Then you've been watching Mornings on 2 this morning. Since at least 6 a.m., commercials on KTVU 2 have all been stuck on this image. While the audio for commercials is still playing without issue, this is the image that has been frozen on the screen during every commercial break. And while we normally care very little about morning commercials, we can only imagine that people who are really excited about Shoe Week at......

How the church appeared on November 13. This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third, two thousand and seven, the store at 2125 Chestnut will open its doors. And at that moment? Apple will welcome in its third San Francisco store, completing the trilogy started by its flagship location on......

Sob. Dick Wilson (AKA Mr. Whipple) died today at 91. His message to the world? Simply this, "please, don't squeeze the Charmin." Born Riccardo DiGuglielmo, Wilson changed his name while working as an actor in efforts to avoid typecasting as an Italian-American. Little did he know that he would be typecast as America's favorite, um, cleanup enthusiast. Emigrating to the U.S. from England as wee lad, he went on to star in over 500......

OK, we're kind of loathe to even mention one of tonight's series premieres because it is that infamous sitcom that's based on a series of Geico commercials. We're speaking, of course, of "Cavemen", and it premieres on ABC at 8 p.m. Now, the last time a TV sitcom was based on a series of commercials, the result was "Baby Bob," so we can't blame people and their knee-jerk reactions to this. That trailer up......

Think back to 1997 - doesn't seem like too long ago on paper, but yeah, a lot has happened since then. Tonight we jump back to 1997 to revisit one of our favorite artists, Abra Moore who is playing Cafe du Nord, tonight at 9:30pm. 1997 was a big year for her: a Grammy nomination for her hit single, "Four Leaf Clover" and her video featured on MTV and VH1. Fast forward to this year,......

-- Scott McCloud: Experimental and wildly popular comic artist and novelist (Making Comics) speaks tonight at "Evolution of the American Comic Book". Rory Root (owner, Comic Relief) and Andrew Farago (curator, Cartoon Art Museum) also speak. Starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Commonwealth Club, 595 Market; $7-$20. -- End of Summer Slam Jam for Teens: Are there words prettier than "back to school"? Maybe. But when we start seeing back-to-school commercials and such, we......

Pardon our absence last week, but we were on vacation along with, apparently, every other nerd in the world down at Comic-Con. We have a lot of local reality contestants to catch up with! First and foremost, the dread "Pirate Master" was cancelled by CBS, although they will be putting up the remaining episodes on their Web site. So far we haven't felt compelled to actually watch those. We'll probably wait until the final episode......

On Saturday, the roads of west Marin and southern Sonoma counties were rife with those two-wheel vermin known as cyclists. Nearly 2500 of them. No, Critical Mass didn't make a drunken wrong turn on Friday night. This was an impressive gathering of the tribes known as the Marin Century.

First, the bad news, then the good news -- Lez be Friends isn't very funny. It hurts to say, since the premise is so appealing: a fake cheesy sitcom, set in the days after Stonewall in 1969 Greenwich Village, starring a lesbian and her gay friends (including a clumsy drag queen and nosy landlord). Doesn't that sound neat? The folks who were around back then all have such interesting stories; and dropping those stories......

Thanks to SFist reader Captain Disco for investigating the truth about the Mike Gravel presidential campaign: the dangerous lunatic shot his horrifying commercials in our very back yards. If you haven't been following along: Mike Gravel is an Eskimo or whatever who wants to spend the next couple years hooting and hollering at the country. His presidential campaign hasn't been doing so keen, so he's turned to the one medium guaranteed to have mass......

Looking to expand your horizons? Well then look no further than Claycord.com, a blog all about day-to-day life in Clayton and Concord, which are somewhere to the east, we're told. Lately the author's been covering the sorry state of some of the graveyards in town, but his reach extends to matters historical, commercial, and vehicular. If you're curious about other cultures and lifestyles, it's certainly worthy of your investigation.......

There is nothing on Earth that makes us sigh with satisfaction as much as a bunch of Muppets running around in the 1970s. Though their post-Jim work is uncomfortable and stilted, the classics will endure pretty much forever. So we're bowled over by YBCA's Muppets, Music & Magic event -- days and days of vintage Muppet mayhem, some of it rather obscure indeed. The excitement begins on June 21 with "Muppets 101," a sort......

This might be a surprise to some of you (well, all of you) but the T-Third line isn't even official yet but already there are problems. According to the Chron, the line is already slower than predicted and the Examiner today reports that there are shortages in trains, not enough drivers, and so far not enough passengers. As this is the weekend the train goes pro, these are not the things Muni wants people to be hearing. ...

Ordinarily, we don't want to get viral with commercials and post them because we don't like playing corporate shills, but this video is kind of cute and San Francisco is kind of the star. Plus, we love the song. ....

-Everyone in Hayward mourns the shooting of two four year old cousins. -Another building in Telegraph Hill gets a yellow tag and it's not because of a sale. -Eight members of the DeAnza College baseball team suspended under suspicion of allegedly raping a High School student. It's like the Duke Lacrosse story except worse. -The early primary gets the worm. -There was a teeny tiny little earthquake in the East Bay yesterday. -Now you......

There are not many words that scares us more than the words "interpretive dance." And there are not many phrases that scare us more than "examines modern man’s increasing disconnection from community, ritual and the environment." Throw both of them together and you got something that makes us want to run to VH-1 as fast as possible. So we went to see Loose Change's recent show, "Human Nature" at the Yerba Buena Center for the......

SFist! You've just come back from a three-day trip to Disneyland, what are you going to do now? We're going to watch the Superbowl! Or at least, the Superbowl commercials. Now, that bit about Disneyland isn't a joke; we did spend three days there, so maybe the post-Disneyland comedown, paired with an eight hour drive and a little sleep deprivation, has something to do with the utter disappointment we had with the commercials this year.......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

To pay tribute to James Brown, we spent a few minutes looking through YouTube this morning to find a video clip that would do him justice. It wasn't easy. Not only are there so many of them but they spanned upwards of almost forty years. But this one we kinda dig because it's from the early 70's and it's got all sorts of early 70's goodness to it-- Afros and polyester and James Brown in a moustache. It's also recorded from some French TV show so it's got French subtitles and not just white people dancing, but French white people dancing. It's kinda rocking too. ...

Here's some good news for all you iPod owners (which would probably be all of you), Apple is finally close to an agreement with the Beatles to sell Beatles tunes on iTunes. And yes, that would indeed rock....

This week Newsweek hops on the "San Francisco Values" bandwagon with a story on Pelosi and what they refer to as San Francisco's "Loony Left." The story makes it seem like we're Nancy's redheaded stepchild. Oh wait, we're probably going to get a comment about saying something bad against redheads and stepchildren so we'll say crazy aunt instead. Oh now we'll get comments about discriminating against aunts and crazy people and, well, forget we even mentioned it. ...

We know this is completely wrong to admit, but voting here in San Francisco, the bluest of blue states, is always a bit unexciting. While the rest of the country is taking part in what we're always told is the Most Important Election Ever, we are once again left out of the thrills. Our gubernatorial race never took off and the race for Senate and Congress was such a no contest that one ran commercials featuring her grandchild and the other gave more speeches in Pennsylvania than here in her home city. It's kind of like rooting for the local Division AAA basketball team make their way through the Division AAA tourney while everyone else is obsessed with the NCAA Tourney. And while you want the local guys to win, you can't but help care more about schools you never attended in the Big Dance. What we're trying to say is that for whatever reason we seem more emotionally invested in the Virginia Senate Race than whatever is going on here. ...

This week we go a little mental....

Yeah, we got the press release announcing Frontier Airline's new SFO-LA service, but we didn't get too excited, because A) we like to fly Alaska to LA and B) we vowed never to fly Frontier Airlines after watching the Travel Channel's program Flight Attendant School. If you never saw Flight Attendant School, it was a six-week reality show following 40 candidates training to attend flights for Frontier. While the intention of the show was to......

Let's see, here's a list of things in San Francisco you can't do: -Smoke (tobacco, that is). -Put left-over food in a Styrofoam container -Go shopping with plastic bags -Stop somebody from taking a dump on the street And now we can add another thing to the list-- no more "private dancing" in private booths at strip clubs. All of this thanks to the Commission on the Status of Women who went and gone did it and passed a bill banning private booths. The decision is now up to the Board of Supervisors who have the final say on this as we guess the Commission on the Status of Drunk, Horny Frat Boys were too hungover to weigh in on the subject. And if there's anything out there that deserves to be put on a ballot and voted on we say it's this. We mean, wouldn't the campaign commercials (usually probably airing at like 1 in the morning) be awesome? "Biff's buddies wanted to get him a special lap dance for his bachelor party, but thanks to a bunch of freedom-loving Feminazis, he was unable to. Because of them, he had to have his bachelor party at Chuck E. Cheese...." ...

n a promotion that worked way beyond anyone could have thought, the Giants held '80s night for last Friday night's game against the A's. They played 80's music, they busted out their old orange uni tops, they played old commercials, and they even made it cold and foggy at AT&T just to give it that old Candlestick feeling. And then they took it to another level. They busted out Crazy Crab. The Crab Revolution will be televised. ...

It is customary to start any post about the World Cup by stating that you should care. We won't do that. Y'all know what a big deal it is and how pretty much every part of the world that isn't Canada or the U.S. is effectively shutting itself down for a month to watch. Besides, we have a feeling part of the reason soccer has never really taken off here is because too many people tell you that you have to care. So getting into soccer becomes something like eating broccoli or the metric system or any other things you are told to do because it's good for you. As a result, people here start getting all huffy and get all "nuh-uh, we're 'merican's damnit. We like our sports with non-stop action, lots of beer commercials, and scoreboards telling us when to cheer and when not to cheer, you Euro Weenie One World-ist!" Instead, we're going to try and get you into it by showing you just how much fun the World Cup can be. Picture it not as something you have to do because you have to be like everyone else, but as, well, kind of a way to travel around the world in a month without ever having to leave the city. ...

SFist has been adjusting to a new job this week, and has fallen way behind on TV viewing. But one thing that we haven't forgotten is the two-hour season (and possible, series) finale of "Arrested Development" tonight. And how could we forget, really, what with all the TV commercials (did you see the one during the Superbowl?), billboards, and pop-ups we've seen promoting it these past few weeks. It seems like a lifetime since......

Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction was two years ago, but apparently America's still getting over it, if this year's batch of tame Superbowl commercials is any indication. We didn't think Superbowl ads could get any more boring than last year's batch. We were wrong. Sex was represented early in the form of Jessica Simpson singing about pizza bites--which have apparently been made for popping. Our hopes for the disappearance of the Simp from the pop......

Saturday: Our favorite REM tribute band, Chronic Town, is back at the Sunset's Blackthorn Tavern for another night of REM flavored fun. Doors open at 9:30, and it's free! Sunday: It's the Super Bowl! Join the Fun Cheap SF Yahoo group to download the disturbingly comprehensive list of where to go to watch all the good commercials and that damn game.......