Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the Navy is the gayest armed services branch. Well, sure. Cars are worse than homeless people, says a letter writer. Halloween will suuuuuck. A former director of Intersection for the Arts died in a car crash. The new crackdown on homelessness, and why aren't people more upset? Cover article: Our pals at SwapSF make the cover! About the whole freetail trend! Yay SwapSF! (and other freegans!) Annalee Newitz loves to IM. This Woggles concert sounds like fun ("I go to a lot of shows where dudes in hoodies stand around, solemnly head-bobbing with their hands in their pockets" -- but the Woggles won't be one of those!) Okay, the band name Eat Skull caught our attention. Damon and Naomi are coming to town. Is a Chinese restaurant filled with non-white people really better than the other option? And L.E. Leone wishes she were an alcoholic.

Next up, let's make it the East Bay Express. A bunch of people angry about an article about the Oakland Director of Public Safety! Was it okay for a Merc News reporter to buy the domain name recalldellums.com and write a bunch of angry emails about the Oakland mayor? A right versus left fight at Cal. Cover: why's a rich SoCal guy want to keep the Oakland School District under state control? (Also -- are Robert Gannon and Rachel Swan writing everything at the EBX now?) Stoner alert! They're going to play Holst's The Planets to a light show! Living Word Fest this weekend. Eating at the I-House in Berkeley. And the entertaining-sounding Gore Gore Girls.

After the jump: The SF Weekly and the SJ Metro, along with the Weekly of the Week and the YTD count.

SF Weekly: No, it's not true that a prominent intersex activist said that intersexed children shouldn't be raised as either male or female -- that was an episode of Rick and Steve. Suing the California Culinary Academy -- and hey, congratulations, Eliza Strickland, for winning an award for your piece about them! Halloween is going to suuuuuck. Cover: Matt Smith investigates the crazy extortion schemes going down at Randy Shaw's Care Not Cash SRO on 16th and South Van Ness. Did we talk about those on this site too? And hee hee! Hiya Swanhuyser has totally summed up our stress-basket feelings about the Litquake lit crawl this weekend in her writeup! Is the new Elizabeth I movie Dynasty in the Renaissance Faire or a Bollywood movie in England? Either way -- sounds good to us! Aesop Rock. Meredith reviews listlessly in Pac Heights. And hey, did you know some of the letters to Cosmo are fake? No way!

And the Metro: They should have more midsized music venues in San Jo. Similarly, the cover article is about South Bay local bands, and the rock and roll half-marathon. The SJ Jewish Film Fest. The new M.I.A. album is good. And there's a lobster shack in Redwood City? Awesome!

Weekly of the Week: We are already sooooo late on this We Read The Weeklies this week, so we're not going to give you the tortured breakdown of our thought process for picking this week's fave; we'll just tell you it's the East Bay Express. We're kind of impressed by how much work Robert Gammon and Rachel Swan are doing over there! (Also, we sorta sold the Metro short this week -- sorry!)

YTD count: SF Weekly: 13; SFBG: 11; EBX: 9; Metro: 7.