Arts & Entertainment Video: A Shorn Hunter Pence Appears on Conan, Talks Katy Perry Crazy-eyed Hunter Pence has shaven that scraggly beard, and he appeared looking remarkably clean-cut last night on Conan. Here's a funny clip in which Conan O'Brien asks him about some funny walk-up music
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa Etheridge's Halloween Plans Funny guys Brian Safi and Jeffery Self have been doing a web series called "What Do You Think ___ Is Doing Right Now" in which they comically imagine what various actresses like Madeline Stowe
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Family Restaurant Here's a trailer for a new film for children called Family Restaurant, which is geared toward kids with gay or lesbian parents. It features restaurant objects come to life, like talking ketchup and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ice Jumper We know this is totally weather-inappropriate, but check it out! It might make you feel a little cooler. A German guy attempts to cannonball into a semi-frozen pool in the dead of German
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: 'Death Becomes Her' With Drag At The Castro Local legend and midnight-movie enthusiast Peaches Christ is doing a first-ever screening of the modern classic Death Becomes Her Saturday night at the Castro Theatre, and it will, like all of Peaches' events,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christopher Walken Does 'Honey Boo Boo' Actually, he reads the part of Honey Boo Boo Child's mom, June Shannon, and Screen Junkies manages to get him to say the words "vajiggle jaggle." Also, Colin Farrel is there and reads
Arts & Entertainment Mitchell Brothers' Daughter Seeks Funding for One-Woman Show Liberty Bradford Mitchell, one of ten kids in the Mitchell Brothers' clan and daughter of Art Mitchell, is a yogi down in L.A. and appears to be leading a happy, stable life
Arts & Entertainment Video: Young Woman Elaborates on Why She's Voting for Mitt Romney Meet Trisha Paytas. She describes herself as "a mix between Woody Allen and your local hooker," by which we think she means she fancies herself an intellectual, or maybe just a nebbishy hypochondriac,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A History of the World in 2 Minutes This video, created by a young genius named Joe Bush for a high-school video production class, gives you a quick overview of life on earth from the dawn of time until the not
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cartoon Network Celebrates 20th Birthday Yay! The stoners of America have kept the Cartoon Network monstrously successful (no pun intended) since its inception in 1992, and this week the network celebrates is 20th anniversary with this fun and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Somebody That I Used to Know' on Antiquated Devices A musical obsessive/genius with a fair amount of time on his hands just put up this version of 2012's inescapable hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye. He's done similar
SF News Video: Crazed Woman Attacks Bicyclists With Road Flare An obviously frustrated and possibly socially conservative female got out of her idling vehicle during Friday night's 20th Anniversary Critical Mass ride, and began stabbing willy-nilly at cyclists with a road flare. She
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Leaving' by the Pet Shop Boys The Pet Shop Boys have a new album, you guys. It's called Elysium, and they're returning to their true, moody, 80s form with the help of L.A.-based producer Andrew Dawson. They
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Honey Boo Boo, Auto-Tuned Please don't watch that suicide video. Watch this instead. It's from Jimmy Kimmel last night, and features Honey Boo Boo fighting for equality in her own special way.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Father Sends Boy's Toy Train to Space We hope this isn't just another viral promotional tool for a video camera (we think not, because there are no brand names mentioned), but here's a stunning, kind of moving little HD video
Arts & Entertainment Video: Burning Man Has a Kiki Just to prove that Scissor Sisters do, in fact, have crossover appeal with the straights, here's a video shot by some Burners of a bunch of (mostly) heterosexual Burners lip syching to the
SF News Skydiver Killed in Napa A 43-year-old man was killed near Byron Airport on Saturday while skydiving and "attempting a maneuver prior to landing," AFTER pulling his chute. Details are few, but the man was from American Canyon,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Sh*t Girls Say' Is Back Well, we're not sure why late-2011 viral video sensation Shit Girls Say, which spawned a trillion imitators (only a few of which were good, though 'Shit San Franciscans Say' remains pretty quotable), deserves
SF News City Attorney Dennis Herrera Makes 'Call Me Maybe' Parody Video to Pimp Money Mart Class Action San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has reached a settlement with payday loan giant Money Mart to repay California consumers $7.5 million in money bilked from cash advances and such. This has
Arts & Entertainment Video: Critical Ass Brings It On, With Spandex We don't really know what this is. Is it performance art? A rag-tag hipster flash-mob? Is it actually a dance class? In any event, it's called Critical Ass, they've made this awesome video,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Virgo Song by Harvey Sid Fisher Please excuse us if you're a blog-consuming vet and you saw the wonders of Harvey Sid Fisher and his astrology songs years ago. We did too. Don't scoff. But for those just joining
Arts & Entertainment Video: San Francisco From a Plane ca. 1941 Check out this recently surfaced color film, a home movie from the Prelinger Archive, shot from a United Airlines plane circling and landing at SFO in 1941. It has some lovely shots of
SF News Fake Married Couple in Super PAC Ad Mildly Disturbed By Gay Marriage Super PACs may have the funds to produce campaign ads about whatever they see fit, but there's no accounting for taste! Or art direction! Check out this hilariously mild, gauzy, and poorly acted
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Clint Eastwood Talking to a Chair (the Song) It took the internet all of about eighteen hours to cough up this little ditty, in which one verse has Clint Eastwood "talking to a pterodactyl" and also "talkin' to a bucket a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drawer and Mouse and Maru It's the return of Maru! The Japanese cat who loves boxes! Yay! In today's episode, Maru's owner covers a toy mouse in catnip, puts the mouse in a Container Store plastic drawer, and
