Barricades have gone up, drag queens are slapping on the greasepaint and Cover Girl cosmetics, and your BART and Muni closures / re-routings start soon. With that said, this has been somewhat of...a mess. What with the fallout over whether or not to close BART at 16th and Mission, how the closure was executed (e.g., an important elected District 9 BART Director left in the dark), and if it's the right thing to do,......

It was finale time for one of our locals. Let's see how she did, shall we? Previously on "America's Next Top Model" Melrose won a lot of competitions and irked a lot of her fellow competitors, and TV viewers. Would she win the ultimate prize?! Jay told the girls it was time to do the Cover Girl commercial, this time for some lip balm. Last season's gap-toothed, accent-challenged winner Danielle (now known as "Dani,"......