...drunk!
Last week's "winner": The Guardian. Muni fare hike, rrrrgh! The Guardian shakes its fist at you. Arlene Ackerman writes a defensive letter ("I have never claimed to be perfect and my staff and I make missteps like any other human beings." Nothing good can follow that statement.) Local politics: why isn't a sports agent attorney being prosecuted for stealing money from his client? (answer: he's well-connected). Burning Man, part 15 of a 78-part series. Cover article: Feel-bad romantic comedies. And Inside Deep Throat: the ultimate That 70s Show.
SF Weekly: We raced through the letters and Matt Smith so we could take the "Are you an apologist for Chris Daly?" quiz. So Good!!!! We scored: "Please make this guy the next president of the Board of Supervisors. My TiVo would never be the same." Ladies, order your SFist-edition Mrs. Chris Daly t-shirts now! Cover article: Sweet Jesus, can this issue get any better? The cover article is about Journey!! Steve Perry is totally the emo-est singer alive. Meredith Brody sniffs disdainfully at the food at the Scharffen Berger cafe. Conor Oberst, making a run for Steve Perry's title. Savage Love: cancer survivor wants to have an affair, does kidney stone medication affect semen, and a complicated letter involving gurneys in Canada that we don't really quite understand.
Don't stop believin', after the jump.
The EBX. Oh no! Bottom Feeder reports on cruelty at the Oakland Pound! We hope Animal Planet gets on this. (links are not yet up on the EBX site, we'll add them in when they come up.) The City of Alameda tries to shut down a local theater. Cover article: People who collect sneakers. Review of a restaurant in Danville illustrated with a beautiful picture of fried eggs over greens. Okay, maybe we're a little hungry as we write this. Cartoon review about waiting in line for Sunday brunch outside Rick and Ann's. Funny punchline ("Damn you, Stevens party of 3!")
And the Metro. Non-romantic Valentine's Day presents (5 gallons of fruit cocktail is one option). Local Iranians worry their country is next (and rightly so!). Cover article: It's the Metro's 20th Anniversary! They celebrate with a bunch of articles about s-e-x. Articles include a tribute to porn theaters in San Jose, and a history of South Bay gay life. Less positively, the Metro also runs a mysterious article about how feminism has ruined dating (advice: hey, lonely ladies, forgo "the big ugly boots," stop looking "dour," and try and act girlier.) Um, hello? Last we checked, it was 2005 outside. Send your comments to Katie Roiphe -- we mean, Amy Alkon. Food article: not only is shark's fin soup bad for the environment, you don't even get very much shark fin in the soup when you order it! And Ian Mackaye is performing at a Palo Alto middle school. Has DC punk rock really come down to this? And Straight Dope: what happened to Hitler's family? (Answer: they live on Long Island.)
Weekly of the Week: So totally the Weekly. Come on! Journey and our boyfriend Chris Daly (no offense meant to the actual Mrs. Chris Daly, of course). We totally did not know about the time when Daly stormed out of a meeting in 2001, then came back and "delivered a rambling exhortation of his fellow supervisors that ended with Daly infamously declaring 'I'm not feeling the love.'" Where have we been all these years? Also, who is this Amy Alkon lady with the "ugly feminists don't get dates" business? Feminists are totally hott.
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So best.
7) Daly won election in 2000 on an anti-Willie Brown platform, when his background as a housing-rights advocate in Philadelphia earned him respect in the poverty-stricken neighborhoods that comprise much of District 6. But in his time as a supervisor, critics have increasingly charged Daly with ignoring street-level issues while focusing on amorphous, less local problems—such as his proposal for tsunami relief aid. Do you think Daly has remained an advocate for the constituents of his district?
A) Well, things have certainly turned around there, haven't they?
I chose c) on that one. "His district is Earth."