Arts & Entertainment Alt-Weekly Cover Art Smackdown: Hate Crimes vs. Groceries We're doing away with our weekly roundups in which we read the weeklies for you because, well, reading is hard! No, but seriously, it's usually the cover pieces that
SF News Alt-Weekly Cover-Art Smackdown: November 23, 2011 We're doing away with our weekly roundups in which we read the weeklies for you because, well, reading is hard! No, but seriously, it's usually the cover pieces that
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: November 16, 2011 As the days grow shorter and the nights grow colder and the local transient population (or Occupy camp) snatches up the paper weeklies for warmth and/or shelter, we continue to bring you
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: November 2, 2011 Free alternative weekly newspapers are the voice of the people, right? Nothing says, "I am the 99%" quite like proudly reading a free newspaper on public transit. So, with that in
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: October 19, 2011 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
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: October 12, 2011 We like reading the alt weeklies for you. Really we do. Because on a lovely day like today, why should you be carrying extra reading material? So please take our word for which
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: October 5, 2011 It's days like today when we are reminded that free weekly papers can still serve a purpose when we find ourselves stranded in a sudden downpour and without an umbrella. If
SF News We Read the Weeklies: September 28, 2011 We know the glare on your iPad will make it tough to read our quick summary of the alt-weeklies' hits and misses this week while lounging on Hipster Hill, but please,
SF News We Read the Weeklies: September 21, 2011 It's Wednesday. Time again for stacks of free Weekly papers to appear on street corners around town. With the fog finally gone and the sun shining too bright to read a
SF News We Read the Weeklies: September 14, 2011 Jeez. This September weather ain't all it's cracked up to be. Good thing we can stay in the warmth of the indoors and read the weeklies from the comfort
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: September 7, 2011 It's Wednesday: time to check the sidewalk boxes for more low cost giftwrap. Should you choose to actually read the weeklies, here's our breakdown of what's worth
SF News We Read the Weeklies: August 31, 2011 It's, remarkably, almost the end of calendar-summer, and the symbolic end of East Coast summer when people throw big bashes at their summer shares, but here in S.F. summer
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: August 24, 2011 With some pleasant solar activity happening this week, it's going to be impossible to read your various iScreens out in the open. Luckily for those frustrated with all that squinting, it&
SF News We Read the Weeklies: August 17, 2011 What's that? You've never heard the term 'alt-weekly' because you're of the new generation that gets all their news hourly, and online, free of
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: August 10, 2011 Judging by the covers alone, this week is not a very strong showing for San Francisco's alt-rags. On the Weekly, we've got an imported story from a sister
SF News We Read the Weeklies: August 3, 2011 Gather round kids. Grandpa's got a story about three Bay Area alt-weeklies and what they decided to report on this week, at the height of this long, misty, fog-gray
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: July 27, 2011 July is harsh in San Francisco and the midday sun will soon give way to another night of cold, misty fog. Should you need a disposable blanket and/or bit of kindling, you&
SF News We Read the Weeklies: July 20, 2011 (Slightly NSFW Edition) It's so sunny out. Why would you want newsprint all over your fingers when you have sunblock to apply? Please accept, as a token of our love for you, this roundup
SF News We Read the Weeklies: July 13th, 2011 The word "Wednesday" is derived from the Middle English Wednesdei, which translates roughly to "the day the alt-weekly papers are released." (Look it up.) While you do that,
SF News We Read the Weeklies: July 6, 2011 It's once again time for us, your trusty SFist editors, to sum up the Must Reads, the Funny Reads, and the Don't Bothers from the alt weeklies, because who
SF News We Read the Weeklies: June 29, 2011 A brief format change here for We Read the Weeklies, by which we mean We Read the Weeklies will be going for brevity. So without further ado: the Must Reads, the Funny Reads
SF News We Read the Weeklies: June 22, 2011 Well, here we are again with the (virtual) weeklies. [Insert crack about ink-stained old media here.] And we're off. SF Weekly This week, SF Weekly treats us to their Summer
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Weeklies: June 15th, 2011 We apologize for not getting around to this week's print papers earlier. We were so excited by that we rolled up all our copies of the Weekly to use as Nat
SF News We Read the Weeklies: June 8, 2011 Too lazy to walk those couple of blocks to the news boxes? No matter. Herein we bring you the pertinent highlights from this week's batch of alt weelies. SF Weekly OK.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Read the Weeklies: June 1, 2011 Did your hardcopies of the weekly papers get soggy on your way to work this morning? Go ahead and toss those in the blue bin, because here's our Wednesday roundup of