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From this week's Televisionist column in tomorrow's paper (now up on the web).

PROJECT RUNWAY
Bravo (Comcast Ch. 50)
8 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 6.

I got tired of reality TV when it became obvious contestants were 'roiding on “Road Rules/Real World Challenge.” I've never watched “American Idol,” “Wife Swap,” “Baby Borrowers” or “Denise Richards: It's Complicated” (I get all the best moments in 30-second bursts of hilarity on “The Soup”). But I'm hopelessly and completely addicted to “Project Runway.” I even cancelled a dudes' poker night this week because it conflicted. Heidi Klum hosts and that helps. Tim Gunn, the on-air mentor, is casually hilarious. Korto Momolu, who's been featured in the Times and has been a part of just about every fashion show in Little Rock for the last several years, is a contestant and possibly a strong one, though Gunn, last week, suggested that her dress was on its way to becoming a “hot mess.” The other contestants, too, have strong, often funny and catty personalities that add to the drama. But more than anything, what sets “Project Runway” apart from the vast, vast majority of reality shows is that the contestants are actually really talented. Even if, like me, your interest in fashion doesn't stretch much beyond your T-shirt drawer, it's pretty amazing to see people, say, fashion a good-looking cocktail dress out of only blue Solo cups.

Movies in the Park winds down its season tonight with "Caddyshack," sundown, free.

Benjamin Del Shreve, who's a person and a band, plays a solo show at Sticky Fingerz,  9 p.m., $3.

Early at Juanita's, as part of Buzzaritaville, singer/songwriter Barrett Baber plays an acoustic set, 6 p.m., $5.

Coopers Orbit front man Chris Henry plays the Flying Saucer, 9 p.m., free.

As usual, Carl Mouton and Gerald Johnson hold it down at the Afterthought, 8 p.m., free.

RSVP here. The broadcast debuts on Aug. 20.

Charles Wyrick, who plays guitar in the Boondogs, the Easys, the Libras and Jim Mize and the Germans, blogs, way too infrequently, for Lucky Dog Audio, the boutique sound studio he co-owns.

He's got a great post up now about his first band, Modern Art (above; that's Charles on the far right).

This badly needs to be the first of an ongoing series about first bands. Surely, there are  hilarious pictures out there of the Bryan brothers back in Bradley, and somewhere, I've probably got early pictures of the first for Isaac Alexander (Boondogs, Big Silver, the Easys) and Rob Bell (the Easys), the Screaming Mimes, who were huge in Searcy when I was growing up.

Here's Charles on Modern Art:

SCHOOL BOY HUMOR
9 p.m., Juanita's. $10.

Chances are you don't know who School Boy Humor is. But there are people younger than you who are watching, with great interest, every time SBH, say, posts a video on MySpace of themselves buying water balloons at Wal-Mart and then surreptitiously throwing them at West Little Rock cars, and who, in response to said video, post comments like “Ha yall are amzing =] i love walmart lol.” Those text-speakers attended enough School Boy Humor shows here — and later, once the band got a little ways into their high school years, all across the country — that the band recently signed to Vagrant Records, one of the biggest indie labels around, and, certainly, one of the choicest spots for a young emo-pop band to land. That debut is slated to come out later this summer. Until then, the band is touring hard all across the country, stopping over in Little Rock long enough to, undoubtedly, pack Juanita's to the brim. It could be your last chance to say you saw them back when.

Little Rock native Josh Lucas, who's famous largely for looking like Matthew McConaughey and playing assholes, will star in "Possible Side Effects," a pilot Tim Robbins' is producing for Showtime. The Hollywood Reporter says the show revolves around, "the Hunts, a dysfunctional family running a pharmaceutical company" and "examines the political, scientific and bureaucratic machinery that makes up the drug industry."

Lucas stars as the patriarch, Max Hunt, "who tries to keep the business and the family together in the face of controversy."

No word on when it'll debut.

Also upcoming for Lucas, a modern telling of "The Tell-Tale Heart" ("Tell-Tale"); a star-studded movie about a mysterious train wreck ("Peacock"); a flick about a broken family, healing ("Long Time Gone"); a starring role as a Jesuit priest working undercover on Wall Street to uncover a conspiracy involving the Vatican Bank, the CIA, the Mafia and the Masons ("God's Spy"— please don't let this be a joke) and a bank heist film ("Six Bullets from Now").

The Boondogs are wrapping up recording of their fifth LP. Several weeks back, Austin producer Andre Moran, who was Jerry Harrison’s assistant when the Boondogs were recording in San Francisco during the GarageBand days, came over to Lucky Dog Studios, where 'dogs Jason Weinheimer and Charles Wyrick work during the day, to record most of the album. Weinheimer, who shares songwriting and lead vocal duty with his wife, Indy Grotto, says that the albums is shaping up as a “big pop rave-up.” He says he plans to master the record in New York or L.A. sometime in early Sept. and have the album out later in the fall.

Make plans. The line-up for the second annual Lucero Family Picnic has been announced. Former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell, Justin Townes Earle, Cory Branan, the Good Fear and Dan Montgomery will join Lucero on the banks of the White River in Riverside Park in Batesville on Saturday, Sept. 13. Tickets, on sale via luceromusic.com, are $15 in advance and $20 the day of show. There’s also a limited supply of VIP artist’s tent passes, for $40. (So you can rub elbows with musicians who often hang out or play White Water and, probably and more enticingly, so you can drink their beer.)