Last week's winner, the new tabloid-style redesigned Bay Guardian. Pool of blood! Murders! Headless Body In Topless Bar! All for their 40th anniversary. Looks good -- but this type is hard to read. Various outrages in our city. And man, we thought this "Wade versus Redmond" ad on page 17 for the Third Street Gym referred to Tim Redmond. The redesign's throwing off our skim-o-tron! Cover: The SFPD ignoring Asian-American gang stabbings in the Tenderloin. And Sonic Reducer declined to go to a party with a Fleetwood Mac cover band featuring Joanna Newsom as Stevie Nicks!?!!?!??! (Well, it was raining pretty hard last week....)
Making a triumphant return, the San Jose Metro!. Second Amendment advocates in San Jose use Chris Daly's own Prop H to get the right to bear arms into the state Constitution. Please, no more propositions! Haven't we learned from our mistakes of the past? Cover article: excellent Chinese subregional food in Milpitas (Darda rules). Why do alternative-rock listeners have to go all anti-Latino about the switchover at 104.9? And SFist Eve's horoscope: she should expand her spiritual life.
After the jump, the two New Times publications (the Weekly and the EBX).
The SF Weekly: Matt Smith on housing (Potrero Terrace edition). Infiltrator goes to the Adult Video News awards in Vegas and tries to get someone to fund a pornographic bowling video. A 5-8 split -- hot! Cover: The Roxie's financial woes and hopes for the future -- and a fascinating look into the economics of the indie theater biz. Still, though -- so not cool of the Roxie to have bounced the Found Footage Festival's $10K check! Hey, they're up to Dragon Quest 8 now. Meredith Brody takes more friends from LA out to dinner. New bands for indie rockers to reexplore (dude, it is totally time for a Huey Lewis and the News revival.) And Savage Love: people not getting it at home.
And the East Bay Express: One of those mythical English-lit major strippers everyone hears so much about writes a letter about American Apparel ads (she feels conflicted). Things to tear down in the East Bay (the Kaiser Center is number 5). Cover article: Classifying music so e-tailers can recommend better things to you. Not as exciting an article as it looked like it would be on first glance, we're sorry to say. We hate those Amazon recommendations, though. We usually either loathe or already own the "you might likes" we get recommended. Lestat the musical blew. Nintendo band The Advantage!! How have these guys not gotten sued yet?
Weekly of the Week: You know, we loved the Roxie article in the Weekly, but it's gotta be the Metro this week, folks. Why is everyone hating on the new Latin 104.9? And you really should go check out the Chinese food in Milpitas. Dar-DA! Dar-DA! Dar-DA!
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I kind of miss the old Guardian logo font. The new one is too blunt and Orwellian, lacking any kind of personality whatsoever.
FYI: "Headless Body In Topless Bar" was an actual NY Post headline (late '70s or early '80s to the best of my recollection.)
we've gotten an intriguing anonymous tip on the Infiltrator! Harmon Leon says he went to the Adult Video News awards in LA -- but the awards actually took place in Vegas. Fact-checking typo.... or JT Leroy-type scam??? Thoughts?
Good catch Rita. I say: when in doubt, post and ask questions later.
Three makes it a trend: Lying is the new truth.