Sorry for the day late post, but it was a hectic weekend, and we just couldn't bear having to recount the tragedy that was this week's "Project Runway" without at least one good night's sleep behind us. Let's get this over with. Last week's pathetic challenge still hung in the air this week with the designers discussing Carmen's exit, and Chris proposing a "Project Runway" fragrance that would be a mixture of tears, sweat,......

Previously on "Project Runway" the models were forced to kowtow to the fashion whims of a celebrity. Thank god THAT'S over with! Heidi walked on to the runway wearing Uhura's "Star Trek" uniform--seriously--and told the designers they weren't going to need their models for this week's challenge. Ru-roh! She then sent them all to 10 Rockefeller Plaza where they met Tim Gunn who introduced them all to Tiki Barber. Wait. Who? Tim went on......

Thank God. Really, thank you, God. Since it's next to impossible to remove producer and star Tyra Banks from America's Next Top Model -- we understand the difficulty in smiting a soul that clearly sprang forth from ninth circle of hell -- at least you have the mercy to replace the sweetly boring Twiggy with the exotic and more straight-heterosexual-male-friendly Paulina Porizkova.(Yay!) Now that the show has been reduced from a grotesque display of......

The loss of Simone in last week's episode of "Project Runway" leaves us with one local left to root for. (Although as Rita pointed out in her recap of the show, Jack went to U.C. Berkeley, so that kind of counts. But we'll see how well Chris does before we set our sights on him...) At the beginning of the episode we were put through the always boring selection-of-the-models ritual. This could be a......

Abandoned kids, wannabe models, sitcom groaners, socialite teens, and a screaming Brit. It must be Wednesday! Firstly, we have CBS's "Kid Nation," at 8 p.m., in which a bunch of kids are thrown into a western ghost town and forced to drink bleach. Or something. Shockingly, the notion that children were put into harm's way for the sake of a reality television program has raised the ire of local officials and some of the......

During a necessary walk to cool off our fragile emotional state after our third outage-induced computer shutdown, we were flummoxed -- that's right, flummoxed!! -- to find the windows of Jeremy’s (wonky designer brands for less!) adorned with images of...real, normal, visibly-ethnic people. Not a barely-legal, anorexic model in sight. The nerve! Since August is the month fashion glossies whip out their fabulous-at-any-age bullshit public service issues, we guess that Jeremy's is simply paralleling the......

We'll have a bunch of photos of the new Muni shelters up later today (in the meantime, you can check out dantc's great collection). Take a look a this video, though -- it's one company's way of proposing a bike-sharing system for San Francisco. If Cemusa's vision works out, you'll be able to walk up to secure bike stations, swipe a membership card, and then zoom off on a rented bicycle; sort of like......

We're back from vacation! Number of heartfelt thank yous from us!: One! Thanks, SFist Mary, for covering for us last week! We're bummed we missed the Vanessa Prada turban, though. Number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 57. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 8 (including one awesome picture by C.Big of George Shultz with Naomi Campbell. It's probably too much to hope for that Naomi Campbell swatted the tiger tattoo......

As promised, Naomi Campbell came back to town for her very first San Francisco runway walk for our city's night of Fashion Week Live last Thursday -- and as noted by SFist Elaine, she brought Australian model Gemma Ward with her. And Tyson Beckford too! Drew Altizer, as always, was there on the scene, and sends along these pictures from the scene. We're running out of laudatory adjectives to describe Drew (we've already used......

A-lister Drew Altizer sends along some pictures he got at yesterday's Westfield Mall MAC Chinese Dress Exhibition at Nordstrom's, featuring models wearing nothing but body paint (and discreet shields over their private areas), drawn to look like designer chi-pao dresses. Cool, in a Demi Moore/silver guy in Fisherman's Wharf kind of way! Thanks for sending these on to us, Drew! More pictures after the jump (and even more at Drew's website.)......

SFist interviews Liz Hickok... maker of Jello cityscapes ...

Of course, our number one viewing choice this evening is the season finale of "America's Next Top Model" at 8 p.m. on the CW. Will Melrose, the local girl-we-love-to-hate, become America's Next Forgotten Model? We're loathe to play into the whole youth-is-king attitude of the modeling industry, but we have to agree with the judges' assessment that Melrose does photograph a lot older than she is (although at age 23, she's older than most......

Hello! Our usual TV correspondent SFist Rain is on vacation this week, so she graciously let us sub in for the week. It's not her fault we're not nearly as good at this as she is! First up: The Amazing Race. We've never watched this show before until this season, and now we are totally hooked. Go (local) Cho Bros! This week's episode sees our six teams flying from the island of Mauritius to the......

Last week on "The Amazing Race" Godwin and Erwin Cho were incredibly nice to Team Kentucky and helped them move from last to first place, while the Chos came in fifth. And, in other news, Creepy Peter and Sarah were eliminated. The teams would be making their way to Mauritius (or Maur-i-titis, Mortious, and Maury Povitch. NO ONE could pronounce the country correctly). At the Kuwait airport each team realized that to get to......

He's in New York! Tuesday he took off to the Big Apple to attend a three day event for the Clinton Global Initiative conference. That's Clinton as in Bill Clinton, not George Clinton. The Clinton Global Initiative is some big huge three day conference in which various political and governmental big wigs gather to discuss the environment and helping the poor people and Africa and all that stuff that George Clooney and Angelina Jolie talk about. ...

Dang it, another year has gone by and we still haven't won a genius grant. However, three folks in the area are pleased as punch, having gotten the legendary call out of nowhere that they've won half a million dollars for just doing whatever it was that they were doing anyways. Our local winners are: Victoria Hale, who runs the nonprofit biotech company OneWorld Health, devoted to developing pharmaceuticals for Third World countries; Claire Tomlin,......

The good news is that the first battle in the legal fight against the NSA's wiretapping program has been won by everyone who doesn't work for the NSA. The bad news is that internet-enabled vigilante mobs could be the next big fad here in the States. Eh, we're too busy applying a new Dasani-branded profile treatment to our MySpace profile and checking out some of the videos. Damnit, we were totally going to lead off......

We thought of Zuni when we had dinner at Nopa. Let's count the reasons: a short, punchy, four-lettered name; a location slightly off the mainstream; an expansive space with high ceilings, a mezzanine and abundance of light coming through floor to ceiling windows; a food fire oven; a focus on the so-called California cuisine, with beautiful ingredients and preparations which are kept simple to highlight the ingredients; a crowd of beautiful people who might......

As much as we said we were going to avoid the NFL Draft, we found ourselves on a lazy Saturday morning tuning in and getting hooked. In it's way, it's got that same addictive quality as a good reality show-- it's totally mindless yet totally absorbing. And like your good reality show, there's all the suspense going on once you figure out all the various ...

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest Bathroom Videos" and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, Mootube. Also,......

It's not just Kimberly Guilfoyle's male model making the news today -- today's installment of This Week In Police Brutality features a piece about two models and their sister, who were allegedly beaten up by two SFPD officers, one of whom had a record of injuring 31 people in 9 years, outside Polly Esther's in 1999. (We know, we know, wasn't going to (the now-closed) Polly Esther's beating enough? But we digress.) Why did the city settle this lawsuit for $175,000? What made these folks different from the 30-year-old consultant who was not urinating outside the Great American, the man minding his own business in the 'loin, or the woman double-parked outside J-town? Well, as a city attorney says in the article, "These were good-looking, middle-class folk, articulate. Two of them were models." Well, of course! There's justice for attractive people, and there's justice for the rest of us! And, of course, this is all contingent on the attractive folks in that picture actually being the people the Chron claims they are too. We look forward to tomorrow's press conference, with two unattractive guys coming forward and being like, "Actually, we're the guys who got beaten up at Polly Esther's." ...

You had a dose of Dosa last week, and we so agree with what SFist Sam wrote that we should leave it to rest. Especially since Dosa probably won't need us to give it word of mouth to succeed: it reminded us of Ti Couz for wrapping fillings into thin pancakes, dosas and crepes being vague cousins; and it reminded us of the Mission's Osha Thai for the dating couple clientele, the energy, the......

SFist interviews Mara Sohn of Yerba Buena Center for the ARts...

If you're anything like us, watching those Victoria's Secret models strut their stuff last night was not nearly enough T&A to get you through the week. Which is why we're thankful that the world of modeling will once again take over our TV screens tonight with the premiere of a new season of "Project Runway" and the end of this season of America's Next Top Model." When our favorite contender, Kim, was eliminated from......

The SFist Tech Labs staff is back from last week's big holiday — the launch of the Xbox 360. Oh yeah, and Thanksgiving, too. Our plan to stand in line at Best Buy for 30 hours to follow some poor woman home and steal an Xbox at gunpoint failed, unfortunately, but there's still hope! Kaleidoscope We may not have the Xbox 360's awesome home media center capabilities, but we may not even need them,......

Schwarzenegger's political poll numbers are still down, there is one poll in which he is doing very well. Turns out, Arnie is Ubersexy! According to Men's Vogue, Arnie is the Fifth Ubersexiest man in the world, making him ubersexier than Ewan McGregor andr Pierce Brosnan, but not as ubersexy as George Clooney, #1 Ubersexiest male Bono, or Donald Trump (blogga, please). Not on the list was Rush Limbaugh, who has been whining about it ever since. As for his propositions' in the Very Special Election, we turn to the Prop. 77, the redistricting initiative because if politics make for strange bedfellows, this one is causing TomKat-like couplings. Besides the support of Mr. Campaign Reform himself, John McCain, the initiative got the support of well-known political reform organization, Common Cause. Well, sort of. Seems there was a bit of a disagreement over supporting it and it's rumored several board members threatened to resign in protest of aligning with a politician whose pro-business stand would earn the plaudits of Montgomery Burns. Also supporting the proposition is consumer rights group, CalPIRG. ...

At last, things have calmed down a bit with the Fall TV season. Most shows have premiered, ratings are in, judgments have been cast, and choices have been made. However, in some cases, we're beginning to doubt those choices. For instance, we chose Martha's "Apprentice" over the fifth "cycle" of "America's Next Top Model," but apparently we were the only people in America who did, because Martha is moving to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays......

You know how your Catholic friends are all "Sure, I f**k around and take the pill, but dude, how cool is St. Thomas Aquinas?" Okay, maybe those are only our Catholic friends. But our Apple fiend friends can seem more dogmatic than the Apostle Paul. Question Apple's hardware? "Blasphemy! Get thee to Windoze and suffer an enternity for your sins!" Well, we call bulls**t on Apple for how they pissed on poor fans by......

Last week's Flaunt! fashion show, presented by f.r.e.s.h. (Fund-Raising Events to Spread Hope) had a lot going for it. First, it's for a great cause: all proceeds went to benefit the Bay Area Women's and Children's Center, which does great work with Tenderloin-area low-income families, children, and women. The clothes were cute, provided by local retailers Two Skirts and Sean. The models were sassy as hell, each and every one of them made Eva......

We look to TV's finale season with equal parts sadness and relief. Sadness that some of our favorite shows will be gone for months--and often times for good--and relief that we may be able to have a life outside of our living rooms for a little while. (Though really, what kind of life could that possibly be?) So let us help you, fellow TV slaves, with a rundown of some of the shows that......