We Read The Weeklies
Last week's winner, Bay Guardian: Craigslist is destroying the fabric of America. We love this new news shorts column: Daly! Mocking Jordana Thigpen. Tim Goodman the TV critic was on Nancy Grace the other day? About the murder rate? Was this an interview about Nash Bridges? British grocery stores. Cover article: indie boy and Mission resident Kelley Stoltz. Rilo Kiley overhype begins. Hey Trimethldioxypurist, check out this article on the French-press Starbucks challenge! Indiefest! Color a Curious George to win a family four-pack to see the movie. And SFist Eve's horoscope: recognize your own inner strength and don't be distractible (hey! look over there!)
The SF Weekly: Cover article: Rilo Kiley overhype! Matt Smith on the central subway plan. PUNI suggests a "Folsom St. Prison Fair." Ha! In what was clearly going to be the cover article until the Rilo Kiley overhype began, an SF group producing radio shows for Nepal. Hey, the guy who produces the Daily Show is coming to town. Ced on Meredith (you're lucky he was busy on Wednesday, Mer.!). ...and oh no! Music columnist OK Then is leaving the Weekly too! What in the Tom Walsh is going on over there?
After the jump: the East Bay Express and the Metro.
The East Bay Express: "Happy Birthday Culo" -- ha! (you may need to click on the picture a few times; we still can't figure out these new New Times websites.) Asian speed dating, where the author runs into someone from her high school class. Cover article: photographer Todd Hido. Special bonus: pictures of naked ladies [NSFW, but if you get caught, you can be all like, "it's arty!"] The Oakland Magic Club is meeting, which is the oldest continuing magicians' club west of the Mississippi. It's so Carter Beats The Devil! (Where do you think the oldest continuing magicians' club east of the Mississippi is?) Haggis. Rob Harvilla calls that band the Editors "assclowns." A review of the KRS-One show. Did you know KRS is short for Krishna?
And the Metro: Since we couldn't get a hard copy, we're reading the version online. See how much we care, San Jose? We're like Live 105 -- reaching out! (We can't wait to see the comments we get for this!) The Fly reports that Howard Dean was hanging out with the Santa Clara assessor-recorder last week, and the San Jose State bookstore had a guy selling cheaper textbooks outside the store arrested. Any more news on that missing SJSU weather professor? We're totally obsessed! Cover story: The Intra-Hindu fight about their religion's depiction in school textbooks. More misery in New Orleans. Vegan proselytism. And it's Cinequest time next month!
Weekly of the week: Two weeks in a row! It's the Guardian! San Francisco's oldest alternative newspaper, let's see if we can make it a three-peat next week! (The article about the debate about teaching about Hinduism in the South Bay is really interesting too, though we're not particularly fond of the title "No Direction Om.")