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Sunday: Watch Women's World Cup Finals at Public House
...even though we hate it when they fight!
The Guardian prominently announces its position on the Bay Guardian v. New Times predatory pricing litigation, and also provides a summary of other anti-competitive San Francisco journalism cases. Shockingly, the New Times did not wish to comment! The rest of the issue is a tribute to the Guardian's 38th anniversary, with a large number of pieces about various invasions of your privacy by the monolithic state. Hooray For Anything was clearly too overwhelmed by the many options to choose just one fabulous wank of the week (plus, looks like he was busy getting toasted like a Bostonian on Landsdowne last night -- who knew the Sox could actually pull it off without the world ending or something?). In other news, Dan Leone is voting for Nader (he says to direct all negative comments to their letters page); the vegan columnist has a piece called "Kelp is on the Way," a genius title; and Asian-American rapper Jin's album on the Ruff Ryders label is finally debuting (and you can meet him at the Stonestown Tower Records today at 4 or catch his performance at 330 Ritch on Friday night).
The Weekly presumably went to press before they got served by the Guardian's lawyers (and not like the hip-hop dancer movie either). Letters decrying Sup-Ee-Oh as trivializing the District 5 race, a variety of snippets on the political scene by Matt Smith, and a quiz on whether you side with labor or management in the hotel workers' strike. PUNI endorses Andrew Sullivan in District 5, because he successfully rescued MUNI. Sonoma State has bought two racehorses to make money for their athletic program. And the cover article is about the SF Weekly Music Awards show tomorrow at Ruby Skye -- lots of local bands described in loving detail, and a shoutout to Quannum Records (go SFist Isaac!). Savage Love makes fun of people voting for Nader and of Saudi Arabia.
After the jump: the East Bay Express, the Metro, and yes, finally, all you minions of the Wave can take us off the hate mail list, we've finally secured ourselves a copy.
The EBX just keeps getting better and better. Their political column takes a candidate up on her challenge -- the candidate, Kathy "Storm" Scharff implied that the former city manager of Richmond was in a homosexual relationship with the best man at his wedding; the columnist asked her about it, the challenger said, "do your homework," and the columnist discovered that the candidate was previously investigated by a criminal grand jury for allegedly tampering with evidence in Sacramento. Whoa! There's also a story about the informant who brought down the Nuestra Familia gang in the California state prisons and how he's really, really, really hoping the FBI's witness protection program actually works. And Oakland's hosting the fourth annual gay hip hop festival, PeaceOut Homo Hop Festival this weekend.
Next up, the Metro. Cover article: bisexuals in the South Bay. It's less titillating than you'd think -- discrimination, married men getting same-sex action on the down low, people looking for threesomes, and the quote "There is ... a high crossover between bisexuals and science fiction fans." Also, Amoeba Records is doing fine even though iPods are getting more popular. And there's an exhibition about roller coasters at the Tech Museum (featuring lots and lots of information about vomiting -- awesome!). No Straight Dope this week, but hey! We never noticed they run Akbar and Jeff in here.
And finally -- what you've all been waiting for, the Wave. First of all, it seems maybe a little weird to run a summary of a biweekly magazine with glossy pages in the We Read The Weeklies On The Cheap Newsprint column. (We're sure the folks profiled in the Metro cover article will now accuse us of bi-phobia.) We'll try it, but we're not sure how long this is going to last. Interviews with Roseanne, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Franz Ferdinand, and Palo Alto's own Donnas. A guy who collects Eartha Kitt Catwoman paraphernalia. A list of gadgets (a home defibrillator, caffeinated soap, and a golf Segway, among others) and a list of funny inventions. Hey, Cintra Wilson, late of Salon! We love Cintra. She wants you to vote. Huh, this is just like South Bay People Magazine.
So who wins the weeklies war this week? Dude, we gotta go with the East Bay Express again! That Nuestra Familia stuff is some scary stuff (note to self: do not ever get committed to maximum security prison in California state prison system). That Weekly music awards show looks good too, though, and no doubt it's nice to have Cintra Wilson back in our lives too (we don't know if she's still on salon.com; our attention span is too short to sit through the mandatory ad to get access to their content now).
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