Arts & Entertainment So Long, Godfather of Soul 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
Arts & Entertainment The Beatles and Apple, Finally Sitting in a Tree The Beatles are one of a few big bands who have yet to sell their wares online. The only other major bands that we could think of (and we're probably missing a few)
SF News Newsweek Calls Us Loony It's kind of a fun article too in that it's not often you see Bevan, the Bay Guardian, and Tommi Avicolli Mecca quoted in a national newsmagazine. But why, once again, are we
SF News Today's the Day Did we mention that we know we're wrong? Nevertheless what happens here is more important because while the possible defeat of George Allen will be a good thing because it'll make us less
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Mental at The Marsh We never understood how antidepressants could actually increase suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers. How messed up is that? Well, Jennifer Berry is happy to tell you. After signing up for
SF News A Frontier We Won't Cross 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 renew the public's
misc Unskinny Bopping No Longer Allowed -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
SF News The Second Coming of Crazy Crab In 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Guide to the World Cup Part 1- Why You Should Care 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The (Possible) End of the Laughter It seems like a lifetime since we've seen a new episode, and the last episode they aired could have very well stood as a season (or series!) finale unto itself, what with its
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Superbowl Commercials 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 culture landscape,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Naked Babies at SF Sketchfest It turns out Corddry isn’t the only famous or semi-famous member of Naked Babies. Also part of the group is Brian Huskey, one of the Snarking Heads on VH-1's "Best Week Ever.
misc SFist Cares ... About Respect If you watch any late night television you may have seen a series of commercials jointly produced by the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Comcast. They started airing in mid-November and will
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: U2 The first time we saw U2 it was 1984 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Obviously, that was a long time ago: pre-Apple commercials, pre-hanging out with politicians, pre-heavy-handed attempts at irony, pre-blues co-opting,
SF News Don't Vote For Pedro Maybe people will go vote if they find out that voting "no" actually has an effect. According to Jamie Court of ElectionWatchdog.org, voting "no" can be a good thing. Court writes that
SF News As If Our Local Elections Aren't Surreal Enough At the risk of soundling like we don't have a TiVo, we have to ask, have you seen the crazy-ass Ron Chun commercials? Dig if you will this picture: there we were, lightly
misc SFist Raves: That Dockers Commercial Our guardian angel (not the kind with the beret) Jen sent us a link (free registration required) to our new favorite commercial, "A Street Car Named Dockers". We don't necessarily consider ourselvespart of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week - Part Four The thing is, our TiVos and VCRs can only do so much, and we haven't mastered the art of watching one show while also watching another show in that tiny screen-within-a-screen set-up our
SF News Frank Chu Sells Out In a move sure to shock the world of San Francisco advertising, Frank Chu has left his current sponsor, Barbary Coast Consulting for Adidas. Yep, first there was Mars Blackmon, then L'il Penny,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Czech Dream</i> Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda can thank their lucky stars that at the same time that they were making their documentary about the power of advertising, the government of the Czech republic decided
Arts & Entertainment Teen Versus Teen Versus Teen Versus Alex But Had he not been a semi-famous local we'd have had a hard time deciding who to vote for. His colleagues, Michael Braun and Anne Shivers, both seemed like such young people -
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Superbowl Ads You see, America? You see what you get when you complain about a little boob action? You get the most boring halftime show imaginable featuring a snooze-inducing performance by Paul McCartney, AKA The
Arts & Entertainment Winter of Love Doc Trailer Online , a documentary about our Winter of Love, has footage of the Mayor's meetings in the days leading up to the Valentine's happening, as well as footage of the ensuing exchanges of heartfelt vows
Arts & Entertainment TiVo-Lution Three thumbs up! Alviso based TiVo has gotten approval to allow subscribers to email recorded shows. Various entities in the television industry objected, as usual - you know, blah blah blah, proprietary rights,
