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SUNDAY, FEB. 3, 2008

Eye Opener: Best Super Bowl Ad?

Amy Dearest picked this Planters Nuts ad as one of her favorites from the ones aired during Super Bowl XLII Sunday. In it, an actress made up to look homely with a unibrow drives men crazies with her "perfume" -- the scent of Planter's Peanuts…

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Wild Card/Sunday -- 2/3/08

My wife and I are headed to Frito Ray's this afternoon to watch Super Bowl commercials, halftime show, and mebbe some of the game. I'm rooting for New England. Any organization that can produce 3 Super Bowl titles in 6 years, in this era of…

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Popkey: Obama Making "Government Cool Again"

Obama has hooked voters like 26-year-old Cory Steinmetz, who skipped the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections but got up at 6 a.m. Saturday to see Obama in Boise. Steinmetz, 26, an engineer at Micron, came with friends from Boise's First Baptist Church. On Friday night,…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.