We Read the Weeklies

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This week in the SF Weekly: The letters to the editor switchboard continues to light up with complaints about parking from almost a month ago! Ted Rall lampoons the national security threat level color chart; PUNI discusses the election. Night Crawler covers a lifesize sculpture of the game Mousetrap in Hunters Point and a circus performance art piece; Dog Bites plays golf. Cover article: People who run races in wacky outfits who hook up with each other. Music: interview with local hip-hop impresario, parody interview of John Kerry's band; interview with They Might Be Giants. Dan Savage answers your questions about running into your stepfather at a gay porn shop and accidentally having an orgy with six friends while on Ecstacy.

This week in the Bay Guardian: Editorials features not one but two screeds about Newsom. Tom Tomorrow makes fun of Republicans. Cover story: Bad landlord in the East Bay! He takes your security deposits. Long section on careers � you could be a hip-hop DJ! Annalee Newitz found Shyamalan's The Village movie similar to the Bush presidency. The sex columnist comforts a woman whose husband is into porn. Pictures of the winners of the Best of the Bay 2004. No good indie rock gossip in Kimberly Chun's Sonic Reducer, alas. Tribute to the Four Star and exhortations to attend their benefit film fest.

Winner: SF Weekly. Both are equally dull this week, but Dan Savage on the SF Weekly side, with the lack of Sonic Reducer dirt on the other, tips the balance slightly in favor of the Weekly this week. (Unless you actually rented an apartment from the dude profiled in the Bay Guardian cover story. You ain't never getting that security deposit back.)