Are you an "outgoing, intriguing, competitive" person who is "up for anything and everything?" Also, are you an asshole? Yes? Then head over to Sugar Cafe (679 Sutter) this Saturday night from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. to tryout for a spot as one of the hamsters in CBS's phenomenal reality show, Big Brother. The show is simply horrifying, wonderful, frustrating, epic, and seems to end much too soon every year. In case you're......

This Craigslist ad caught our eye. A Hollywood production crew is looking to throw down "free school tuition, nice housing, money for living expenses, and per diems" to one lucky mary jane fan out there willing to attend "the well-known Oaksterdam University in Oakland" to study cannabisology, or whatever, to learn the art of kind bud "growing, dispensing, and medical services." (Some of the class the school offers are "Politics/Legal Issues 101," "Cooking/Concentrates 101,"......

Luring us in with "just the kind of quirky San Francisco event that SFist readers would be interested in," a PR company sent us word today of a zany pre-Valentine's Day activity that's happening right this very second! It seems that a woman -- a woman who looks like she has no trouble finding a date whatsoever, God bless her -- is looking for love. Check it: [Today] at the bright and early hour......

We've got another local to root for on reality TV, as Yau-Man Chan has returned to "Survivor"-land in a new season called "Fans Vs. Favorites." Now, there's little doubt that Yau-Man is a definite favorite. He played the hell out of the game, especially being an old guy, and most importantly, he wasn't a douche bag, unlike so many other "Survivor" contestants. Contestants like Jonny Fairplay, who, for some inexplicable reason, was also cast as......

Photograph of Michael Strahan, coach Tom Coughin (holding the Vince Lombardi trophy) and quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning by Tien Mao Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade.Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattle’s Saturday caucus.Londonist had Super Tuesday too.Elusive guerrilla street artist Banksy revisits Los Angeles.After the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and came this close to making......

Okay, before you ask, this is not the much-beloved Our Locals On Reality TV Project Runway recap, this is the SFist Symphony review -- we'll explain later in the post. We had a little San Francisco Polyphony of our own on our way to the SF Symphony concert yesterday night to see Gyorgy Ligeti's shimmerily-dissonant orchestral piece of the same name -- the driver of our MUNI bus finally got fed up with people sneaking......

-- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra) Benson managed to make it on LCS not once, but twice. And with good reason: he's downright hilarious. Nikki Glaser and Mo Mandel open for the Benson. Show starts at 8 p.m. (and continues until Saturday) at the Punch Line; $15.......

It was Meet the Parents week on "The Bachelor" which is always good for a laugh. Or a cringe. And Brad's visit to Walnut Creek to meet Sheena's parents was mainly in the cringe-worthy department. The day started with Sheena's parents dragging her and her bachelor behind their boat in an inner tub. Which, you know, fine. Some people like that kind of thing. But then Sheena's mother started talking about astrology and the stars......

We love documentaries -- they're like reality TV, with a popcorn stand! So you know we're totally psyched for SF Indiefest's sixth annual Docfest, which starts up tomorrow and goes through next week! Friday's big opening movie is "What Would Jesus Buy?", about the much-beloved street activist Reverend Billy and his Church Of Stop Shopping. Rev. Billy will be there in person with his message against overconsumption -- which we're sure is well worth spending......

The premiere offerings tonight are limited, with the 8 p.m. return of "Beauty and the Geek" on the CW being the only new show in the line-up. The show maintains its "hot girls, geeky guys" convention once again this season, but they will be adding one geeky girl and one hot guy to the "social experiment" this time around. That's right, this isn't a dating show, although there have been hook-ups in the past.......

Why on earth would an almost 60-year-old former city councilman from Vallejo want to be on Hell's Kitchen<? To be continually called a "donkey" ("don-keeeeeh!") on route to embarassing yourself on national television?...

Last week's holiday meant nothing but reruns for most of the reality TV shows, save "Pirate Master," unfortunately. But we did realize there is another local competing on another reality show we've forgot to mention. That show is "On the Lot," and the local is director Mateen Kemet from Oakland. Now, "On the Lot" is a show with a lot of problems. It probably would have been cancelled a long time ago, but since......

There were a lot of locals in the world of reality TV this week! "America's Got Talent" included an audition from an East Bay music teacher named Michael Strelo-Smith. He had an OK voice, but he was kind of boring. He swears he can sing anything and everything, but so far we are unimpressed. "Last Comic Standing" continued its trend of finding comedians who have been around for years, and presenting them as new......

Previously on "Pirate Master" the show sucked, but we continued to watch hoping to spot local contestant Nessa. And she was nowhere to be seen. This time around, she showed up right away, dissing John, the exotic scientist dancer who was cast adrift last episode. Not much happened during the first 20 minutes or so, which just gave us more time to get completely annoyed by Captain Joe Don and how he wears his......

The "Celebrities Doing Things" reality TV trend continues tonight on ABC with "Fast Cars & Superstars." This sounds almost as stupid as that show that had LaToya Jackson arresting people in Indiana. Is it any surprise the "celebrities" in this reality show/product placement vehicle include the likes of Jewel, William Shatner, and wrestler John Cena? Of course, we've never understood the tremendous popularity of NASCAR racing, so we'll admit we aren't the demographic for......

The big reality shows have ended their TV seasons, which means we're left with the really crappy summer reality TV fare. And since reality TV tends to set the bar pretty low to begin with, you know the stuff they shove at us during he summer has to be really prime. Like "Pirate Master" for instance! This show screams executive pitch: "It's 'Survivor' meets Pirates of the Caribbean!" But being that we're only (semi)......

And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is not a brand of drinking water but rather, is a small set of forceps used for clamping blood vessels. O'Dorney is home-schooled (but affiliated with a local charter school, and takes classes at various local community colleges), came in fifth in the......

Hey check THIS out. Tryouts for MTV's Real World are nigh. You guys have until Monday, May 7th to see if you'll be the next to fill the shoes of Pedro, Puck, or Judd . . . and subsequently appear on all sorts of weird competitions where you fight people from other MTV shows....

Photographer Drew Altizer goes to all the good parties! Drew reports in from Saturday's birthday party for DJ AM (Adam Goldstein, former fiance of Nicole Richie and just-dumped boyfriend of Mandy Moore) at Mezzanine, featuring not only the birthday boy himself on the turntables, but also Travis Barker (from +44 and the defunct Blink-182, as well as a former Paris Hilton fling and the back-on again husband of Shana Moakler, of reality TV fame).......

Did we miss an episode? It seems like forever since we've talked "Survivor" and the fate of local contender Yau-Man. How is he doing, anyway? Previously, he survived another tribal council because of Rita's yammering. Will another annoying female be his saving grace? Post-Tribal Council, and Yau-Man realized he was very lucky, although he also realized if the tribe starts kicking off members based on their weakness, then he might be next. Reward Challenge,......

In the words of opening night movie guest: Stop! SF International Asian-American Film Festival Time! That's right, ladies and gents, guess who's showing up tomorrow at the opening night screening of Finishing The Game (a Bruce Lee comedy) at the Castro? Everyone's favorite local rapper in baggy pants, MC Hammer!!!! Also appearing: local reality TV star and fashion model Yul Kwon. You know we are so there. (Tickets are still available -- but move quick,......

Reality TV: Will it never end? Apparently not. And we're sorry, but we just can't get behind this three-seasons-a-year crap. "American Idol" has it right: once a year is all you need. But despite the complaining, we're still hopelessy addicted, and find watching these shows more entertaining when there are locals we can root for and/or mock. For now all we have are two castaways on "Survivor: Fiji Islands," Yau-Man, a 54-year old computer......

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Superbowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans for......

Hey, here's an idea for a reality TV game show: your a municipal department in a big-ish city and you're about 15 million dollars in debt and have only six months to find the money. What do you? Raise parking fees? Increase parking tickets? Try and win it all at Cash Creek? And you know who would be eligible to play? The Municipal Transit Agency as they're $15 million dollars in debt and have till July 1 to do something about it. ...

It's been awfully quiet on the Gavin Newsom dating front, hasn't it? Well, if our mayor won't create gossip for us, we'll have to do it ourselves! So we're announcing the official Favorite Gavin Newsom Date poll! Whom did you like the best? Was it loose cannon Kimberly Guilfoyle -- or maybe you preferred the devoted Scientologist Sofia Milos? What about barely-legal Brittanie Mountz, or the current (for now) and fully-legal Jennifer Siebel? Or maybe......

If "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," then the folks over at Bravo's Top Chef sure have some huge brains. Because this season reeks of inconsistency. And it's starting to piss us off. Major, major misstep, Tom, Gale, and co. (Let us state up front: it's only because this show can be, is often, and should always be so freaking good that these missteps get to us). Let's give credit to some of elimination-style reality shows--we've seen episodes of The Apprentice and Rockstar where the judges weren't afraid to make a bold move and eliminate more than one contestant. But never -- NEVER -- have we seen a show like this wimp out and send NOBODY packing....

BREAKING NEWS..... BREAKING NEWS.... MAYOR HAS RETURNED TO GEL STOP. HAIR HAS RESUMED PREVIOUS CONFIGURATION STOP. [yes, we know, the stop means period, so there is technically no need to put a period after it -- but it's hard to read like that is all. We're just thinking about your reading comfort!] Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back......

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery. Phillyist rejoices in the Phillies' wild card chances, mourns the injuries sustained by Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse, and goes pirate on our asses. SFist notes that Guns and Roses were in town, that San Franciscans are taking over reality TV, and that the San Francisco Chronicle's skills of original nomenclature could use some......

We're so pleased to have some locals to root for in reality TV this season. Here's the first of what we hope are several weeks worth of updates on how those locals are fairing. So far, they're all still in the running towards becoming America's next amazing race war model! Unfortunately, we didn't know last Sunday that we'd be writing this post, so we didn't take any notes during the premiere of "The Amazing Race."......

Awright! It's time for another SFist contest! Where was Gavin Newsom last week? a) On the playa at Burning Man; b) On a date with a barely-legal model; c) On a date with a C-list reality TV star; d) Trying out for Skating With Celebrities; e) Ably leading San Francisco through its current crisis of high crime rates and a fractiously-divided Board of Supervisors. or ..... f) something else entirely? Was he.... babysitting Suri Cruise?......