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
Rudy Corpuz and United Playaz, Part 1 (S6E4)
In Part 1, we meet Rudy Corpuz, a born-and-raised San Franciscan who grew up in the South of Market. Rudy's parents came to the US from the Philippines before he was born.
His dad was in the army, …
Traci Ramos and Boozenation Podcast, Part 2 (S6E3)
In Part 2, Traci tells us that, after six months in Australia, during which she had put her things in storage here in The City, she came back and got those things right back out. She got a place to l…
Traci Ramos of Boozenation Podcast, Part 1 (S6E3)
In Part 1, we meet and get to know a bit about Traci's past. She grew up in Modesto. Her dad’s family is Puerto Rican and they arrived in the Central Valley from the East Bay. Traci's mom’s mom came…
Joanna Lioce and Vesuvio Café, Part 4 (S6E2)
Part 4 starts off with me and Joanna doing the math trying to figure out how long she's worked at Vesuvio. Turns out it's right around 20 years.
She started out as a waitress. The woman who was suppo…
Joanna Lioce and Vesuvio Café, Part 3 (S6E2)
In Part 3, we meet Vesuvio bartender Joanna Lioce. Originally from Newport, RI, where her dad was a rock critic, the family moved to LA when he got a job with the Times down there. They landed in Ora…
Janet Clyde and Vesuvio Café, Part 2 (S6E2)
In Part 2, we hear how Janet got a job cocktail waitressing at The Mab, that infamous old punk club on Broadway near Vesuvio. Mab owner Ness Aquino hired her for that and she dug it. She had been to …
Janet Clyde and Vesuvio Café, Part 1 (S6E2)
This episode is six years overdue. That's because Storied: SF got started in a booth upstairs at one of our favorite spots in all The City: Vesuvio Café. In Part 1, we sit down in that same booth wh…
SFFILM's Doc Stories (S6 Bonus)
Earlier this year, I got to see a couple movies as part of the 66th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. It was awesome. SFFILM, the non-profit that puts the festival on each April, is …
Chef Eddie Blyden, Teresa Goines, and Old Skool Café, Part 2 (S6E1)
In Part 2, Teresa shares how she came to find out about Chef Eddie Blyden through a mutual friend. She was persistent in her efforts to track Eddie down, and once she did, she asked him to teach the …
Teresa Goines and Old Skool Cafe, Part 1 (S6E1)
Welcome to Season 6 of the Storied: San Francisco podcast! We really couldn't dream of a better place to kick things off than Bayview's Old Skool Café. In Part 1, we meet Teresa Goines, the founder…
Mini Bar, Part 3 (S5E20)
In Part 3, we meet Mini Bar's Operations Manager, Erin Kehoe. Erin is a sixth-generation San Franciscan. Her uncle researched family history, which was complicated by the fact that her grandma was or…
Mini Bar, Part 2 (S5E20)
We open Part 2 with a discussion on the nature of neighborhood bars. An opportunity arose for John when he left the corporate world. His then-wife, Sommer Peterson, reminded him of his idea to open a…
Mini Bar, Part 1 (S5E20)
Welcome to the final episode of Season 5! We saved a special one for last for a good reason. Mini Bar is, of course, where we're having our first art show (Hungry Ghosts) in more than three years. B…
The New Babylon Burning, Part 3 (S5E19)
In Part 3, we pick up where we left off in Part 2, with Mike's story of arriving at Bluxome Street early in the morning on Dec. 4, 2022. His San Francisco legacy business, Babylon Burning, was on fir…
The New Babylon Burning, Part 2 (S5E19)
When COVID hit, in March 2020, Babylon Burning kept working. In Part 2 of our episode on San Francisco's oldest screenprinting ship and their new location on Howard Street, we talk with owners Mike …
The New Babylon Burning, Part 1 (S5E19)
Welcome to the penultimate episode of Season 5! We're revisiting our 2018 podcast with Babylon Burning's Mike Lynch in Part 1. Part 2 next week will be a talk with Mike and his wife, Judy, about the…
Bayview Opera House, Part 2 (S5E18)
Part 2 catalogs Smiley's journey out of high school and into the world of jobs and being a young adult. Then we get to her time at BVOH, which began about four years ago. It started with an entry-le…
Bayview Opera House, Part 1 (S5E18)
In Part 1 of our episode on the Bayview Opera House, we sit down with opera house Programming Manager Ashley Smiley, (who goes by "Smiley"). Smiley shares how her family ended up in San Francisco. He…
Season 5 Home Stretch BONUS
Hi!
This is a short bonus episode to fill you in on some recent stuff. Learn more about what we have planned as we wind down Season 5 and get ready for our first art show in more than three years!
An…
Friends of the Urban Forest, Part 2 (S5E17)
In Part 2, Brian and Zeima start off with a discussion of "green gentrification" and how, being a community-based non-profit that plants trees, FUF aims to mitigate that. We hear all about how planti…