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Anti-Quinn Coalition Takes Its Campaign to the Streets

Two weeks after making news with a television advertisement attacking Christine Quinn, the "anyone-but-Quinn" coalition NYC Is Not For Sale is taking their message out into the streets of New York. Yesterday the campaign set up outside six subway stops across the city, handing out plastic cigars an ... More >>

Andrew W.K.

My Choice For New Pope!

With Benedict taking off his gown and vacating, we need a new Pope pronto, and I just happen to have one: Carmelita Pope. "Who?" you heathens ask. She's the lady who became famous for Pam cooking spray commercials, gushing about how one squirt of Pam meant that eggs, oils, and all sorts of other ... More >>

Watch Will Ferrell's Secret Old Milwaukee Super Bowl Commercial

FYI, New Yorkers: you probably haven't seen the greatest Super Bowl commercial -- ever. Last night, football fans in Glendive, Montana, Sherman, Texas, and Ardmore, Oklahoma, saw Will Ferrell's latest spot for Old Milwaukee. The comedian has previously shot ads for the Midwestern beer brand and, ea ... More >>

Pomegranate Juice Not All It's Cracked up to Be

The Federal Trade Commission is forcing POM Wonderful to stop exaggerating claims on their advertisements (see above). POM's main marketing campaign has showed that drinking the elixir from a bulbous, blood-red bottle can help treat heart disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction.

This Food Commercial Was Banned in South Africa

A new ad for Nando's has been pulled by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. It begins, "You know what's wrong with South Africa? All you foreigners." It goes on to list many of the country's ethnic groups, and as their names are called, they vanish. Finally the narrator says, "Real South Afr ... More >>

THURSDAY = YOUTH

M83 play Terminal 5

The Ting Tings

COLOR BLIND

The AAWW evaluates 
multiculturalism (with YouTube)

BILLY WHO?

Murray Hill wins the Oscar for Best Host

Rick Perry: There is Not One Non-White Person in America. (Also, Rick Santorum is a Pig!)

Usually, the advisors of even the most aging white male Republican candidate will pay some crude lip service to the idea of a multi-culti America. Not Rick Perry, though; we've watched his latest video "America is Caling" through a couple of times, and from what we can see, there is not one non-whit ... More >>

Fudgie the Whale, Cookie Puss, and Hug-Me the Bear: Tom Carvel's Ice Cream Menagerie

​Left to right: Hug-Me the Bear, Fudgie the Whale, Cookie Puss Kids who grew up in the '80s and early '90s will doubtlessly remember Fudgie the Whale, Cookie Puss, and Hug-Me the Bear. They were characters in the crazy world of Carvel Ice Cream Cakes, relentlessly flogged during the cartoon ... More >>

Miranda July: It Chooses You

StreetMatching.Com Is an Online Dating Site for All Those Missed Connections

There's a dating site for this.​It's the year 2011 and there are waaaaay more options for online dating than Match.com. Enterprising people all over the world are creating business plans for their particular dating schemes (HowAboutWeOnlyDate BeautifulPeopleWithDogsWhoKnit), and the latest, wh ... More >>

BACK TO BLACC

You know his voice

Insane Clown Posse Vow to Make 2011 Gathering of the Juggalos "Bigger and Better," Invite Charlie Sheen and Ass Dan

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithDidn't even have to resort to Google Image Search for this. Fresh off their miraculous return to New York City, Insane Clown Posse are already gearing up for this summer's 12th annual Gathering of the Juggalos. "We're gonna outdo last year," threatened Violent J when we s ... More >>

Brad Pitt and Other Celebs Shilled for Food Before They Were Famous

George Clooney might be well-known as the face of Nespresso, and the image of Padma Lakshmi munching away at Burger King is forever ingrained in the minds of fourteen-year-old boys. Other celebrities have endorsed food products, too...only in roles before they hit stardom. The Daily Meal has a fun ... More >>

Chrysler Drops F-Bomb on Twitter, Fires New Media Consultants

​The struggling automakers of the United States have taken to Twitter for a little boost in popularity, hoping to humanize their brands. This week, that down-to-earth realness became a little bit too real when someone behind the official @ChrystlerAutos account tweeted, "I find it ironic that ... More >>

SAINT JOANIE

A tribute to Miss Holloway—er, Hathaway

THE CABLE GUY

Matt McCarthy is a commercial success

CHILLWAVE

Clever pianist is on an Apple payday

Pandora, MySpace and More Apps That Send User Info to Advertisers

​A giant investigation by the Wall Street Journal this weekend shows that many of the applications people load their iPhones and Androids with are transmitting user data -- as much of it as they can collect -- to advertisers. This includes popular apps like TextPlus 4, Pandora and Grindr. Out ... More >>

In Soviet Russia, TWITTER Follow YOU!

Public Service Announcement for the Internet: if you didn't already know, the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has changed his Twitter username to @MedvedevRussiaE. That is all. Previously: In Soviet Russia, DOG Name YOU! [FK]

Judith Griggs' Last Stand?

Cooks Source​The Cooks Source saga appears to have drawn to a close with editor Judith Griggs' final meditation on the copyright fiasco. There's an apology (albeit a defiant one, and in desperate need of some copyediting) to writer Monica Gaudio, but mostly it continues the not-so-sob story o ... More >>

Press Clips: Do Not Let Robert Thomson Behead Anyone This Week, Please

​VICTORY! for a New York City newspaper, while the rest are going down, down, in an earlier round. A new, familiar byline at New York's Vulture, and a new, familiar byline at AgencySpy. The iPad is still just The iPad, but Twitter is definitely still Twitter. Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast is sti ... More >>

Marc Jacobs Gets Naked Bang For His Buck

​People are still outraged over Marc Jacobs's mostly nude ad for his perfume BANG, which has the buff designer oiled like a salad spoon while holding an oversized package to cover his oversized package. And the more they carry on about how vulgar it all is, the more the ad works!

"From the Studio That Brought You The Departed"!

​Have I been hallucinating or is that really said in the commercials for the new Ben Affleck film The Town? Isn't it a little bit of a vague recommendation? What next --

CRAZYSEXYFUNNY

Katie Schorr saves the world

Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Lands on the Bowery

​Last year, O.G. English space-rock collective Spiritualized reissued 1997's dreamy classic Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, and commemorated the occasion by doing a series of ATP-sponsored Don't Look Back shows around the UK, performing the thing in its entirety. The band is doi ... More >>

Super Bowl XLIV Ads Mediocre; Michelle Obama Fights Child Obesity

​Wal-Mart is testing the idea of switching to private-label spices by replacing McCormick products with its own generic brand in some stores. The chain is currently responsible for 11 percent of McCormick's sales. [Wall Street Journal] Weight loss success stories marketed by such fast-food ch ... More >>

Au Revoir, Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews; AJR Scales Back

​Editor & Publisher, for 108 years the trade publication of the publication trade, is being closed by Nielsen Business Media. So is Nielsen's 76-year-old pre-publication book-review service Kirkus Reviews. E&P had merged with other pub-business magazines over the years and remained well-reg ... More >>

Cupcake Stop to Become Cupcake Shop in the East Village

An article about start-up bakeries in Crain's yesterday contained an interesting tidbit for anyone who follows the goings-on of Twitter-savvy food trucks: The Cupcake Stop, Lev Ekster's nearly five-month-old mobile bakery, will soon have a brick-and-mortar incarnation in the East Village: "Althoug ... More >>

What To Expect In An Economically Depressed New York City

A Couple More G-Darn Thoughts About Sarah Palin

FATHER’S DAY

Backyard shenanigans with a Michigan dad

Clip Job: Ben Hecht on Maxwell Bodenheim

Ad Campaign to Push Congestion Pricing

Bright Eyes Marketing Officially Out of Control

Bright Eyes Street Team: Why?

Not Bathroom Humor: Richest Deal Ever

Dark Comedy Flails as Its Reindeer Games Go Horribly Awry

There's a New Sheriff in Town—and He Brought a Slide Show

A Great Lost Age of Alcoholic Hip-Hop

The March Of Ides

Stylin’

NYC Streetballers Drive Nike’s Infectious ‘Freestyle’ Campaign

Sticker Shock

The FTC Markets Censorship as Consumer Protection

The Post's Predictable Pollster

Surges and Soft Money

Tall story

In the Movies, Men Are Bigger Than Women Even When They Aren't

The Son Also Rises

Wheat Pasting Against the Machine

Guerrilla Artists Celebrate 20 Years of Culture Jamming

Pundit-cide