We Read The Weeklies
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Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: A letter-writer urges the food critic to open his heart to the magic and love that is Cafe Gratitude. Typos in Ellen Corbett's mailers. Open relationships, without using the word "polyamory" ("I hate that word. It's so '70s.") Cover: going wireless in West Oakland (and other East Bay cities). Steak in Danville. New music guy on Neil Young, and Sick Of It All about the lead singer's back pain. And SFist Eve's horoscope: digest and metabolize jolts of insight!
And it's the SF Weekly's annual Best Of issue! SFist does not repeat last year's triumph by winning best blog again, sigh. Readers picked Daily Kos, and the staff gave "best new blog" to Yelp.com. We're in good company (or something), though -- Chris Daly doesn't repeat as Worst Local Politician either. Intriguingly, that title was won by Gavin Newsom, who won Best Local Politician as well. You think Gavin will also frame his "Worst Local Politician" award and hang it in his office? Some more random picks for you: Scientology wins best cult, Ocean Beach wins best underappreciated neighborhood, Joe's Ice Cream at Geary and 18th beats out Mitchell's for best ice cream, and the Mothballs win best drunken garage band, even though 1/4 of the band doesn't drink. And -- no!! -- SFist is also not listed as a MasterMinds (tm) of 2006 either. What do we gotta do to get some love??
The influential Guardian Endorsements for the upcoming election, and the San Jose Metro, after the jump, along with the Weekly of the Week.
The Guardian: Endorsements! They develop knee-jerk left-wing reactions on current local issues so you don't have to! Tim Redmond finds Steve Westly annoying. Call Bevan Dufty at 554-6968 and tell him to vote for car-free Saturdays. Onto the endorsements! We're sure it's SFist's fault that Krissy Keefer did not get the Guardian's nod. We hate working dancer mothers. Hey, the Guardian endorsed Leland Yee! The Guardian reluctantly endorses no on C, even though they also think it would be hilarious to make Gavin Newsom go to all the Transbay Terminal board meetings. And in the Alameda County races, which we know nothing about, the Guardian is forced to endorse Desley Brooks, who they hate. We always love how every single one of the Guardian's endorsements ends with "well, we're not thrilled with this person, but...." In other news: a punk rock clown band and Indian food.
The Metro: Our South Bay source was completely unable to find any Metros on the newsstand yesterday, so we're forced to wing it online. It looks like it was the "scorching summer guide," which we bet would have been fun to read! So what do we have online? Coke-dealing attorneys and coke-using DAs, and people getting charged with lynching over Cinco de Mayo. Man, it sounds keeee-ray-zee down there in San Jose! Too much sprawl. Annalee on machine porn. Like Bob Pollard, another elementary school teacher who dabbles in the musical arts. And dumplings in Cupertino -- we love dumplings!
Weekly of the Week: Ooh, it's a tough one. We bet if we'd actually gotten a hard copy of the Summer South Bay Scorcher, it'd have been even tougher. We think we're going with the Guardian, but only because we didn't win any awards in the Weekly this year. You don't scratch our back, SF Weekly, we don't scratch yours!
