We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late)
Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in a few weeks, and we also briefly considered just not doing something this week, and then we thought, Oh no -- what about the YTD count? Everyone in December will say "that only adds up to 51!". So here we are!
Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond hates the City College board. Josh Wolf is not a sellout. Critical Mass is cool. The situation behind those pictures of a garden in the Richmond that we ran last week. More on why Josh Wolf is not a sellout. Probation can go on forever. Women's self-defense classes. Eyes! Paul Hogarth from Beyond Chron talks about his law school experience. And write porn. Celebrating 10 years of the lesbian Lexington Club. Recycle your batteries, people (from the food critic!). L.E. Leone's ex Crawdad has her baby. And previewing SFIFF movies (not all are online): they liked Syndromes and a Century better than SFist Wendy did. And Barry Bonds's horoscope: "You can't control what happens, but you can control your choices."
Next, the San Jose Metro: Gary Singh likes Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, even though he's not from San Jose. Too many kids in juvie. There's a hilarious picture of an person in an otter suit carrying a canvas bag!!!. Cover article: The ultimate frisbee scene in the Bay Area. This article is so South Bay! (geeky, yet sportif!) Turkish food in Menlo Park. The Rivers of Chocolate festival in Saratoga. It sounds kind of excessive ($100 = as much chocolate and wine as you can eat and drink.) The latest entrant in the San Jose alt arts scene -- authored by San Jose booster Gary Singh! The new Mos Def album deeply disappoints the reviewer, who now considers himself a former Mos Def fan. And San Jose taiko drumming.
After the jump: The East Bay Express, the SF Weekly, the weekly of the week, and the YTD count that we're probably a little overinvested in keeping up-to-date!
The East Bay Express: Feisty letters! The EBX gets called out on using a misogynist Jamaican slang term and their cigarette ads! It takes forever to get your green card these days. Cover article: it's not as awesome living in an upscale hotel as you'd think it would be. (We must admit that while we're somewhat sympathetic to the folks who've been displaced from their moldy condos, we're not as sympathetic about the woes of living in a hotel as we might be, since these folks get housecleaning every single day.) The best thing for world music? Starbucks. And an all African-American female hard rock band from Oakland, opening for Iggy Pop and called Sistas In The Pit.
And the SF Weekly: Hey, the SF Weekly's looking for someone to help them start a blog. Jade-Blue Eclipse gets some weird flirty emails from the Homeland Security agent trying to track her down. And sorry, we still think it's a little weird to read former EBX Bottom Feeder Will Harper writing about SF politics now! Cover: Something about the SEIU is making Matt Smith angry. An awesome-sounding PS2 game called God of War II, which is described as a goth Clash of the Titans. ACT isn't very interesting these days. The non-Meredith food critic really, really liked the new restaurant that opened in the old Hawthorne Lane space. Some crazy-sounding goofball genre they're calling choogle -- basically, it sounds like if choogle were an actor, it'd be Owen Wilson. We must research!
Weekly of the Week: We're feeling a little bad about the Metro -- that Ultimate Frisbee article was all set to win them a WotW, and then we remembered the awesomeness of the Sistas In The Pit article and it became clear we had to give the Weekly of the Week to the EBX. This is the second week the Metro's gotten just nosed out, though, and we feel bad enough about that that we'll give the Metro another .5 in the YTD count.
YTD count: We're back to whole numbers again! SFBG: 5, EBX: 4 (this week's winner!), SF Weekly: 4, and the Metro: 3.