It's Tuesday, so what better night to premiere a show called "Friday Night Lights"? Yeah, we think it's a pretty boneheaded move on NBC's part, but the networks seem terrified to schedule anything of real quality on Friday nights because they think people don't watch TV on Friday nights. Have they ever considered the notion that people don't watch as much TV on Friday nights because there isn't anything GOOD ON? "The Ghost Whisperer"?......

The Ghost of Mae Nak is a sweet confection with a surprisingly tart center. A contemporary version of a classic Thai fable that director Mark Duffield compared to the Western world's Dracula myth, The Ghost of Mae Nak adheres closely to the "vengeful spirit" structure we've seen in The Grudge and The Ring, right down to the spirit's long, stringy hair and ability to kill folks just by showing up and looking creepy. Though the......

Welcome to the fifth and final edition of this week's SFist Watches TV This Week extravaganza! We can hardly believe how quickly the week has gone, nor how many shows we've watched. And thank God it's Friday, because that means our viewing choices are, thanfully, a lot slimmer than they were last night. But just because the choices are slim doesn't mean we're willing to watch whatever the hell is on. Which means that......

Where SFist continues on our quest to convince our readers that we like the printed word as much or more than the electronic. Check out our Bay Area local bookstores and our local libraries, and don't forget how easy it is to reserve books from the San Francisco Public Library for pickup at whichever branch is most convenient for you. SFist Jackson is still working on his fifty-cent copy of Simone de Beauvoir's Prime......