After nearly two months of picket lines in 8 different cities, hotel workers won a tentative agreement with Marriot, the world’s largest hotel operator.  The hotel worker’s strike, which began Oct. 4, affected seven San Francisco hotels operated by Marriott, and more than 2,000 workers marched outside the hotels, demanding a new contract with better wages and working conditions. ???

People are exposed to a massive volume of advertising every day, from billboards to television commercials. In a media-saturated landscape, advertising plays a huge role in the success or failure of a business. Indeed, advertising and successful marketing helps sell products in almost all industries. It’s hard to imagine an

It’s crazy how easy it is to get cannabis delivered to your door these days.  Far from the shady and unreliable ways you used to ‘score pot’ back in the day, before it became completely legal in CA, remember?  Meeting some guy in a parking lot, or having to drive

Guest post by Trevor McNeil, creator of Holidays in SF I love the holidays. I love San Francisco. But both can be hard: The consumerism, stress, and family drama then the rent, more stress, and a feeling that the high you’re getting from this city is transitory or illusive (and I

That awesome song in that awful Amazon “Singing Boxes” holiday commercial is so catchy that you figure there’s no way an Amazon ad person wrote it. They did not! That song was written by Michael Jackson himself (along with brother Jackie), and has a fascinating early 1980s history whose magic

Inside Higher Ed just gave University of California, Berkeley a pass for civility, namely political civility, on campus. Calling the university civil is a sharp turn from allegations of First Amendment oppression in the wake of the Milo Yiannopoulos debacle that left the campus scarred, literally and theoretically, a little

In a sad and surprising turn of events, the largest, female-owned music venue in SF is being forced out by building owners and developers Colton Commercial & Partners Inc.  The Mezzanine has been going strong in SF for the last 15 years, offering great programming by a rare and talented all-female booking staff