SF News Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Checking In On Mozzeria, The Deaf-Owned Pizzeria On 16th San Francisco's first deaf-owned restaurant, and the only deaf-owned-and-operated restaurant anywhere in the country, Mozzeria, will celebrate four years in business this December. As of last year, they just added a food truck
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Buster Posey Deliver A Baby In New Esurance Commercial The always adorable Buster Posey is the latest celebrity to appear in Esurance's new series of ads about imposters who are "sort of" like the real thing in this case Buster is sort
Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From The First Weekend Of 'Flower Piano' In Golden Gate Park Duke Ellington's "Take the A-Train." Pianist David Owen. A bit of Burning Man-style delight and randomness came to the SF Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park this past weekend via the first few
Arts & Entertainment Video: What Apple Thought The Future Would Look Like Back In 1987 This awkward but vaguely funny joke video possibly made for inter-company joke purposes? depicts the technological advances that Apple imagined they would have made by 1997. The video gets some things right, though
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Some Whales Frolicking Near Seal Rock Last Night Richmond SF posted this video from a reader that was shot around 7:30 p.m. Monday evening, as the sun was setting near Seal Rock at Ocean Beach. It was "shot from
Arts & Entertainment Videos: Illegal Fireworks Blowing Up All Over The Mission As is traditional, Saturday night (and Sunday) was ablaze with illegal rooftop and middle-of-the-street fireworks displays, particularly in the Mission and dangerous though it might be it was, as usual, the only fireworks
Arts & Entertainment Catholic Group 'Speaks From The Heart' Against Gay Marriage, Internet Mocks Them A conservative group called Catholic Vote gave the internet a gift last week in the form of a black-and-white YouTube video in which a group of well meaning Catholics all speak cryptically about
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Day In The Life Of A Warriors Cheerleader In honor of tonight's Game 3 of the NBA Finals, here's an amusing behind-the-scenes look at a day in the life of Amira, a dance captain on the Warriors' Dance Team. "As an
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Footage Of Gray Whale Mother And Two Calves Caught By Drone A guy who runs a dolphin- and whale-watching operation in Southern California recently caught this footage, via a drone camera, of a gray whale with her two twin calves. Captain Dave Anderson of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Upcoming Doc 'Northwest Passage' Explores One Teenager's Unhealthy Obsession With <em>Twin Peaks</em> Filmmaker Adam Baran (Jackpot) says that when he met Travis Blue back in 2005, at an LGBT film festival, "We quickly bonded over our favorite films and TV shows: Twin Peaks, My Own
SF News Rec & Parks Produces Goofy PSAs To Encourage Proper Trash Disposal, Bathroom Use The Rec & Parks Department hosted a pair of meetings Tuesday to engage concerned neighbors about their new "action plan" for dealing with the park's ongoing popularity, and its trash problem. And as
Arts & Entertainment This Is Just A Video Of Hunter Pence Shaking His Ass It's all in the hips #InternationalDanceDay A video posted by Hunter Pence (@hunterpence) on Apr 29, 2015 at 12:46pm PDT Everybody's favorite injured outfielder (he's supposed to be back on the field
Arts & Entertainment Video: Apple Watch Destroyed By Blender The people at Blendtec, the blender manufacturer, have been doing this "Will it blend?" thing for a while now, via YouTube, to market their blenders. Now, overly smarmy "scientist" Tom Dickson (he's actually
Arts & Entertainment Video: If Facebook Actually Filtered Everything That Annoyed You The joke, of course, is that if there were a Dislike button, or if the algorithm could actually read all the disdain, judgement, and jealousy you feel as you scan your Facebook feed,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Car Wash Porn Since you really shouldn't be washing your car, like, ever, during this drought (unless you have access to grey water!), it makes sense that you might need a calming video like this remind
Arts & Entertainment The Real Dope Behind 420 (Which Was Coined By A Group Of California Teens) Today is basically St. Patrick's Day for stoners, the high holiday known as 4/20, and the date does not have anything to with the fact that it's Hitler's birthday. As most educated
Arts & Entertainment Watch Local Mythbuster Adam Savage Build A <i>Battlestar Galactica</i> Model With Actor Aaron Douglas OK, Battlestar dorks, get ready to dork out. SF-based Mythbusters guy Adam Savage just invited Battlestar Galactica actor Aaron Douglas (he played Chief Tyrol) over to his One Day Builds workshop to build
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Amazing Sizzler Promo From 1991 Is Better Than Hillary's Campaign Ad This almost 5-minute promotional video from Sizzler aimed at potential franchisees? came out in 1991, and comes complete with a soaring theme song about America, and choices, that just might bring a tear
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF's Comedic Apartment-Hunting Anthem Chris Severn, who tells SFist he's just getting his sketch group DeskFan Comedy off the ground, is clearly no stranger to apartment hunting or its attendant apartment sadness. So, in a song that's
Arts & Entertainment Video: Grateful Dead Drummer Bill Kreutzmann Joins Street Musician Outside Ferry Building (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 Video: A Cool, If Dizzying, Day In The Life Of SF The fine folks at Porch House Pictures just sent in this video, shot in a single 12-hour span in sunny San Francisco, in which they "raced up hills and across the bay trying
SF News Guy Who Made Insulting Dolores Park Video Apologizes Just a quick follow-up regarding that annoying video from last week in which a group of guys reacted ungraciously to a couple of Rec & Parks patrol officers who busted them for having
Arts & Entertainment Video: Surfer Mark Healey Dives Off Boat Into Huge Wave At Mavericks Not wanting to get thrown around on the boat that was about to get knocked with a huge wave, surfer Mark Healey who is also a stunt man took a flying leap off
