Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The People You Always Run Into When You Come Home For Christmas I mean, who can't relate to this one? Going back to wherever you're from, and having those awkward conversations with your ex, that guy who never left town, hey, even your mom! It's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch This Guy Step Onto Hot Lava Remember San Francisco startup guy Sam Cossman, who walked nearly to the brink of an active volcano in Vanatu? Well, this isn't that, but it's still a fun look at someone getting up
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sam Johnson's 'The City' Takes Us On A Fun, Goofy Tour Of SF Honestly, the best part of our 20 Best Songs About Places In San Francisco is the comment section, which has turned into, as Jay put it to me this morning, "its own crowdsourced
Arts & Entertainment (NSFW) Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Droneboning Is this video funny? Is it weird? Is it just kind of boring? Your answer will likely be determined by how amused you are by the idea of a drone passing over people
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: IKEA Turns Into The Overlook For Halloween Typically, I am deeply meh about presenting commercials as enjoyable pieces of video. But sometimes, dammit, they just are, like this IKEA commercial that creepily, enjoyably captures the spirit of Danny's Big Wheel
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Beautiful Aerial Video Of A Typical San Francisco Morning Does the below video, as its title states, depict your typical San Francisco morning? Perhaps if you are a seagull, or are Superman and Lois (can you read my mind?) on a West
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch This 1968 Promotional Video For BART 50 years ago this past June, then-President Lyndon Johnson broke ground on BART. Four years later, according to Jeff Quitney, this promotional video for the transit system was released, cheesy acoustic soundtrack and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Death Of 'Superman Lives' It's been nearly 15 years since pre-production began on Superman Lives, the Kevin Smith penned, Tim Burton directed superhero movie starring occasional SF resident Nicolas Cage as the title character. As you may
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rumspringa I'm not going to pretend to analyze friend of SFist and renaissance man Doctor Popular, director Dave Cherry, and the Cardboardians' video for super-catchy song "Rumspringa." While Popular describes it simply as "a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch A Mob Dance Down SF's World Famous Crooked Street What's more bothersome to residents of the crooked part of Lombard Street: A whole bunch of cars or a mob of dancers taking over the street to the tune of Pharrell Williams' beyond-ubiquitous
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Spoiler Bill of Rights What counts as a "spoiler"? Do you think that people are freaking out too much when significant plot details are revealed (sorry, y'all, Rosebud's a sled!), or do you think that people need
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Inside An Orphanage For Sloths Our pals at Vegansaurus point us to this delightful report on a Panamanian animal rescue organization called APPC, where spouses and proprietors Yiscel Yángüez and Néstor Correa rescue, care for, and release sloths
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rhino Shower We're not sure what California's proposed mandatory water restrictions say about "rhino showers," but apparently the San Francisco Zoo isn't taking any chances. Last week they took the time to hose down Gauhati,
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'Dove as Angel' Perhaps your weekend's been a bit hectic and you need some calming visuals. Look no further than these awe-inspiring high-speed videos of animals in flight shot by a group of Dutch photographers as
Arts & Entertainment Midnight Palate Cleanser: Elizabeth Taylor Applies Eye Makeup (1974) Without much commentary, we present Elizabeth Taylor applying eye makeup circa 1974. Rest in peace, Miss Taylor. Video: TaylorHamKid / YouTube
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Polar Bears' Snow Day at S.F. Zoo The polar bears at the San Francisco Zoo, Uulu and Pike, rolled around in the snow yesterday and enjoyed a special holiday-themed treat. (Sorry to get all depressing, but this makes us wonder
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Holidays From Chronicle Books This adorable holiday video illustrates just how incomparably fun, cool, and clever locally-based publishing gem, Chronicle Books, is. It also goes to show that the Chronicle staff is full of some darn good-looking
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Green Apple's Book of the Month This week we bring you a delightful double-dose of Green Apple Books. Check out the bookstore's latest cute and quirky commercial featuring their "Courageous Commando Cuties" advertising Green Apple's September Book of the
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 38 Geary (1996) 38 Geary, directed by Dave Gebroe (1996) from Mike Spiegelman on Vimeo. Artsy short film from the mid-90s, 38 Geary, was shot on Super 8 by Dave Gebroe, starring Mike Spiegelman (who will
misc July 4th Weekend Palate Cleanser: Chief Gascon's Fireworks PSA SFPD is entering the new millennium with these nifty Public Service Announcement videos from Chief Gascon. The above video urges citizens to stay away from illegal fireworks. Tell that to the infamous dueling
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Rogue Wave's "Solitary Gun," Starring BART Rogue Wave - Solitary Gun from Rogue Wave on Vimeo. Bay Area, and beyond, fav, Rogue Wave, have a stunning video out for their new song, "Solitary Gun," off of their recent release,
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Mr. T's "Treat Your Momma Right" One thing Mr. T won't stand for is disrespecting your mother (but calling other kids extremely rude and offensive names is apparently acceptable). [Edit: We just saw this was also posted on Jezebel
