Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go + <i>Black Mirror</i> = Dark Comedy? Fans of the spooky, Twilight Zone-inspired British sci-fi series Black Mirror might appreciate this dark bit of parody that takes one of the most disturbing episodes of the show, "White Bear," and mashes
Arts & Entertainment Video Premiere: 'Today Is The Day' By Oakland Band Steel Cranes There's a funny bit of trivia behind this new single and video from Oakland-based duo Steel Cranes. As vocalist and guitarist Tracy Shapiro tells it, she and the other half of this duo,
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Brief History Of Silicon Valley — Which Does Not Include San Francisco, FYI An apparently new outfit called VanDeGraph just produced this YouTube explainer for everyone who doesn't understand the difference between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, or what defines the Bay Area. The video features
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Millennial Hippie Commune Of Your Worst Nightmares Fire dancing! Communal dinners! People cutting each others' hair and frolicking together on the beach! Chateau Ubuntu has it all. This 38-person (!), 10-bedroom house near Alamo Square rents spots for $650 to $1,
Arts & Entertainment R-Rated <i>Sausage Party</i> Trailer Screens Before <i>Finding Dory</i> And Concord Parents Flip Out This is pretty funny, at least if you're a non-parent: There's a totally dark and adult-themed animated feature coming out called Sausage Party, the trailer for which is above, and it's a stoner-esque
Arts & Entertainment New Fun Weekend Activity: Watching Herons Hunt, Kill, And Swallow Gophers Whole In Golden Gate Park @coolbiRdpics yesterday in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco pic.twitter.com/xIUarZzncH— Elliot Loh (@Loh) May 7, 2016 Local Twitterer Elliott Loh was hanging out in Golden Gate Park last month when he
Arts & Entertainment Video: Insane Faux Japanese Ad For Donald Trump This is the work of Mike Diva, a Los Angeles-based video artist and director who's been having some fun posting some ironic day-glo graphics of Donald Trump on Instagram recently. It's not actually
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Catacomb Of Veils, A Huge, Pyramid-Like Monument Coming To Burning Man 2016 One experienced Burning Man temple construction crew, led by artist Dan Sullivan, is working on a monumental project for the playa this year called Catacomb of Veils. Currently under construction on Pier 70
SF News Video: Reality TV Show 'Transcendent' Drops Season 2 Trailer Season two of Transcendent, the reality TV show that highlights the trans performers of AsiaSF, premiered last night on Fuse. Just like with the trailer for season one, the second season looks like
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Werner Herzog Doc About Tech Features Elon Musk, Other Luminaries Watch this on The Scene. Wired brings us the trailer for a new documentary from Magnolia Pictures, directed by Werner Herzog, titled Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World. Herzog scopes out
Arts & Entertainment Watch A Kite-Surfer Get Way Too Close To A Humpback Whale And Then Wipe Out The above video from ABC 7's chopper shows some more great glimpses of humpback whales inside the Golden Gate how many there are, or if these are just the same gang people have
Arts & Entertainment Cool Time-Lapse Of SFMOMA's Construction, Plus John King's Final Word On The New Wing The new, enormous SFMOMA addition designed by Norwegian architects Snøhetta has some early fans, as well as some early critics, as we discussed last week. We had to wait until this weekend's Sunday
SF News Video: Helmet Cam Footage Shows Firefighter Rescuing Several Kittens And in your heart-warming pet video of the day, we bring you this helmet-cam footage, courtesy of the Turlock Fire Department, in which you can see several kittens being plucked out of a
SF News Bill O'Reilly Takes On San Francisco And Our Liberal Attitudes Toward Property Crime You knew after this story came out Monday about how SF now has the highest per capita property crime rate of the top 50 cities in the country that Fox News was probably
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'On The Hill,' A New Theater Piece About The Shooting Of Alex Nieto "How do you fight back? How do you reclaim your identity?” says playwright Paul S. Flores. “That’s what these kids are doing in this play." Flores just premiered a new theater piece
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Whole Lot Of Pot-Smoking On 4/20, In HD This very pretty and mesmerizing video from yesterday at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park, during the 4/20 festivities, was shot and edited together by someone who sounds like she was named
Arts & Entertainment Video: Giants Fans Flee As Seagulls Divebomb Cheap Seats At AT&T Your browser does not support iframes. It was a scene almost right out of The Birds at AT&T Park Monday night as the Giants were in the process of losing to
Arts & Entertainment Video Palate Cleanser: 'Heatwave' It's the first real one of spring, so excuse me for being excitable. And it's already 92 in the Mission you guys!! (As of 1:40 p.m.) Previously: Record Heat Is Bringing
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star Jesse Wellens Dresses Up As Aladdin, Takes 'Magic Carpet' Ride Through San Francisco "All I have to say is San Francisco is like a huge movie set. For Aladdin." That is Philadelphia-based YouTube celebrity Jesse Wellens's assessment as he was shooting the viral video above, here
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Attempts To Break Peep-Eating Record, For Easter This guy, who does not introduce himself, recently stuffed 200 marshmallow Peeps in his mouth in 14 minutes and 12 seconds, which he believes is a world record. Via a quick internet search,
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Silicon Valley' Cast Guesses At What Actual Startups Do By Their Dumb Names Watch this on The Scene. Anaplan? Twilio? Klarna? These are all real companies that we will not link to, but feel free to Google them. The hilarious cast of HBO's Silicon Valley, who
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Caught On Camera Hitting Suspect Says He Needs To Seize Camera A plainclothes SFPD officer seen in the video above apparently punching a suspect as he's being arrested can then be heard saying he has to "seize" the camera that was recording the incident
SF News Video: Sonoma High Schooler Body Slams Boy Allegedly Online Bullying Her (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'Three's Company' Comes To Oasis Next Week Much like they've done with The Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Designing Women, Star Trek, and Absolutely Fabulous over the years, San Francisco's more comedic drag queens are for the first time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Pollan Questions Peoples' Gluten Hate In New Netflix Series Berkeley resident and slow-food guru Michael Pollan took on the topic of cooking in his 2013 book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation a second follow-up to his runaway bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma,
