By Shaun Flak
Industry Productions owner Shaun Flak
Industry Productions has been a vision of mine for quite some time. After working in the industry for five years, about three years ago I decided I wanted to start my own company focused on producing quality “industry parties” the right way.
You may be asking, what is industry? There have been numerous advertisements for “service industry nights” aka SIN. These are special nights dedicated to those who work in the bar or restaurant service industry (i.e. bartenders, servers, cooks, hosts, barbacks, etc.) The idea is that as an employee in a bar or restaurant, you bust your ass to make sure guests have the absolute best time possible at your respective establishments. It’s not always easy to do. So, to give back to service industry workers, venues host nights for them to enjoy and say “thank you for your hard work.” Read More
By Joey K.
I’ve wanted to stop by R Gang Eatery ever since it opened in June. There’s been a lot of hype about this new Hillcrest restaurant, and its owner/executive chef Rich Sweeney, some of it from people I know who are friends with him.
All the hype was definitely warranted – this place did not disappoint.
We were warmly greeted as we walked through the front door. The hostess was quite pleasant. When I first walked in, I was intrigued by the overall décor and ambiance. Oddly, the floors were probably my favorite part: hardwood that was new, but didn’t look like it was new. It was slightly distressed without looking tattered. Read More
Prop 8 is One Trojan Horse That Californians Opened That is Hard to Eradicate
By Matt Moody
The enactment of Prop 8 is a Trojan horse designed with one ultimate purpose: to hack the U.S. Constitution through the backdoor access of California’s initiative process and grant limitless political power to the subversive agendas of the American Family Association, the Alliance Defense Fund and to other religious operatives.
Cisco Systems describes a Trojan horse as ” . . . a harmful piece of software that looks legitimate. Users are typically tricked into loading and executing it on their systems.” On the surface, “protecting marriage” looks legitimate. In fact, people who otherwise weren’t anti-gay might open the message, read it, and believe it, without understanding the malicious imperative behind it. They might think about “protecting children” from threats against “traditional marriage” and without truly understanding what they’re doing, they install a virus that’s designed to infect and control them by quietly running in the background and executing the commands of its master application, that of the hate-filled and morally disapproving religious political action groups who launched it. What Californians may not know is that the real purpose behind the Prop 8 Trojan is total domination of our collective operating system by hijacking the U.S. Constitution and maligning its 1st Amendment guarantees to the separation between church and state. Read More
By Kelly Moyer
In the wake of the Prop 8 decision, many people are talking about judicial tyranny and the will of the people. Since there appears to be a general lack of understanding about how our system of government actually works, consider the subject from a different direction: guns.
I hate the fact that private citizens in this country are legally entitled to own firearms. As part of a frequently murdered minority group, gun ownership terrifies me. I consider guns a serious threat to my personal safety and to the safety of my family. I suppose I could tolerate gun ownership if people kept their guns at home behind closed doors, but I shouldn’t have to be near them in public, and I certainly don’t want schools teaching my children that having a gun is acceptable.
By Charles B.
So, I saw an old picture of me that some high school friends posted on Facebook a few days ago. One of them commented underneath:
“oh, make it like the old days.”
I thought back to my high school days and reminisced on the things that stood out to me. I remembered being spit at and called a “fag” in 9th grade when I lived in Louisiana. I remember my Aunt warning me not to ride home with anyone – except family – because she heard stories of what happened to other kids who were thought to be gay. I remember being scared to wait outside with the rest of the kids at school and asking my coach if he would wait until my family came to get me. Read More
