Giants and food vendor tried to get workers to waive COVID rights
The Giants Opening Day was Friday, April 9. The organization had been doing a full court press (sorry to mix in basketball metaphors) for days on end about how safe the stadium would be for the fans’...
View ArticleScreen Grabs: Senior directors up to newer tricks
In eternally youth-obsessed and -targeting Hollywood, directors have long complained of being “aged out” of the business, judged too old to serve modern audiences’ (or perhaps just studio executives’)...
View ArticleWhen bosses lie, workers die
In Yakima County in Washington state, where a mutant coronavirus is fueling a deadly fourth wave, Superior Court Judge Blaine Gibson has just relaxed COVID protections for farmworkers.Key to Judge...
View ArticleGiants honor Tom Ammiano as Honey Mahogany sings the national anthem
A really great Saturday evening at the ballpark: The SF Giants honored Tom Ammiano for his decades of service to the LGBT community and talked about his 60-year-delayed varsity letter. And then the...
View ArticleThe indigenous struggle to save trees — and sacred spaces — in Humboldt
“Caltrans comes and just takes everything you have.” Pomo Elder Priscilla Hunter was standing next to a sacred Pomo rock — they call the Mama Rock — near the shore of a California coastal beach long...
View ArticleThe folly and foibles of New Belgium’s new Mission Bay taproom
Back in 2013, the Giants rolled out their plans to develop the Port of SF-owned Mission Rock—right in the backyard of AT&T… errr… Oracle Park. The crown jewel of the effort (unless you get excited...
View ArticleScreen Grabs: Perilous quests in ‘The Green Knight’ and ‘Stillwater’
Last weekend brought the wide release of two unusually ambitious and ambiguous new mainstream movies, a species seldom seen these days, particularly in the popcorn fields of summer. Tom McCarthy’s...
View ArticleScreen Grabs: Modern-day art mystery explored in ‘The Lost Leonardo’
The death 16 months ago of Bruce Baillie at age 88 was a major loss to the film world in many ways, as he was venerated not just for his own films (particularly those made in US avant-garde cinema’s...
View Article‘Don’t be a Giant idiot’—workers demand better COVID safety at ballpark
While the rock band Green Day was blasting out their hit “American Idiot” at the San Francisco Giants ballpark on Friday, August 27 to a huge crowd, UNITE HERE Local 2 workers and staff inside and...
View ArticleGiants ballpark workers set strike vote
Just as the San Francisco Giants enter what looks to be a heated pennant race, with potentially huge crowds, members of the union that represents workers at Oracle Park are taking a vote that could...
View ArticleWhy no COVID vaccine requirements for Giants fans?
The number of reported COVID deaths in the USA has now surpassed the 655,000 military and civilian deaths we suffered in the Civil War – the deadliest war in our history. In fact, we are several...
View ArticleGiants food-service workers take job action, demanding safety
More than 200 food service workers at the Giants’ Oracle Park, walked off the job briefly this morning, and demanded to meet with the Giants about deteriorating safety conditions at the ballpark....
View ArticleGiants workers get record contract
The San Francisco Giants are having a record year, taking the National League West title with the most wins of any team in baseball.During the final week of the title run, ballpark food service...
View ArticleRecalls are for losers
Californians are finally learning that “recall” initiatives are for losers. Losers with no political future. The easily defeated Recall of Governor Newsom—which included a coalition of labor and...
View ArticleScreen Grabs: A ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’… of influencers?
It’s been close to half a century since the initial release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a low-budget, low-profile feature from an unknown filmmaker (Tobe Hooper had previously only...
View ArticleStern Grove to Erykah Badu: our guide to the best summer shows
With the days growing longer and the weather warming up—and Karl The Fog tweeting out appropriate clothing options, alongside snarky Dad joke humor—live music is poised for a comeback in the Bay and...
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