Photo du Jour 516
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In the San Francisco bracket: the Weekly versus the Guardian. First up: The Weekly. Funny picture on the contents page of a woman feeling up a female mannequin! 
In a stroke of genius, Dog Bites gets the lady who does the Body Language of the Stars columns for US Weekly to evaluate Gavin and Kimberly's Vanity Fair pictures. Conclusion: Kimberly is inappropriately sexual; Gavin appears not to have much of a connection to her. (SFist hopes this lady didn't have to get a PhD in body language to come to those conclusions). Cover article: muralist. Social Graces column: Republicans are people too. Everything else, kind of yawn. Savage Love features more childhood misconceptions about sex (women chime in).
In the Guardian: Local politics section: all on topics that bore even your perspicacious SFist who writes the Hard-Hitting Book Reports™ column for an audience of zero. Cover article: Stories the media refused to cover (because they're boring, that's why. Also, not to be snooty or anything, but we distinctly remember reading about a number of these topics in mainstream media outlets as well.). 
Sex columnist: person who wants to be in a three way who has a lot of questions, and a bisexual man unhappy in his straight marriage. Arts and Entertainment: Six critics on Brown Bunny! Dear Lord, no! And the Brown Bunny director Vincent Gallo in Sonic Reducer! Please, make it stop! On the bright side, Sarah Han's cartoon is back (too bad it's about the Renaissance Faire, though).
The winner in this bracket: the Weekly! That piece on Gavin and Kimberly should win a prize! (conclusion: "I can't believe they agreed to have this photo taken.").
The vicious competition in the Greater Bay Area brackets, after the jump:
The East Bay Express: An excitingly oblique comic strip about the letter L on the letters page. Zippy, whither thou? (answer: dropped from the Chron, but can still be read for free in the Ex.). Local politics: run-ins with the new president of the State Senate, and Berkeley neighbors angry with MoveOn.Org for hosting so many loud parties (but still strongly supporting Kerry!). Credit card scams targeting the Latino community. Cover article: Oakland artist who also works as the city's culture commissioner. Excitingly hip/wonky, and remarkably interesting! In events: A Scrabble tourney in Oakland! A burlesque troupe of color (called Harlem Shake)!! Frickin' awesome. Jesus, SFist wishes we lived in the East Bay this week.
The Metro: Thoughtful editorial about Al DeGuzman, the guy who was convicted of trying to blow up De Anza college who then killed himself. A number of stories about federal abuses of power: Annalee Newitz on Ashcroft, a white woman being deported (or, as they say now, "removed" from the country) for drinking two glasses of wine while on parole, and the FBI investigating activists. It gets notably weaker after these pieces. The cover article: kiteboarding (like Kerry!). An article remembering Czelaw Milosz, and an article about the Funk Brothers, who played backup for various Motown acts. The Straight Dope: the overpricing of diamonds.
Greater Bay Area bracket: The East Bay Express! The political articles in the Metro about the federal government are interesting, don't get us wrong, but dang! A burlesque troupe of color! An artist using the power of local government for good! East Bay Express, you win not only this division, but you take home the prestigious weekly competition championship belt for the week of September 1 among all the four publications! (....Harlem Shake!! SFist is going to do some more research on you!)
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