We Read The Weeklies
Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Bottom Feeder asks a good question, which is: why did Sports Illustrated run an excerpt of the Barry Bonds book and not the Chron? He doesn't say, but we're going to guess money. In a separate story, the value of Bonds baseball cards has dropped. Hey, EBX, shouldn't you be focusing on your own baseball team instead of SF's? Cover article: E (aka, "thizz") stops being a raver drug and starts being a hip-hopper one. Extra bonus: author buys and takes a pill that's mostly Benadryl. E-40! Cred Sheet asks the eternal question -- why is Live 105 always playing Sublime?
The SF Weekly: Angry letter from the Bay Area Reporter saying they employ lots of bisexuals. Are you an apologist for Barry Bonds? Oh no, PUNI's quitting too! What is going on over there??? As SFist Jon says, "who's left there, except for Matt Smith?" (There's the Apologist too, don't forget him!) ....and wait a minute: the Weekly reprints in its entirety the EBX's cover article on thizz. What th---? Well, no wonder the EBX's covering Barry Bonds now. We are starting to become very upset about this Village Voice LLC takeover. Hey, where'd Meredith Brody go? SFist Ced, you (and the Village Voice LLC takeover) chased her out! Cover article: the music supplement. Hey, Garrett Kamps is back! So it's him, Matt Smith, and the Apologist at the Weekly now. Got it. Shockingly, this E-40 article is different from the one in the EBX. Favorite Bay Area records. Noise and pancakes. An advertorial (but pretty funny) Noise Pop game! (extra bonus: Live 105 dis).
After the jump: Non-recycled content from the Guardian and the Metro (if you don't count the joint running of Annalee Newitz), and the pick of the week.
Next, the Guardian: Let's just get to it now -- go ahead and remove the Rasputin Music Manifesto pullout before starting in on the Guardian this week. Cover: trans discrimination in the workplace and in jail. Call Bevan Dufty and tell him to vote for less parking. Why have free wifi when low-income people don't even have computers? SFist Karen's got more theater reviews for you! Paul Reidinger nitpicks the Slow Food Guide (we've always called 99 Ranch "Ranch 99"). A personal tale about the movie Citizen Dog (playing at the Asian Am Film Fest this week) and more SFIAAFFcoverage. Complete this maze and win free tickets to Inside Man. Complete this maze? What next, a rebus?
And the Metro: Do cab drivers get a reward for returning stuff to you that you left in their cabs? Monster truck rally in San Jose. An adorable high schooler who won the San Jose Youth Orchestra symphony competition. A special pullout on South Bay food: garage bistro (cover), veal cheek and South Bay slow food. Secret Asian Man! Love Secret Asian Man. We were just thinking about this and it seems like our ideal alt-weekly would be all comics, articles about Bay Area crime, and snarky music reviews. Oh, and sex columns. Idiocy in American pop culture. And SFist Eve's horoscope: she's gotta risk making people envious of her this week. We are envious of the fabulousness that is SFist Eve every single week!
Pick of the week: Okay, we're not very happy about this recycled content thing, Village Voice LLC. Either combine the EBX and the Weekly or let them run separate articles. Lame to coast on the assumption that readers of one don't read the other!! That said, we're giving the pick of the week to the Weekly -- because it has the thizz article and the Noise Pop pullout. We're not very happy about it, though. And we'll miss you, PUNI.