Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Gary Singh infiltrates a ladies' drinking circle, while Chuck Reed goes drinking with the Merc News. Do note, Gavin Newsom, that Reed only drank two bottled waters the entire night. Cover article: Making Redwood City fun again (land use edition). Italian food in Los Gatos. Lemon trees in winter. Women chanters. A review of the Justin Timberlake show. And the Straight Dope: are the magnetic poles going to flip?

Next up, the Bay Guardian. Cover: Check out their version of the chicken mayor! As a friend of ours noted, "It doesn't help that Gavin has always looked a little avian." The accompanying Steven T. Jones and Sarah Phelan article storms through Gavin's excuses for not complying with Prop I (and reports that back in 2000 when Gav was still a supervisor, he thought Question Time was a great idea -- for Willie Brown). Meanwhile, the editorial section proposes some good questions to ask Gavin this Saturday. We particularly liked the loving dissection of all the public errors Newsom's made. Plus, we think we're one of the "prominent" local blogs cited! Yay, we're prominent! Tim Redmond, for his part, is worrying about taxes. Home-brew your own biodiesel. Working at kink.com (before they bought the armory on Mission and 14th) and other local porn studios. Get your film funded. Okay, when we saw the band "Matt and Kim," we know we weren't the only people who were like, "the Gonzalez-Guilfoyle union they said would never happen!!!" Alas, no, they're a cute pop-punker couple-band from Brooklyn playing a show in town this week. Sketchfest. A new breakfast place at 30th and Church. And Carole Migden's horoscope: Her brain is evil and must be distracted with fun.

After the jump -- the SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, plus the Weekly of the Week and your year-to-date tally!

The SF Weekly: We're sorry to report that we heard that associate editor Karen Zuercher has announced her resignation from the Weekly. We always really liked her book reviews! Best of luck to you, Karen -- we'll miss you. Matt Smith tries to be funny in a list article about San Francisco but just comes off as vaguely sinister again. What's up with those cameras on street corners? Cover article: the status of the USS Iowa, after that nightmarish Daily Show interview with Tom Ammiano (not mentioned). Meredith liked Weird Fish; SFist Ced pokes some good-natured fun about Meredith's ethnic assumptions. You know, we don't find this Red Meat cartoon funny, ever. Matt & Kim, still not the Gonzalez-Guilfoyle singing duo we were hoping they'd be. And Savage Love on cuckoldry.

Last but not least, the East Bay Express. The pernicious effects of Stop Snitching in beleaguered Richmond (the police basically are like, well, we'll just let everyone work it out on their own, and tell a harrowing tale of a suspected murderer's father getting shot in the face at a funeral.) Cover article: Hate crimes against immigrant mothers in Fremont. Ward Connerly invites you to the Tri-Valley Republican Women Federated dinner meeting tonight ($26). Fusion French-Chinese in Livermore (we may need to check this place out). Spanish wines. The male-led band Girl Talk, opening for.... the ubiquitous Matt & Kim! Alas, the Friday night show is already sold out.

Weekly of the Week: Well, we all know who couple of the week is -- take it away, hipster couple-band Matt and Kim! We're going to start a group called Gavin and Cat now. As for the Weekly of the Week -- you had us at the chicken, Bay Guardian, you pecked your way to the top! (Also, you called us "prominent"!)

YTD tally: Metro 1, Guardian 1.