We Read The Weeklies
Thanks to SFists Jackson and Eve for reading the weeklies last week!
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Last week's weekly of the week, as picked by you, our readers: The Guardian! Gerardo Sandoval continues his all-out media blitz, this time about Comcast (our main priority vis-a-vis Comcast is to get them to add Boomerang, the classic cartoon channel.) Where's our free wifi? A guy died in the SF jail (covered also by the Chron). Annalee Newitz on machinima (like fan fiction, but for videogame hacks). Cover: Oakland band Battleship (who get hit by firecrackers in their shows). Sonic Reducer: local bands go to a bar in LA and run into Lance Bass, Ryan Cabrera, and Courtney Love. Sounds like a great bar.
The EBX: Bottom Feeder with an excellent Law and Order episode: a possibly-delusional woman who killed her husband, whom she met when she was a patient in his psychiatric practice, is defending herself and will be cross-examining her son. A paper targeted at the Oakland inner city and covering sex gossip, called BootyCrack! Bobblehead day at the Oakland Coliseum! Cover article: the overprescription of psychiatric drugs. And the allegedly-homophobic dancehall star Beenie Man comes to town and puts on a decent show.
After the jump: the SF Weekly, and we go back to autocratically picking the weekly of the week.
The Weekly: Harmon Leon: Scientology versus a Crunch gym personal trainer. Dog Bites accidentally gave salmon to vegetarian Amy Tan. Cover article: Katy St. Clair sees Huey Lewis and the News with a group of developmentally-disabled adults. (All agree that the keyboard part in "Workin' for a Livin" rules.) The Commonwealth Club presents: an evening with RZA. (whaaaa?) Savage Love's still on vacation, but it's a collection of hilarious letters from the past.
Pick of the Week: The East Bay Express! Where can we get us a copy of this BootyCrack paper?
