Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Geographer's Stripped Down 'Verona' San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Mike Deni, a.k.a. Geographer, scored a hit with the synth-pop song "Verona" back in 2010, and this new version is more beautiful and haunting.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Local Turtle Self-Soothes With Mango and Worm Salad Our beloved "Officer Edith" at Animal Care & Control has posted a video that you can enjoy as a moment of Zen today — so long as worms don't make you squeamish.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lil Uzi Vert's Deep-Faked Video For 'Wassup' Featuring Elon Musk and Donald Trump The theme of the new video from Lil Uzi Vert is deep-fake technology, and poking fun at fake news on social media.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Stunt Skier Backflips Over Highway 50 In Tahoe Almost exactly one year ago, noted professional skier Josh Daiek completed a stunt he'd been eyeing for years at Echo Summit Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe — a ski jump over Highway 50. It was all a matter of waiting for the right snow.
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Palate Cleansers: Cat Watches Horror Movie; Cat Freaked Out By Cat Ears As your mind begins to drift away from work to whatever prosthetics you need to stick on your face in a few hours, here's some pleasant distraction.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Playful Pod of Risso's Dolphins Breach In Monterey Bay It's been a short workweek but it's felt like a long one for a number of reasons — gun debates, a deadly but slow-moving hurricane, a deadly boat fire, a dissatisfying verdict, Sharpie-gate. So please enjoy this little video break.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Steve Martin Is One Serious Banjo Player Comedian and actor turned playwright Steve Martin also plays banjo on the side, because as he and Stephen Colbert recently discussed, he's a polymath and apparently never sleeps. He's got a new album
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rad Hot Wheels Track Through Santa Cruz Redwoods A group called 5 Mad Movie Makers that last year built and filmed a Hot Wheels track on the beach in San Clemente, CA, is back this month with a track they built
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Very Berkeley Man Makes Video Tutorial For Walking Cats On-Leash Maybe you've seen Doug Meyers and his cat Eduardo strolling the streets of Berkeley. If not, you've seen something like it: The Bay Area is home to plenty of unexpected animals on leashes
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Travel Palate Cleanser: What Not To Do On A Plane Most of these words of advice should be no-brainers, but since you may very well be getting on a plane today or tomorrow, or even next week, please let the puppets from Glove
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kelly Clarkson Sings 'It's Quiet Uptown' From the Hamilton Mixtape Just to help get you through here, in the rain, this week before Christmas when we're all a little frazzled and hungover, I bring you this moving, fairly stunning rendition of the song
Arts & Entertainment Democalypse Palate Cleanser: Mountain Bikers Recreate TRON Effect With LEDs Besides those indefatigable and still-not-dead-inside high school students showing us all up today with their walk-outs and marching, I'm not coming up with a lot of reasons not to just start drinking early.
Arts & Entertainment Democalypse Palate Cleanser: A Video About How Hummingbirds Hover Please. Take a break from reading any more news, or mea culpas in the press. Researchers at Stanford's Lentink Mechanical Engineering Lab have devised an experiment to study the wing movements of hummingbirds
Arts & Entertainment Video: Regarding The Phenomenon Of Mercury Retrograde, Like The Actual Astronomical Thing This being the Bay Area, you likely have many friends who believe whole-heartedly that all technology and certain types of communication go to sh*t every time the planet Mercury goest into retrograde
Arts & Entertainment Video: Crazed Burner Boyfriend Enraged By Question 'How Was Burning Man?' Most non-Burners with devoted Burner friends should be able to relate to this fun sketch by YouTuberist Kevin Oeser in which he returns home to his girlfriend, fresh from the playa, only to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Insane Faux Japanese Ad For Donald Trump This is the work of Mike Diva, a Los Angeles-based video artist and director who's been having some fun posting some ironic day-glo graphics of Donald Trump on Instagram recently. It's not actually
Arts & Entertainment Video Palate Cleanser: 'Heatwave' It's the first real one of spring, so excuse me for being excitable. And it's already 92 in the Mission you guys!! (As of 1:40 p.m.) Previously: Record Heat Is Bringing
Arts & Entertainment Video: New iPhone SE Mocked As 'A Phone From Three Years Ago' As quickly as Apple announced the release of a new, cheaper and smaller model of the iPhone that is basically the same as the iPhone 5S with a bit more speed, dubbed the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch An iPhone Drown In Vat Of Melted Crayon You might have seen TechRax run a couple iPhones over with a train or smash an Apple Watch with magnets. But its his stunt from late last week that caught my attention, because
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1993 News Report About The Internet Features Lower Haight Cyber Cafe "It's all pretty amazing and confusing, if you're one of those who can't tell a disk drive from a motherboard!" That's the brilliant copy in this segment from ABC's Prime Time Live circa
Arts & Entertainment Video: Local Drag Queen Honey Mahogany Does 'Game Of Thrones'/Demi Lovato Parody Fans of gay blogs may be familiar with hairstylist Jonathan Van Ness and his ongoing Funny or Die series Gay of Thrones in which he recaps Game of Thrones episodes in his own
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Don't Be Happy, Worry' "So many worries, so little time," says the Kinsey Sicks about their SF-sights-set video, a parody of Bobby McFerrin's easy-listening smash "Don't Worry, Be Happy." The Kinsey Sicks, self-described as "America's Favorite Dragapella
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Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'I Can't Feel My Face' Cover Played On Dentist's Equipment This awesome cover of The Weeknd's big summer jam "I Can't Feel My Face" by the very talented Andrew Huang was played entirely on dental equipment in an actual dentist's office. Instruments include
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Rock Climbers Install Light-Based Art Installation On Yosemite's Half Dome This video, shot on August 29, shows a group of climbers installing 39 solar-powered LED lanterns temporarily up the Snake Dike route on Yosemite's Half Dome. It was an art piece titled Half
