Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: MGMT Is Being Weird Again Not satisfied to be America's indie-pop darlings, MGMT has been pushing boundaries and alienating some fans in the process with their second and third albums but no one can say they're not keeping
Arts & Entertainment Video: One Guy Does All the Parts of 'This Is Halloween' And It Is Awesome Singer Dan Buckley performs the amazing feat of all 66 vocal tracks on a cover of "This Is Halloween," from Tim Burton's 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. In the original, which you
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Gay Bathhouse Music "Mockingbird Dream," a newly released disco track from San Francisco electronic musician Patrick Cowley, has just gotten unearthed and given a video, thanks to the garage-diving work of local DJs Honey Soundsystem. Basically,
SF News You May Now Watch Decapitations On Facebook In what's being described as a "horrible, distasteful" move, Facebook has reversed its ban on videos showing decapitations. The social media company initially had placed a ban on beheadings, but decided to allow
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Before Your Very Eyes...' By Atoms For Peace Thom Yorke and the Atoms for Peace crew are on tour, and will be headlining tomorrow night at the Treasure Island Music Fest. After their Hollywood Bowl show Thursday night, Yorke tweeted out
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Pupusa' By Hi Fashion Prepare to be amazed. Hi Fashion is a duo out of L.A. consisting of Jen DM and Rick Gradone. Legend has it they met in a gay bar in New York when
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chinese Food' By Alison Gold It's come to this, everyone. Remember Rebecca Black? Remember that Nicole Westbrook chick and that horrible song "It's Thanksgiving"? Well, now it's time for Patrice Wilson, "songwriter" and starmaker of wealthy tween girls
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: If Tarantino Made A Gay Revenge Fantasy It's true. Quentin Tarantino has now made a female revenge fantasy film (Kill Bill), a Jewish revenge fantasy (Inglorious Basterds), and an African-American slave revenge fantasy (Django Unchained). Cracked has just made a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Miley Mashed Up With Sinead Poor Sinead O'Connor got wrapped up in an open letter/Twitter battle with Miley Cyrus (and her handlers) last week, which is something we'd recommend no one ever try doing. Hopefully that's all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Looking At Your F***ing Phone Every Five Seconds' Kimmel's done it again. And, of course, the hashtag #StopLookingAtYourFuckingPhone is trending.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The LOLmbulance Comedian Mike Rose and Parks & Recreation star Retta are featured in this amusing little short about The LOLmbulance, an ambulance that comes equipped with a stand-up comedian to help you forget all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: #JimmyFallonIsGenius Please. Everyone. Quit it with the hashtags. As Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake demonstrate in this clip, you all sound like morons, especially if you're using them in conversation. The irony of it
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Freaky 'Dancing Queen' This thing is going around, and it's rather clever. It's either a man or a woman dressed as a Tim Burton-esque Queen of Hearts, with four doll dancer attached, doing an old-timey dance-puppetry
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A New Song From Boy George 80s megastar Boy George is doing a lot of looking back in the new video for his single "King of Everything," from his upcoming album This Is What I Do. He has a
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Widow Norton,' The Documentary Given that today is officially, by city proclamation, a day of remembrance for Jose Sarria, Empress I, the Widow Norton, we bring you this ten-minute clip of a 2006 documentary by Billy Clift
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Every Young Man's Battle Pornography! It's the work of the Antichrist! Please enjoy these edits of some churchy teaching videos for teen boys about battling the temptation to watch porn by our friends at Deeper Understanding. "Put
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Baby Orangutan Time! Meet Rickina. She's a wee little thing. She was rescued in Indonesia by International Animal Rescue after she was found with a wound on her head in the care of a man who
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vine Jackassery It's sort of like a female Jackass, right? Added bonus: Check out this genius 12-year-old girl who employs the humor of discomfort to make brilliant Vines. [CodyTupper/Twitter via Gawker] Previously: Will Sasso,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Down At Fraggle Rock FYI, Hulu just started streaming all of Jim Henson's brilliant '80s Muppets spinoff, Fraggle Rock, and for many of you, the antics of Gobo, Red, Mokey, Wembley, and Boober will bring back nice
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stephen Colbert Profiles Openly Gay Kentucky Mayor Johnny Cummings Stephen Colbert treated us all to another "People Who Are Destroying America" segment last night, and this time the subject is Johnny Cummings, the gay man who got elected mayor in the tiny,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: This Kid's Insane Bar Mitzvah Sam Horowitz, who just became a man last fall in Dallas, can thank his generous parents for allowing him to make the crazy insane entrance he had so dreamed of making to his
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LED Dance Troupes The video above just came to our attention, featuring the (Red Bull-sponsored?) PasTels Dance Troupe at an identified mall doing a flash dance number wearing LED-enabled suits. This has become a bit of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Year (So Far) In Vines You wouldn't think you could do that much with six seconds of video, but the world (and many a college student) is showing us just how versatile the medium is, for comedy anyway.
SF News Motivational Speaker On Morning BART Trains Confuses, Inspires Oakland resident Ron Yorrick Jr. recently decided to "practice his awesome" by making speeches to commuters on crowded morning BART trains, prompting many to wonder what he wanted from them, or if he
Arts & Entertainment Video: Advice For Straight Girls In Re: Their GBFs Davey Wavey, the vlogger who brought us this swell look into the sex lives of LGBT senior citizens, and this montage of thoughts about vaginas by gay men, presents us with a new
