Dispensing with the usual pleasantries, here are the Worthy Reads, the Funny Reads and the Don't Bothers from this week's Alt-weekly papers.

SF Weekly

Worth Reading: Cover story this week is a trend piece on San Francisco's burgeoning bug cuisine scene. Certainly worth reading for the adventurous eaters or anyone who wants to know more about the "36-year-old Mexican immigrant with high cheekbones and raven hair" who will cook you moth larvae. At least one entomophagist thinks, "it's legitimate to say right now that San Francisco is a hotbed of insect cuisine." And thus a food scene is born.

Funny: The Ed Lee Story gets a proper book review in which its author's prose is compared to literary diarrhea.

Also: Bouncer's Katy St. Clair goes to Hobson's Choice on Haight, encounters a panhandler.

Don't Bother: Well known DJ finds inspiration at a record store.

SF Bay Guardian - Over at the Guardian they're celebrating "45 Years of Raising Hell". Which: happy birthday, The Guardian! We especially like the cover image that is basically just a lot of topics thrown on top of each other. ("Myspace"? Why is Myspace in there?)

Worth Reading: Anyhow, this Ed Lee hit piece is pretty enjoyable, you know, if you don't mind a heavy dose of bias. Actually, we just like that it's the first piece to align Willie Brown with Sean Parker. (Because of how they're both rich jerks who support Ed Lee's campaign.) After page one it gets a little more insider-y, but you can use all that newly gleaned info to sway your less savvy friends at October cocktail parties.

Funny: The guy who played Jason Vorhees (Friday the 13th, Freddy vs. Jason) discusses his own memoirs. More entertaining than another look at Ed Lee's biography.

Also, Virginia Miller thinks Umami Burger is overrated - but delicious.

Don't Bother: "The Bad Old Days" should have been Tim Redmond's ode to 45 years of the Guardian. Instead it's just another piece drawing lines between Ed Lee and Willie Brown. Snooze.

Also: If this call for a more lively atmosphere at Occupy SF works out, Justin Herman plaza will turn in to Ruby Skye. Shudder.

East Bay Express

Worth Reading: The Express exposé on the thriving DIY and underground music venues of Oakland should be, to some, more interesting than San Franciscans eating bugs.

Funny: A writeup of IsAnyoneUp.com (a revenge/porn site on which people post naked photos of exes) and the rest of the porn generation. (Caveat: It should be "The Internet Porn Generation", but you get it.)

Don't Bother: Your couch causes cancer. Of course it does. So does the TV you're watching and the Doritos you shovel in to your face while sitting on it.