Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hey, Human!' Aww. Cats are never this enthusiastic about anything. Look at him waving his little arms to get let inside. [via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hard French Winter Ball, The Promo You may recall the positively inspired, elaborate, excellently executed short film by Aron Kantor (a.k.a. DirtyGlitter) that was made last year to promote Hard French's annual Winter Ball in Santa Cruz.
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Very Liberace Valentine's The geniuses over at Deeper Understanding have just dug up and re-edited Liberace's Valentine's Special from 1979. It's just as bizarre and slightly depressing as you might imagine, but look! Sandy Duncan and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Not Looking - watch more funny videos Oh yes. Please take in this marvelous parody of Looking, recast in L.A. with the help of funny man Drew Droege, and actors Jason Looney,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Try Not Having Kids' This one should strike a chord with all you childless San Franciscans. From the same funny guy who brought us Racist Yard Sale. [Jason Messina/@SureThingChief]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Really Drunk Russian Dude Falls Asleep Bent Over Backwards Wow. Just. Yeah. This Russian guy pounded so much vodka that he disappeared to the toilet for a while and when his friends went to check on him. Well, just watch. Yeesh. That's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Daredevil Walks Tightrope Near Land's End He won't tell you where this high-line tightrope is, strung between a cliff and a rock outcropping over the ocean's edge near the Golden Gate Bridge, but we can tell you right now
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Choreographer Yanis Marshall Tackles Beyoncé's 'Partition' We brought you a palate cleanser some months ago that featured talented 22-year-old dancer and choreographer Yanis Marshall dancing in heels with a couple of friends around Paris. Now here he is, in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink For the New Year, Delfina Made This Fun Video. Maybe You're In It. To celebrate the end of another year the beloved Mission restaurant's fifteenth, in fact Delfina commissioned this swell day-in-the-life-of-the-restaurant video. It begins at 4 a.m., with the guy who shows up to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Quirky the Blind Kitten Let's hear it for kittens. Even blind, they can find their way to toys they like to play with, and generally enjoy life bounding around a room exploring. This one's name is Quirky,
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Palate Cleanser: Pee-Wee's Christmas Special, 25 Years Later If you ever doubted how amazing, imaginative, cheeky, and twisted Paul Rubens' signature character was in his heyday, doubt no more as you take in this full version of an hour-long Pee-Wee's Christmas
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Watch Chef April Bloomfield Working On the Revamp Of Tosca Cafe There's a brand new segment of the Bourdain-narrated PBS series The Mind of a Chef featuring chef April Bloomfield. The series talks with, and follows around chefs, delving into their craft and processes,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Google's 2013 Zeitgeist Montage Features America's Cup, Daft Punk, Mandela Google just released their "zeitgeist" video, which attempts to define the year in 90 seconds (from an American perspective). It includes the birth of Prince George, Daniel Day Lewis accepting his Oscar for
Arts & Entertainment Video: We Wish 'Love Actually 2' Was An Actual Thing Take a second to watch this faux trailer for Love Actually 2, which mashes up the beloved holiday rom-com, and its cast, with various other roles they've done, plus some Harry Potter, Breaking
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hilarious Ad For Face-Painting Eli Wanket is a young, aspiring filmmaker. His mother has started a small business painting faces. For events and things. Probably mostly for kids. She asked if her son could make a commercial
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vagina Notes Yeah. This is kind of like a SNL skit gone bad. But it's kind of good that way. Maybe we're just immature. Watch as a woman decides if she can keep dating a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Judy Rodgers Talks About Her Food, Circa 2008 In this brief interview done for Epicurious in 2008, the late Judy Rodgers and her Zuni Café partner Gilbert Pilgram (who remains at the restaurant), talk about the food they serve and why
Arts & Entertainment DJ Earworm Unveils The United State Of Pop 2013 San Francisco DJ Earworm released his wildly anticipated "United State of Pop 2013 (Living the Fantasy)" early this year. Lucky us. Lucky you. Among the sundry of assorted crooners, the 2013 year-end mashup
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: One Direction Fans Fight Over Harry Styles' Sexuality, As Reenacted By Two British Actors Dramatizations of internet commenter/Twitterer inanity: A brilliant new medium for comedy, if ever there was one. Please observe these two older gentlemen of the theatre, as cast by the comedy group Dead
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trailer For 'The Batkid Rises' It's been a week since we all got to vicariously live out our own childhood superhero fantasies through Miles the Batkid and the Make-a-Wish Foundation. And now we bring you the trailer for
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleaner: Purdue Gymnasts, Viral Heroes Ah, youth. This limber celebration of all things gymnastic and good has blown up today, and in case you missed it, here it is. The music is "Tidal Wave" by Sub Focus, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Foodies' Documentary Looks Hilarious, Sad Foodies Promo from B-Reel on Vimeo. Do you throw around the word foodie a lot? Do you proudly proclaim that your love of fine cuisine defines and motivates you and it's your dream
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Cooking With Needles' So, this is an actual cooking segment with former RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sharon Needles, part of her "Cooking With Needles" series, you see. In this installment, she shows how to make a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Password Security Question Riddle What do you do vis a vis password security questions when you've had an obnoxiously unconventional life and, like, you've never seen an actual movie. The kids at Upright Citizens Brigade take that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Yoko Ono's 'Bad Dancer' We here at SFist have a soft spot for Yoko Ono, and we hope you do too. Please enjoy her amazing new song and video, "Bad Dancer," which features a huge array of