While some consider Memorial Day the official start of summer, we know it is marked by a different occasion: the premiere of crappy summer TV shows! While last week was a nice little vacation from TV slavedom, complete with even more deletions from the TiVo Season Pass list, those empty spots are quickly getting filled up. Let's see what the evening has to offer, shall we? Tonight is devoted to slightly nightmarish plastic surgery-laden......

What a random assortment of movies this weekend! On screen one, there's the unrestrained yee-haw of state's rights advocates the The Dukes of Hazzard, which needs no further description. On (much smaller) screen two, we have yet another restrained performance by Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, a Jarmusch directed story of a confirmed bachelor (not that way) who discovers he has a 19-year-old son. SPOILER ALERT: A source tells us that the kid is......

San Francisco. San Francisco is the bestest! San Francisco is so the bestest that we want to spend the rest of the week watching it on TV. In some form, or another. And so we shall! If you haven't been watching Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" Wednesday's on F/X, then you've been missing out. Sure, the last two episodes haven't quite lived up to the premiere (in which Spurlock and his fiance moved to Ohio......

New time, same channel. The man everyone either loves or loves to hate, Chris Daly, makes a scene on the Muni. The A's and the Giants kicked off the baseball season in fine style. SFist gets thisclose to Gavin, Al, Sean, Leonardo and Mos Def at the Current TV kickoff party. Who says protests are a waste of time? Seems Arnold got the message at his little fundraising dinner on Tuesday. The supes pass......

If anyone was having any doubts that Jose Canseco is nothing but a big fame whore, you need doubt not more, as it was announced today that he will be joining the cast of the next season of "The Surreal Life." We've extolled the virtues of this reality series before, and we don't think anything will top the premiere featuring a naked Mini Me peeing in a corner, unless one of Canseco's cast mates--who......

SFist is sure there are some important, good-for-you TV shows airing sometime this week. Probably on PBS. And we wish them and their viewers all the best. But we can't let a certain trio of trashy TV shows go unnoticed, so allow us to forgo the healthy and head straight for the dessert table this week. Hello VH-1's "celebreality" line-up! The fourth season of The Surreal Life premiered Sunday with a bang, and much......

SFist contributor and virtual TV pundit Rain Jokinen offers her Bay-area-centric TV picks of the week SFist does not deny that a lot of head-burying has occurred this week. Post-election blues lead to a lot of TV watching, much of it pure escapism. Nothing dulls the pain like a good episode of The Surreal Life. And if Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen can find love with each other, perhaps there is hope for the country!......

Travel down memory lane to those days of yore when rap music could seriously be considered the "black CNN" and wearing a huge clock as a necklace was a fashion statement. Chuck D takes a break from "Air America" and Flava Flav takes a break from filming "Surreal Life 3" as they and the rest of the mighty Public Enemy brings tha noize for a show on September 3 at the Fillmore. If this event is as any good as one EssEffist saw way back in the day, it should be quite a show indeed (Humpty Hump of the Digital Underground stood right in front of us!). It's hard to remember what it was like back then through our misty-colored "I Love the 80's" eyes, but there was a time when PE was the mightiest musical force that roamed the earth--a barrage of noise, beats, and incendiary lyrics that still pisses people off today. PE was the logical inheritor of the Clash's title as "The Only Band that Matters," and considering the times we live in, we need them now more than ever. Lemme Hear you Say Fight the Power....