Last week's winner: the SJ Metro . Cover article: San Jose Pride - family day in the park on Saturday, Gay Rodeo, Women's Music Festival this weekend. A new queer nightclub in downtown San Jo. Problems with contracting for paratransit at Santa Clara County Transit VTA . Annalee Newitz on notableness on Wikipedia. The Ann Arbor Film Festival at Foothill College.
And now for our frontrunner, the SF Weekly, big trouble at the Culinary Academy (we loved the story about the student who made the peanut butter and jelly pizza). The State of California does an equally crappy job policing crappy for-profit colleges. Former Plumber's Union Boss took money from members' benefit fund and invested it in Konocti Harbor Resort. We hope the union plumbers at least get free tickets to the Pepsi Celebrity QB Golf Shootout or the upcoming concerts by Hootie and the Blowfish, Heart, and Styx. Two Dirk Dirksen Memorial Concerts. Hey, the SF Weekly has a music blog now, with posts by David Downs, who no longer appears to be Music Editor of the East Bay Express - the Express' music blog hasn't been updated in over a week. J Hoberman thinks the new Ocean's number movie is lame.
After the jump: the Guardian and the East Bay Express, the Weekly of the Week, and the YTD!
Next, the East Bay Express: Cover story: Invasive species in the bay including the 6 foot long nuclear worm and spartina, which kept reminding us of that military recruitment ad movie, 300. Don Perata bought a billboard thanking himself. Oakland City Council Prez Ignacio De La Fuente hasn't spent much time around City Hall lately, neither has Mayor Dellums. Follow up on previous stories about faulty data in minority contracting study and the controversial school principal that went off on a visiting Mills grad student. A former student's mom says about Principal Chavis, "that guy's totally fricking nasty." Auditions for yet another reality TV show that gives hopefuls a chance to be a star. and Kelly Vance reviews the new Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose
And the Bay Guardian: OMG kittens and puppies the saga of the SF SPCA and cute pictures of kittens and puppies, but none peeking out from the ceiling. Killing the fun update - Halloween moving to the baseball stadium parking lot. The McGoldrick recall campaign is the work of only a few guys. The Progressive Convention made progress, even though it didn't pick a candidate. The Coup's Boots Riley gets stopped by SFPD for driving while black. The rest of the music section is more positive: the Gomorran Social Aid and Pleasure Club, Oakland's K.I.T. have "riotous cheerleader spunk," Helios Creed forgives and loves everybody. The horoscopes are new, but no crossword puzzle this week. L.E. Leone shops at Wal-Mart and eats at Subway.
Weekly of the Week: Strong showings all around the weekly landscape - we were up until the wee hours reading that invasive species article - and not just because it was our turn to read the weeklies. The Culinary Academy article was quite gripping, it almost made us late to work. But we're going "posi-core" this week and giving it to the Guardian for the pictures of kittens and puppies. We will return to our normally cynical and abrasive self next time.
YTD count: SF Weekly: 7, SFBG: 7, EBX: 6, Metro: 3.
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David Downs is indeed no longer with the EBX. A friend of mine who works there confirmed this, in conversation last week. Mr. Downs is working with the New Times group in SF on a large web intiative which from the sound of it appears to be corporate group blogging on a national scale. It looks like you guys'll have a competitor soon...
i once met a man in austin who'd made these awesome shirts that read: "Xsmurf crisisX." you rule. i even listened to bane last night for the first time in years; the great boston purveyors of posi-core. h. brown says gen xers don't know what a double-well bourbon with a beer back is. hey brown, what's posi-core mean? i've never been straight edge, h., and the folks at bar bar will tell you my favorite drink is ... well bourbon with a beer back. of course, i still love listening to hardcore.
VVM is no competition for SFist. They have their head so far up their asses when it comes to an online strategy, and have such thin news coverage, they're irrelevant. SFist is way more interesting, way more fun, and doesn't have the baggage of mike lacey, matt smith, or any of those turdboys at VVM!