Last week's winner: the East Bay Express: It's the Summer Guide Issue: how to raise chickens (like LE Leone in the Guardian!), Segway scooter polo (this should be a Metro article), berry picking in Co-Co County and agrotourism (we believe the correct spelling is agritourism). Hey, there's even fruit in the Express' new blotter column! Alameda County Undersheriff busted for using official vehicle in lieu of moving van. (Ed Jew joke omitted.) The firm that did that Oakland minority contracting study did another study and found that there are a disproportionate number of blacks with City jobs in Oakland. Letters to the Editor includes one from Jerry Brown (we don't think he wrote a letter to the editor once when he was Mayor). Hyphy 4 Christ ... day-um. The food critic likes Riva Cucina even though the butter tastes like "stale essence of fridge."
And the Silicon Valley Metro: we must confess, we rely on the web-version, as we can't find the paper here in Oakland. The website still shows last week's issue.
In the SF Weekly, Cover story: the US Military is recruiting immigrants with promises of expedited citizenship and questionable tactics. The writer who wrote last week's cover story about the big trouble at the Culinary Academy sneaks into a CCA forum about the issues raised by her article. The Gendercator film pulled from Frameline should be shown. The Muppets retrospective at YBCA. McSweeney's desperately needs cash (like just about every other indie publisher). Independent online music stores. J Hoberman thinks Angelina Jolie embodies Brechtian theory; we think she has more to do with Theodore Adorno's hypodermic theory of mass media. Meredith Brody on cupcakes!
And the Bay Guardian: It's the Queer Pride Issue: queer cheerleading squad, housing and services for queer elders, the fencesitter's dilemma over marriage (plus kink resources), queers combatting the dominant paradigm of punctuality, and an opinion piece supporting Frameline's decision not to screen The Gendercator movie. Killing the fun update - that recycled car part bandshell is a go after-all. Ed Jew=dark cloud and needs to go. Emeryville's Woodfin Hotel needs to move on with life and pay their workers a living wage like the rest of the hotels. Dancing for dollars - the City Budget. Sonic Reducer has us with the opening line "F*** Lars Ulrich — he can play drums on my balls..." then loses us at the transition to the Spoon record, but regains our rapt attention with news that Micki, the barbie-collecting owner of Oakland's Stork Club, was in a horrible accident and has major medical bills. Whatever happened to Sly Stone, hey, Replicator's still around, and a review of the Angelina Jolie movie.
Weekly of the Week: While we appreciated the SF-based weeklies forays into cultural theory, if we were one of our college professors we'd have given both the Jolie=Brechtian and Queers vs. punctuality articles a gentleperson's B. And East Bay Express, wouldn't agrotourism take place at 924 Gilman? However, Charlie Anders' piece about queer seniors and the Sly Stone article win it for the Guardian
YTD count: SF Weekly: 7, SFBG: 8, EBX: 7, Metro: 3.
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Yay thanks! Glad you liked the piece. FWIW, it was Marke B.'s idea, and I just carried out his fearsome will.