We Read The Weeklies
...until we become the next Mrs. Gavin Newsom, that is!
Last week's winner goes first, and that's the East Bay Express. A cartoon strip illustrating the cartoonist's dreams (flying on a magic carpet with stewardesses). A gadfly in Emeryville. Are teachers prepared to teach Ethnic Studies at Berkeley High? Cover story: the man who may have been framed as the East Bay 580 sniper. Hey -- just 'cause a guy's got a meth lab doesn't mean he also shoots at passing cars! The restaurant reviewer writes up brief reviews of crappy restaurants he went to (typical complaints: too-sweet vinaigrette, too many kabobs). And a Michael Jackson v. Prince mashup dance party: ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma ma coo sa.
And here we are with the Bay Guardian. Look, we're not going to pretty it up for you this week: Great Scott, this is a boring issue. Land use issues over a building that the Chronicle was in – in 1924. Raising PG&E franchise fees. Cover article: Man unjustly fired by the juvie courts for complaining about overtime. Schools need cash. Why is hip-hop not angrier about politics? A genderqueer choreographer. We cannot move this issue into the recycle bin fast enough.
The SF Weekly and the pick of the week after the jump.
And the Weekly. Quiz: Are you an apologist for Gavin and Kimberly? ("I predict a three-part Chronicle series, sometime in the next year, about the challenges a suave, handsome, bachelor mayor faces in searching for perfect love amid the day-to-day travails of governing a metropolis and increasing his nationwide appeal." We can already see that little line drawing of Ken Garcia's face above this piece!). Weekly Obsessions: blaming Kimberly and a pot smoke vaporizer that filters out carcinogens. A Bad Porno Fest on Friday at the Center for Sex and Culture. A review of that performance piece where the lady bakes during the show. Meredith Brody has a "gastronomic memory" of Susan Sontag. Wait, did Meredith Brody eat Susan Sontag? Cover article: shoegazery band Brightblack. And Savage Love: stripper etiquette, regrets over anonymous sex, and Dan gets defensive about transgender nomenclature.
Pick of the Week: ...mmmmm? Oh, sorry, we dozed off during the Guardian. We'll give our pick to the Weekly, but just by a hair -- the Apologist quiz just barely beats out the article about the East Bay sniper, but only because we don't drive on 580 all that often. Those of you who commute to Pleasanton may view things differently.