We Read The Weeklies

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. And ... whoa! Pictures of Margaret Cho's burlesque performance online (probably NSFW, but not really hardcore or anything). Make Gavin Newsom tell us what he does all day. Aaron Peskin on some kind of shenanigans with a City College building in North Beach. And -- this is weird -- so the Guardian is sort of mad at (or at least puzzled by) Chris Daly on Sophie Maxwell's housing plan, but Matt Smith over at the Weekly is begrudgingly okay with him about that Hastings protest where he got arrested. This is totally blowing our mind! Is it opposite day? Open the library on Sundays! Skipping a long and difficult-to-read two page comic-strip advertisement. Annalee Newitz on the debates over the feminist science fiction entry on Wikipedia. Cover: have a nice winter holiday. More music and club lists. The Guardian congratulates itself on opposing the war in Iraq in a full-page ad. And new A's DH Mike Piazza's horoscope: the stars see fear and illusion masquerading as truth and necessity for him.

Next up, the SF Weekly: We already spoiled Matt Smith's reluctant embrace of Chris Daly in the Guardian section above, so we'll keep moving. No one is excited by PG&E's "Green Is" campaign. They should get together with the Gap's (RED) campaign. Cover article: toxic pollutants in a San Mateo County housing project. A New Year's Eve advertiser pullout guide, which we skipped. The non-Meredith food reviewer really liked his Korean barbecue. Music and club lists galore, plus - a list of the best Bay Area specific songs!!! Yes! We're streaming "16th Street Dozens" and "Yay Area" right now! Plus- the Bouncer does some detective work at a hotel bar.

After the jump, the East Bay Express and the Metro, along with the Weekly of the Week.

The EBX: The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice calls out an EBX reporter for not relying on statistics in her article about a supposed uptick in juvenile crime; the reporter writes a defense. Hercules, the cool anti-Walmart suburb. Cover article: Best movies of 2006. Book review section: the polarization of humor. Berkeley band Honeycut is not Gnarls Barkley, and there's a local punk-pop band called the Matches you should check out. Also -- a local remixer is trying to restart his samples library after a fire in his studio (the title "Melted Vinyl, Smoking Beats" is pretty good).

And the Metro: Gary Singh takes a melancholy walk down the street where Lou's Living Donut Museum used to be. Cindy Sheehan protests that San Jose company that sponsored those CIA rendition flights. The guy who wants Chuck Reed's old seat on the San Jose City Council compares himself to Barack Obama. Cover: New Year's Eve goes Bollywood! Hipster Christmas music, and Indian food in San Jose. Also, Thai food might be boring.

Weekly of the Week: Everyone does some excellent end of the year music coverage, which we always like (that SF Weekly list of Bay Area songs is choice) -- and we're still wigging out over the flip-flops over Chris Daly in the SF alt-weeklies. But for the best of the week, we're going with the Metro! We don't even follow SJ politics and all the gossipy inside-baseball articles were excellent.

And a note for those three people who actually read all the way through the We Read The Weeklies post: the column is going on hiatus for the holiday week, though we might get someone else to cover it while we're gone. Have a good holiday, everyone!