Things one must believe are true for this to be true:
1. Fox & Disney have solved a decades-old feud.
2. George Lucas, who has no financial or creative role with Star Wars anymore, was told of this.
3. George Lucas told John Landis about this.
4. Rather than let Disney do its thing, John Landis discusses it in an unnamed…

I don't think he gives a rat's ass about being a real fake cop (as opposed to the fake real cops he plays on tv). His PR people (who thought the timing for this was GREAT) just thought it sounded better than "CA law prevents felons from owning restaurants with liquor licenses, and I don't want to divest from that…

Thanks for the shoutout, Sonia. Here's our last (?) interview. I say last because when I ask her about whether she gets to go to the finale in Hawaii, she is unsure what she is allowed to say (Bravo makes contestants conduct interviews with PR reps on the line) but intimates there might be reason for us to talk again…

Bravo says no more interruptions for the rest of the season.

Second the Grub Street recaps. Eater National's reviews (disclosure, I contribute to the Boston site, and have been interviewing Stephanie each week) have also been really funny. And on Bravo's own site, Hugh Acheson's running blog has had some of the best writing about the series yet.

Given it looks like we're not getting an official recap, here is my weekly interview with Stephanie Cmar. I've not been linking the other ones because self-linking is generally an Internet no-no. But if you're reading the comments on a 2 week old tv recap, maybe you won't mind. http://boston.eater.com/arc…

I've been interviewing Stephanie each week, and asked her about where she was getting the mussels. She and her boyfriend (a chef in the same restaurant group she works for) lived in Quincy (a Boston suburb) and is an experienced forager. They would get them from the beach during low tide. They didn't serve them in…

Ha, yeah, it's amazing how editing works. I've been doing a weekly interview with her after each episode (not sure how people feel about self-linking, so I'll leave it as a Google exercise, I suppose), and she really just seems like the quirky-nerd type (I might be projecting, as that's how I also see myself). I met…

"It seems like she got the shit lollipop at home and is creating memories with her boyfriend." — only when it came to cooking. I had the chance to meet Stephanie and her parents this week, and they're clearly a very close, happy family.

I write for a prominent food website that covers Top Chef obsessively, and "cheftestant" is a banned word. We're only allowed to use "contestant" or "cheftestapant" (cheftestant + participant, for absurdity's sake)

"My choice to go would have been Stephanie, even though I like her a lot. Her pork thing seemed tepid, and she was already coming off of a bad challenge last week. "
Um, Stephanie won last week.

Ha! Pretty sure that's editing magic, but still, very very magical indeed

Nope. When chefs are sent "home," they're still sequestered with the production staff until the end of the non-finale part of the series. That's how they're so easily able to have to the audience of defeated chefs at LCK. LCK is filmed concurrent to the rest of the series.