This is Nia, the twin sister of Top Model winner Naima Mora. They're both equally "famous."

Friday:
• Feist brings sincerity and talent to her show tonight at Webster Hall — two qualities the scene doesn't see too much. Mates of State and Jason Collet also perform. [flavorpill]
• Photobloggers take over the Apple Store at 6:30. Go and be prepared to see your face on Flickr. [NYC Photobloggers]
Saturday:
• The New School hosts the NYC Grassroots Media conference, teaching starry-eyed youths the values of self-aggrandization and ass-kissing. Welcome to the big city, kids. [flavorpill]
• Starlet meets Star Wars: The Drones play at Southpaw. Costumes optional but discouraged. [Upcoming]
Sunday:
• Everyone knows that French film is the quickest way to restore your self-esteem after a weekend of public vomiting. Reclaim your elitism and dignity by heading to MoMA for afternoon showings of Godard's bout de souffle and Sentier's Le Jardinier. [flavorpill]

Floria Sigismondi always accessorizes with an Interpol member.

Fridays are delightful, and no less so because of Blue States Lose, our weekly game in which we sort through the galleries of blissfully retarded hipsters at The Cobrasnake, Last Night s Party, Misshapes and Ambrel so you don t have to. After the jump, Joey Arak teaches you how to wear your kohl liner smeared like the stars.

• Trippy Icelandic rockers (and we use that term loosely) Sigur R s team with string quartet Amina at Madison Square Garden. They'll bring the warbled beauty, you bring the drugs. [flavorpill]
• Chicago improv group Baby Wants Candy will impress even your most Sondheim-obsessed friends by performing a completely improvised, one-hour musical. And you thought you pulled impressive things out of your ass? [UCB]
• Maybe you wouldn't still be single if you knew how to chew with your mouth closed. Improve your table manners with Mark Teague, who reads from How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? Apparently T-Rex didn't know his salad forks. [Paper]

• Gothamist celebrates its third birthday while presenting their sixth musical showcase at the Knitting Factory, featuring Burnside Project, Metal Hearts, and Slowlands. Three years old, eh? It seems like just yesterday that Jake Dobkin was just a wee lad, dreaming a big, bloggy dream... [Gothamist]
• All the fun of Haight-Ashbury, but only half the drugs: Elevator Repair Service presents No Great Society, a perfomance piece inspired by the beat writers and their trippy ways. [flavorpill]
• Author Jonathan Lethem gives a reading of hand-picked short stories tonight at Symphony Space. Why use your own stuff when you can get attention reading someone else's? [Upcoming]

• Former Paris Review hottie Brigid Hughes reads from the debut issue of her my-way-or-the-highway literary magazine A Public Space. John Haskell and Claudia Gonson make cameos. [flavorpill]
• Continuing with the theme of "couldn't get it published anywhere else," Jon Friedman hosts The Rejection Show, a comedy hour featuring material rejected from other arenas. One man's trash is another man's polite laughter. [Upcoming]
• Matt Pond PA brings his lush, depressing rock to the Bowery Ballroom. California act dios (malos) open, providing just enough jangly pop to make sure you don't kill yourself. [Oh My Rockness]

• Death metal is apparently still a viable form of music, or so Nile tries to prove tonight with Hypocrisy and Soilent Green (which is made of people). [flavorpill]
• Koren Zailckas gives a reading of her bestseller Smashed, which discusses binge drinking and emotional instability among women in college. As if those things were restricted to college. [Paper]
• Today is the final day of the Pixar exhibit at MoMA, meaning it's your last chance to watch Toy Story 2 and still be considered "cultured." [Upcoming]

Friday
• Muxima, the latest film by Chilean Alfredo Jaar, illustrates "tumultuous Angolan life, dealing with colonialism, independence, health crises, and civil war." Nothing says weekend like a little colonialism and an epidemic or two. [flavorpill]
• "Does Comedy Really Matter?" features a number of speakers who are not so much peripherally as entirely involved in the world of making people laugh. Not much discussion there, then. [Paper]
Saturday:
• Calla hits Northsix tonight, bringing their "ethereal, droning aesthetic" to a crowd of hipsters who won't be able to tell it from the noise their heater makes. [flavorpill]
• Lou Reed and Hermes don't really fit into the same sentence for us, but nevertheless, here it is: Lou Reed signs his new book of photographs today at the Hermes Gallery. [Paper]
Sunday:
• Apparently there's some big sporting event going on. If that's not your fancy, perhaps two hours of Liza Minelli on Inside the Actor's Studio might do? Or, even better, you could just watch puppies. [CNN]

Bruce Benderson, Erica Jong and Naomi Wolf resist the urge to start an orgy.
Something truly special happened last night: a book party that actually didn't suck. Granted, it was totally Gay — but still! Penguin imprint Tarcher celebrated the release of Bruce Benderson's The Romanian — a homo-hot account of his affair with a Romanian street hustler — by throwing down at Nubla, courtesy of hosts John Waters and Blackbook magazine. It was a surprisingly glitzy affair, with Waters doing his adorably creepy thing, Benderson being leashed by a "minder," and Blackbook EIC Aaron Hicklin spinning like Pete Tong circa 1999. After the jump, staff photographer Nikola Tamindzic captures the sexually liberated literati.

It's time for our favorite Friday fuckwit funfest: Blue States Lose, where we sort through the galleries of blissfully retarded hipsters at The Cobrasnake, Last Night s Party, Misshapes and Ambrel so you don t have to. After the jump, Joey Arak shows you how it's done.

Gratuity-dispensing, multi-platform superstar Jamie Foxx is back in LA, undoubtedly relieved that the Miami Vice hell shoot is finally over (albeit feeling somewhat lonesome for his voluptuously man-boobed co-star Colin Farrell). Still dateless for Hollywood's big prom night, Foxx spoke to Access Hollywood about what kind of arm-candy he prefers, smiling silently four feet behind him as he gives Ryan Seacrest some red carpet face time:

• Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation, or so say Baudelaire and the curators of the eponymous exhibit opening tonight at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery. Watch the wheels turn at tonight's opening from 6-8. [flavorpill]
• The PLUG Awards defy the meaning of "independent" with an awards show honoring the indie crowd. Becuase every celeb, no matter what genre, deserves sycophants and a red carpet. [Upcoming]
• If you're too indie for indie awards, check out The Red Member with Soft Circle, Lexie Mountain, and Sand Cats at the Cake Shop. [flavorpill]

• "Who Gets To Call It Art?" documents the life and work of Henry Geldzahler, art curator and social butterfly. Art imitating life hoarding art. Or something. [flavorpill]
• Sarah Vowell shares her quirky fascination with death tonight at the Barnes & Noble on Astor Place. It's the ability to cutesify necrophilia that really makes a writer. [Upcoming]
• Two Boots Theater screens Groundhog Day in celebration of the third most important holiday in Februrary (fourth, if it's a leap year). Prizes for the best groundhog costume, if you're feeling extra lame. [Paper]

• Columbia and the New Yorker — two bastions of elitism in a world gone to pot — combine their snotty powers to deliver a series of discussions between the magazine's staff and contributors at the university's Miller Theatre. Tonight's chat features Oliver Sacks and neurological disorders (another bastion of any elite). [flavorpill]
• Boggle enthusiasts flock to Rickshaw Dumpling Bar for the hopes of some hot letter-on-letter action after the tourney. [Paper]
• The Big Quiz Thing brings its five rounds of trivia and geek savant Noah Tarnow to the Ars Nova Theater tonight for an extra-special, extra-big quiz night. It's almost worth trekking to Midtown. [BQT]

• Once a month, Channel 102 screens its low-budget shows in front of an audience, who then decides which shows to keep and which to cancel. It's like American Idol, but with less hair gel. [flavorpill]
• Essie Mae Washington-Willams, the daughter of Strom Thurmond and one of his family's African-American maids, discusses her coot of a father at the 92nd Street Y. And unlike the rest of the socially-conscious public, she apparently has something nice to say about him. [Upcoming]
• With appearances by Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, and Ben Stiller and others, The Public Sings celebrates 50 years of musicals. Yeah, it's a little cheesy, but the Deerhoof show is sold-out. [PublicTheater]

Friday:
• Mika Rottenberg's video Dough follows "an extremely corpulent woman whose allergic reaction to daisies helps a viscous outpouring of dough to rise." Fine, but some people have been wise to the leavened bread thing for a few thousand years now. [flavorpill]
• Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories play tonight at the Canal Room. Upside? You're guaranteed a Cody Franchetti-free evening. Downside? The glasses. [Upcoming]
Saturday:
• The Idiotarod '06 involves five-person teams navigating a shopping-cart from Brooklyn to Manhattan in whatever manner — bridge, tunnel, drunk, or sober — they please. Aside from the free after-party at Tonic, it's just another Saturday. [flavorpill]
• Field Music plays at the Mercury Lounge. Elevator music plays in the lobby. [Upcoming]
Sunday:
• Bernard-Henri L vy invades the 92nd Street Y to discuss how Europeans view Americans. You already know the answer, though: from a long way away, with a scowl. [Upcoming]

TGIF, whorebots, 'cause it's time for Blue States Lose, our fun little game where we sort through the galleries of fucked-up hipsters at The Cobrasnake, Last Night s Party, Misshapes and Ambrel so you don t have to. Then we bring you our 10 favorites each Friday. After the jump, Joey Arak helps you with your asymmetrical haircut.

• Plasticman, along with Jammer and Skepta, create a "post-jungle diaspora" tonight at Rothko. Perhaps the open bar from 10-11 will help you figure out what the hell that means. [flavorpill]
• Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel will read from her Dictionary of Republicanisms tonight at 7. It's no Talking Bush doll, but we imagine there will be some good knock knock jokes. Barnes & Noble at 82nd Street and Broadway.
• The Broken Social Scene show at Webster Hall is sold out, but try and bully your way in anyway: Canadians seldom put up a fight. [Upcoming]

In last week's edition of Blue States Lose, we came across the following photo: