The first of the Bay Area alt-weeklies to do their "Best of the Bay" contest is the corporate one, SF Weekly. And since one of the categories is Best Blog, we'd totally be flattered and honored if you would uphold your constitutional duty by voting for us. We can't really say we'd give you anything for voting for us, but we will tell you that everytime you do, an angel get's their wings. Contest ends May 4th so go, go, go! ...

Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in a few weeks, and we also briefly considered just not doing something this week, and then we thought, Oh no -- what about the YTD count? Everyone in December will say "that only adds up to 51!". So here we are! Last......

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: The Spare The Air advocates don't take BART. Book section: Their book reviewer thinks that Special Topics in Calamity Physics is pretentious. Cover article: the new hip downtown Oakland scene, and backlash. Korean food in Oakland. Amoeba's plans to counteract the downloading revolution -- among other things, they let you "rent" CDs by buying them at full price and then returning them for 75% back after you've ripped......