What's a reality TV star to do when the prize money and short-lived fame have come to pass? Design your own sushi roll, apparently. Northbrook-raised Mookie Lee, the likable (yet sneakily strategic) winner of "Survivor: Fiji" (Season 14),  battled it out with other local reality TV participants in a November design-your-own sushi contest at RA -- and now the sushi chefs there are serving up his creation for the month of December.

We would have guessed that he would have gone straight for the fugu, but sadly, you won't find any in Lee's RAVU roll (named after his "Survivor" team, of course). It's packed with tuna, spicy salmon, unagi, scallion, avocado and cucumber, topped with wasabi mayo, eel sauce and tempura bits. Served at the downtown, Lombard and Glenview locations, $3 of the $10 price benefits ACTIVE Chicago, a charity Lee himself started this year that brings athletics programs to underpriveleged kids.

Yep, it's true. When this year's Grammy nominations were announced this morning, Amy Winehouse finally had reason to celebrate after a long year of not-so-positive incidents. The British soul singer received six nods, including for Album of the Year for "Back to Black," Best New Artist and Record and Song of the Year for "Rehab."

Chicago's own Kanye West lead the field with eight nominations, including Album of the Year for "Graduation."

The other Album of the Year nominees: Foo Fighters, Herbie Hancock and Vince Gill. Weird.

What do you think of the nominations? Does Amy Winehouse deserve the praise? Who got snubbed?

Though maybe film geeks are the only ones who pay attention to pre-Oscar awards like the National Board of Review, which announced its annual awards this morning, they tend to be a good bellweather for the Oscars -- four of last year's five Academy Awards Best Picture nominees were on NBR's year-end list.

This year the NBR chose "No Country for Old Men" as the year's best movie, which was a no-brainer. The nine runners-up, listed in alphabetical order, were "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Atonement" (out Friday), "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Bucket List" (out Dec. 21), "Into the Wild," "Juno" (out Dec. 14), "The Kite Runner" (out Dec. 14), "Lars and the Real Girl," "Michael Clayton" and "Sweeney Todd" (out Dec. 21). As far as we're concerned, only "Into the Wild" stands out as the lone disappointment on the list.

Another great pick by the NBR:

"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" as Best Foreign Film. It opens Dec. 21 in Chicago. Don't miss it.

One questionable pick:

--Tim Burton, Best Director for "Sweeney Todd"? His work is good, but Coen Brothers good?

What do you think about the NBR's awards? Or are you having trouble just keeping up with the slate of December releases? If so, click here for showtimes.