We Read The Weeklies
Last week's winner, the Guardian: Hey, we've received late-breaking word of some layoffs at the Bay Area's Oldest Alternative Newspaper. Hope you guys are all doing okay. Onto the pre-layoff news: It's the Freedom of Information issue! Hey, here's some free information -- the Guardian laid off some people. Slumlords, first in a three-part series. Cover: FOIA, FOIA, FOIA. Vanessa Hua gets some love for breaking the Kevin Shelley story. RIP, Octavia Butler. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are so much better than No Doubt! New DVD magazine by McSweeney's. Bars and Clubs insert: how to open your own bar, and barronista gossip. And SFist Eve's horoscope: a gust of wind could destroy your potential this week, so proteck ya neck! (don't feel bad, SFist Eve, our horoscope says that our inner fears have paralyzed us. Why, we can hardly move our fingers to type this post!)
Next, the East Bay Express: Bottom Feeder! A collection of funny Jerry Brown quotes, and an update on the social worker that let a teenager slash an old lady's throat in Berkeley. Ferries aren't really going to save us in an earthquake, are they? (no.) Cover: using citrus-based anti-bacterial lotions to stop AIDS (really!). Chinese buffets. Rob Harvilla warns about the dangers of Dem Franchise Boyz's song "Lean wit It, Rock with it": "If you lean wit it at the exact moment the person behind you chooses to rock wit it, you may collide and knock each other unconscious." That wins the prestigious "sentence of the alternative week" award! And trendy band alert: Arctic Monkeys. And hey, the SF Weekly's Nate Cavalieri shows up across the bay!
Lean wit the SF Weekly, rock wit the Metro, after the jump. Also, the weekly of the week!
The SF Weekly: Did the local SF Weekly distributor truck drivers quit too? We couldn't find any Weeklies either by our house or downtown, so we're going off the webpage. In order of click-through: Meredith braves French food on 22nd and Guerrero. Git 'er, Ced! Cover article: Golden State Warrior Monta Ellis. Matt Smith says Newsom sucks (Transbay Terminal mismanagement edition). Actors who sing. We loved Jack Wagner's "All I Need"! Where's Rick Springfield on this list? New trendy band to watch: the Spinto Band.
And the Metro: Bathroom custodians losing their jobs at San Jose City Hall. Cover: The Sopranos -- good for the Italians, or bad for the Italians? We need more DMV workers. Check out this excellent article title: Clap Your Hands Say Yume-Ya (Sunnyvale Japanese restaurant review). And Arctic Monkeys backlash!
Weekly of the Week: The EBX. We would have given it to the Metro, but the Sopranos article was a little silly. Now we're going to buy "Lean wit it, Rock wit it" and "All I Need" on iTunes!