Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Hey, their website's back up again (wish we could say the same for ours). Also -- new topical blogs. We love how Bruce Brugman's blog says "Bruce will not be posting until the end of the month." Thanks for letting us know! Redmond thought it was neat that lots of people went to Dolores Park to watch the World Cup. Shhhh, don't tell anyone, but Gavin Newsom is really not very progressive. A guy who volunteered for the organization supporting Prop A (more funding for violence prevention programs) was shot to death last month. KSFO has a new right-wing DJ who's a rabbi and has been connected to Jack Abramoff. Cover: local rapper Mob Figaz is going to jail for 4 years (coke). And SFist Eve's horoscope: suffering for risktaking. Well, we're certainly suffering through this server upgrade.
Next, the SJ Metro. What's on Gary Singh's desk? (a partial list: some flyers from the Asian Art Museum, a ferret stole, a broken computer mouse, and a book about the SF punk scene in 1977). Annalee Newitz makes fun of Sen. Ted Stevens (AK). Cover: a woman driver in the San Jose Grand Prix. Also, some other articles about the SJ Grand Prix. Similarly, why can't we power cars on sugar beets? We move away from car-centricity and mourn the closing of good eateries in the South Bay. Pizza My Heart gets some love in the top 5 food list! A book of left-wing stickers. We love stickers! And the SJ contemporary art museum moves downtown.
The SF Weekly and the EBX, after the jump, along with the Weekly of the Week.
Picture by former SFist contributor Sam Breach. We miss you, Sam!
The SF Weekly: Oops, someone accidentally left an i tag unslashed in html and accidentally turned the Weekly's site all italic. We're sure it's been corrected by the time you're reading this, but we're always pleased to see someone else doing that! (We have personally turned this site italic more times than we care to think about.) Hey, some guy wrote the exact same letter to the Weekly (about Rob Anderson the bike hater) that he wrote to the Guardian! We have a question, though -- if you're such good friends with Anderson, why do you call him "Ron" in the Guardian letter? (We can't find the link to letters to the editor on the new SFBG.com site, but it's the same letter.) A guy who's been repeatedly suing the SF Public Library. Funny names for SF neighborhoods! Ha! We love funny names! (You can't read the picture they've uploaded on line, so check it out in person. Now, PlayaHaighters -- is that playa like "holla like a playa" or "playa" like where they have Burning Man? Guess it works for both, really.) No houses in the Bayview. Cover article: Do people have protest fatigue? Please speak with SFist Jon about this, guys. Meredith goes ethnic -- and oooh, there's a good Cedichou about it! Tossing out the Rasputin Manifesto. And let Sonic Youth back into your heart, haters.
And the EBX: We're kind of bummed they don't have a copy of that guy's letter about Rob Anderson too. Dream cartoonist on being the MBA-oriented Fifth Ninja Turtle. Farmers' market in Temescal! An interview with the Berkeley professor who wrote the computer program they're using to see if Ann Coulter's a plagiarizer. Cover article: A Moonie preacher overfished baby leopard sharks in the Bay. Who knew the Moonies were trying to corner the fishing market? The food editor, temping for the new food critic starting next week, goes to Senegalese restaurant Taxi Brousse in Albany and comes away with a renewed appreciation for his department's work. A visit to the Overeaters Anonymous convention. The phenomenon of people dancing in counterclockwise circles on the West Coast. And the hip-hop word of the week: Shabalaboopty (an interjection). Wasn't this a word of the week a few months ago?
Weekly of the Week: It's a tough call between Village Voice LLC publications, but we're giving it to the EBX for holding our overall interest throughout more of the articles (the Moonies fish for God -- who knew?). Also, we're not interested in letting Sonic Youth back into our heart. But that's not to say that the name "the Marinaaaaargh" isn't fricken hilarious -- because it is!
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Rita,
did you see that the Guardian has a picture of the same scallops with fried rice noodles that was on the cover of the gastronomique book review last week? Isn't it spooky, or what. Thanks for the link!