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.
SF News Video: Rincon Hill Intersection Nightmare For Pedestrians While it's certainly no 19th Avenue, the intersection at Harrison and Main is closely turning into one of the city's most perilous places for pedestrian crossing. "We have multiple traffic estuaries throughout the
SF News Video: NYPD Arrest Man For "Ridiculing" Cyclist Cyclists, if you've ever been harassed for riding your bike on the sidewalks -- which is forbidden, by the way -- take a moment to bathe in the warm glow of this footage
SF News Video: Brian Wilson Explains Why One Should "Fear the Beard" In an ad for SportsCenter on ESPN, Brian Wilson explains to Josh Elliott and Jay Harris why they should fear his famous beard. Video: ESPN / YouTube
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stupid Orchestra, A Symphony for Vintage Home Appliances Laughing Squid brings our attention to something that you'll either enjoy hearing or seeing. Or both. LS notes: "'Blödes Orchester,' (Stupid Orchestra) is a symphonic piece for home appliance orchestra by German
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
SF News Video: Small Funnel Cloud Touches Down at Ocean Beach At around 9:30 a.m. this morning, a developing funnel cloud touched down at Ocean Beach. There's mildly jarring footage of it, too! NBC Bay Area explains: "The tornado on the water
SF News Watch David Letterman's Top 10 Reasons to Buy an iPad 2 Do you have the fever for the flavor of an iPad 2. No? Well, we do. Why? Well, we have no idea why, exactly. Maybe because it's shiny and new, it's "2"-ishness,
misc Scene From A Closing Blockbuster Video It's the end of an era, folks. The video store as we know it is doomed. Here's a shot from the Church Street Blockbuster Video set to close April 10. For those of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Margaret Cho's "Hey Big Dog" Laughing Squid brings our attention to Margaret Cho's "Hey Big Dog" featuring the world's greatest living singer/songwriter, Fiona Apple. It’s from Cho's comedy music album "Cho Dependent" which you can get
SF News FOX News Team Attacked Outside Sacramento IHOP (VIDEO) 24-hour restaurants really do bring out the worst in people, don't they? Take, for example, a FOX40 news crew who were attacked outside a Sacramento iHOP on the 2900 block of Advantage Lane,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mogwai's 'Mexican Grand Prix' As Daniel Levin Becker already pointed out, Scottish musicians Mogwai released a new album yesterday, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, as well as a new video for their track "Mexican Grand
SF News Kati Kim Speaks To '20/20' About Kim Family Tragedy As many of you recall, four years ago in December of 2006, the nation was hanging onto every tragic detail related to the search for the Kims, a young San Francisco family of
misc Watch Cloris Leachman Snatch Peaches Christ's Wig Who can snatch the wig off a drag queen - a noted drag queen, mind you - and walk away unscathed? Cloris Leachman, that's who. On February 5, Peaches Christ hosted SF Sketchfest's
SF News Strong Arm Robbery On Stevenson Street (VIDEO) Bluoz, noted blight blogger, captured the following video of a woman being mugged on Stevenson Street, near Sixth and Market, on Sunday. "You can she she fought back and almost won, but he
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "My Life in a Day" My Life in a Day; San Francisco from Scott Hammel on Vimeo. The Tender points us to this hypnotic film by artist and filmmaker Scott Hammel, featuring time-lapse footage of 24 hours in
SF News Police Release Footage Of SoMa Shooting The SFPD released the following video of the man in a wheelchair who was shot by officers at 10th and Howard and streets in SoMa on Tuesday. According to The Chronicle, "A witness
misc Video: San Francisco Transbay Terminal Demolition San Francisco Transbay Terminal Demolition from David C. Hill on Vimeo. Using his own black-and-white photography and footage, David C. Hill created this poignant video about the San Francisco Transbay Terminal demolition, which
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
SF News Should We Be Worried About February 9th, 2011? Last week we called your attention to this gentleman who used his two minutes of public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting to creep us out and predict Judgement Day for February
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Spoke Art presents the group exhibition, The Bridge is Over, which features the work of artists who live and work in the East Bay, showing San Francisco "the quality of work, and
misc Video: Proof That Lightning Does Strike in S.F. Crazy weather we're having, eh? We don't know about you, but we didn't leave the house today. We read there was a Double Rainbow earlier, and we experienced the thunder and lightning for
misc Video: Halloween Fight at East Oakland Denny's On Halloween night in always-peaceful East Oakland, a fight broke out at a local Denny's. We're not sure what's going on here, exactly, but it sure looks exciting! The psycho dressed as Candy
