Maybe Kim Deal'll show up too -- Bassists Krist Novoselic and Matt Gonzalez (pictured to your left, shredding at a Jane Kim fundraiser) are hosting a fundraising event from 5:30-8 p.m. tonight to support Oakland's Measure O, which would institute ranked-choice voting in Oakland just like they've got in San Fran. The event's at the law offices of Gonzalez & Leigh, at 2 Shaw Alley, 3rd Floor (off Mission between 1st and 2nd), and Ross......

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Bottom Feeder on whether the Concord mayor is anti-abortion, and the bad body odor of a Berkeley narcotics officer alleged to be on the take. Photoshopping pandas in Oakland. (check out that awesome picture!) Do conservatives have fewer friends? Cover article: no, you can't void your mortgage by claiming that US currency has no value (this is a pretty cool article). Cafe Gratitude in Berkeley has bad service. I Like Eating charms us again with a visit to Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe. And Harvilla on the Kim Deal musical everyone's talking about. The Bay Guardian: Hey, new website design! Chris Daly for Assembly? An entertaining editors' note (scroll down) about whether or not the Guardian believes that vegetables feel pain as they're being digested! Oh, advertiser Rainbow Grocery, always on the cutting edge (ouch! watch that edge!) The inside scoop on the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic brouhaha. Hating Berkeley law professor John Yoo ("torture is a-okay by me!"). On The Sidelines' hilarious cartoon about bands with three repeated word names ("Die Die Die?" "Tony Toni Tone?" "!!!" ?). Cover article: Matt Gonzalez on Jonestown (and the Guardian shamefacedly admits that they totally thought the Peoples' Temple was okay at the time.) Bettie Page lookalike contest at Thee Parkside this Friday. And SFist Eve's horoscope: it implies that she's currently in a "crazy place" right now -- hey, Double Team, that ain't nice! The SF Weekly and the Metro, after the jump -- along with the Weekly of the Week....

Well, the Pixies have reunited, and are in town for three weekend shows at UC Berkeley's Greek Theatre. The Friday and Saturday nights shows are sold out. Tickets do remain for the Sunday afternoon show, and are available through Ticketmaster. Have fun everyone!...