November 30, 2006
We Read The Weeklies
Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. First, Dianne Feinstein came for the animal rights activists, and we said nothing. What are some of the election day losers doing now? Well, Krissy Keefer has been offered $100,000 to run against Gavin Newsom. Cover article: Chron blogs editor (and SFist editor emerita) Eve Batey must save the Chronicle!! (In a travesty of justice, Eve is not mentioned in the piece. Boooo!). It's actually a pretty decent article about the future of the Chron online, the criminal lack of mentioning of Eve notwithstanding. Book section. Meredith Brody tries out Top Chef entrees around town. SFist Ced is outraged that she would review a TGI Friday's when there's no TGI Friday's in the City. Wasn't there a TGI Friday's in Fisherman's Wharf? What happened to that one? The (((folkYEAH!))) festival in Big Sur. Doc's Clock, everyone's second-choice hipster bar. And Dan Savage ate too much pot pumpkin cake.
Next up, the East Bay Express. An interesting perspective on East Bay baseball heckling from a female Giants heckler. Also, a crazy dream cartoon! MySpace took down a political satire page. Cover article: Why the A's like Fremont better (and how garlic fries make teams money). Indie bookstore documentary tonight at Black Oak Books (7:30 p.m.). Protecting against counterfeit wine. Two restaurant reviews from Lafayette. And Eric Arnold really likes the local underground hip-hop group the Attik.
After the jump: The Guardian and the San Jose Metro, along with the Weekly of the Week!
The Guardian: Elsbernd's plan to let Heather Fong suspend bad cops does not go far enough! PG&E again, sigh. SFPartyParty takes up the SFist cause for.... Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME!! BRING ON QUESTION TIME! Will the journalists at Lowell High School get sent to jail like Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada? More problems with the MediaNews people who just bought the Mercury News. Sonic Reducer's thanksgiving, plus a post-Stooges band. Mexican/Salvadorian food in Dogpatch. Bring canned food to the Guardian and win passes to the new Cameron Diaz movie The Holiday. And Aaron Peskin's's horoscope: The stars suggest quitting smoking.
And the San Jose Metro: Gary Singh on soccer player George Best. Los Altos oysterman Bill Callahan has permit problems, as well as an infected wart on his foot. And satirical paintings are taken down at a San Jose Starbucks. Cover articles: gift guide (sports theme). Also -- give the gift of bacon. The Kronos Quartet plays Stanford. A review of random albums. And Scissors for Lefty are playing a roller derby AIDS benefit at San Jose Skate.
Weekly of the Week: That article about the Chron was good enough to give the SF Weekly the win for a second week in a row! Next time, though -- include our favorite editor Eve Batey! (Also, and SFist Ced is going to kill us, we kind of enjoyed the Meredith eats Top Chef around town article. SFist Jer knows it's because we loooooove Top Chef!)
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Why should Ced be mad? Throw enough crap at the wall, after all . . . (this is my jerky way of saying I liked Meredith this week too!). Although her sequence of reality shows in the intro is off, methinks . . .
RITA :-)
You missed the two Letters to the Editor in the SF Weekly that put A.C. Thompson in his place for taking cheap shots at citizens interested in Open Gov.
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-11-29/news/letters.html
Watch your back, Rita, you're in serious trouble.
The review itself was not so awful, even though ripping TGIF is quite obvious, and not particularly interesting. And making fun of the staff at 'wichcraft for not watching Top Chef, as if that show was the most significant TV moment of the century...
But you cannot disqualify the Weekly for the Weekly of the Week award because of Meredith, that would be too harsh a penalty.