A Waiter and Two Waitresses Get a $200 Tip Waiters and waitresses are among the hardest working, lowest paid Americans in the workforce. As tipped employees, their minimum wage is set at $2.13 an hour (you can thank the other NRA, the National Restaurant Association, for that). Granted, the tips combined… Continue reading
Is Police Militarization the New Normal? As police forces around the country become increasingly militarized, concern continues to grow among many politicians and citizens alike. Perhaps that’s why Oakland Mayor Jean Quan just announced that next year they won’t pursue a contract to host Urban Shield, the conference for law… Continue reading
Rare footage of key members of the Beat Generation. Continue reading
There’s been a lot written and said about the latest “I Quit” video to have caught national attention and gone viral. In it, Marina Shifrin dances around to the Kanye West song “Gone” while the text reads out a laundry list of complaints about her job at the Taiwanese company… Continue reading
In 2006, fresh off the success of The Office and in the middle of the short lived series Extras, Ricky Gervais got to meet one of his idols: Seinfeld co-creator Larry David. The meeting was filmed as part of his similarly short lived show Meet Ricky Gervais for Channel 4.… Continue reading
Andy Warhol wasn’t exactly a talk show host’s dream guest. He was certainly a big “get” when he appeared, along with at-the-time ‘It Girl’ Edie Sedgwick, on The Merv Griffin show, but he was always squirrely with interviewers. He gave short answers, elucidating little. He once claimed that everything you… Continue reading
