Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Club Med Dance School! Can you do the tequila boom-boom? [Everything is Terrible]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Justin Bieber's Steampunk Xmas Every lesbian's dream girlfriend is back with a new Christmas video, and it's for a funk-i-fied version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Also, this means the steampunk aesthetic has officially, once
Arts & Entertainment In Honor of World AIDS Day: AIDS-in-S.F. Doc Shortlisted for Oscar; Who Was the Real Patient Zero? It's World AIDS Day everyone! Therefore you should be putting on a condom right now and/or trying to combat HIV in the streets or the laboratory! In lieu of that, you may
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Two Songs About The Grubstake Diner Many of you are probably intimately familiar with the Grubstake at Pine and Polk, which serves burgers to the drunken masses every night until 4 a.m. Well, long before Polk Street became
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Steve Jobs And Jesus Bless Pippa Middleton Stalker Ok, so there's this guy in England named Barry Kooperschmidt. He makes art devoted to Pippa Middleton which is sort of scary looking, but may be totally ironic and he's in on the
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Holiday Palate Cleanser: Larry David's Thanksgiving [Updated] "One thing I could count on every Thanksgiving, and you could bank on it, was at the beginning of the meal my mother saying, 'Larry and I like the dark meat.' It's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Most Adorable Owl Video You've Ever Seen It doesn't get much cuter than that l'il one that likes being pet on the head. [via HuffPo]
Arts & Entertainment 'Portlandia' Goes On Tour, Comes To S.F.'s Mezzanine December 30 Oh yes. The brilliant Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, stars and co-creators of IFC's hit Portlandia, are coming to town as part of a quick, six-liberal-city tour called Portlandia: The Tour. They'll be
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'Against the Grain' by Hudson Check out this rad stop-motion animation video for a song by a Melbourne-based indie-folk artist called Hudson (download the track at that link). It totally makes us want to go draw, and reminds
SF News Meanwhile, In New York... There was a march tonight numbering in the thousands going across the Brooklyn Bridge, in support of Occupy Wall Street where things got a little messy again today. One guerrilla projectionist managed to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Muppets Parody 'Saw' In a new effort at viral-video promotion for the new movie The Muppets, the gang has just put out this hilarious parody of the Saw franchise, featuring Piggy as that creepy doll and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Amazing Film 'Dream Trap' In 3 Minutes The always astonishing Everything Is Terrible occasionally takes a forgotten flick from the VHS bin and condenses it to a three-minute YouTube version. Today's victim: Dream Trap (1990), starring the lovely Kristy Swanson
Arts & Entertainment Richmond Embraces Home-Grown Rap Star Macho Hip-hop is borne of the ghetto, and Richmond Confidential -- as part of a two-part series they're writing with RichmondPulse.org -- profiles a self-styled "Prince of the Projects" by the name of
Arts & Entertainment Time-Lapse Video Project 1Day6Cities Focuses on S.F., Five Other International Cities A photography and video project called 1Day 6Cities, focused around last Friday's seminal 11/11/11 date, is taking as its subject six international cities for a kind of slice-of-life, what's-happening-around-the-world-this-instant documentary project,
Arts & Entertainment Metallica, Lou Reed to Shoot Video in Bay Area With Darren Aronofsky Metallica recently collaborated with the legendary Lou Reed to create Lulu, the recently released concept album inspired by the plays of German playwright Frank Wedekind (upon whose work Spring Awakening was based). Now,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me' by Weird Al Yankovic We're pretty sure this is a Weird Al original tune (correct us if we're wrong -- we know you will!) and it's kind of funny, with lyrics like "I don't need tons of
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Clip From a New Documentary About the Sutro Baths Sutro's: The Palace at Land's End is a new documentary about the historic and long-gone Sutro Baths, which is having its world premiere Friday, November 4, at the Balboa Theater. It has a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awesome Halloween Claymation In honor of Halloween weekend, here's an amazing piece of claymation from British animator Lee Hardcastle entitled "Postman Pat's Pet Sematary." It involves a dead cat, a lot of claymation blood, and spliffs.
Arts & Entertainment 5 Truly Spooktacular Halloween Videos Boo! Did we scare you? No? Well, just you wait. What with Halloween around the corner and a crisp feeling in the air, it's that time of year where chills and thrills are
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amazing 1955 Ladies' Eyewear Fashions Here's a pure, polished gem from the height of cat-eye glasses mania in 1955. We're pretty sure that there is not a single pair of frames shown here that is not butt-ass ugly.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Treat Yo Self From last week's episode of Parks and Recreation (it's on again tonight, yay!), which we're still chuckling over, and which has had us declaring every day this week a Treat Yo Self day.
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: New Trailer for 'The Muppets' Behold, the new, longer trailer for the The Muppets, starring Amy Adams and Jason Segel, and featuring the newest Muppet, Walter; singing chickens (singing Cee-Lo's 'Fuck You'); and the kid who plays Manny
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Little Girl Hearts Brad Pitt Well isn't she just a little lusty lady? We know her mother coached her to say this, and forces her to read US Weekly all the time, but whatever. There are worse things.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sneezing Puppy, Remixed Before you hit the comment button, we fully acknowledge how annoying the Creative Commons soundtrack on this video is. But the puppy sure is cute! And the top comment on the YouTube page,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Broken Social Scene's 'Cause = Time' Here's a tune that's a few years old from a band/collective we've always loved, Broken Social Scene. They'll be here in S.F. this weekend performing for free (you may have heard)
