SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dan Savage's Webby Award Speech The Webby Awards, which are still alive and kicking, were held in New York City last night. Of the many winners, who are allowed to deliver a speech containing only five words, hilarious
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drunk Voicemails Set to Animation My Friend Evan: Episode 2: The Fire. from Steve Rold on Vimeo. Why can't our drunk voicemails sound this fun? Our alcohol-infused voicemails are filled with vitriol, regret, and the occasional Sondheim lyric.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Birthday, Stevie Nicks! One lucky make-up artist gets a special treat as Stevie Nicks sings the chorus of "Wild Heart" at her during a photo shoot for Rolling Stone. This was back in her Fleetwood Mac
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch Beyoncé Rip-Off an Aging Italian Pop Star Aging Italian performer, singer, and pop-star Lorella Cuccarini hasn't gotten this much American press in her whole damn life. But ever since BeyoncĂ© did a major number at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Rapture Palate Cleanser: The End of Days Depicted in Interpretive Dance In case you're not totally familiar with the events that will unfold before, during and after tomorrow's end of days, the pure souls at Beaumont First Assembly of God have laid it all
SF News Evening Palate Cleanser: Hook'd 4 Lyfe Another gem of VHS-dom from Everything Is Terrible, this one an anti-smoking PSA aimed at teenagers, featuring a young but still pouty Michael Pitt. Didn't think the internet would ever find this one,
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chinchillas In Wine Glasses, In Love We now must try this at home. A pet that stays put in a wine glass is our kind of pet. [via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Video: Drippy Art on Bernal Hill Bernalwood brings your attention to this nifty video by Stefano Caprile and Alejandra Cano -- who are opening of a Lomography gallery in San Francisco -- recorded last week on the top of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Skating the Barge Ramp in McCovey Cove Because if there was ever a good time to listen to Otis Redding, it would be while watching some skaters celebrate legendary skate rag Thrasher Magazine's 30th anniversary by losing their boards in
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Right Way to Celebrate Bin Laden's Death Is it wrong that we're enamored by this 'Merica-loving, ATV-riding, "U-S-A"- shouting, gun-shooting patriot who, in a fit of Osama-is-dead arousal, made this ode to the U.S.? If so, then we
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Ladies Room' By Frisky Disco Filmed at the Blue Macaw on Mission Street, Frisky Disco's "Ladies Room" tells the tale of living in SF: burlesque, drinking, cross-dressing, and seduction all taking place in the women's room. Enjoy.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: More On The 100,000 Toothpick San Francisco Kinetic Sculpture Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from Learning Studio on Vimeo. Though we've showcased this magnificent sculpture in the past, here's a new video that reveals a bit more about Scott Weaver's Rolling
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mr. Toots, The Unicorn Who Farts Deadly Rainbows This made our morning. Allow it to make your afternoon. [Freddie Wong via Laughing Squid]
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Keenan Cahill Performs "Dynamite" With Brian Wilson & Cody Ross YouTube lip-synching sensation Keenan Cahill perform Taio Cruz's perpetually frisky "Dynamite" with Brian Wilson and Cody Ross. Thanks goes out to Sally Kuchar of Curbed for the tip!
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tim Lincecum in Super-Slo-Mo After Bumgarner's shaky 5-inning performance last night, we're looking forward to wonderboy Tim Lincecum taking the mound tonight against the Dodgers. So here's Timmy all slowed down thanks to the miracle of high-speed
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "In My Head" by Queens of the Stone Age Despite hailing from nearby Palm Desert, Queens of the Stone Age won't be performing at Coachella this weekend -- they last performed at the fest in 2003. They will, however, be performing tonight
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Timelapse Of Flight Between San Francisco And Paris Check out this remarkable footage of 2,459 photos of an Air France flight from San Francisco to Paris, featuring the northern lights. According to Gizmodo, the film was "shot using a Canon
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dog Won't Let Toddler Drink From Water Fountain Just a reminder that dogs can sometimes be selfish, inconsiderate bitches. [via Urlesque]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Remembering Kurt Cobain Kurt Cobain committed suicide inside his Lake Washington home 17 years ago today. MTV's Kurt Loder broke the news to a stunned Gen X audience, and the rest was history. In honor of
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Tsunami Dog' Reunion Footage Owner and the 'tsunami dog' reunited. If you recall, the pooch survived three weeks at sea on a roof after being swept away by the earthquake-generated tsunami in Japan. Also: sob, sniff, bawl.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Brett Dennen's "San Francisco" (feat. Forro in the Dark) In what could possibly be the second best version of a song about San Francisco called "San Francisco" -- the first one, without question, goes to punk rock artist Judy Garland -- redhead
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'California Earthquake' by Cass Elliot That would be Mama Cass, of the Mamas and the Papas. We'll say no more.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Something Is Not Right With Me' by Cold War Kids On April 9, Cold War Kids come to the Fox in Oakland, and tickets are on sale now. Above, an "alternate" music video for the song 'Something Is Not Right With Me,'
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Audio Time-Lapse of a Baby Learning the Word 'Water' This presentation from the 2011 TED conference last week has been going around, featuring MIT researcher Deb Roy describing "the ultimate memory machine," a data set containing some 90,000 hours of video
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: OMD's 'Electricity' Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, who may be most famous for a certain John Hughes movie anthem, are coming to the Fox on March 26th so that Gen Xers and the younger segment
