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
Ep. 17, Part 2: Amanda Guest's Life-Changing All-Nighter in San Francisco
Falling in love with San Francisco is like a snowflake. Whether you're born here or become a transplant, we all find our own way to the heart of the city.
For BFF.fm founder Amanda Guest, it was no d…
Ep. 17, Part 1: Amanda Guest's Early Trips to San Francisco
BFF.fm founder Amanda Guest first visited San Francisco as a kid with her family from Massachusetts. Her first trip here as adult was in 2007, when she came as part of the Game Developers Conference.
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Ep. 16, Part 2: Ryan Akerberg's Window-Cleaning Company
Ryan Akerberg had been in San Francisco for only a couple of weeks when his friend from Boulder, Colorado, tapped him on the shoulder in a cafe. That random meeting eventually resulted in Ryan's owni…
Ep. 16, Part 1: Ryan Akerberg's First Jobs in San Francisco
Ryan Akerberg moved to San Francisco 12 years ago from Colorado, and Iowa before that. Like many of us, he arrived without a job or a plan to make the gobs of money that are required for city living.…
Ep. 15: Broke-Ass Stuart's San Francisco Adventures
Broke-Ass Stuart does and has done a lot of things. He moved to San Francisco in 2003 and started his website, Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website, in 2004. He's had a national TV show, hosted a talk …
Ep. 14, Part 2: H.P. Mendoza's Mission Arcade
H.P. Mendoza makes music and movies. He's quite good at doing both. But video games are another love of his. Several years ago, he started an arcade. That's right, a video game arcade. In this podcas…
Ep. 14, Part 1: H.P. Mendoza's Dad, the Pac-Man King
H.P. Mendoza, director of Colma: The Musical, I Am a Ghost, and the upcoming Bitter Melon, loves video games. In addition to music and movies, they are a prominent fixture in his life.
In this episod…
Ep. 13, Part 3: Kevin Fagan's Song for Jill May
It's fair to say that homelessness is Kevin Fagan's favorite beat. The veteran SF Chronicle reporter was the only beat reporter in the U.S. covering homelessness full-time from 2003 to 2006. It was d…
Ep. 13, Part 2: Kevin Fagan's Story About a San Francisco Homeless Veteran
In 2003, San Francisco Chronicle editors put Kevin Fagan and a photographer on the streets, literally, to live among the homeless population in order to really capture what that life was like.
In thi…
Ep. 13, Part 1: Kevin Fagan's Coverage of the 2017 Wine Country Wild Fires
In October 2017, a series of wild fires swept through parts of Napa, Sonoma, Solano, and Mendocino counties, claiming the lives of many residents, leveling houses and business structures, displacing …
Ep. 12, Part 2: Morgan Shidler's Experience Starting 'That's What She Said'
Shortly after the 2016 election, Morgan Shidler got together with friend and former coworker Harmony Fraga, who owns The Social Study. Out of their conversation that night, That's What She Said, an a…
Ep. 12, Part 1: Morgan Shidler's First Political Protest (Plus a Ghost Story)
Morgan Shidler grew up in Rohnert Park and moved to San Francisco in 2003, right around the time of the Iraq War. For Part 1 of her episode of Storied: San Francisco, Morgan will talk about going to…
Ep. 11, Part 2: Lavay Smith and Chris Siebert's Memories of SF Nightclubs
For Part 2 of Lavay and Chris's episode, they'll talk about an unusual business meeting they had, the time they played for Bill Clinton's Saxophone Club, and the time in 1992 when they went to see So…
Ep. 11, Part 1: Lavay Smith and Chris Siebert's Early Days in the SF Music Scene
Lavay Smith and Chris Siebert have been making music in San Francisco for more than 20 years. Their band, Lavay Smith and her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, plays all around the Bay Area all the time. Chri…
Ep. 10: Graham Cowley's Life as a San Francisco Medical Examiner
For the majority of his professional career, Graham Cowley was a medical examiner. After a brief stint in his native England, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, then to San Francisco in the 198…
Ep. 9: Billy Priest's Early Days Doing Drag in San Francisco
Holly DeVille has been a fixture in the drag queen scene in San Francisco since the early 2000s. She got her start on Billy Priest's birthday at Aunt Charlie's. After becoming a regular performer the…
Ep. 8: fnnch's First Time Being Spotted Doing Street Art
San Francisco street artist fnnch first caught my eye when I started seeing his honey bears on buildings and mailboxes around the Mission. I've always appreciated street art, but these bears were som…
Ep. 7, Part 2: Jim Murphy's High School and College Days
For Part 2 of Jim Murphy's Storied: San Francisco podcast, he talks about his brush with little-known acts such as Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company, how he just missed getting a …
Ep. 7, Part 1: Jim Murphy's Youth in the Noe Valley
Jim Murphy is a fourth-generation San Franciscan whose family originally arrived in the city in the 1850s in covered wagons. For this episode of Storied: San Francisco, hear Jim talk about the early …
Ep. 6: Cynthia and Jeremy Pollock's Election Day 2016
For many of us in San Francisco and the Bay Area, the presidential election of 2016 was a deeply disturbing and even traumatic event. It wasn't any different for Cynthia and Jeremy Pollock, longtime …