It's our week up on the weekly-reading duties! Last week's winner from SFist Sarah L, the SF Weekly. A letter writer says: "While Matt [Gonzalez] may not be the next Picasso (but don't count him out)..." It doesn't matter what the rest of the letter says. The SF Fire Department gave a bad test. Cover article: We hate baby boomers and their dirty self-centered hippie ways. Carnivorous plants! Yay, the SFIFF! A flyer fell out of our Weekly advertising Netflix for porn. Meredith likes Maverick, and we thought SFist Ced's post on "Mission Accomplished" was his thoughts on the review! (That'd be an excellent title for the post about Maverick, which is on 17th and Mission.)). Dueling opinions on Wilco. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are on the Spiderman 3 soundtrack? (from an ad.) And a man tickling his stepmother in Savage Love.

How about the East Bay Express next? It's Best of the East Bay! As always, more picks than you know what to do with; here's some of the ones we're picking randomly. Best skater hangout (in downtown Oakland, no less), the East Bay Creative Reuse Center best Japanese cos(tume)-play fashion guide book, best gynecologists, best knitting, best Ethiopian, the new post-Kitchen Sink project, and of course -- best SFist Sarah L project!! (We Read The Weeklies is a close runner-up, though!) The N-word and Ho-word debates rage on in hip hop. And we'll read anything that starts with the title "Sassy Witches" and is illustrated with pictures of four Shakespeares playing in a band (it's about two local Shakespeare productions.)

After the jump: The Guardian and the Metro, plus the pick of the week and the YTD count!

The Guardian: Tim Redmond at the Democratic Convention where he talks to Art Torres, whose old phone number we were assigned when we moved into our current place, so we still occasionally get messages for him. Tim, if you see Art again, tell him some people have been calling for his wife. Let's make the bridge collapse into a positive for public transportation! Something weird happened with the printing of our SFBG copy so the fonts are all strange, like when you print an Adobe Acrobat page wrong. Rapper/scion Andrew Lee, hapless ethically-challenged son of the Sunset! Clint Reilly successfully stopped all the papers in the area from merging with each other. Apparently you can just buy one of those construction zone no parking signs and post them up on the sidewalk. What a good idea!!! They're only $1.99. Annalee Newitz snarks hilariously on a time-saver guru. Cover article: Is it already Mission Creek Music Fest time again?? And Vincent Gallo's band is playing? Weird! (Band's name is RRIICCEE. That guy has some weird ideas.) I Am Spoonbender is back, along with the post-Mae Shi Berkeley band Gowns. And tons more Mission Creek coverage! Golden Golden State Warrior Baron Davis's horoscope: "You're strong enough to handle your nerves getting a little worked."

And the Metro: There was not enough Earth Day festivity in the South Bay. Gary Singh about the heyday of San Jose in the early 90s -- AGAIN. Cinco de Mayo in San Jose's goes too far. Why are people so mean on the internet (Kathy Sierra edition)? The SFIFF and the San Jose Israeli Film Fest. Malaysian food, the new trendy! And May 5 is Free Comic Book Day.

Weekly of the Week: You know we usually give it to whichever weekly is running the Best Of issue in any particular week, and the EBX is totally awesome, don't get us wrong -- but we were totally into the Mission Creek music coverage in the Guardian this week. So much that the Guardian wins the prestigious Weekly of the Week for the week!

YTD count: SFBG: 6 (winner!), SF Weekly: 6, EBX: 4, Metro: 3.