Storied: San Francisco

Part 2 picks up where we left off in Part 1. Fredo and Laine had worked for the same company for a minute, but both left eventually. That social group they’d formed with a few other artists they work…

Alfredo Sainz’s grandfather came to US from Chihuahua, Mexico, in the Bracero Program during World War II. That family then migrated from El Paso, Texas, through New Mexico and Southern California, t…

Check out my conversation with previous guest Lincoln Mitchell as we chat about Lincoln’s new book, Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco.

Look for Lincoln at t…

In Part 2, Kundan tell us about her decision to move to San Diego for college, where she would join her older sister, who’d been there for several years. But before that move south, she joined her si…

Listen in as SFFILM Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks and I discuss this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival. Topics include:

• SFFILM’s THE HORROR! festival spotlight

• Festival …

It’s not often that I feature someone for the first time who’s already been on the podcast … not once, but twice. Such is the case for my friend, artist/bartender/nonprofit arts organizer Kundan Baid…

The Tenderloin Museum turns 10 years old this summer, and I for one am here to celebrate that.

We first visited TLM early last year, when we talked with museum Executive Director Katie Conry. This bo…

Ava Roy grew up in rural Western Massachusetts, in an area rich in literature and theater. Ava met Ann Podlozny back east before Ava came to California to attend Stanford, which is where she created …

On his mom’s side, Woody LaBounty’s San Francisco roots go back to 1850.

In Part 1, get to know Woody, who, today, is the president and CEO of SF Heritage. But he’s so, so much more than that.

He beg…

This episode is a sequel podcast nearly five years in the making.

We last talked with poet Josiah Luis Alderete back in 2020, over Zoom, in the early COVID days. In this podcast, we pick up, more or …

One of Ellen Lo’s main motivations is to beautify the spaces she’s in.

In this podcast, we meet and get to know Ellen. Today, she runs Ask Me SF, a site and handle she populates with reviews of spots…

Nato Green started hanging out at San Francisco comedy clubs when he was in eighth grade.

Nato’s parents met when they both still lived in the suburbs of Chicago. They got married in 1968 and moved t…

One set of Barbara Gratta's grandparents came to the US from Calabria, the toe of the boot of Italy. The other grandparents came from across the Italian peninsula—Bari. In this episode, meet Barbara…

It's been a damn year, y'all. In this bonus episode, we catch up with friend of the show Vandor Hill, owner and creator of Whack Donuts. His brick-and-mortar shop in EMB 4 just marked its one-year a…