SF News Video: Mario Cuomo Speaking At The Democratic Convention In SF In 1984 In memory of Democratic leader, and New York's last liberal governor, Mario Cuomo, who passed away yesterday at age 82, here's a clip from Cuomo's inspiring keynote address at the Democratic National Convention
SF News Airbnb Hands Out $1 Million, $10 At A Time, For Random Acts Of Kindness By way of a New Year's PR boost, Airbnb has given out $10 each (or the equivalent in foreign currency) to 100,000 of its loyal users for use in "helping to rid
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dolores Parkgoers' New Year's Resolutions... For Their Friends Writer Caleb Garling and videographers Brett Garling and Lara Loveman spent a day in the park quizzing the lounging crowd about New Year's resolutions. What were theirs in in 2014? Had they stuck
SF News Local Production Company Puts Out PSA Encouraging Kids To Steal Their Parents' Guns A local company called Sleeper 13 Productions posted this video a couple weeks ago that advocates for ending gun violence by having kids steal their parents' handguns and turn them in to teachers
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jimmy Fallon and One Direction's 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' Kind of like he did with Idina Menzel and "Let It Go," Jimmy Fallon and the Roots gathered in a dressing room and did an acoustic version of "Santa Claus Is Coming To
SF News Video: Pair Of Holiday Grinches Caught On Camera Stealing Packages In Noe Valley, a resident captured this DropCam footage of a pair of thieves casually swiping a package from a doorway and shoving it in a shopping bag last Thursday. As the uploader
SF News White Activist Discusses Getting Beaten Up During Oakland Protest You may have heard that there's some tension among Bay Area protesters of racial injustice over the fact that there are not enough black voices, and too many white ones, being heard in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Dog That Can Operate Appliances Meet Allie, a 12-year-old yellow labrador who clearly causes headaches for her human guardians whenever they leave the house. The dog is adept at opening both the refrigerator and freezer and having her
SF News Hot Cop Of The Castro Chris Kohrs Says In New Video Interview That He's Not Allowed In The Castro Anymore The love for the Hot Cop Of the Castro who isn't even a Castro beat cop at all but is just a hot San Francisco police officer, Chris Kohrs has yet to die
Arts & Entertainment Man Loses Fantasy Football Bet, Has To Recreate 'Chandelier' Video Shot For Shot Local man Chuck Jose lost a bet in his fantasy football league, and with that bet, as ABC 7 reports, he lost a little bit of his dignity. His fellow fantasy leaguers made
Arts & Entertainment The 'Terminator: Genisys' Trailer Arrives Complete With School Bus Flip On Golden Gate Bridge As noted over the summer, the fifth movie in the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Genisys, was shot in and around San Francisco, and even though it won't be out until next summer, the trailer
Arts & Entertainment Video: DJ Earworm's United States Of Pop 2014 Has Dropped Formerly SF-based DJ and recent LA transplant DJ Earworm has just dropped his hotly anticipated, traditional annual tribute mashup to the year in pop, and it's a good one. As usual he uses
SF News Out Of 79 People Arrested In Violent Protest Friday, 23 Were From San Francisco The Ferguson protest that turned into a violent and vandalism-heavy riot Friday in Union Square and in the Mission led to 79 arrests and charges filed against 4 individuals, as police chief Greg
Arts & Entertainment Black Friday Palate Cleanser: Weed Snobs We already live in a world of weed connoisseurs who could rattle off a litany of whimsically named indica-sativa hybrids and tell you the relative THC and CBD levels of each. And as
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Behind The Scenes of 'Looking' Season 2 As mentioned earlier, HBO's Looking wrapped shooting last week in SF on Season 2, the first episode of which which will premiere on January 11. But here's an "invitation to the set" video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: When Kirk Cameron Came To San Francisco Child star turned Christian evangelist Kirk Cameron came to San Francisco to make a video about ministering to homosexuals with a hate-the-sin-not-the-sinner type message and the brilliant people of Deeper Understanding put together
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The A-to-Z Of Musical Genres This is really fun, you guys! Canadian musicians Andrew Huang and David Brown of Boy in a Band presented themselves with the challenge of naming and demonstrating 26 musical genres in alphabetical order.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Tech Boom!', a New Web Series Having been a little disappointed with SanFranLand earlier this year, I approached a new satirical web series about SF's tech boom with a little trepidation. It's called Tech Boom! And I'll just say
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: YouTube-ing Family Makes 'All About The Baste,' a Thanksgiving Parody Remember the Holderness Family? They did this viral video last year showing off their Christmas jammies, and now they're back with a Thanksgiving spoof of that ubiquitous Meghan Trainor song "All About the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Mission, Circa 1992 Adam Pfahler of the San Francisco punk band Jawbreaker recently came across some unprocessed Super 8 footage that he shot around the Mission in 1992. He got the film processed, and he uploaded
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: American Horror Toy Story This little gem comes from humorist animator Only Leigh, a.k.a. Leigh Lahav, and Oren Mendez, mashing up Buzz Lightyear and Woodie with a certain horrifying murderous clown. [h/t: Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Let It Grow,' a 'Let It Go' Parody For Movember Is Movember actually about promoting prostate and testicular cancer awareness, or is it really just an excuse for non-hipster (or ex-hipster) males to grow fancy facial hair and pass it off to their
SF News Woman With Terminal Brain Cancer Not Ending Her Life This Weekend After All 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, who made national headlines this month after announcing her decision to end her life on November 1 by means of assisted suicide under Oregon's Death With Dignity Act, has just
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Another Amazing OK Go Video OK Go, still not resting on their laurels as pop music's most insanely clever music video-makers, have just unleashed their latest, which was shot in Japan with the help of about a hundred
SF News Tour Guide Goes On Epic, Angry, Racist Rant About Chinatown Apparently, on her last day on the job, this San Francisco tour guide decided to crack open a beer and go on a lengthy, angry, off-color rant about everything she hates about Chinatown.
