It's our turn to read the Weeklies this week, and we start with SFist Sarah L's pick of last week, the newly-re-indied East Bay Express. Congrats! The letters hate on the UC Regents. Something about racial bias in contracting, we didn't really understand it. The story behind those "nappy headed hos" t-shirts at Bear Basics. Cover article: Some well-paid lackey of "Golden Pig" Don Perata. Bless their hearts at the EBX! They've also started summarizing......

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian: People feel ambivalent about the proposed rider MUNI fare strike. Darn that Newsom, he's failed again to solve SF's housing problems. Special online editorial: Noooooooo!!!! The New Times might merge with the Village Voice media! Wow, this is long (and talks at great length about the Sherman Act). Cover article: Arts in the fall (many lists). Filipino indie rock fest piNoisePop this weekend! And an evening out at the ostentatiously-straight Club Freak. The East Bay Express: The Chron's preemptively bought out a bunch of anti-Chron domain names, including www.darthvega.com, sfchroniclesucks.com, and the sffreepress.com (which is the name striking writers used to publish a paper during the last Chron strike). Why do religions get tax breaks anyways? Cover: insider property dealing by the Republican representing Tracy, CA in Congress, and why this makes Tracy's traffic so bad. Asian indie rock band Bento at the Oakland Chinatown Street Fest. Reggae on the River and a new Filipina pop goddess. The Weekly and the pick of the week after the jump. ...