SFist Rita is on vacation, so we're guest-reading the weeklies for her this week. Plus, it's the last weekly week of 2006, so we will be tallying up this year's picks to anoint a Weekly of the Year at the end of this post.
Last week's winner and in at 4th place for 2006 with 6.5 WotW points, the Metro: Gary Singh on Rudy Rucker's new book Mathematicians in Love. Cover: Year in Review for Make Benefit Glorious Valley of Silicon. Music year in review. Plus, cult film icons that died this year and Annalee Newitz' geeky new year's resolutions.
The Bay Guardian Cover: the year in film - lots of lists, new Mexican cinema, good and bad years for boy-men. Tim Redmond says 2006 in SF didn't entirely suck. Show us the Media News merger documents. Stop escalating the Iraq War. Broaden the debate over reproductive rights. Selling Wi-fi, bad working conditions for food service workers at high-tech companies, and sewage spills for Alcatraz tourists. Sonic Reducer: Kimberly Chun parties on NYE even when the weather sucks and tells you where the parties are, plus 924 Gilman's 20th Anniversary.
New Times, uh, Village Voice Media papers, the Weekly of the Week and the Weekly of the Year, after the jump!
Next up, the SF Weekly: (currently in 3rd place at 9 WotW points) Cover article: a prison inmate who shows his art in SF thanks to David Ferguson of the Institute for Unpopular Culture, the self-proclaimed West Coast's Andy Warhol. Ferguson does not claim to have invented the internet. Meredith "don't fill up on bread" Brody's column is quite long and lists a lot of restaurants, that would be much more readable were they in boldface. Matt Smith on the dumbing down of old and new media, lamenting the content rich dot-com era and reporting that Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval watches Telemundo, which is cutting its local news coverage. Movie article about sequels, that ran in last week's East Bay Express.
The EBX: Compendium of kook letters from thinly veiled white supremacism to a press release for the Nut Brush for men. Music: The Gilman's 20th Anniversary and Music Editor David Downs actually writes about music, but continues his trend of writing about non-local acts that the EBX's target suburban audience has heard of. Cover article: The Year in Review in Comics: (warning all are .pdfs) return of the unfunny ancient Rome parody of Oakland, Nancy Pelosi as a dominatrix, puritanical slow food commune, and high tech gadgets at the new Oakland A's stadium. Plus a page long I Like Eating (another .pdf warning) about Yoshi's new chef. Maybe David Downs' column should be replaced by a comic.
Weekly of the Week: We're going to prove Matt Smith correct about the dumbing down of the media, and vote for the East Bay Express for its mostly comics-based issue featuring the infidel put in the stockades for eating toaster pastries.
Weekly of the Year: Even with this week's win, bringing its total to 16 WotW points, the East Bay Express still falls short of winning the Weekly of the Year award, which goes to the MILF-aged, anniversary-celebrating SF Bay Guardian with a grand total of 17.5 WotW points! Bay Guardian we'll be sending you a framable certificate commemorating this great honor when we get around to designing one. In the meantime, SFist Sarah L will buy Sonic Reducer, Kimberly Chun a drink the next time they cross paths.
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Press Play's last four column topics:
SF's Halou
Oakland's Zoopy
Berkeley's Honeycut
and this week Public Enemy
Next week, we're getting local on your asshole, bitch.
Hope they like that in the burbs.