August 16, 2007
We Read The Weeklies
Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro: Gary Singh wants the San Jose flea market to move to City Hall. Folks moving from city to city to run for office -- hey, at least they actually move into the city they want to represent down in the South Bay. Ed Jew, take a note! Cover: yay the environment, reduce your carbon footprint by buying a Prius. There's a gymnastics meet on the Olympics circuit this weekend. Stick the landing! Judd Apatow continues to have problems writing good female characters. A local guy's short films are really good. They screen Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes in a movie theater in Campbell? The new Philip Glass symphony sounded really good in Santa Cruz. Central Vietnamese food in a new Vietnam Town Santana Row-ish setting, And mmmm, stone fruit.
Next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond asks why's everything got to be a public/private thing around here. Also, they hate the new Don Fisher museum. A poignant letter about the failures of Care Not Cash from a man recently diagnosed with HIV. A mayoral candidate is late for a press conference because of MUNI. Cover article: Save the pay phone! Sonic Reducer loves her some Godwaffles! (Hey, Sonic Reducer, are you really heading over to the Weekly?) We love the comma placement in the band name Or, The Whale. When will Rage Against The Machine's ham-handed left-wing views be accepted by the mainstream? And drag kings! Korean BBQ!
After the jump: The East Bay Express and the SF Weekly, along with your Weekly of the Week and your rolling winners' count.
The East Bay Express: Robert Gammon gets stuck responding to almost all the letters this week. Why's everyone still acting like they like Your Black Muslim Bakery? Hey, is this Nerdwatching column new, or did we just miss it before? Well, either way, it's awesome. Cover articles: Why's the state making students pay so much more money for public higher education? Also, that company Timbuk2, that makes the messenger bags with the cool spiral on 'em. The Murder Junkies are playing Monday night at the Stork Club. Nigerian food in Berkeley. Jewish deli in cartoon form! Tom Morello, playing acoustic. And the band name "All Teeth and Knuckles" is pretty good.
The SF Weekly: Matt Smith on founders' disease (that problem when the person who started the organization can't let go -- yes, we are in fact the only original person left on the SFist masthead, what are you saying?) Sucka Free City actually seems kind of upset about what's happening with the Chron's new "Journalism of Action" campaign. Cover article: A lawyer appealing parole denials. Where does the SF Weekly's calendar get these awesome items -- the La Leche League trunk show? Rad! A new post-sudoku game: dig the grim tone of the picture caption: "It doesn't look like much, but neither does crack." Intriguing! Meredith gets sushi in the Marina; SFist Ced critiques her Japanese. Ha ha, they compared SF during Burning Man week to the Rapture! There's a book out about that crazy Susan Polk trial now. What's Greil Marcus listening to? Rock the Bells, the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is kind of eh. And the Bouncer plots a threesome, Whoo!
Weekly of the Week: The EBX's education theme gets it the prize this week, what with the article about why UC and CSU student fees keep going up, along with the Nerdwatching column we're so taken with! We're bummed the Bouncer didn't get her threesome, though, we were really really hoping!
YTD count: SF Weekly: 10; SFBG: 9, EBX: 8, Metro: 5.


Rita, you may be the only founder-ish person left on the SFist masthead, but you're also the most awesome. The day you leave is probably the day SFist gets removed from my regular reading. Not that the other people aren't good; they are; but you're superhuman.
I agree, Rita is superhuman! Maybe SFist should start a comic series with Rita as our hero.
i'm in the rita fan club too....yay rita! but when she gets scooped by by the Chron, that's the day I ditch Sfist too!
Is it just me or is the SFBG seem to represent a grumpy old man's bitter opinions on everything? Sing it with me y'all.... "Just a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down... the medicine go down.... "
Aw, you guys! You're so nice! (I was out yesterday, so I didn't see these until today.) I'm not going anywhere -- there's no way the Chron would take me, I'm like the exact opposite of a "journalist of action."
You would let me know if I was getting all crazy and founders'-disease-y about the site, though, right? Totally my nightmare.