This was not a very happy week for the -ist network as one of our own, Phillyist co-editor Star C. Foster, passed away early in the week. Her wit, intelligence, and good nature shone through the site, making Phillyist an immensely fun read. She was loved by many and will be missed by all. Phillyist paid tribute to her this week with a heartfelt letter to her and an obituary. And now, the awkward......

Let us put this bluntly: The last season of "The Amazing Race" sucky, suck, sucked. They never left the continent, the tasks were as exciting as watching paint dry (and we believe that was, indeed, one of the tasks), and the whole "family edition" idea just blew. The show is at its best when the race involves flying from one part of the world to another, not when bickering families have to drive from......

You might have noticed a new city up top in our -ist nav bar: Miamist is in the house! We've been checking them all day long for updates on Wilma, but will keep coming back for hott Dolphin action, even hotter kitten action, and dirt on The Real World. Note to the Miamist staff -- when the inevitable opportunity to interview Julian McMahon arises, can we help? Welcome to the wonderful world of -ist,......

This just in! Bunim/Murray will be in Berkeley tomorrow casting for the 18th season of "The Real World." According to the press release, they'll be looking for "characters from real life; people with strong personalities who are unafraid to speak their minds." Also wanted: people who can't hold their liquor, people who have never been around "homosexuals," and homosexuals who can't hold their liquor. A penchant for getting arrested is also highly desirable. They......

It's been a depressing week for TV, so this time around, we're going to take a slightly different approach. We're going to tell you what not to watch... Don't watch "Big Brother 6". We got sucked into it, and we're afraid we won't be able to break away, and we don't wish this fate on anyone else. This season, the house is filled with even more vacuous pretty faces than before, and despite the......

We don't know what to do with ourselves. The TV season has come to an end, the finales are all over, and TV is beginning to look like a vast wasteland of reality shows. (Seriously, people. "Dancing with the Stars"?!) We're not sure what to do with ourselves. Go OUTSIDE? But doesn't that give you cancer? We could read, but if we're going to be sitting at home anyway, why not just turn on......

We're so excited to hear that Alex Clemens, the dude who had the genius idea to buy up the ad space on the back of Frank Chu's sign, will be appearing on the next Real World [PDF] along with the rest of the Barbary Coast Consulting crew. From the press release: “We’re giving these city slickers one bed, an intermittently functioning sink, and a variety of ‘colorful’ drop-in guests from the neighborhood,” said Real......

SFist has made it very clear in the past that we love us some TiVo. Our love for TiVo is so deep, we DO want to marry it thank you very much! One of the things we love about TiVo is how it allows us to watch TV like an unemployed person, even when we are, indeed, gainfully employed. We can record those daytime soaps and talk shows, come home, open a box of......

We here at SFist were totally going to blog this debate because blogging is, from what we hear, the new black, but since we were also playing the officially sanctioned Wonkette Vice-Presidential Debate Drinking Game we were too hammered by the fourth Halliburton reference to finish up. Plus, Jon Bon Jovi was on last night's episode of The Real World and who cares about politics when John Bon Jovi is all set to stop being......