SF News Video: Watch This Big Rig Slow-Motion Slide Down a Snowy Donner Pass A big-rig's brakes froze up on I-80 Thursday, on the westbound, downward slope of Donner Pass, and the driver was left to keep the thing steady as it slid down the hill.
Arts & Entertainment Guy Who's Lived In San Francisco For One Year Would Like To Explain San Francisco To You A budding YouTuber by the name of Tom Dehnel has just produced a video about the pleasures and pains, wonders and woes of living in our fair city.
Arts & Entertainment #TBT: 'Shit San Franciscans Say' AH, memories. Back in the early days of 2012, before Facebook had gone public, and before Obama had even been elected a second time, the "Shit ___ people say" meme took over YouTube and many of our social media lives for months.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Locally Shot 1976 C-Grade Horror Flick 'The Milpitas Monster,' Screening Monday Locally famous (in Milpitas anyway) homegrown, low-budget horror film The Milpitas Monster (1976) just aired Saturday night on Northbay TV's (channel 49) "Creature Features," a reboot of KTVU's long-running horror movie series hosted
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Metallica Rock Out To Rihanna And 'The Little Mermaid' On 'Carpool Karaoke' Just in time for Metallica's headlining appearance at Outside Lands on Saturday, we have a "Carpool Karaoke" trailer from the new Apple Music series this one featuring Billy Eichner as "host" in place
Arts & Entertainment Video: Drone Footage Of The Newly Renovated Alamo Square The fences have come down, the dogs have returned to their long-closed play space, and Alamo Square Park is open once again, for the first time in a year following a $5.3
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Take a 360-Degree Look At Three Twins' Petaluma Ice Creamery Three Twins Ice Cream, which now has six scoop shops around the Bay Area in addition to one in SoCal and pints being sold in grocery stores all over, makes all that deliciousness
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bears Emerging From Hibernation Explore Tahoe Garage It's that time of year again, and as the snow is finally melting around Lake Tahoe, bears are waking up, showing up scavenging, and they're hungry. Video posted to Facebook by South Lake
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mountain Lion Kittens Discovered In Sonoma Den Wildlife researchers in Sonoma County who have been tracking "clusters" of activity among mountain lions came upon a rare sighting of ten-day-old mountain lion kittens in a den last Friday. They managed to
Arts & Entertainment Peninsula School District Issues Warning About Netflix Series '13 Reasons Why' That Deals With Teen's Suicide The just-released, Bay Area-based Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, produced by actress Selena Gomez, has been cause for concern for the San Mateo-Foster City School District, which sent out a letter to parents
Arts & Entertainment Noe Valley B&B Owner Is A Neighborhood Style Icon Sheila Ash, the 69-year-old owner of Noe's Nest Bed & Breakfast in Noe Valley, is one of those characters who epitomizes the colorfulness that San Francisco has always been known for. Born to
SF News Video: Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge Collapses In Big Sur After several days of trying, Caltrans crews succeeded in knocking the condemned Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge into the canyon on Saturday. Two thirds of it anyway. As CBS 5 reports, most of the bridge
Arts & Entertainment Democalypse Palate Cleanser: Mountain Bikers Recreate TRON Effect With LEDs Besides those indefatigable and still-not-dead-inside high school students showing us all up today with their walk-outs and marching, I'm not coming up with a lot of reasons not to just start drinking early.
Arts & Entertainment Democalypse Palate Cleanser: A Video About How Hummingbirds Hover Please. Take a break from reading any more news, or mea culpas in the press. Researchers at Stanford's Lentink Mechanical Engineering Lab have devised an experiment to study the wing movements of hummingbirds
Arts & Entertainment Video: Disney-Pixar's Adorable Short 'Piper' Now Watchable For Free Die-hard Pixar fans who saw Finding Dory in the theater were already treated to this animated short, the latest quiet masterpiece by Disney-Pixar and the team of writer-director Alan Barillaro, producer Marc Sondeimer,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet Thelma The Singing Housekeeper At Kaiser Hospital Leah Garchik's latest Chronicle column includes a great little tidbit about local character Esperanza Thelma Paumboy, a housekeeper at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in SF who wanders the halls alternately mopping and serenading
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames Drivers Abusing Disabled-Parking Placards Professional scold Stanley Roberts was back at it again this week, this time around directing his camera and reprobation toward those abusing the system of disabled-parking placards that actual disabled individuals depend on
SF News Video: Pantless Man Smokes Meth (Or Crack) On BART SOME HOMELESS GUY SMOKIN CRACK ON BART pic.twitter.com/G2Bnh3MzGs— LIKNEM (@SOMESTEEZ) August 28, 2016 A possibly homeless man without shoes, wearing what appears to be a towel draped over his legs
SF News Video: Shark Spotted By Kayaker Near Mission Rock A man kayaking in San Francisco Bay Saturday morning spotted the shark you see in the video above, which swam up to his kayak and then under it before swimming off. He was
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Metallica Documentary Being Released By Spotify Thursday It's been a long road since Metallica sued Sean Parker's Napster service in 2000. Tomorrow, August 18, Parker-affiliated Spotify is releasing a new four-part documentary series about the formative years of Metallica, titled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Jacques Pépin Says He'd Cook Chicken For Trump With 'A Lot of Vinegar In It' The great and lovable Jacques Pépin, who shows no signs of slowing down at age 80, was in San Francisco Thursday for a book signing at the Ferry Building and a cooking demo
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames People Who Hang Out Of Sunroofs Taking Photos On Golden Gate Bridge Stanley Roberts's target for passive finger-wagging this weekend over at KRON 4 this week were the many, many tourists (and locals) who hang out sunroofs and car windows, without seatbelts on, to take
Arts & Entertainment Video: Muppets Band Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem Killed It At Outside Lands A major highlight for many of us at this year's Outside Lands fest in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was a chance to see, live on stage, the Muppets' famed house band Dr.
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Compton's Cafeteria Riot 50 years ago next month, a group of pissed off trans women and hustlers who frequented Gene Compton's Cafeteria at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin revolted against police
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go + <i>Black Mirror</i> = Dark Comedy? Fans of the spooky, Twilight Zone-inspired British sci-fi series Black Mirror might appreciate this dark bit of parody that takes one of the most disturbing episodes of the show, "White Bear," and mashes
