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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2010 Stories by Matt Smith

• Guerilla Art: Stonemason Don Porfirio Vazquez Teams With Fledgling Graffitists

  published Jan 29, 2010

  Don Porfirio Vazquez, the guerrilla stone artist who just weeks ago feared seeing his Heron's Head Park sculptures ruined and his life returned to that of a disabled, unemployed manual laborer, now ap... More >>

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  Bitter Pill of Muni Maintenance Cuts: More Breakdowns Mean More Overtime

  published Jan 28, 2010

  San Francisco's transit system is facing a $16.9 million budget gap. Muni bureaucrats are meeting Friday morning to weigh proposals to cut service, double fees to youth, seniors and the disabled, and ... More >>

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  City Apparently Reverses Course, Promises No Reduction in Homeless Beds in 2010

  published Jan 25, 2010

  San Francisco officials are expected to file documents in federal court this week stating they have reached an agreement with anti-poverty activists on a pledge to not reduce the number of shelter bed... More >>

• City hounds the homeless for dog licenses

  published January 27, 2010

  Jan. 12 was an ordinary morning on Haight Street, the legendary hippie-themed retail district that also happens to be a hangout for the... More >>

• Guerrilla Artist Assaults Aquatic Park

  published Jan 20, 2010

  Last week, we wrote about how guerrilla sculptor Porfirio Vazquez will have his impromptu sculpture garden of reptiles relocated from Heron's Head Park to the Bayview Opera House, and then to the EcoC... More >>

• NY Times: David Pogue's Articles Fair, Accurate, and Conflict Free

  published Jan 19, 2010

  Yesterday we wrote about the apparent dissonance between the way New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt described harsh treatment of small-time freelancers with apparent conflicts of interest -- they... More >>

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  'Gavin' Pants, Like Politician, Have Seen Better Days

  published Jan 18, 2010

  When pants are no longer useful to their owner, they may end up on a rack  at a store operated by Goodwill Industries International, Inc.When politicians are no longer useful to constituents, the... More >>

• While our hypocritical mayor vows to reduce homeless population, city eyes cutting shelter beds

  published January 20, 2010

  During his Jan. 13 State of the City speech, Mayor Gavin Newsom depicted a city that would defy economic catastrophe and brush aside a... More >>

• If NY Times Is So Damned Ethical, What's Up With Payola-Meister David Poguer

  published Jan 18, 2010

  Regular Readers of The New York Times will be rushing to newsstands this weekend for yet another possible installment in a series by Ombudsman Clark Hoyt's that may as well be called "When It Comes To... More >>

• Local Grinch Has the Balls to Cart Away Christmas

  published Jan 13, 2010

  How do San Franciscans know when the 12 days of Christmas have been supplanted with January/February gloomrA cruelly smiling lady shows up to carts away the gigantic decorations that festooned the tre... More >>

• Heron's Head Park Stone Sculptures To Become Travelling Exhibit

  published Jan 12, 2010

  When we last visited impromptu sculptor Porfirio Vazquez, the Andy Goldsworthy of Heron's Head Park was sulking because his three-month old artistic career seemed to be nearly over.Last week, however,... More >>

• Republican Meg Whitman's secret past as a porn-peddling CEO at eBay

  published January 13, 2010

  For Californians dismayed by our state's dysfunctional politics, I offer a sign of hope: Last week it was possible to buy copies of the DVD... More >>

• McClatchy Newspapers Renew Misleading Anti-Hetch Hetchy Crusade

  published Jan 07, 2010

  "Hetch Hetchy could go on ballot," declares a headline in today's Modesto Bee atop a story claiming the group Restore Hetch Hetchy is on the verge of putting a measure before San Francisco voters this... More >>

• Purported Newspaper Lover Dave Eggers Coy About Newspapering Past

  published Jan 05, 2010

  The Onion satirical newspaper's more earnest insert, A.V. Club, published an interview with Dave Eggers today asking the writer in a bunch of different ways why he loves newspapers. Eggers recently sp... More >>

• Tech Alert: Bike Rack Cozy Spotted In the Haight

  published Jan 05, 2010

  In the beginning, God inspired Man to create Walkman cozies. And it was good. Next came iPod cozies, Blackberry cozies, and iPhone cozies -- which was progress, we think.With the recent lifting of a c... More >>