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1016659_43.jpgLast week's winner, the SF Weekly! Letters from people who say they are not in a cult. An article about former SFist editor Eve Batey's promotion at the Chron! Go Eve! Also, they called us a "sassy" local blog. We loved Sassy! Cover article: A guy who makes money suing small businesses under the ADA. A review of the Kiki & Herb show. The Simpsons movie is okay. Meredith didn't much like her North Beach wine bar. Why did political cartoonist Ted Rall get moved to the food listings? Let's Get Killed reviews the Pamela des Barres book, feels ambivalent about it. And Savage Love: "is this a weird fetish?" (The lady's clapping on a date story was pretty funny.)

43-Cover_web.jpgNext up, the Bay Guardian. You know why? Because we were voted readers' favorite local blog!!!!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! We're pleased to be in such good company as Green Apple, Tu Lan, and Gavin Newsom (favorite AND least favorite local politician). Let's hope the new guy at the SF School District lets people talk to the press. Why won't the Ethics Commission investigate Gavin Newsom's mayoral campaign finances like they did Matt Gonzalez's? And some random impressions from your best-ofs: We really liked Steven Jones's paean to living in the city. We must try this dumpling place! Free stuff in Dolores Park. And these graphics are GREAT! Santino from Project Runway is in town. Oops, they called Lindsay Lohan "newly sober" (print edition only). True when they went to press! And Ed Jew's horoscope: "you're being called to take responsibility for some things that need fixin'."

After the jump: the East Bay Express, the San Jose Metro, our prestigious Pick of the Week, and the count of picks for the year!

The East Bay Express: Buying drugs at the B-Town Dollar and More at Sacto and Ashby in Berkeley. Another charter school principal resigns. Cover article: What's going on with the Paramount Theater, especially with competition soon from the Fox Theater? Books section! Mundane explorations books (like Dishwasher Pete's). Slow Food in San Ramon, and some lovely white wines made of grapes you've never heard of before. Daft Punk is playing... at the Greek Theater, the Greek Theater. And the Smashing Pumpkins show sounded kind of eh. Also, their blog has some pictures they got off Flickr of Arcade Fire playing some pre-show ball in People's Park, before the photographer took them down.

And the SJ Metro: Closing bars in San Jose. Backlash against business casual! They've made all of Gary Singh's random walks through San Jose into the cover article??? Hairspray was fun. A letter to Avril Lavigne. Vegetarian Ethiopian food in San Jose. An article about the author's preparations to blog! We're hoping his blog has posts about his preparations to write articles!

Weekly of the Week: We won best blog!!! Even though we're a little hurt we didn't win any editor's picks, 'sawright, we're still giving WotW to The Guardian. Do check out the Weekly's interview with Eve, though -- we had no idea she was a writer for her high school newspaper!

YTD count: SF Weekly: 9; SFBG: 9, EBX: 7, Metro: 4.

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