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New Lipstick on an Old Pig
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Backers of Proposition 32 are portraying it as a fresh, nonpartisan attempt to clean up California's political system. But the statewide measure, in fact, has origins that date back both to legislation crafted fifteen years ago by conservative
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Save Mart bargaining likely to resume after contract rejection
Monterey :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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With Save Mart Supermarkets employees rejecting a proposed contract by a wide margin this week, Northern California's unionized grocers are back where they were when negotiations began 10 months ago...Save Mart and its employees, along with workers
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AT&T Strike Threat Looms
Santa Clara :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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May 17, 2012 A 17,000-worker walkout in California and Nevada looms as contract negotiations between AT&T West and Communication Workers of America stretch into a stagnant second month. Such action could result in widespread disruptions to electronic
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Raley's takes tough negotiating line with union
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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Fed up with months of fruitless labor negotiations, Raley's refused late Friday to extend the contract with a Bay Area unit of the United Food and Commercial Workers...Workers will continue to be paid under the terms of the old contract, a situation
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American History, from the Mind of Ken Jacobs, in Seeking the Monkey King
Butte :: MT :: USA | over 1 year ago
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An exhilarating audiovisual workout that simultaneously engages multiple parts of the brain, Jacobs's 40-minute movie is a sort of hallucinatory jeremiad. The basic imagery seems derived from close-ups of crumpled metallic foil; this material, which
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Going inside the metaphysics of Bruegel's art in The Mill and the Cross
Antwerp :: Belgium | over 1 year ago
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The Belcourt Most narrative filmmakers have assumed erroneously that because "paintings don't move," the only way to adapt them to cinema is to ignore them altogether. Thus most films about art are really dramatizations of the struggles of men who
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Unable to reach a deal, Pleasant Hill has imposed contracts on 3 of 4 employee unions
Pleasant Hill :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The one-year contracts freeze salaries, increase health care and retirement contributions for current staff and set up a two-tier system of less generous benefits for future employees. The city's management group, its Police Officers Association and
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Pencil This In: Films of Ken Jacobs at Cinefamily, Sexpert at Meltdown Comics and Lev Grossman at Vroman's
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Tonight Hollywood & Highland's Wine, Jazz & Moonlight series presents jazz guitarist and composer Brent Canter from 7-9 pm in the Central Courtyard. The event is free to the public (i.e., shoppers) but there's a $10 wine tasting donation that gets
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Azazel Jacobs Doesn't Have to Be Cool Anymore
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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On Avenue A and 10th Street, above where the now-defunct Brownies used to showcase indie bands back when Jacobs was a postpunk post-grad, he pushes open an unlocked door and bounds up the steamy, unrenovated stairwell. He talks briefly of life here
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Free Radicals: A Story of Experimental Film
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 years ago
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Ken Jacobs, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Stephan Chodorov, Maurice Lemaitre, M.M. Serra, Michael Snow. (English dialogue) Pip Chodorov's "Free Radicals" offers a particularly personal take on the history of experimental
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