SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Broken Cat' A particularly flexible feline, ladies and gentlemen. Sidenote: We love the British morning television playing in the background. [via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dubstep Slow-Dance We'll admit right now that we're old and we don't really *get* dubstep. Like, here we are in 2011, so much has been done with dance music at this point that they've run
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bon Iver at the Greek Bon Iver played the Greek Theater in Berkeley last night. We were not there. Probably neither were most of you. But we bet some of you were! For those who are sad to
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Woman Wins Guinness Record For Longest Nails A lady who likes to be called The Dutchess, whose real name is Chris Walton, has just overtaken the Guinness world record for the lady with the longest fingernails. The Dutchess has been
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Greg' on Last Night's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Now listen up any of you who might find some offense in this, or think we are somehow making fun of this kid: Any regular readers of this site ought to know that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Human Centipede 2,' the Trailer OK, we're really sorry. This is hardly a cleanser, as it were. But it's "the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film in the
Arts & Entertainment Sigh: 'Thriller' Flash Mob Invades Ferry Plaza, Dolores Park S.F. sure loves a flash mob -- especially one involving Michael Jackson, on the King of Pop's birthday (yesterday). And even if we find the flash-mob thing a little yawn-inducing at this
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vintage Homophobia Humor With Don Rickles Proof positive that the 70s weren't all that awesome... but you gotta love that nurse's outfit! [via Everything Is Terrible]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sandra Lee Swears a Lot, Gropes Herself The Food Network's Sandra Lee may seem all wholesome well, unless she's talking about how much drinking she does but this video proves otherwise. Watch a series of outtakes in which she gropes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye to the King Burger King has decided to retire their creepy/amazing masked mascot of the last few years, in favor of promoting their, uh, "healthier" choices. Fast food restaurants, you see, are feeling the heat
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'She's Dope' by Bell Biv Devoe Bell Biv Devoe is here! Yes. They're performing their special brand of "New Jack Swing" at Yoshi's SF tonight and tomorrow. Tickets are $35. Now, please enjoy this classic video from their oeuvre,
SF News Video: Survival Research Labs' 1994 Armageddon Show on Pier 70 People who have lived here a long while may have heard about this show. But let's just take a moment and a little YouTube time-machine-action here to look at a newly edited clip
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Internet-Famous Cat, Maru, to Become Book-Famous Remember Maru, the cat who loves boxes of all shapes and sizes? Maru's fame on the webs has become very, very great, and now his Japanese owner is publishing an English-language book about
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chapelle Gives First Interview in Five Years to 94.9FM, Says Why He Loves the Bay Area Dave Chapelle gave his first interview in five years last week to morning radio hosts Rico, JV, and Selena on Wild 94.9 here in S.F. (This was just before he awkwardly
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Loves Barbequoi L.A.-based drag artist and humorist Drew Droege has created a drag version of actress Chloe Sevigny that is as much performance art as it is drag satire. All of his many
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Person Pinball This fun little stop-motion animation vid by Aaron Hughes was the outro video at the 8th annual Animation Block Party in NYC. It features a bunch of stylish Brooklyn kids getting knocked around
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hipsters Are Roaming the Campus' Today's palate cleanser comes to us from a strange little place called NYU, where this music video was produced for a campus reality show. Yes, we know, bemoaning the annoyance of hipsters and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bjork's New Trippy Video With Michel Gondry So, Bjork's got a new album coming out September 27 called Biophilia, and much of the album was composed and recorded using several iPad apps. The first video from the album, for the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Patti Smith Covers 'Rolling in the Deep' File Under Awesome: You know you've made it when the legendary and revered Patti Smith decides to cover one of your songs in a concert. And even though she didn't remember all the
SF News Jaycee Dugard Speaks to Diane Sawyer, UC Berkeley Cop Who Helped Save Her Reacts Now that Phillip and Nancy Garrido's trial is over and they both pleaded guilty to kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive for eighteen years, Jaycee was finally free to give her
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Connected States of America Some kids at MIT (in connection with some sponsorship from AT&T) have put together this visualization project using cell phone data and the ways in which it travels around the country.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kreayshawn Critiques Lady Gaga's Looks, Beyonce's Local lady rapper Kreayshawn, who's profiled this week in the Guardian's Queer Issue and whose video "Gucci Gucci" is now a bonafide hit, spoke to New York Magazine this week to critique the
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: Train's 'Save Me, San Francisco' Excuse us for not following the discography of Train -- this song appears to be a couple of years old already. But now there's a video? Which is newer? And it has a
Arts & Entertainment Watch Dianne Feinstein, ca. 1970, Go Off About the 'Very Depraved Wares' of Pornographers Last fall we alerted you to a documentary in the works about the history of San Francisco as a pioneering capital of porn cinema. That documentary short, Smut Capital of America, by filmmaker
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drunk Voicemails Set to Animation My Friend Evan: Episode 2: The Fire. from Steve Rold on Vimeo. Why can't our drunk voicemails sound this fun? Our alcohol-infused voicemails are filled with vitriol, regret, and the occasional Sondheim lyric.
