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Padma, Tom, and all the rest of the gang are back! This season on Top Chef, we're off to Las Vegas, where 17 eccentric would-be top chefs will battle royale for the grand prize and the chance to smackdown with strangers on cable television.

What ho, foodies! We here at Bostonist are no slouches when it comes to watching the kitchenly art on television, but news of an upcoming travel/eating series by one of our favorite chefs set our hearts aflutter. Which silver fox will inspire lust and encourage us to put away the Chinese takeout menu? (And no, it's not Hubert Keller, the minx.)

Bravo's had a rough time recently: the complete FAIL that is The Fashion Show and far too much Real Housewives of Wherever made us wonder how the network that brought us The Rachel Zoe Project, Project Runway, and perennial favorite Top Chef could fall so low, so fast. Things (maybe) change this week! Make sure to catch the premiere of Bostonist favorite, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List tonight at 10 PM. Stay tuned for our Top Chef Masters rundown on Wednesday.

Homeboy Patrick went home early, Team Rainbow fell apart into individual rays (of which only Jamie remains), and now Top Chef is in the home stretch. Restaurant Wars came and went uneventfully. Only a handful of cheftestants remain. This season takes place in multi-cultural New York City, making the challenges a bit more creative than last year's foray into the Midwest. Challenge number one: cook a dish inspired by a neighborhood in the city. Most recent challenge: cook a dish inspired by an NFL team. Dildo Beach Club Jeff went home, tears were shed, Team Europe soldiers on.

Local boy Patrick Dunlea was eliminated on the premiere episode of Top Chef this week, but he'll always be a top chef in our hearts. The ridiculously popular show returned to New York City this summer to follow a group of aspiring food fanatics as it reduces to just one Top Chef. As Tom Colicchio put it, the question to ask when it comes to New York is, "Am I happy to be a big fish in a small pond somewhere else... or do I want to take a shot at the top?"

Not only does Project Runway Season 4 feature a contestant named Sweet P (was the "ea" part of "pea" that intrusive?), it also has the requisite dude with whack hair, dude with whack facial hair, and a fabulous first episode title: "Sew Me What You Got." Sweet! None of the designers appear to have Massachusetts connections, but models Lauren, Marcia, and Wendi are all from the Bay State. Lauren started modeling in Boston, and Marcia...

Next Food Network Star Auditions Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 11:00 am-4:00 pm Flat Iron Tapas Bar & Lounge, Bulfinch Hotel 107 Merrimack St., Boston More info Auditions are being held for a new season of The Next Food Network Star. Last time, the show plucked Tommy Grella from Methuen out of a lineup because of his oversized personality, body type, proportions, and ever-present stogie. Unfortunately, homesickness got the better of him, and he left early....

LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late-night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late-night spot in Los Angeles, denizens would flock to it, yet the LA Times and other media might be wary. Turning to sports, the Dodger season was quite memorable in the way that it imploded and the LA County Sheriff's Department made some games of their own such as...

By now you've probably noticed that we're tracking Tommy Grella's progress in The Next Food Network Star because we're still annoyed that Boston wasn't represented in Top Chef (you hear us, Bravo?). And we like the fact that Grella breaks the "Boston tough guy" reality-TV character.

We were deeply disappointed that a Boston chef isn't on the new season of Top Chef, but the Food Network picked Tommy Grella of Methuen as one of the competitors for "The Next Food Network Star."

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not...

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof: DCist revels in The University of Maryland's basketball triumphs, marvels at Metro's security strategy, and applauds DC local Katie Couric's new gig. Phillyist is all about the Philadelphia Film Festival. OK, not all about -- they still have time for loitering, underage sex, and random wacky news. LAist would have to send a camera around the world to get shots as bizarre as Katie's...

Bostonist will readily admit that we’re a sucker for a throwback. Better yet when the throwback is coupled with a sweet deal. All this week the East Coast Grill in Inman Square is celebrating their 20th anniversary, or Birthday Party, as they like to call it. Bostonist has been contemplating the East Coast Grill as destination dining for a while. We’ve heard such good things generally coupled with a mention about the prices. Really, anyone know of a place with “and Raw Bar” in the name that doesn’t also have a couple of $s following it?