtained a copy of the consent decree betwee... More >>

• U.S. Sues San Francisco Over 2005 Muni Fuel Spill

  published Oct 29, 2009

  UPDATE: City, DOJ, EPA Agree on $250K settlement, see details here.U.S. Department of Justice attorneys filed suit against San Francisco in connection with a 2005 bus yard fuel spill that released as ... More >>

• Do Anti-Climate Change Protesters Favor Filling The Bay With Garbager

  published Oct 26, 2009

  Over the weekend, hundreds of San Franciscans flocked to Justin Herman Plaza to join protesters in 181 countries urging United Nations negotiators to push for greenhouse gas reductions. Around 100 cy... More >>

• Politics are crippling state-funded services to the disabled

  published October 28, 2009

  In July 1993, lifelong amateur sailor Herbert Meyer, then 62, was crewing on a Rhodes 50 sailboat berthed at Pier 39. "It was a nice... More >>

• Awesome Biking Checklist: Pump, Gloves, and $40,000 in Drug-Tainted Cash

  published Oct 23, 2009

  When it comes to navigating the streets of San Francisco, life isn't fair for avid bicyclists.Take the case of a Wisconsin cyclist who apparently had the ride of the century planned when, in May, he s... More >>

• Former 49er Craig Newsome Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against NCAA

  published Oct 23, 2009

  Former Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers defensive back Craig Newsome has joined the ranks of U.S. athletes suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Newsome and others allege that t... More >>

• With S.F. Critical Mass Mojo in Tow, Tesla Motors To Open Store in Biketown, USA

  published Oct 20, 2009

  Fresh off the revelation that the company's top publicist is an avid fan and participant in San Francisco's Critical Mass monthly bicycle parade, Tesla Motors announced  it will be opening an ele... More >>

• Owner of the Warfield pushes billboard ballot measure

  published October 21, 2009

  Real estate investor David Addington, 42, walks down the part of Market Street that intersects San Francisco's Skid Row, motioning at run-down... More >>

• I Wish I Knew How to Quit You: S.F. Chamber of Commerce Won't Leave Global Warming-Denialist U.S. Chamber

  published Oct 16, 2009

  People in fields such as petroleum, investment banking, or running chambers of commerce, know what it means to be blessed. They are embedded within industries that love to put on conventions and trade... More >>

• Porn Queen, NYU Grad Student Lorelei Lee Proves S.F. State Is No Loser School

  published Oct 15, 2009

  Lorelei Lee, left, seen here with fellow porn star Bobbi Starr, has put her San Francisco State undergrad degree to good use alreadyr In 1995, San Francisco State professor Geoffrey Marcy, and his stu... More >>

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  Why Vote For Gavin Newsom's Boring Logos When You Can Have These Fun Onesr

  published Oct 12, 2009

  The Gavin Newsom campaign logo contest recently pitched on Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and Digg asked supporters to chose one among variations on a bland, meaningless theme. r r... More >>

• National Rifle Association recruits San Franciscans to overturn gun-control laws

  published October 14, 2009

  It's an hour before dawn, and Espanola Jackson, a 76-year-old activist known for her leading role in antidevelopment battles, is awoken by a... More >>

• S.F. Investigators Explain Why Hugues de la Plaza's Cause of Death Remains 'Undetermined'

  published Oct 07, 2009

  In mid-September, attendees at the annual meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners got to see a detailed, audio-visual presentation aiming to explain why the bizarre 2007 death of ... More >>

• Did Police Union Block New Chief From Hiring Outside Brassr

  published Oct 05, 2009

  When George Gascon became chief of police two months ago, everybody seemed to agree: This bad-ass cop would rid the SFPD of its dead wood, and reform what experts had taken to calling the Western Unit... More >>

• Frank Chu: Hardest Working Proselytizer in Show Business Recruits Bluegrass Fans

  published Oct 05, 2009

  Warren Hellman may have fancied himself opening up America's hearts to music with his bigger-than-ever, three-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. He also helped famed San Francisco eccentric Frank... More >>

• Murder or Suicide?

  published October 7, 2009

  Hugues de la Plaza, a 36-year-old French sound engineer living in San Francisco, began the evening of June 1, 2007, in pursuit of what writers... More >>

• No Previous Break-Insr How Could a Zoo Official Forget the Suspected Bestiality Attacks of 1993 and 1997r

  published Sep 30, 2009

  A recent Snitch item by award-winning reporter Joe Eskenazi quoted a longtime San Francisco animal welfare advocate noting he didn't believe that anyone had broken into animal enclosures at the San Fr... More >>

• 'Froot' Is Not Fruit, San Francisco Lawsuit Alleges

  published Sep 29, 2009

  digg_url = 'http://digg.com/food_drink/Lawsuit_Goes_After_the_Froot_in_Froot_Loops'; rUPDATE: 'Froot Loops' lawyer says his client is no serial litigant. According to Toucan Sam, avian mascot of Kel... More >>

• Don Fisher: Union Buster, Egomaniac, Rube, In His Own Words

  published Sep 28, 2009

  Published memorials for the death of Gap, Inc. founder Don Fisher have described a pioneering entrepreneur, major philanthropist, civic leader, major political donor and major art collector. But few ... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Stimulus Wreckage

  published September 30, 2009

  Martine Leveque moved to the U.S. from Haiti in 1983 and eventually established a Hollywood career writing subtitles in Italian and French for... More >>

• Is Red the New Greenr Right-Winger's Support for S.F. Parking Policy Suggests So.

  published Sep 23, 2009

  In the debate over what to do about global warming, almost nobody has a coherent position on the issue -- leftist greenheads hate market-based solutions even though they work. Right-wing Luddites prof... More >>