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-- Grey Gardens: Kiki & Herb's Justin Bond hosts one of the most splendidly tragic documentaries every made, about life inside a rundown East Hampton mansion with Jackie Kennedy Onassis' eccentric aunt and cousin. Little Edie look-a-like contest happens before the show. The psychosis starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Castro Theatre, Castro and Market Streets; $6-$9.

a chance to help out Killing My Lobster? But of course! The Romane Event, the monthly music/film/comedy/spoken word event at the Make Out Room the last Wednesday of every month and hosted by Paco Romane, is a benefit for local comedy group Killing My Lobster, and will feature their sketches and movies tonight. Looks like fabulous fabulist Harmon Leon'll be there too! $7-15 sliding scale, 8 p.m., at the Make Out Room (3225 22nd, x Mission).

an interactive talk show that's being compared to This American Life in real-time. Guests: Corporate hacker and hacking fan Bradley Horowitz (Creator of Yahoo Hack Day, VP of Product Strategy, acquirer of flickr, upcoming.org), undercover satirist and author Harmon Leon (The Infiltrator: My Undercover Exploits in Right Wing America, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, OJ Simpson’sJuice’d) and Rhodessa Jones, award-winning Founder and Director of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women, and of course you, the audience. (8pm)

Renowned tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy is speaking at Mills College (5000 MacArthur Blvd.) in Oakland tonight at 7 pm in the Concert Hall. Besides inspiring the skin art and cover art of countless punk and rockabilly bands, Hardy is a painter and printmaker and has a line of clothing favored by celebrities like Larry King.

Being a relatively recent gratuate to cable from rabbit ears, we're not sure how that whole In Demand thing works, but we've been tempted to figure it out ever since we heard about Friend of SFist Harmon Leon's stint on "Juiced", a hidden camera prank show starring OJ Simpson.

Where better than San Francisco institution Tosca for friend of SFist Harmon Leon, "poet and performer" Bucky Sinister, and one of our favorite local independent bookstores Green Apple Books to come together in one perfect night of literary misbehavior?

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Trent Reznor's favorite scents? Tell us!) And the Gossip, on week two of their takeover of Bay Area alternative media.

Oh nooooo! "Anonymous" (but we know better) commenters employed at The Wave rear their ugly heads again as they post the same comment twice in our continuing coverage of the concerns over the veracity (among other things) of Harmon Leon's final Infiltrator column.

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Phil Angelides made all his money in real estate. The Merc News gets in a screamy match with Baron Davis of the GSWarriors -- literally! Yay. Cover article: Muslim comedians (including this guy). Cirque du Soleil goes South Bay. Picture of Gillian Anderson looking like Madonna. And Straight Dope: can moms really lift cars off their children? Maybe.

Last week we got ourselves all worked into a lather about the SF Weekly's bizarrely incorrect Harmon Leon Infiltrator piece, though sadly it wasn't the kind of lather we usually like, with all the whipped cream and clothespins. A week(ly) later, we notice that the online version of the article has been quietly changed (though you gotta love the forgotten AVN reference in the right-hand corner), and the writer quietly fired.

Well, L'affaire Leon at the Weekly certainly didn't come to a conclusion we expected. We crawled out of bed this morning only to read that he'll no longer be appearing in their pages. If you want to read his Infiltrator features, you'll have to buy his books. But was this really all Harmon's fault? Or is it a symptom of much bigger problems at the Weekly? Morale, and therefore quality, may be in decline after the departure of John Mecklin. We communicated with a number of current and former writers who expressed at best indifference, and at worst serious concern about the direction of the paper.

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian: Still angry about Hetch Hetchy! Mandatory retirements at the Chron. A shopping center at Piers 27-31? Cover article: animal research at UCSF. (two upsetting sidebars here (monkeys) and here (dogs)). Is it a good idea for autistics to mock non-autistics by calling them "neurotypical"? (This is like when the group of geeks would say "you're normal!" to the other kids in school.) Taquerias in strange places. And the Lit section, which we skipped. The SF Weekly: Yet another article about mandatory retirements at the Chron! Leaking like the New Orleans levees! Cover article: Harmon Leon terrorizes pro-abstinence people! The part where he wore the short-shorts and made suggestive comments the whole day ("mmmm, threesome") is truly brilliant. Oyster eatoff next Tuesday! Books about the 1906 earthquake. Meredith Brody waxes on and on and on about New Orleans. Take it, SFist Ced! Should you or your deaf cousin pay for the sign-language interpreter at your wedding? (Aw, hell to the no! It was not just suggested by the relatives that they just not invite the deaf cousin!) Free Bluegrass Festival this weekend. And the Bouncer reflects on the big questions of life at that bar next door to El Rio's. The East Bay Express, the Metro, and the pick of the week, after the jump.

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. What, no Apologist this week? We have a confession to make -- we've been writing an "Are you an Apologist for SFist?" column in our head for ages! ("Do you think she really reads the Weeklies every week? a) With the number of comments they get, they should rename it "WHO reads We Read The Weeklies." b) Sure -- why else would you brag about staying informed about the latest public power issues? c) Hey, at least when she's writing that, she's not putting up those asinine Animal Reports."). Harmon Leon goes to Amber Frey's Learning Annex class. Cover article: anti-Muslim discrimination in local schools. OK Then interviews local music blogger Matt Ness. And Liz Phair, self-hating. TheGuardian: Tim Redmond on (you guessed it) public power! A.C. Thompson: did you know parolees are required to live in the county where they got arrested when they get out? Why? Annalee Newitz cracks open some fantasy novels. Cover: SFist Interview alum Steve Jones on his Burning Man project with the Flaming Lotus Girls. The sex columnist on cutting off that strip that holds your tongue in (the frenulum). And Sonic Reducer goes to Ozzfest. After the jump, the EBX and the pick of the week. (Apologist answer d: "I picked something this week; wanna see?")Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. What, no Apologist this week? We have a confession to make -- we've been writing an "Are you an Apologist for SFist?" column in our head for ages! ("Do you think she really reads the Weeklies every week? a) With the number of comments they get, they should rename it "WHO reads We Read The Weeklies." b) Sure -- why else would you brag about staying informed about the latest public power issues? c) Hey, at least when she's writing that, she's not putting up those asinine Animal Reports."). Harmon Leon goes to Amber Frey's Learning Annex class. Cover article: anti-Muslim discrimination in local schools. OK Then interviews local music blogger Matt Ness. And Liz Phair, self-hating. TheGuardian: Tim Redmond on (you guessed it) public power! A.C. Thompson: did you know parolees are required to live in the county where they got arrested when they get out? Why? Annalee Newitz cracks open some fantasy novels. Cover: SFist Interview alum Steve Jones on his Burning Man project with the Flaming Lotus Girls. The sex columnist on cutting off that strip that holds your tongue in (the frenulum). And Sonic Reducer goes to Ozzfest. After the jump, the EBX and the pick of the week. (Apologist answer d: "I picked something this week; wanna see?")

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express! Bloggers and spammers on an anti-Ignacio De Le Fuente's blog, in Bottom Feeder. Robot cars. Cover article: rookies who accidentally shot an undercover cop. Harrowing, but with special bonus Family Circus-like diagram with dotted lines showing what happened when. Teena Marie's in town. Book reviews. I Like Eating advocates bacon on everything (so true). And Savage Love on the etiquette of barebacking -- so righteous the EBX put him in smaller type so they wouldn't have to edit! The SF Weekly up next: Matt Smith (gasp!) praises Gavin Newsom! (Earthquake preparation.) Cover article: Harmon Leon gets on the reality show Lie Detector! Genius! PUNI: clip and save religious texts to flush down toilets! What probably was going to be the cover article except they were probably trying to avoid looking Guardian-esque: Saddam Hussein was not a very nice guy. Funny anecdote about having to change the name of the trapeze artists/indie rock show from "Music to Plummet to your Death By" to "Music Not to Plummet to your Death By." (Trapeze artists, a serious lot.) Meredith Brody gets souffles and fondue. Books. And Negativland! The San Jose Metro makes a last gasp appearance, and the Guardian, after the jump!

We received an email from Russell Stein who pointed out his story on IndayBay.org, "Harmon Leon - the Steven [sic] Glass of the Sacramento News & Review?" Big red-alert lights went off at the SFist Fortress of Solitude -- Stephen Glass is (or at least, was) the go-to boogeyman of ethical impropriety in the field of journalism. Harmon Leon is the hilarious dude behind the SF Weekly's "Infiltrator" features (and dropped by SFist for an interview a while back).

SFist interviews Harmon Leon

Ladies and gentlemen, the returning champ, the East Bay Express! Make your Best of the East Bay nominations now! People in Contra Costa don't appreciate public access TV. Can collectors aren't making as much money now that Oakland's giving everyone big recycling bins. Cover article: Baby boomers are making it unpleasant for other senior citizens in nursing homes. Addis Ethiopian in Oakland has new management that cooks better. Food cartoonist: Is Legendary Palace really legendary? And Savage Love: teenage boys looking for dates, meeting online buddies in real life, and someone bragging about sexual exploits. The SF Weekly: Cover article: Music special! Though, and we hate to quibble, but we think we've seen this cover art, with the tape-embossed lettering, on the Weekly a lot recently. Maybe mix it up a little? Harmon Leon reports on the white supremacist hate mail he's gotten post-Applebees, Nate Cavalieri follows a documentary film maker making movies for advertisers. So yeah! The music special! An article about Quannum Records and SFist's very own favorite hip-hop mogul! Yay SFist Isaac! Fun blurbs about musicians' day jobs, a very detailed article on how to get signed to a record label, SuperDiamond made almost $1 million last year, what it's like to work at GuitarWorld, and a whole lot of info on Bay Area music today. Our favorite ex-Examiner reporter in the Bay Guardian, no Metro this week, and the WRTW weekly pick of the litter, after the jump.

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.

Last week's winner: SF Weekly. Ignore all other news and read the cover article about Dog and Order! So rad, we read it twice! Follow our latest crush (auf wiedersein, Chris Daly -- sorry), Officer Bill Herndon, as he presides over three cases in Dog Court. You know what's awesome? They call cases appealed to regular court "habeas canis." Awesome. (But why no mention of Animal Cops SF, covering the exact same material?) You can't run an article this awesome all the time, it diminishes everything else that appears in the paper by comparison: Matt Smith on raising parking fees, Harmon Leon works in pr0n, . Savage Love: transgender person tells friend, accidental barebacking, girl should dump inconsiderate boyfriend. The East Bay Express. Sadly, no articles about San Francisco Dog Court. (We love you, Officer Herndon!) Cover article: We're all going to die in a big earthquake in the next 30 years!!! Aaaaaaaaugh! (Part 1 of 2). Food reviews: An African-American Hebrew biblically-inspired vegan restaurant in Oakland. Queer Oakland hip-hop. The Guardian's Noise Pop coverage and the Metro on poetry slams, after the jump.

. Gay couples aren't sorry they demanded equal rights. Cover article: Julia Butterfly Hill (the chick who lived in a tree for two years) started her own nonprofit environmental action group. A music columnist goes to Yoshi's four nights in a row and now hates jazz. Obit for Mac Dre. The EBX's election 2004 silver lining: Jello Biafra will put out some good records in the next few years.

As you know, SFist reads the weeklies so that you don’t have too. While our love affair with Bay Area weeklies is long and sordid, we vividly recall the fateful summer day we were reading The Wave and stumbled across a bit by a local who had his girlfriend infiltrate the Raiderette try outs. Sheer genius, we thought. A mere two weeks later Harmon Leon presented another hilarious instance of infiltration when he described his efforts to be hired as a security guard in a piece titled the “Insecurity Guard”.