Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Paperman', A Partly Hand-Drawn, Oscar-Nominated Animated Short From Disney 'Paperman,' done in (mostly) black and white, has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short. It tells the story of a mid-century commuter who falls in love with a woman
SF News Video: John McAfee Opens Up to NBC's Raj Mathai Well, it isn't Oprah, but billionaire "madman" John McAfee has given another interview, this time from the comfort his new digs in Portland (where else?), to NBC Bay Area's Raj Mathai. He insists
SF News More Footage of Saturday's 880 Sideshow Call it a souped-up auto flash mob, but here's yet more footage of the sideshow that briefly shut down the northbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland in the middle of Saturday afternoon, shot
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sign Flipping Mastery On the Ellen show Friday, she flew out Atlanta-based sign-flipper extraordinaire Julian Falkenstein and Nonstop (a.k.a. Marquese Scott), after their YouTube video racked up 5 million views in the last two
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Lengthy Time-Lapse of Burning Man '12 Attn: All those of you who still really miss Burning Man. Here is an endless (12-minute) time-lapse video of last year's Black Rock City just to help you get through your day. It
Arts & Entertainment The 'Weekly' Does Not Get One Direction At All! SF Weekly's music team has been doing this "Worst New Song of the Week" feature, and this week's honoree is the new single and video from the wildly popular British boy group One
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'F&%@in Cruise Ship' We'd never heard of this guy Greg Benson, but we think we love him. If you like this little video in which he wanders around a Princess Cruise ship and shows us all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Wet Modeling This one goes out to the gays and ladies, trying to make it through that last hour of work. That would be male model Henny Seroeyen being pelted with water balloons in slow
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Diamond Dave Hosley Word arrived today that Petar's Restaurant & Lounge in Lafayette, with its dancefloor and hipster-approved karaoke-DJ-emcee Diamond Dave Hosley singing his own versions of today's pop hits on weekends, is closing as of
SF News YouTube Nixes Billions Of Fake Video Views Because The Internet Is Meaningless The ubiquitous video streaming site and trampoline accident repository says they have caught major music labels Universal, Sony/BMG, and RCA inflating view numbers on their YouTube channels in a vain attempt to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Apocalypse Edition The world is ending tomorrow, everyone, isn't that GREAT?! No more bills! No more cancer! No more trips to the post office!! We should be so lucky. (Have you heard about the Michigan
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: God and Puppets This is a condensed, two-minute version of (clearly) a classic of Christian family films of the early 1980s. It involves Christian puppeteer who comes to a school, and some pissed off teens who
Arts & Entertainment Video: S.F.'s Own DJ Earworm Unveils The United State of Pop 2012 It's that time again, friends! DJ Earworm just released his annual mashup of the year's hit pop songs, dubbed his United State of Pop. See the list of songs below, and download the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Drag Queen Prank Featuring Sharon Needles and Latrice Royale Fans of Rupaul's Drag Race will appreciate this one. On board the Drag Stars at Sea cruise organized by AlandChuck.Travel the same cruise on which Carnival Cruise lines forbid drag queens to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Regarding Jay DeFeo's 'The Rose,' On View at SFMOMA Artist Jay DeFeo lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area, working as an artist in the Upper Fillmore in the 1950s and 60s, and ultimately ending up on the faculty
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Terrible Holiday Tour Hits the Roxie Curators of all things VHS, tacky, awkward/ironic, and marvelous, Everything Is Terrible, are doing two simultaneous holiday tours with their show Holiday Special 2012: Cataclysmic Transformation. They'll be screening it at the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: '8 to Go' Curl up with a blanket and some popcorn, cat lovers. This little (parody) film is just for you. It stars comedian Heather McDonald and Acatemy Award winner Captain Cuddles in a tale of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Muppets Doing Blow Well, isn't this... cute? It's a video for a song featuring a lot of kazoos called "Your Parents' Cocaine," by Oakland-based outfit The Coup. And it features some shoddily made muppets, a bouncy
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santigold's 'The Keepers' Santigold, a.k.a. Santi White, is coming to the Fox, ladies and gents, on December 12, and there are still tickets. Above, her video for "The Keepers," off her 2012 release, Masters
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Gobbles, Turkeys Gobble Back The French man's laugh in this video is pretty infectious as a he riles a pen full of turkeys from his car. Lucky for him, since turkeys are super dangerous, and relentless. Happy
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Doing the Charleston to Daft Punk This has been making the rounds today, and it's kind of an amazing cleanser for your palate. Someone only needed to slow down the Daft Punk track ("Around the World") just slightly to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Blue' a New R.E.M. Video By James Franco, Starring Lindsay Lohan R.E.M. released their fifteenth and final studio album last year, Collapse Into Now. It's the only album of songs that the band has never performed live, since they broke up right
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: French Twisters So, this trippy little video by French artists Adrien M/Claire B was done using time remapping and the slit-scan photographic process something that was once hugely labor intensive and only possible from
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Little Piece of Amazing This is art, folks. Behold. It's a video of deaf Jehovah's Witnesses signing scripture to discourage others in their flock from masturbating. There are some colorful gestures. Oh, and it's been overdubbed with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ellen Goes as Sofia Vergara for Halloween Here's Ellen DeGeneres on her show today, dressed up as Sofia Vergara for Halloween, hip pads, ass crack and all. She gets the accent pretty well down, and Ellen looks pretty good in
