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It's our turn to read the Weeklies this week, and we start with SFist Sarah L's pick of last week, the newly-re-indied East Bay Express. Congrats! The letters hate on the UC Regents. Something about racial bias in contracting, we didn't really understand it. The story behind those "nappy headed hos" t-shirts at Bear Basics. Cover article: Some well-paid lackey of "Golden Pig" Don Perata. Bless their hearts at the EBX! They've also started summarizing their articles on their blog. We like the word "NeoXican." Book reviews! Daniel Handler v. the guy who wrote that You Suck vampire book. Pho in Oakland Chinatown. I Like Eating goes to a sports bar. Aaron Axelson compares Live 105 to Moneyball. And the EBX wins some writing awards, along with EBX alum and current SF Weekly editor Will Harper. Congrats!
Since SFist Sarah L didn't get to the SJ Metro last week, we hit them next! There are too many pigeons in the South Bay, says Gary Singh. Moms other than Pat Tillman's who've discovered a coverup about how their children were killed in the military. The Fly is excited that San Jose's SoFa district was mentioned in the NYTimes. Cover: The strange legal saga of the sex.com litigation. There's a breakdancing fundraiser this weekend! Ethiopian food in San Jose. Also: a tamale festival.
After the jump: your usual parade through the other two weeklies (the Weekly and the Guardian this week), the best of the week, and the tally for the year.
Next up, the Weekly: Vote for Chris Daly because he's not a progressive. In the same piece, we were surprised to see Matt Smith cited this Randy Shaw article in Beyond Chron about discord among the progressives, when everyone else in town is talking about Paul Hogarth's instead.** (see footnote below.) Is the PUC messing with Tapioca Ed Jew, and the weird story about mental illness and the Owl Tree. Cover: a couple scams people, flees the country. Knocked Up was funny. Meredith goes on a tear through brunch. We thought SFist Ced would find this one irritating but he says it's okay. Let's Get Killed goes on a baseball metaphor through Santa Cruz bands, the return of the magazine Crawdaddy, and S&M lactation in Savage Love.
And the Guardian: Why do we care about the whales when homeless people are suffering!!!!!!! A homeless man who ODed in Golden Gate Park, and his community. Cover article: Nuclear power. Also, Steven T. Jones's new environmental column. It references (all together now): Burning Man. Fish fry in Potrero Hill tomorrow! Unsane is back! As is synth pop. And techno. A music advice column -- that is a genius idea. Don't forget the R. Crumb exhibit at Yerba Buena. The Danny Elfman movie at Hole/Head. Can someone please tell us when Ed Jew's birthday is so we can give you his horoscope?? We're going to guess Pisces, because that one says: "You've been moving through some wicked deep s*** this week and we want you to pop some B vitamins to keep your energy up."
Weekly of the Week: You know, with the tamale festival, the breakdancing festival, the Ethiopian food, AND the sex.com article, along with the harrowing tale of army deaths misreported, we gotta give it to the Metro. We've never noticed that many pigeons in San Jose before, though.
YTD count: SF Weekly: 7, SFBG: 6, EBX: 6, Metro: 4.
**After this piece published, Matt Smith emailed us and asked us to let you know that he did deliberately mean to cite Randy Shaw's article instead of Paul's, contrary to our initial impression in reading the article, and wanted a correction and clarification added to this post. We were of course happy to provide it, once we figured out what exactly he wanted -- sorry for the confusion! (Matt, maybe you should see if they can let you put links or footnotes into your pieces in the future.)
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