Arts & Entertainment Casting Call: Real Redheads Wanted For Oakland Video Shoot As a natural redhead, one who has reaped both the benefits and the woes of being a prized/loathed ginger, it is my duty to inform my rouge-topped kin that our presence is
Arts & Entertainment This SFPD Training Video Is Oddly Gripping Just hours after after the beleaguered San Francisco Police Department began to come to terms with the federal indictments handed down to five of their active officers, a different side, more thespian side
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch San Francisco's Massive Valentine's Day Pillow Fight From Above Filmmaker Beto "Mooncricket" Lopez flew his "quadcopter" (a type of drone) over Friday night's massive Valentine's Day pillow fight, and it's kind of amazing. "Watch one of the guys on the bottom left
Arts & Entertainment Think You're Tough On Your Phone? Here's Part 2 Of Our NYC Bike Messenger Drop Testing His Own Phone This post is brought to you by our advertiser, Speck. Yesterday, you got acquainted with our veteran bike messenger, Mikey Quackenboss. He's been working in the city for five years with the scars
Arts & Entertainment Think You're Tough On Your Phone? Watch An NYC Bike Messenger Give His Phone A Hard Run This post is brought to you by our advertiser, Speck. This is a crazy city we live in, full of crazy people—some of whom earn a living weaving through traffic, dodging pedestrians,
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Watch Music Videos 20 Bands Raced To Make Under 48 Hours ( By Angela Zimmerman) Consider this challenge: This past weekend, 20 filmmakers and 20 bands set out on a mad-dash throughout San Francisco and beyond to create music videos for Music Video Race. They
Arts & Entertainment 'Touch Me': The Superior 49ers Song Can this be the theme for today's Super Bowl? Let's. "Touch Me" is a 1990 song by Italian group 49ers -- not to be confused with the other 49ers or, for that matter,
Arts & Entertainment Watch It Live: Burning Man 2012! Video streaming by Ustream Check out the Burning Man Webcast, which, while entertaining you with aural niceties care of 94.5 BMIR, will broadcast the entire festival live 24/7 from the Playa.
Arts & Entertainment Watch This Now: The Dangers of Vertical Video Syndrome Today Laughing Squid brings to you what is perhaps the single most important PSA you will see in your brief lifetime. We are, of course, talking about Vertical Video Syndrome, the aesthetic-killing plague
Arts & Entertainment Video & Round-Up: Pulp Live At The Warfield Friend of SFist and owner of Noe Valley's Heroine boutique, Angela Clement Gomez, shot the above video of Pulp's "Disco 2000" from the balcony at last night's concert at the Warfield. Although frontman
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Hipsters + Bikes = Motherf***ing Bike Sons of Science set their humorous ditty "Motherfucking Bike" to video. The result? This comedic amuse-bouche featuring a slew of San Francisco cyclist stereotypes. It could've been more pointed, sure, but it's delightful
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/26: 'Blair Witch Project' Actress Turned Pot Grower MUSIC: Classic S.F. punk band Avengers headline Bottom of the Hill tonight, featuring guests power pop Sacramento and BOATS! and Oakland rockers/punkers Midnite Snaxxx. (9 p.m., Bottom Of The Hill,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Boy Cries Because 49ers Won't Play In Super Bowl SFist's Daisy Barringer has stiff competition in the mourning game after little Johnny here shed tears of sorrow and confusion after the 49ers lost Sunday's NFC Championship game to New York. Is this
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Zip Line Bulldog Might Be Cutest Thing Ever SFist contributor Jerry James Stone brings us this eeee!-inducing clip of a bulldog riding a zip line in Costa Rica. Youtube user Garzilly, who shot the video, explains: "I filmed this in
Arts & Entertainment Video: Occupy Oakland's Scott Olsen On MSNBC, USA Today Quickly on the road to full recovery, Scott Olsen, the ex retired marine and Iraq War veteran who was critically injured by a police projectile during an Occupy Oakland raid back in October,
Arts & Entertainment Shirtless Bruce Lee Look-alike Rapping On BART [Video] Well, this is fun. Muni Diaries brings our attention to a Bruce Lee look-alike caught rapping freestyle whilst riding a BART train the other day. Also, he has no shirt on thus showing
SF News UC Davis Follow-Up: Chancellor's Eerily Silent Walk of Shame [Video], Faculty Member's Open Letter As the Second Alarm reports [via BoingBoing], a large crowd of student protesters and their supporters interrupted a press conference on Saturday afternoon with UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi and campus police, demanding
Arts & Entertainment Video: Cat on Adderall Let's start off by stating the obvious: you should never drug your pets. Seriously, don't. It's mean, it could harm or kill your little best buddy, and you could wind up in the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ricky Gervais and Liam Neeson Do Improv Ricky Gervais’s new sitcom Life’s Too Short debuted in the UK TV this week. We hope it's as good as his other work. This piece in particular, featuring Gervais, Stephen Merchant
SF News Occupy U.C. Berkeley on Colbert Report Wise man Stephen Colbert took on Occupy Cal's skirmish with abusive police this week. Calling UC Berkeley a "hippie haven" and a "slow food, locavore, patchouli, super-fun granola dump site," Colbert breaks down
Arts & Entertainment Couple Visiting S.F. Create 'Full House' Intro Parody Video We don't know who the Kaplans are, but we sure do like their style. Lauren and Michael Kaplan used edited footage from a recent trip to San Francisco to re-creating the intro to
SF News Video: Police Beat UC Berkeley Students at Occupy Cal Rally [UPDATED] During a budding Occupy Berkeley demonstration Wednesday at the UC Berkeley campus, police charged at a group of protesting students before retreating. As the cops attacked the kids, the group chanted, "Stop beating
Arts & Entertainment Sassy Guy in Elmo Shirt Goes Off on KRON's 'Lazy, Fatass' Stanley Roberts Sing-song voiced Stanley Roberts met his match recently during a segment for KRON 4's addictive People Behaving Badly. Filming law enforcement ticketing titularly bad drivers, one sassy law breaker sporting an Elmo t-shirt
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A 2000 Foot Long Hot Wheels Race Track This is like the Hot Wheels Race Track we had as a kid, only not nearly as long or rad, and it doesn't jump off the track every five seconds. O the envy,
SF News Jon Stewart On City's Response to Occupy Oakland "What the fuck happened in Oakland?" Jon Stewart asked during last night's Daily Show. "Seems a little heavy handed... unless some of the protesters were Godzilla," he went on to quip. The comedian
