SF News Twitter Evokes Dot-Bomb Memories With Pricey World Series Ad Campaign Hey, guys, remember the halcyon days of January, 2000, when a bunch of dot com companies dropped scads of money on commercials that would run during the Super Bowl? One current-day dot com
Arts & Entertainment 10 Great Perfume Ads (Plus One Of The All-Time Worst) In honor of tomorrow's SF Artisan Fragrance Salon—as well as Barbara Herman, author of Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume and vintage perfume blogger at YesterdaysPerfume.com, and her
SF News Facebook's First Commercial: 'Chairs Are Like Facebook' Right after hitting one billion active users this week, the eight-year-old social media company has released its first commercial spot. The message their ad agency Wieden + Kennedy came up with? Chairs are like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Thomas Keller's American Express Ad Makes Us Want To Visit Yountville, Plant Trees Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi brings our attention to a new ad for American Express featuring French Laundry founder and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup lover, Thomas Keller. The commercial, drenched in music written by
Arts & Entertainment Adidas Stages Quirky Fun Run For Commercial Shoot Neighbors around Divisadero, the Panhandle and Alamo Square got front row seats to a much tamer version of Bay to Breakers today. What looked the city's marquee running/drinking event come six months
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: James Brown's Cup-O-Noodle Commercials Inside Scoop's masterful Paolo Lucchesi brings us crucial entertainment this afternoon: James Brown's two long-lost Cup-O-Noodle commercials. They're beautiful. Lucchesi notes: "Sometimes there are no words. This is not one of those times.
SF News Burners Upset Over Orchard Supply Hardware Ad? SF Weekly reports that San Jose-based hardware supply chain Orchard Supply Hardware produced an ad targeted at Burning Man ticket holders. "At Orchard Supply Hardware, we like to help people make the most
misc Brave ABC Affiliate Protects Los Angeles from Televised Homosexual Menace Remember the other day, we told you about a bunch of new TV ads about how gay families can actually be pleasant and likable? Well, you'll be glad to hear that the spots
misc iPhone Ads: Yes, We Have No Dilemmas by Evan James Apparently it is no longer possible to watch even two hours of vitally important teen television dramas on the CW without being bombarded by iPhone commercials, all of which are
misc Does this Screenshot Look Familiar? Update: This is a only a problem on KTVU's HD channel, 702. 002 is normal. We're also guessing this may be exclusive to Comcast subscribers.
Arts & Entertainment Apple and the Marina Come Together in Perfect Nerd-Fratboy Harmony 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,
SF News RIP: Mr. Whipple Chastises His Final Squeezer 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,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Tuesday Fall TV Premieres 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"
Arts & Entertainment Revisiting 1997: Win Tickets To See The Crystal Method Another one of our favorites (though in a completely different genre,) The Crystal Method dropped their first album in August 1997. Ten years and four studio albums later, we have been inundated with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- 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 get ever so giddy. And although
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV 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
SF News Cycling: The Marin Centurians 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
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: Lez be Friends But the execution ... oh dear. The film is presented as two half-hour sitcom episodes, and the jokes seldom manage to rise above quality. One typical exchange: when a lesbian finds out that her
SF News Mike Gravel's Secret San Francisco Hideout Uncovered! 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
Arts & Entertainment "Conton" Doesn't Have the Same Ring 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
Arts & Entertainment Why Do We Always Come Here? The excitement begins on June 21 with "Muppets 101," a sort of primer on who and what and how. It's followed over the next two weekends with screenings of "Labyrinth" and "Dark Crystal"
SF News The T-Third Line: Already Sucking In the Ex's story, Muni is already down six trains as those six have been benched due to collisions with cars and other vehicles. Oops. Muni is saying that when everything ramps up,
Arts & Entertainment Your Cute Video of the Day 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Loose Change's Human Nature We liked the staging and we dug some of the music and we got into the dancing and we thought some of the staged sets were pretty innovative and extremely well-done. Yes, it
misc Week in -Ists 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
