Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pretty Slow-Mo Athletes In HD This video, shot in Chicago, Paris, Luxembourg, and elsewhere, was made by Jacob and Katie Schwarz as part of a collaboration with satellite company SES in order to show off the capabilities of
Arts & Entertainment Lyft, Uber Mocked On <i>South Park</i> It was only a matter of time before the ride-sharing craze made it onto South Park, and now it has. Watch as Timmy starts a company called Handicar, which quickly expands into more
SF News Watch ABC7's Cheryl Jennings Reporting Live Right After The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake In remembrance of the Loma Prieta earthquake which happened 25 years ago Friday, on October 17, 1989 SFist will be devoting some special coverage to the historical record of the quake itself, and
SF News Mission Soccer Bro And Dropbox Both Apologize For Soccer Field Scuffle; Protest Planned For Thursday [Updated] Assuming you saw the video that spawned another million gentrification conversations over the weekend, you'll be relieved to know that one of the guys involved, who is apparently a Dropbox employee and may
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Take A Silent Trip Through San Francisco In 1960 Again we turn to the trove of historic videos that have been getting uploaded by the British Pathé news service, and here we have a charming, full color look at some of the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fallon, Funny Or Die Mock Ello We told you the Ello backlash was starting no sooner than the little, ad-free social network could even get off the ground. Well, now Jimmy Fallon made fun of it on the show
SF News 29-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Relocates To Oregon To Commit Suicide Legally First off, this is going to make you cry. And it might derail your afternoon. So, fair warning. 29-year-old Brittany Maynard has been diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Please Go Home,' a Sam Smith Parody Local videographer Adrian Anchando who brought us that Dunkin' Love parody a few months back brings us this funny new parody of Sam Smith's "Stay With Me," featuring singer Daniel Franzese and members
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Heartfelt Goodbye To S.F. Filmmaker/photographer Thomas R. Wood just made this very pretty (and slightly NSFW!) video as a goodbye letter to S.F. as he prepares to move to L.A. From the love in
Arts & Entertainment Teaser Arrives For Pixar's 'Inside Out' It's not due in theaters until June 2015, but here's the first teaser trailer for Pixar's seriously conceptual new animated movie, Inside Out. It tells the story of the five emotions living inside
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Great Dane Learns How To Open Baby Gate This clever Great Dane, named Bambi, quickly taught herself how to unlatch a baby gate that her humans were using to keep her off the living room couch. The most amazing part comes
Arts & Entertainment Legless 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Actress Discusses Her Role As Legless Suzy You must watch this interview with badass actress Rose Siggins who portrays Legless Suzy on American Horror Story: Freak Show, which premieres next Wednesday. Siggins, like her character, had both her legs amputated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Chris Cosentino Hates Who He Became For The Sake Of Food Network Fame Mad props to San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino who, at this year's MAD Symposium in Copenhagen, gave an impassioned talk about how deeply he regrets his years as a Food Network celebrity, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Giant Caterpillar Squeaks When Goosed This darling little video comes to us via Japan (I think), and it's footage of an acleris semipurana, a giant green caterpillar which is actually native to the Eastern U.S. and Canada.
SF News Video: Volcano Ash Cloud In Japan As Seen By Hikers Caught In It [Updated] One of the hikers on Mount Ontake in central Japan took this stunning video of the enormous ash cloud that came rolling down around him and hundreds of others when the mountain's volcano
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: A Kitty And A Puppy In Love (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/all.js#xfbml=
Arts & Entertainment Video: Conan Mocks 'Flaccid' iPhones Does your new iPhone 6 Plus have trouble staying hard? You've likely heard the stories about #bendgate/#bendghazi. Well, Conan took a funny jab at the issue last night. Meanwhile, Apple has come
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Japanese Thumb-Extender For Your Too-Big Phone For those of you whose iPhone 6 Pluses haven't bent like soda-fountain straws, or those of you own Galaxy Notes but whose hands remain dainty and tiny, you may want to consider this.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Remembering The Population And Construction Boom Of 1960s If you think there are a lot of new construction cranes now, and too many people trying to move into San Francisco lately, take a look at this slightly alarmist newsreel from 1963
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Full-Length Trailer For Tim Burton's <i>Big Eyes</i> Big Eyes is the story of kitschy big-eyed portrait painter Margaret Keane and her fraud of a husband, Walter Keane, who took credit for all her work in the 1950's and 60's while
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dachshund Plays Fetch, With Himself Please enjoy watching dachshund play with an iFetch, a device that apparently was made for smarter canines who would like an electronic hand to throw a ball for them all day long. You
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Turkey, The Kitten Who Gobbles And now, a tiny kitten named Turkey, found in an animal shelter in Florida, so named because she makes adorable "gobble gobble" sounds when she eats. This should take your mind off your
SF News Video: Apparently Disturbed Woman Roughed Up By BART Police In Dramatic Scene [Updated] This series of three videos came in via the tip line over the weekend and they appear to show a talkative, allegedly mentally disturbed woman getting some rough treatment at the hands of
Arts & Entertainment The Guy Who Walked Into That Volcano Works For S.F. Startup [Updated] A video of a thrill-seeker who traveled to remote Vanatu, to the island of Ambrym, to get up close and personal with the rim of one of the world's most remote active volcanos,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Instagram Intervention We all know someone like this. Someone who has bought in so fully to our social media-driven world that they're barely even alive anymore, unless they're documenting and posting it. Not enough likes
