Storied: San Francisco
A weekly podcast about the artists, activists, and small businesses that make San Francisco so special.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 548
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
S2E33, Part 1: William Rhodes on Art in the Mission District
In this podcast, artist William Rhodes talks about growing up in Baltimore, some similarities between there and San Francisco, moving to the city, the art of the Mission, and establishing his own art…
S2E32, Part 2: Joy Ng on Using Hip-Hop for Social Justice
At SF State, Joy Ng's senior thesis covered the history of hip-hop as resistance and using the art form to make something out of nothing. Since graduating, she has run a website of critical essays wi…
S2E32, Part 1: Joy Ng on the Documentary that Changed Her Life
Joy Ng is a born-and-raised San Franciscan. In this episode, Joy talks about her childhood, in Chinatown, North Beach, and a couple other neighborhoods. She ends with her time at SF State, where she …
S2E31, Part 2: Joe Bagale's Musical Journey in San Francisco
We're not quite sure how Joe Bagale keeps up with all the music he's created or been part of performing or recording. In this podcast, he takes us through his journey after arriving in San Francisco …
S2E31, Part 1: Joe Bagale on His Musical Upbringing
It's kinda fitting that this is the 80th episode overall for this podcast (49 in Season 1; 31 and counting in this current season, Season 2). Through all but two episodes so far, the intro and outro …
S2E30, Part 2: Project Open Hand Volunteers on What It Means to Them
In Part 1 of this podcast, Project Open Hand volunteer Dana Dawson took us through the history of the non-profit and told us all about what it does for the sick and dying of San Francisco and the Bay…
S2E30, Part 1: Dana Dawson on the History of Project Open Hand
Project Open Hand, which today feeds more than 2,500 sick and dying people, started in 1985 when Ruth Brinker made meals for her friends and neighbors who were "wasting" from AIDS. In this podcast, P…
S2E29, Part 2: Margaret Casey on Making Mission Creek Her Home (San Francisco Houseboats Series)
Since deciding to stay in San Francisco (see Part 1), Margaret Casey has done a lot—been a poet, worked for various event spaces and event production companies, and moved into a houseboat on Mission …
S2E29, Part 1: Margaret Casey and the Panhandle Saxophone (San Francisco Houseboats Series)
The theft of a Picasso in Australia. Getting framed by an old teacher. Cocaine shipments from South America. San Francisco cults in the 1970s. And someone playing the saxophone in the Panhandle on a…
S2E28, Part 2: Ron Turner on Founding Last Gasp Publishing
Originally known as "Last Gasp Eco-Funnies," the publishing company that Ron Turner and others founded celebrates 50 years next April.
In this podcast, Ron talks about starting Last Gasp with Slow De…
S2E28, Part 1: Ron Turner on Growing Up in the Central Valley
Before he moved to the Bay Area in the late-1960s, Ron Turner spent his life in the San Joaquin Valley of California. In this podcast, he talks about various experiences he had around the valley, inc…
S2E27, Part 2: Rosie Ortiz on Her Journey with La Cocina (Part of Our La Cocina Series)
La Cocina serves as a resource for women of color and lower-income women who want to start a food business. Rosie Ortiz sure could cook, but she needed to learn business and other kitchen skills she …
S2E27, Part 1: Rosie Ortiz on Growing Up in the Mission and Teaching Herself to Cook (Part of Our La Cocina Series)
Born and raised in the Mission District, Rosie Ortiz learned to cook by watching her mother.
In this podcast, Rosie, the owner of Mission Boricua, talks about San Francisco back in the day. She says …
S2E26, Part 2: Ginny Stearns and Bob Isaacson on the Future of Mission Creek Living (Part of Our San Francisco Houseboats Series)
No living situation is permanent, especially in San Francisco. The residents of the houseboats on Mission Creek, which are nestled amid one of the hottest areas of development in the city, are always…
S2E26, Part 1: Bob Isaacson and Ginny Stearns on Protecting Mission Creek (Part of our San Francisco Houseboats Series)
Before there was the ballpark where the Giants play ... before the elevated I-280 freeway ... before most of the northeastern half of what we call the Mission District ... before the Gold Rush, there…
S2E25, Part 2: Bernadine Sewell on Running a Restaurant
Bernadine Sewell (aka, Pinky Winchester) opened her restaurant, Pinky and Red's, last summer in the UC Berkeley Student Union building. It was the culmination of a long journey—she and her daughter …
S2E25, Part 1: Bernadine Sewell on Going Through the La Cocina Program (Part of Our La Cocina Series)
To help elevate the voices and stories of Black San Franciscans, we’ll be rerunning those episodes the rest of this week.
Bernadine Sewell has an alter ego: Pinky Winchester. When you meet this incre…
S2E24 Darnay McPherson on Growing Up in the Fillmore in the '60s
To help elevate the voices and stories of Black San Franciscans, we’ll be rerunning those episodes over the next few weeks. We’ll be back with new stories from your neighbors down the road a bit.
Dar…
S2E23, Part 2: Stephanie Smith on Being a Woman Tattooer
Stephanie Smith is a tattoo artist. It's an industry that, even in the Bay Area, is fairly male-dominated.
In this podcast, Stephanie talks about a life and a career with its share of misogynistic ex…
S2E23, Part 1: Stephanie Smith on Becoming a Tattoo Collector and Artist
Stephanie Smith grew up on the East Coast, but never felt like she fit in with the general mindset out there. When it came time for her to (reluctantly) go to college, she picked the University of Sa…