Newspaper Chase IX

Reasons to Read Newsday:

• The marketing feature It Happened in New York
  
• The Fishing Forecast, which includes a map of Long Island drawn as a fish
  
• Mr. G's G-Whiz weather quiz
  
• Color comics every day, including Herb and Jamal, Ziggy (gack, but in color!), Pickles, and Stone Soup
  
• Local Sounds MP3 features in Impulse regardless of how good the band is (Support your scene!)
  
• They recently gave back-cover Weekend section treatment to my current popcult crush Nellie McKay
  
• Straight outta Strong Island, baby!
  
• Occasionally, Patricia's in the Kitchen
  
• Columnist Jimmy Breslin, a real gem, and a rarity among newsmen today
  

Reasons to Read the New York Observer:

• It's printed on salmon-colored paper, and that just _screams_ bagels and lox
  
• The paper runs full, broadsheet-page stories
  
• Joe Hagan's NYTV TV listing meets broadcast gossip column
  
• On the Town with Rex Reed
  
• Noelle Hancock and Jessica Joffe's deliciously dastardly Fifteen-Day Week events listing (perhaps the only reason you need to subscribe!)
  
• The Transom
  
• Tom Scocca's Off the Record column
  
• It's got the lock on the city's Public & Legal Notices
  
• How quaint; it thinks it's the New Yorker or Harper's... in newsprint!