Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sound Effect Overload This cute short kind of reminds me of early slapstick comedy, like the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers, except using modern sounds like air sirens and computer bloops. It's all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Celebrates 'Independence' It's once again time for a video amusement from comedian Drew Droege, in the YouTube-famous character of "Chloe Sevigny." This week's topic, of course, is "
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amazing Guy Impersonates Everyone From Shakira To Jon Lovitz [Corrected] I think we've found the male equivalent of master impressionist songstress Christina Bianco, and it would be downright amazing to see them go head-to-head on stage and do like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Chronicle</i> Food Department Launches Video Series, And It Will Be Firewalled Over the weekend, the Chronicle launched its newly combined Food + Home section, and though Eater got a little over-zealous in its announcement of the news about the stand-alone food section'
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sausalito To SF At 300 Miles An Hour While actual travel from Sausalito to SF in about a minute will have to wait until those lazy scientists get on the stick with the whole teleportation thing, Mill Valley based filmmaker Gary
Arts & Entertainment Why Facebook Likes Don't Equal A Life That friend who is always running 10 miles in the morning and posting about their seemingly carefree, glamorous lives? It's probably mostly lies. The great short film above illustrates the negative
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Dog's-Eye View Of S.F.'s Best Dog Parks Former San Francisco resident Evan Mascagni, who recently had the misfortune of relocating to New York, made a ridiculously adorable video as he toured dog parks in S.F. during his final months
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Internet Arguer "We really can't continue until you read this article I just Googled." Please enjoy this video from games journalist Nick Douglas of Slacktory imitating the various rhetorical tactics of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'First Moon Party' "Do you know how hard it is to find a uterus pinata?" Please enjoy this amazing long-form commercial from Hello Flo, a new menstruation-related subscription service for ladies and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: OK Go's Latest Amazing Video Feat, 'The Writing's On the Wall' For those not living under YouTube-free rocks the last half-decade, you should know that OK Go specializes in the type of music video that goes crazy viral because of its sheer
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Wolf Pup Hiccups I mean... This comes to us via the Wolf Conservation Center in New York State, and they inform us that wee wittle wolf babies like this can hiccup when they're excited.
Arts & Entertainment Keeping San Francisco Weird: Irene Cara's 'What A Feeling' Performed In The Castro Many have been lamenting, as more and more tech nerds clog our streets and apartment buildings, and as San Francisco gets dubbed "the nation's new success theater," that San
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Peking Duck' Nope. I don't know what to make of it either. It's kind of like one of those anti-depressant commercials, though, no? [UCB Comedy]
SF News Video: 1980s News Coverage Of S.F.'s Pioneering Gay Rights Advances This is pretty weighty stuff, so not a palate cleanser, but in honor of Pride month, check out this pretty stunning, hour-long supercut of archival news footage pertaining to gay rights and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Leon Trotsky, Piglet On Wheels Meet Leon Trotsky, a three-week-old piglet who's just learned to trot using a couple of hind wheels. He had his "femur both broken and dislocated, plus an injured
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Evil Elmo Sings! It's not the Evil Elmo, the one who harasses tourists at Fisherman's Wharf and makes frequent anti-Semitic remarks. But this is DC-based funny man Stuart Dryden performing
Arts & Entertainment YouTube-Famous Diva Impressionist Christina Bianco Coming to S.F. If you're gay or have a gay friend (or if you read this website), chances are you saw this video last year. It has 6 million views and counting, and it
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Around The World In 100 Selfies Documentarist Alex Chacón, a self-described "adventure rider, public speaker, professional photographer, videographer and presenter" spends his life roving the world on various, sometimes charitable, motorcycle adventures. He did a 500-
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LIX, The Smallest 3-D Printing Pen Get ready to be amazed. So, maybe you've played with a hot glue gun before, or maybe you saw this other 3Doodler thing from about a year ago, but LIX is
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: Dogs Annoying Cats With Friendship Once again proving that the interspecies misunderstanding between dogs and cats is entirely the cats' fault, please observe this cheery new compilation of dogs trying to be sweet to mean, bitchy cats.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Things Straight Guys Say to Lesbians He's given us gay men talking about vaginas, and real lesbians watching fake lesbian porn. And now professional YouTuberist Davey Wavey brings us a segment of real lesbians talking about all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: AT&True Detective For the last week, spot-on Matthew McConaughey impressionist Ross Marquand has been putting out this web series, which is a mashup of those AT&T "It's Not Complicated&
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Drag Race' Queen Bianca Del Rio Schools An Offended Heckler At The Café Over the weekend, some of you might have attended The Drag Queens of Comedy show, which played to a near-sellout house for two consecutive shows at the Castro Theater on Saturday. One
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Singin' In The Rain,' Now In HD An oldie, but c'mon. We should all be out there, and this happy about it, in the rain. And that Gene Kelly, man. Wow. Also, the our other favorite number from
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Swirling Reindeer This lovely aerial footage, shot in northern Norway by Jan Helmer Olsen using a drone "hexacopter" camera, shows reindeer being herded into separate enclosures by ethnic Sami herders. As you can
