Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Things That Will Kill You, After Edward Gorey Remember Edward Gorey, the illustrator and goth-kid hero behind macabre children's books like The Gashlycrumb Tinies in which an entire alphabet of children's names is paired with untimely demises. Well, here's a video
SF News Video: Two Ladies of the Tenderloin Have Spat We're not looking to make light of the perils and travails of T-Loin life, but while you were likely at the beach or having a civilized barbecue over the Labor Day weekend, this
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An Informative And Pretty Video About Sutro Tower Check out this swell video from the Exploratorium's Science in the City series which tells the story of Sutro Tower, which went "from eyesore to icon." Its years of use as the Bay
Arts & Entertainment Video: Evil Elmo Back To Making Children Cry At Fisherman's Wharf He's back! He never actually went anywhere, but just like the sea lions who occasionally disappear from their favorite dock at Pier 39, Evil Elmo sometimes goes below the radar for a few
SF News Beware Of Crazed Blackbird That Attacks All Passing Humans Near Stow Lake Over in Golden Gate Park, there is a rogue blackbird which, maybe under the pretenses of protecting a nest or maybe because it's just insanely aggressive, has made a habit of pouncing and
SF News Video: Man Does Sit-Ups On BART Anyone who has ever spent more than a half second looking at the carpet on a BART train should know this man is insane. SF Weekly spotted this video of a man in
SF News Sleepy Sausalito Shaken Up By Police Chase, Car Crash Into Restaurant Several people were injured when a high-speed chase Tuesday stemming from a Marin City domestic violence incident spilled over onto Bridgeway in Sausalito, and ended with a dramatic crash into a popular coffee
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amy Poehler As Art Snob Some of you who watch a lot of TV have likely seen this already, but in her series of funny spots for Old Navy, this has to be Amy Poehler's best. Watch in
SF News Video: Hot Cop Of The Castro Does Ice Bucket Challenge Hold the phone. Drop everything. It's time to watch footage of Office Chris Kohrs, a.k.a. the Hot Cop of the Castro doing the ice bucket challenge at The Café on Sunday.
SF News West Oakland Market Sends Posse Of Goons To Rough Up Thief Who Stole Liquor A tipster sent in this video of a group of men, identified as owners or employees of Ideal Market at 21st and Market Streets in West Oakland, chasing down and roughing up a
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Return Of Prancercise! One of the greatest internet sensations of 2013 returns today as Joanna Rohrback of Prancercise LLC brings us a new video of tandem-Prancercising with a partner... on a horse farm. Added bonus: This
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christina Hendricks in 'Modern Office' Modern Office with Christina Hendricks from Funny Or Die Someone over at Funny or Die, or at least some of their contributors, are dead set on using viral videos to fight for the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chinchilla Eats Apple, Takes Dust Bath It's been ages since we had some chinchilla-related palate cleansing, so please enjoy these two videos of a chinchilla named Pusch enjoying a piece of dried apple, and then taking a brief dust
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Flashback: <i>Mr. Show</i> Predicts the Corporate Sanitizing of San Francisco Waaay back in the mid-90s, the pioneering, twisted sketch comedy show Mr. Show aired on HBO for three years, and produced some classic moments from the minds of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk
SF News Video: This Is What a Mosquito Looks Like, San Francisco (In Case You Forgot) I realized this was not an average July when last night, sitting in the living room with the windows open and having opened the windows in my bedroom, I had a minor freakout
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kristin Bell As Minimum-Wage Mary Poppins Funny or Die returns with another Disney parody (remember Princess Ke$ha?), this time with Kristin Bell as a disgruntled Mary Poppins, quitting her nanny gig because she's living below the poverty line.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Square One' by Jay Brannan To cleanse your news-weary palates today, please enjoy this great new song by singer-songwriter Jay Brannan, whom some you may recognize from the film Shortbus, in which he got naked and also sang
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kayaking Onto A Whale A couple in a kayak, in the waters off Puerto Madryn, Argentina, paddled up to a family of whales sunning themselves, and got them on video. This might not be so remarkable, except
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1980s High School Kids Really Sounded Like John Hughes Characters This marvelous video surfaced today thanks to BuzzFeed (despite being uploaded seven years ago), and it's a fashion survey of seven students at Antioch High School in Northern California in 1984, made by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Watch Coi Chef Daniel Patterson Do The Town With <i>Vice</i> "Have you guys seen some of these episodes?" asks Benu chef Corey Lee when chef Daniel Patterson and his wife Alexandra make their first stop on a Vice tour at his restaurant. "You
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: James Garner ca. 1964 For your little afternoon break, please appreciate James Garner acting his ass off in this brief scene from The Americanization of Emily (1964), also starring Julie Andrews. He delivers a monologue about war
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Weird Al's 'Happy' Parody, 'Tacky' It always brings a smile to my face when I'm reminded that "Weird Al" Yankovic hasn't given up doing his signature parodies of popular songs, thirty years on. And (hooray!) he's got a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tiny Hedgehog Birthday Party From the same folks who brought us Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos comes the birthday party you wish you were invited to, a Tiny Birthday For A Tiny Hedgehog. According to Hello Denzien,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Guy Impersonates Over a Dozen <i>Game of Thrones</i> Characters Impressions are all the rage on YouTube lately. Check out British comedian and celebrity impressionist Charlie Hopkinson doing some uncanny impersonations of Game of Thrones characters and some of their most famous lines
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'O'Reilly Factor' Minion Mocks Gay Pride, Tells Mark Leno His Pants Are Too Tight Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Fox News resident blowhard Bill O'Reilly just filed a segment—a week late—about the S.F. LGBT Pride celebration that happened on June 29.
