We Read The Weeklies

Let's hear it for SFist Sarah L and her awesome weeklies wrapup from last week! Whoooo! And an extra-special thanks for compiling not only a weekly of the week but the weekly of the year as well.

So let's get 2007 started right, with the weekly of the year, the Bay Guardian. Yes, we know, we usually start with the weekly of the week, but we wanted an excuse to run a picture of that cover. .....Are those two elephants doing what we think they're doing? (We had to take our own picture of it because it doesn't appear anywhere on the sfbg.com site.) Tim Redmond had a bad run-in with Comcast customer service. Shop locally. Cover article: Yay, SFist didn't win an Offie (for dumbest moves of 2006)! But Gavin Newsom did -- and do check out the excellent line drawing illustration of it on page 20 of the hard copy. (Again, not online.) The Sonic Reducer breaks down a huge Pitchfork-y fight brewing about this year's Robert Christgau-less Pazz and Jop poll. Fascinating!!! The name Rykarda Parasol is cool. L.E. Leone is embracing positivity in 2007. And the female half of Gaviffer's horoscope: she needs to ground her flighty ass.

Next up, last week's Weekly of the Week, the SF Weekly. We cannot even make it through Matt Smith today, sorry (the MUNI line to Chinatown, which he hates). Are you an apologist for 2006? Yes we were! We scored "Congratulations! Now go date our mayor." Oh, would that we could, Apologist, would that we could. (Also, big ups for answer 6A, which we will not spoil here. Hee!) Strippers giving out toys. Cover article, by A.C. Thompson: Did the guy who shot that supposedly-racist SFPD video in the Bayside last year get hung out to dry by the mayor's office and the police brass over a bunch of inside jokes? Now we feel kind of bad for making fun of that guy last year. The Suzan-Lori Parks 365 plays in 365 days project sounds really cool. Meredith enjoyed a wine bar (note to SFist Ced -- we read her article backwards and stopped before hitting the holiday musings at the beginning; it's like reading an entirely different column!) Franz Ferdinand's food book. And Savage Love is collecting stories about happy couples where one person is vanilla and the other kinky.

After the jump -- the EBX and the Metro, along with the Weekly of the Week. To spare poor SFist Sarah L. all that tallying for next year's Weekly of the Year awards, we're starting a running count for 2007 too!