Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Instructional Video' Shows Reddit In The '80s As imagined by the videographers of Squirrel-Monkey in an "unearthed VHS" (via Laughing Squid), this is what Reddit looked like in the 1980s. Of course, Reddit was founded in by Steve Huffman and
Arts & Entertainment Video: What Apple Thought The Future Would Look Like Back In 1987 This awkward but vaguely funny joke video possibly made for inter-company joke purposes? depicts the technological advances that Apple imagined they would have made by 1997. The video gets some things right, though
Arts & Entertainment Local Singer Sony Holland Sings About Gentrification In 'Hasn't Been The Same Around Here' Much like local musician Kelly Niland did earlier this year with the LCD Soundsystem riff "Mission I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down," local singer Sony Holland brings us this rockabilly-ish original
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Season 2 Trailer NOT LOOKING - Season 2 Trailer - watch more funny videos Just in time for the finale of Looking, we get the trailer for the new season of L.A.-based web-series parody
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jose Gonzalez's 'Leaf Off/The Cave' Singer-songwriter Jose Gonzalez has got a new album coming out February 17th called Vestiges & Claws, and the first video, for the single "Leaf Off/The Cave" is now out. The video starts
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF From 10,000 Feet, Shot In 4K This video, shot by some guys in a Cessna in 4K (better than HD), shows some dramatic top-down views of the city on a clear day. Santa Rosa-based pilot and videographer Andrew Leonard,
Arts & Entertainment Band That Cried Poverty After Tour Makes Cool Stevie Wonder-Herbie Hancock Mashup When local band Pomplamoose publicized what appeared to be just a sincere plea to fans to continue their support following an alleged $11K loss on tour, many people responded to the struggle of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Seattle Dog Takes Public Transit To Park By Herself Ahhhh... This is amazing. A Seattle dog has learned to ride public transit by herself after not wanting to wait around for her human to take her to the dog park, which is
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Divisadero Time-Lapse Artist Sadie Mellerio has installed this site-specific video installation for the window of hip kid magnet Madrone Art Bar which shows a time-lapse of the view outside Madrone Art Bar, at Divisadero and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Parks & Rec' As An 8-Bit Video Game (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Video: Ladies of 'Downton Abbey' Play Cards Against Humanity Brilliantly, the folks at Entertainment Weekly decided to have three of the actresses from Downtown Abbey Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith), Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), and Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hughes) play a round of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Another Pretty Drone Video Of The Bay Area Bay Area By Air from Pre-Future LLC on Vimeo. In honor of the this fresh start to the year, a multi-copter drone enthusiast with a GoPro has given us another lovely video of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hilarious Vintage Ad For Computer Sound Card This is an ad, circa the late-1980s, for the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card, geared toward video games made for the PC. The company would be out of business by 1992, as the YouTube
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jimmy Fallon and One Direction's 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' Kind of like he did with Idina Menzel and "Let It Go," Jimmy Fallon and the Roots gathered in a dressing room and did an acoustic version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: Parade Of (Impersonated) Celebrities Bring Christmas Cheer Christina Bianco is back again, this time with some Christmas readings, and singing, from the army of female celebrities she does spot-on impressions of. (Some of you may have caught her marvelous, multi-voiced
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cats vs. Christmas Trees Cats don't like Christmas trees. Or, rather, they really like to jump on them and knock them over, and play with tinsel, and lights. Anyway, this is funny. [h/t: Tastefully Offensive]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vintage Apple Commercial Highlights Christmas Ruined By DOS Prompts Most of you whippersnappers will be confused by this ancient commercial from Apple, in which a family's Christmas Eve is ruined by the DOS prompts required by their brand new "Multimedia Computer." But
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Super Mario BART (Redux) Speaking of vintage arcade games... remember when somebody last year made a rudimentary BART map in the 8-bit style of Super Mario Bros.? Well, now Super Mario enthusiast Robert Bacon, who's made something
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Dog That Can Operate Appliances Meet Allie, a 12-year-old yellow labrador who clearly causes headaches for her human guardians whenever they leave the house. The dog is adept at opening both the refrigerator and freezer and having her
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Everybody Say Yeah' From 'Kinky Boots' Opening tonight in San Francisco is the first touring production of the 2013 Tony Award-winning Best New Musical, Kinky Boots, direct from Broadway where it's still playing to sellout crowds. Adapted from the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jane Krakowski Auditions For 'Peter Pan' Leaked 'Peter Pan Live!' Audition Tape with Jane Krakowski from Jane Krakowski You know the network television event (and possible biggest debacle) of the season, Peter Pan: Live, airs on Thursday on
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santa The Hutt Quits Boozing This season Betabrand, famed and defamed for their creation of the Suitsy (a onesie suit) has reprised their holiday horror photo scene starring Santa the Hutt. Passersby at the Valencia Street store are
Arts & Entertainment Black Friday Palate Cleanser: Weed Snobs We already live in a world of weed connoisseurs who could rattle off a litany of whimsically named indica-sativa hybrids and tell you the relative THC and CBD levels of each. And as
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Behind The Scenes of 'Looking' Season 2 As mentioned earlier, HBO's Looking wrapped shooting last week in SF on Season 2, the first episode of which which will premiere on January 11. But here's an "invitation to the set" video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shake & Bake,' For Thanksgiving (A Taylor Swift Parody) A lot of you who are not flying out of town in the next two days are probably still debating where to eat your turkey on Thursday, or deciding whose houses to hit
