Results tagged “noname”

Earlier in July, SFist reported that Alice 97.3's Morning Radio Show booted No Name (AKA Mike Nelson) from the (allegedly) popular morning program. Reason given for ridding Nelson from the zany morning team was that the show was going to move in a "different direction." And by "different" they meant "backwards," it seems. See, Vinnie (who used to be Sarah's partner before getting fired in 2002 for partying too hard with his pal Tina, thus forcing him into rehab) will return again. Wee. According to SF Weekly, "tomorrow listeners will hear a very familiar voice joining Sarah. That’s right, Vinnie’s back!" Read more about it here.

Revealed by its competitor Live105 this morning, word is that Alice 97.3's Morning Radio Show just pruned part of its morning team, on-air personality No Name (AKA Mike Nelson). Alas. Together for six years on the radio, and a few weeks on television with an ill-advised spin-off of the show, Sarah and No Name have entertained the Bay Area masses every morning with, ahem, shocking banter and bon mots. (Or so we assume. We haven't listened to the radio since the advent of the talking picture box. But we have seen their mugs grace the sides of Muni buses now and then.)

Please change your billboard already.

Flipping through the radio this morning, we caught an interview with Bill Romanowski on the Sarah and No Name show. No Name pretty much fawned over him while Sarah fawned not necessarily over him but over his new protein drinks. Callers, however, didn't just fawn over him but slathered over him too, mainly for what they kept on saying was for "bringing passion to the Raiders." The subtle dig, of course, being that the Raiders don't have any passion anymore and need another Romanowski type to step up and give the Raiders a swift kick in the patootie.

This morning we were lying in bed, trying to summon the will face the day as the Alice Morning Show played in the background. (In the words of SFist Jon: "Hey, they're funnier than the Live105 crew and there's only so much public radio one can take in the morning.")

It’s been awhile since SFist has listened to morning radio but when we did, we found ourselves ever drawn to Howard Stern. Yeah, we know. But when you’re stuck at some soul-sucking temp job, nothing helps fill the existential void like a little lesbian-dial-a-date. If we did listen to radio in the morning, however, tomorrow we’d be totally listening to Alice Radio. Filling in for Sarah’s erstwhile partner No Name for the past several days is the one, the only, Kevin Smith. Yep, Silent Bob himself has been getting up in the morning and chewing the fat with Sarah and the rest of them.

Postcards From Buster is about Buster's adventures travelling to real places and meeting real people. And no, we don't think it's because he should have made a left at Albuquerque, it's because he's trying to show all the kiddies out there all the different types of people and religions out there. Let's see Pokemon try and do that!

If it seems like it's a shinier, happier world out there, it's because this week is "No Name-Calling Week." All week Middle Schools taking part in the program will teach kids that calling each other names is bad…mmmm…kay? Participating schools will receive a resource guide that includes lesson plans, a video for classroom use and other promotional materials. At the end of the week, an essay and poetry contest will be held. We're sure the kiddies will be right on that.