Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. A Oakland teacher beats up a social worker and threatens her students -- and still can't be fired. Why can't you get a free weekly in San Leandro? Cover article: The agony of med students waiting to find out where they're going to be doctors. (It's done by computers.) Do you think male poets read Bitch Magazine? Goat meat on International Boulevard. Irish rockers on St. Patrick's Day.......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the progressives need something to do (so why not run a mayoral candidate?). Too many skyscrapers. Wi-fi and sunshine laws, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, cars in Golden Gate Park, and SF is totally unprepared for global warming. The gay porn Oscars! Cover articles: Noise Pop! SFist Elaine says to check out Scissors for Lefty. Dude, there's like a review for every band playing! Yay Noise Pop! L.E. Leone......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Save Chris Daly! Rob Black's dirty Swift-Boat campaign tactics. PG&E (sigh). Cover articles: What's happening with Halloween this year? TELL US! Also, where'd our fun gay Halloween go?, and (non-SF) themed costumes. What, no Alix Rosenthal costume? Maybe Steven T. Jones edits the costume section. Sonic Reducer's days behind the counter at Tower. Lit section: books about seedy SF, and Michelle Tea's interview with the editor and publisher of......

As part of its ongoing 10th anniversary celebration, local nonprofit indie publication Bitch Magazine is throwing a benefit silent auction this Friday, Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. at the Women's Building (18th St. between Valencia and Guerrero). And we've got two tickets to give away! The auction features art from Bitch contributors and Bitch supporters (including a collage by one Mr. Matt Gonzalez), homemade jewelry, an hour's time with local women's tattoo salon Diving Swallow,......

Wednesday, gas, or grass: no one rides for free. Tonight: we told you, we're going to be at the Bitch Magazine 10th Anniversary Birthday Bash at the Rickshaw Stop! So we can't go to the SoMa Leadership Council party, where SoMa residents can meet every single person running for the District 6 seat on the Board of Supes over a potluck dinner. Check here for food assignments. 6-9 p.m., at the Arc (1500 Howard, x......

Happy 10th birthday, Bitch Magazine! Back in 1996, local writers Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler kicked up a furor with their provocatively-named zine about feminism and pop culture -- and ten years later, the magazine's putting out its 33rd issue (the Hot and Bothered Issue), they've put out a best-of anthology (BitchFest), and Ms. Zeisler's good-naturedly matching wits with Deborah Solomon of the NY Times Magazine (the East Coast's own Aidan Vaziri). Calls for a......

Anything you can do, Wednesday can do better. Tonight: The APA group Kearny Street Workshop, in conjunction with Intersection for the Arts, presents the finale to its 2006 Intergenerational Writers Labwith a reading of the works that the lab participants have been preparing throughout the year. Sounds like experimental fiction, poetry, and maybe some lyrical prose might be making an appearance (though the group is careful to say that their work "transcends genre.") $5-15, 7-9......

Saturday: we're hitting the YBCA (700 Howard Street at Third) for the SFist Krissy-recommended Kronos Quartet and experimental musicians, Matmos and Walter Kitundu collaboration. Sure, we love the Kronos Quartet and Matmos, but we're also eager to see the extraordinarily threatening Kitundu in action. Shows are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., buy tickets here. Sunday: we can't miss Maker Faire, the DIY get-together to beat all get-togethers, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. There are......

The Three Dollar Bill Cafe is such an excellent name for the restaurant inside the SF LGBT Community Center. If you've got the time and inclination, stop by the cafe and check out queer open mic night tonight. Tonight's performance is hosted by poet Cindy Emch and writer Sherilyn Connelly, and features local Native American writer/activist Jennifer Fox Bennett, bringing her Ojibway and Odawa Band sensibilities to the stage. Tonight's performance is a benefit for feminist zine Bitch Magazine -- and if enough liquor's passed around, the open mic may very well get passed to their editorial board as well. Watch out, Jane Pratt! 8 p.m., at the SF LGBT Community Center (Market and Octavia), 8:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. signup. $1-5 sliding scale fee, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Obligatory disclosure: this correspondent is on the Bitch magazine board of directors....

SFist interviews the editors of Bitch Magazine...

If you, like us, want to support our local arts community but aren't really interested in buying one of those Hearts of SF -- we're here to help! If you, like us, want something with a little feminist indie cachet to hang in your apartment, we're here to help! And if you, like us, search vainly on ebay for something -- anything -- cool to buy, and end up bidding instead on a scratched 45 of "The Super Bowl Shuffle", we're definitely here to help. Local nonprofit and independently-published feminist/pop culture zine Bitch Magazine is holding a benefit auction for the next two weeks, featuring art from its pages, and arts and crafts from its contributors. Where else would you be able to find Lynda Barry drawings starting at $30 (see above), an Alison Bechdel cartoon panel for $35, or Guerrilla Girls prints at the impossible price of $10 each? They're also offering a print of Rebecca McBride's photograph on the cover of Michelle Tea's book Valencia (which we used to illustrate that post on the DPT's proposals about the street just last week), and a collection of comic book anthologies signed by comic book historian Trina Robbins, among many other cool items (meet Michelle Tea! Get a portrait painted of your pet! A t-shirt of Valerie Solanas by Diane DiMassa!) Plus -- sold-out back issues, cover art and illustrations from the magazine, and -- special treat! -- the Bitch staff annotates an issue of Jane, the magazine we all love to hate. The auction preview begins today and bidding goes from March 6-13. All money goes to support the magazine. Art by Lynda Barry, available at an opening bid of $30. Disclosure: This SFist is on the nonprofit board of Bitch Magazine, but gets no perks at all in the auction bidding....

The Weekly of the Week winner for two weeks in a row, the SF Weekly! (Okay, that sentence had too many occurrences of the word "week" in it, and we apologize for that.) Matt Smith reveals that Jake McGoldrick and Chris Daly engaged in some sizzling-hott male-male hugging action and made up over that whole tsunami fight thing. Awww. (Also, complicated workings about the Mission Housing Development -- we have absolutely no idea what he's talking about but it sounds serious!) ... and hey! Matt stole our "Daly Show" title for his article!! Cover article: Harmon Leon infiltrates with white supremacists. We sincerely hope they're paying Harmon lots of money to do this column because well, not only would it not be fun to have to listen to that kind of talk, Harmon also had to hang out with the white supremacists at Applebee's. (On the bright side, we do love those Applebee's chicken fingers.) We're now too freaked out to enjoy the rest of this issue -- even Nate's excellent Noise Pop 2005 otherwise excellent board game. And Savage Love: what to do about barebackers? The San Jose Metro. Activists monitoring police brutality in San Jose (it sure does seem like a lot of people get shot by the cops down there). Cover article: an online anti-porn group. Friend of SFist and Bitch Magazine editor Andi Zeisler is interviewed! The San Jose Cinequest Film Festival. Sausage (at a deli, you sickos) in Santa Clara. And a poetry slam in San Jose. The East Bay Express's part 2 on earthquakes (BART will liquefy!), the Guardian on Noise Pop, and our gold-plated Weekly of the Week award, after the jump....

Reach a hand across the blogger/print media divide and get your weekly buzz on at the Indie Mag All-Star party this Saturday from 8-10. Locally-published magazines Kitchen Sink, Bitch Magazine, Other Magazine, LiP, and Ohio's Clamor throw a reading party at the Make Out Room, in conjunction with the independent press convention this weekend. Admission is free, drinks are on you (or whichever cute indie writer/editor you can get to buy). The current issues of the magazines feature writings on borders (Clamor), home and travel (Bitch), winners of the fiction contest (Kitchen Sink), current issues in left-wing politics (LiP), and utopia/dystopia (Other), so there should be food for thought accompanying your $2 PBR. ($2 happy hour PBR! So good it should be illegal!). Pic from Kitchen Sink. Obligatory disclosure: this correspondent's affiliated with Bitch; come by and say hi on Saturday to the person in the special SFist-designed Mrs. Chris Daly t-shirt!...

Nothing like getting fired right before the holidays, huh? Okay, we know The Apprentice was filmed months ago, but a local film programmer and staff weren't so lucky. Neither were Tim Hudson or Mark Mulder. And the Governator is aiming to be the Grinch who stole your lunch break. In other words, business as usual. Gotten any of your Christmas shopping done? We've done our best to single out a few local businesses for you......

So maybe you need a present for your ardent younger sister with the stars in her eyes who just finished her final in her first women's studies class at UC Santa Cruz. Or maybe you're a kitschy-tee collector who thinks Emily The Strange is so played out. Or heck, maybe you're just looking for the perfect bachelor/ette party gag gift -- locally published Bitch Magazine's selling t-shirts of all shapes, sizes, and colors emblazoned with their gimlet-eyed reading girl. Fun lovers of all feminist inclinations may also find the underwear with BITCH emblazoned on the fanny the perfect office Secret Santa item! ...

What better way to celebrate the original Saturday night date of Britney Spears's nuptials than at feminist zine Bitch Magazine's release party for its latest issue, on the theme of Fake? The party kicks off at 9 Saturday night at the Mile High Club in Oakland. ...

Bitch Magazine's Andi Zeisler, Lisa Jervis, and Rachel Fudge on the Bay Area...

Calling all feminist hipsters (and those looking to pick up the same) – the second Ladyfest Bay Area will be hitting the Mission this weekend (July 29-August 1). Ladyfest is the feminist DIY post-riotgrrl community art, activism, and punk rock festival, which started in 2000 in (where else?) Olympia, WA, and has since spread throughout the land and throughout the world. So naturally, girl bands play, spoken word poets rant, knitting circles purl, self-defense classes take out the eyes and kneecaps of the oppressor, and positive female energy rules the day. It’s volunteer-organized, non-corporate sponsored, and appears mainly to have been advertised by spray-paint stencils on Valencia Street....