We Read The Weeklies
Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. The New Times redesigned the webpages for all their publications this week so we're having a hard time finding links today. Bottom Feeder on the SFBG missing JT Leroy, and mayor Jerry Brown says "s***." Cover article: Indian tribes kicking out tribal members. Mmmm, iguana meat. Down In Front checks out the music at NBA games, and we agree with everything on the Cred Sheet (what are Trent Reznor's favorite scents? Tell us!) And the Gossip, on week two of their takeover of Bay Area alternative media.
The Guardian: Cover article: please pass the im-Peach Bush nectar tea! Why doesn't the SFPD investigate murders? Why? Why? Why? (part 3 next week.) and.... yoikes! The BG takes and runs with the Harmon Leon-Tom Walsh story that you heard here first. Check out this full disclosure!: "City editor Steven T. Jones worked for Walsh in Sacramento, and they parted on unfriendly terms. Jones was not involved in the writing or editing of this story." Yoikes! In other news, um... have you tried bhangra? We read the weeklies; we skip the books section. And why is the music section now ahead of the food one?
After the jump: Watch us wrestle with the other new New Times website! Thank goodness the Metro's site is still as reliable as ever.
The Metro: Crazy anti-immigrant letter re 104.9. Why is downtown SJSU such a cesspool? (But also -- new restaurants in the area! Is it blighted or not?) It's bad in New Orleans. It's also bad in SJ City Hall. Annalee Newitz loves the superpower-less Veronica Mars. Cover article: People who get too emotionally invested in video games. Also -- alert the media! Video games are a part of pop culture! Wedding music. And Straight Dope -- cat scat might make you schizophrenic.
And the SF Weekly. Response from Kamala Harris's office about the murder rate article last week, and more Harmon fallout. Cover article: de facto segregation in the SF school district's "day classes" (extra study hall). Books: politicians at the Make Out Room. Ced doesn't hate Meredith this week! Ok Then hangs with his homies, and the guy in the bathroom stall next to his takes a cell phone call. And the Bouncer thinks she may have seen Weird Al. He lost on Jeopardy, baby!
And the weekly of the week? Oh, it's gotta be the Guardian. "They parted on unfriendly terms." Rrowr!