On the cultcha front, lots going on. Edward Champion scores a sit down with SFist's second-favorite Floridian, Dave Barry, in his latest podcast of The Bat Segundo Show. Lost in Grovont says that tickets are now on sale for Noise Pop 2006, but that details on the shows are sketchy. Leonard McKay files the second installment in his history of San Jose brewing for San Jose Inside, and Alder Yarrow wades into the debate over BYOB corkage policies, and calls bullshit on Pizzeria Delfina's Craig Stoll.

Over at the Golden Gate, they've reprinted some analysis by the CATO institute that blames urban housing shortages on, you guessed it, goverment regulation in the form of rent control. Why not just create more land by filling the Bay?Speaking of libertarians, Patrick Rodriguez at the Cal Patriot is shocked -- shocked -- that Barbara Lee took second place in a list of most libertarian congresscritters.

In the ephemera department, our favorite Floridian Eric Meyerson compares and contrasts blotter reports from Bay City News, the Examiner and the best of the bunch, the Arcata Eye. "12:09 a.m. A car full of teenagers. What could go wrong?" If you find a San Francisco cross street directory in the Haight, contact Metagrrrl. And for something really creepy, how about a selection of hymns from the People's Temple Choir.

Photo by Volker Neumann.