Arts & Entertainment Video: Gorgeous Aerial Footage of the S.F. Coast, the Bay Lights, and Our Fair City Please watch this brand new piece of HD videography, which features our beautiful city by day and night, as well as the coastline, and some dramatic aerial shots of the Bay and the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rad Home Video of Drive Over the Bay ca. 1984 Behold this lovely, contemplative trip through town, set to early 80s pop hits on the radio, featuring vintage footage of Broadway in North Beach and the Embarcadero Freeway in 1984. Some things still
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The First Honest Cable Company Heh. Please enjoy today's cleanser, in which a parody of a cable company huxter tells it like it really is. "You'll have the option of choosing from several of our completely unwarranted rip-offs,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: PBS Takes Us to a Cyber Cafe, Circa 1995 Did you have email in 1995? We kind of did. But we hadn't yet set foot in an internet cafe. Behold this video from PBS's Computer Chronicles that takes us to pioneering cyber
SF News Video: What It Looked Like Exiting the Supreme Court Today Former SFister Matt Baume was in DC and got to breeze through today's Supreme Court hearings on the DOMA case, a.k.a. United States v. Windsor. He took some cell phone video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kids In The Hall's 'Terriers' The Canadians have gotten a handful of things right in the last hundred years, and Kids in the Hall were certainly one of them. Please observe this video from archive for the original
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Wisdom of Shoshanna from 'Girls' How can we quantify our love and admiration for dear Shoshanna, the smart, naive, fast-talking, uptight-in-a-good-way character portrayed by Zosia Mamet (who happens to be the daughter of playwright David Mamet)? She's everything
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awkwafina A Brooklyn-based rapper named Awkwafina, who's basically the Asian Kreayshawn, has been going viral today after the release of her second video, "NYC Bitches." But first, please behold her first hit from last
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Timberlake, Fallon and Barbershop Quartet Do 'Sexy Back' Oh, we enjoy an old-timey version of anything really. And here, behold Jimmy Fallon doing his oft-repeated barbershop quartet schtick last night with the help of JT himself, and "Sexy Back."
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drag Queen Sings Seuss A Philadelphia-based drag queen by the name of Martha Graham Cracker was invited, and then disinvited, from doing her song version of Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham for a group of children
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 22 Beatles Songs In One Minute LA-based comedian/performer Chad Neidt just did this very slick and rapid mashup of 22 hit Beatles songs, all in one minute, and it's an accomplishment worth applauding. Also, it's a study in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'What Would Ryan Lochte Do?' Oh YES, kids. E! is going all "Hey Paula" on Ryan Lochte, and it is going to be AMAZING. Well, maybe not. It could be incredibly boring. Watching dumb people say dumb stuff
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Little Girl's First Train Ride Ah, the wonderment of children never gets old. [via WOW]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Take Me Back' by In the Valley Below In the Valley Below is a duo based in Echo Park, in L.A., and consists of Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob. We like this dreamy tune, "Take Me Back," which reminds us
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Leonardo Shills for Jim Beam, 'Lost In Translation' Style Just like Bill Murray did, fictionally, for Suntory whiskey in Lost in Translation and in the grand tradition of Hollywood stars cashing in on such things overseas, like Paul Newman in this hilarious
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Nunca' by Trails And Ways Oakland indie quartet Trails & Ways was featured this week among the SF Bay Guardian's 'Bands on the Rise,' and we've got to say we love them so far. They were much
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dude Who's In Love With Inflatable Pool Toys Because no matter how lonely you might feel today, you are not as bad off as this guy. Meet Mark. He's 20. For six years he's been "in a relationship" with 15 inflatable
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The New Postal Service Track Yes, friends, many have hoped against hope for the last decade that it would happen, and it has. The Postal Service has reunited. Death Cab's Ben Gibbard and collaborator Jimmy Tamborello, a.k.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chris P. Bacon, Piglet On Wheels We hope you appreciate this quiet time alone with a painfully adorable baby pig, who was born without the use of his hind legs. He's got himself a wheelie contraption, and half the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Nina Simone Covering 'Suzanne,' Live in 1969 We love, love Nina Simone. Always have. Even the slightly crazy-lady version of her we saw performing several times in the Bay Area prior to her death in 2003, swatting around a big
Arts & Entertainment Video: R.I.P. Stewie, World's Longest Cat Stewie, a Maine Coon cat who hailed from Reno who at 48.5 inches from nose to tail was the Guinness record holder for world's longest cat, died Monday after a battle with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Our Two Favorite Super Bowl Ads, GoDaddy and Audi Yep, commercialism. Few times of the year is the whole country totally gung ho to get pitched at by a commercial, but the Super Bowl is one of those coveted times. This year's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Upside Downton Abbey' Yes! In the vein of Birdwalk Empire, the brilliant folks at Sesame Street have done a Downton Abbey spoof, clearly aimed (partly) at adults, and it's kind of funny.
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Glorious, Elaborate, Almodovar-Inspired Trailer for the Hard French Winter Ball Please enjoy this lengthy (10 minute) but totally worth it tribute to Almodovar created by Aron Kantor (a.k.a. DirtyGlitter), and starring Ambrosia Salad and Stanley Frank. It's a promotional trailer, of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fresh Guacamole,' Another Oscar-Nominated Short Again from the animated category of Oscar-nominated short films comes this brief delight from filmmaker PES, who previously made the similarly stop-motion, culinary-dysmorphia piece http://www.eatpes.com/">Western Spaghetti. It's called
