Storied: San Francisco
481 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsA weekly podcast about the artists, activists, and small businesses that make San Francisco so special.
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Nathan Tan, Part 2 (S6E14)
April 30, 2024 15:14 - 35 minutes - 64.2 MBPart 2 picks up where we left off in Part 1, with Nate's arrival at SF State and his counselor's suggestion that he switch his major from Business to Art. Nathan graduated from State in 1994. With airbrushing becoming popular around that time, he and his buddy E had opened an airbrush store in the Bayview that did quite well. Nathan wasn't even 20 yet. The store on Third stayed open about a year and a half, he says. At this point in the conversation, Nathan and I go on a sidetrack abou...
Nathan Tan, Part 1 (S6E14)
April 23, 2024 15:07 - 31 minutes - 57.9 MBIn Part 1, meet and get to know Nathan, who today owns and operates New Skool Clothing and Accessories. Nathan's parents are both from Myanmar, but fled their home country during years of political upheaval. They landed in England, where his mom's mom already lived and where Nathan was born in the early Seventies. He, his older sister, and their parents then moved to the Bay Area, where their dad had family, when Nathan was three. He attended preschool in The City, but then his p...
SFFILM's Anne Lai (S6 Bonus)
April 19, 2024 15:22 - 23 minutes - 43.9 MBIn this bonus episode, meet SFFILM Executive Director Anne Lai. Learn all about Anne's upbringing, what drew her to California, her stint with the Sundance Institute, and her arrival in 2020 in San Francisco at the famed San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM). Anne will walk listeners through the history of this 67-year-old festival, the oldest such event in North America. Then she touches on some highlights of this year's festival (April 24–28), including the Opening Night scr...
Mitchell's Ice Cream, Part 2 (S6E13)
April 16, 2024 16:07 - 24 minutes - 45.7 MBPart 2 is the story of how open-mindedness met opportunity. It's also an explanation for how an ice cream store opened by someone named Mitchell came to carry several flavors familiar to both the Filipino- and the Latin-American community. Brian shares the story: The Asian flavors started around 1965 when a customer and friend of Larry Mitchell's introduced Larry to the Gina Corporation in Philippines, who process and package the fruits Mitchell's uses to this day in many of its ice cr...
Mitchell's Ice Cream, Part 1 (S6E13)
April 09, 2024 15:28 - 22 minutes - 41.3 MBThis oh-so-San Francisco story begins with two brothers and a dairy farm at Noe and 29th Street. Larry Mitchell and his older brother Jack opened Mitchell's Ice Cream in 1953. Five years earlier, the building that now houses the well-known ice cream shop was going to be torn down for the widening of San Jose Avenue. The Mitchell family fought those efforts and a compromise was reached—The City would turn and move the building. The old liquor store that had been on San Jose was no more...
Photographer Chloe Sherman, Part 2 (S6E12)
April 02, 2024 16:10 - 37 minutes - 69.5 MBIn Part 2, we hear about Chloe's first photo show, which took place at The Bearded Lady. Chloe describes The Bearded Lady as a hub, a place to do and get everything you could possibly need. It and the Kiki Gallery next door were both on 14th Street near Guerrero. Another queer artist, Cathy, liked Chloe's show and suggested that she go to art school. And so Chloe got into San Francisco Art Institute. She had a darkroom at her home and sometimes printed at Harvey Milk Photo Center in ...
Photographer Chloe Sherman, Part 1 (S6E12)
March 26, 2024 15:12 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBChloe Sherman's eyes are intense, but not the way you might think. Chloe, who's been taking photographs since she was young, was born in New York City. Her mom and her mom's mom were both New Yorkers, and her dad was from Chicago, with his family going back generations there. When she in was grade school, the family moved to Chicago, where Chloe was raised by aunts and grandparents as well as her parents, just like she had been in NYC. It was the Seventies and her parents were hip...
Mark DeVito and Standard Deviant Brewing, Part 2 (S6E11)
March 19, 2024 15:41 - 36 minutes - 66.5 MBIn Part 2, we pick up right where we left off in Part 1. Mark was walking around the Mission taking down numbers of places with "for rent" signs. A resident in one of those spots leaned out the window and invited Mark in to see the place. Mark reveals that he and his wife still live in that same apartment 20 years later. Paul Duatschek lived nearby in the Mission. He and Mark were introduced by a mutual friend at Bottom of the Hill. Soon enough, Paul was coming in regularly to Luna Park...
Mark DeVito and Standard Deviant Brewing, Part 1 (S6E11)
March 12, 2024 13:56 - 37 minutes - 68.6 MBMark DeVito, co-owner and COO of Standard Deviant Brewing, wouldn't last a day in a police lineup. But it might not be his curly handlebar mustache that gave him away. Mark has an outsize personality, to put it mildly. And back in December, I sat down with him and one of the SDB dogs, Beans, at the Mission brewery for what turned out to be quite the wild ride of a recording. In Part 1, we learn about Mark's upbringing in smalltown New Hampshire—Hopkinton, to be specific. It's still a t...
Doug Styles, Denise Coleman, and Huckleberry Youth, Part 2 (S6E10)
March 05, 2024 16:13 - 36 minutes - 66.7 MBIn Part 2, we really get into the meat of what Huckleberry Youth is and how it got started. You know, I keep finding out ways in which our city pioneered things for the nation. I recently saw the upcoming Carol Doda documentary and learned that she was the first topless dancer in the US. And in this episode, we hear from Doug and Denise something very important that Huckleberry Youth did before anyone else. And of course, at the time they did it, it was illegal. 1967 is also known as ...
Denise Coleman, Doug Styles, and Huckleberry Youth, Part 1 (S6E10)
February 27, 2024 16:11 - 36 minutes - 67 MBHuckleberry Youth, the non-profit providing care and housing for underserved youth, celebrated 50 years back in 2017. In Part 1 of this episode, we meet Huckleberry consultant/advisor Denise Coleman and the organization's CEO/executive director, Doug Styles. Denise was born at what is now Kaiser's French Campus on Geary. Denise, who is Black, shares the story of the hospital making her dad pay cash for their labor and delivery services, while it was obvious that white folks were allowe...
Lester Raww and Anita Beshirs, Part 2 (S6E9)
February 20, 2024 16:23 - 54 minutes - 99.4 MBWe begin Part 2 where we left off in Part 1. Anita had been away from their Arkansas college town and missed Lester. Upon her return, she went to see him and they soon shared their first kiss. Soon after that day, Anita had a pregnancy scare, and so Lester asked her, "Would you marry me if you are?" She said yes, but ended up not being pregnant. It didn't matter. They got married anyway. It was 1990 and they were both 22. Lester had a semester to go in college, which meant that t...
Anita Beshirs and Lester Raww, Part 1 (S6E9)
February 13, 2024 16:04 - 46 minutes - 85.9 MBAnita Beshirs was born in Batesville, Mississippi, because the small Southern town her family lived in didn't have a hospital. Welcome to our Valentine's 2024 episode all about Anita and her husband, Lester Raww. In Part 1, we'll get to know Lester and Anita through the stories of their childhood and early adult years. Anita's dad was a Church of Christ minister who, along with her mom, never drank or even took medicinal drugs. Anita is the third child in her family (she has two ...
Vandor Hill of Whack Donuts (S6 Bonus)
February 08, 2024 16:49 - 20 minutes - 38.3 MBSomething awesome happened near the Embarcadero. In Season 4 of this show, back in 2022, we featured SF born-and-raised vegan donut maker Vandor Hill. His pop-up (at the time), Whack Donuts, was gaining some new fans and new spots for him to sell his delicious sweet treats. But now .. Now Whack Donuts occupies a corner spot of EMB 4, just across the walkway from Osha Thai and near the padel courts and water fountain of recently renamed Embarcadero Plaza. How did this happen...
Artist Melan Allen, Part 2 (S6E8)
February 06, 2024 16:20 - 24 minutes - 45.5 MBPart 2 begins with how Melan thinks of herself as an artist. "Art is therapy," she says. It's how she knows herself. "If I cannot create, I cannot be myself." She's been creative her whole life. She wanted to be a tap dancer early on, pointing to Shirley Temple as inspiration (by the way, Temple was originally from Santa Monica, but died in Woodside). Melan even did drag for a while. But she found painting around four years ago and decided then that she's not doing anything else after ...
Artist Melan Allen, Part 1 (S6E8)
January 30, 2024 16:05 - 26 minutes - 48.5 MBMelan Allen is a third-generation San Franciscan. In this episode, we get to know this born-and-raised food artist whom I met last summer at Fillmore Jazz Festival. Melan's grandparents moved here in the Sixties and lived in San Francisco until the 2000s. Her mom's mom came to SF from Texas and was part of a mass migration west, when her mom was very young. In our conversation, Melan says that she sometimes wonders what it would have been like if she had grown up in Texas instead of The Ci...
Katie Conry and the Tenderloin Museum, Part 2 (S6E7)
January 23, 2024 16:30 - 30 minutes - 56.1 MBPart 2 is a deep-dive into the history of the Tenderloin, which we began toward the end of Part 1. Katie digs into the infamous Compton's Cafeteria Riot and shares the background and what lead to that fateful event. After the moral crusaders successfully passed new laws essentially controlling the lives of women, the Tenderloin bounced right back thanks to Prohibition, when the neighborhood's nightlife effectively went underground. Katie says that in the 1920s and Thirties, the TL was ...
Katie Conry and the Tenderloin Museum, Part 1 (S6E7)
January 16, 2024 16:20 - 31 minutes - 57.1 MBIn Part 1, we get to know Tenderloin Museum's executive director, Katie Conry. She's originally from Oceanside, California, just outside of LA, where her parents are from. They were both teachers but were priced out of the big city, a situation all too familiar around here. Katie left home as soon as she could—when she was 18 and it was time to go to college. She had felt lonely and alienated in her hometown. But almost from the moment she arrived in Berkeley, she loved it and felt...
Singer/Songwriter Meredith Edgar, Part 2 (S6E6)
January 09, 2024 17:24 - 36 minutes - 66.2 MBWe begin Part 2 with my asking the question everyone wants to know: Is "Meredith Edgar" her real name or a stage name? You'll have to listen in to find out. Then she shares the various day jobs she's had over the years, some worse than others. She worked a little retail, then got an esthetician's license and worked in dermatology. Meredith says that she's always wanted to help people. That work eventually drove her to go back to college, which she did at St. Edward's in Austin, w...
Singer/Songwriter Meredith Edgar, Part 1 (S6E6)
January 02, 2024 16:11 - 31 minutes - 57.1 MBDiscovering Meredith Edgar is one of my best memories of 2023. In Part 1 of this episode, get to know this singer/songwriter who was born in San Francisco. Her parents had been here a while, but soon after giving birth to Meredith, the family moved around a bit, first to the South, then to the Northeast, and finally, back to the South Bay. "Silicon Valley" was vastly different than the other places Meredith spent her early life in. When her family moved there, she was in third gr...
Wrapping Up 2023
December 28, 2023 23:12 - 23 minutes - 42.6 MBJoin in as Jeff talks about ... Our brand-new-ass Storied: SF hoodies! For a limited time, grab a hoodie at pre-sale prices (a $40 donation'll do it). Let us know your size (we have XS through XXL unisex) and address, and we'll send back our fleece-lined love and appreciation! Venmo/PayPal Updates on Michelle and her involvement in the project A look back at some of the more memorable, impactful episodes of the year (not to take anything away from those I didn't mention) A quick rundo...
Bill English, Susi Damilano, and San Francisco Playhouse, Part 2 (S6E5)
December 21, 2023 16:23 - 38 minutes - 70.1 MBWe begin Part 2 with talk of how Bill and Susi’s love of the work needed to get SF Playhouse started really helped them overcome any fear that might’ve hindered them. Their first brick-and-mortar spot on Sutter Street was meant to be retrofitted. The landlords wouldn’t lease it to the new acting company, but they’d rent it cheaply one month at a time. To get themselves up and running, they staged a play they’d done before, one that was good for the holidays that were coming up. The pla...
Susi Damilano, Bill English, and San Francisco Playhouse, Part 1 (S6E5)
December 19, 2023 17:19 - 25 minutes - 46.3 MBSusi Damilano was born in Germany and raised in the South Bay. Many of her German aunts married US servicemen, but Susi's mom married a German man and the family soon moved to Silicon Valley. Susi shares a history of that area, noting thatnot too long ago, it was primarily orchards. Growing up, Susi would cut through those orchards to get to school. Now that area is housing. She grew up in the 1970s and graduated high school then. As a young adult in the '70s and '80s, Susi visit...
Rudy Corpuz and United Playaz, Part 2 (S6E4)
December 12, 2023 16:44 - 26 minutes - 48.7 MBIn Part 2, Rudy picks up where he left off in Part 1, talking about the origin of United Playaz and a race riot at Balboa High School back in 1994. Rudy gathered those students who'd been involved in the violence to talk and determine their own solutions. And that's exactly what they did. They told Rudy and other adults that there was nothing to do at the school, and out of that discovery, the school implemented many programs to better engage kids. In 2005, Mauricio Vela gave Rud...
Rudy Corpuz and United Playaz, Part 1 (S6E4)
December 05, 2023 16:25 - 26 minutes - 49.1 MBIn 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, which was his ticket to this country. And he brought his wife and some of Rudy's older siblings with him. They went first to Boston, then to Seattle, folllowed by San Pedro, California, and finally, to San Francisco. The family's first landing spot in The City was Hunters-Point. The fam...
Traci Ramos and Boozenation Podcast, Part 2 (S6E3)
November 30, 2023 16:11 - 27 minutes - 50.6 MBIn 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 live and a job, both of which were relative easy back then. But, she says, SF was getting weird and crowded. It was the late-‘90s, so the dotcom boom was well under way. She started working at different restaurants as a server. Then, after some shorter travels abroad and a cross-country road...
Traci Ramos of Boozenation Podcast, Part 1 (S6E3)
November 28, 2023 16:23 - 31 minutes - 58 MBIn 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 to California via Mexico and Spain, while her mom’s dad is Native American, Cherokee to be exact. That man, Traci's grandpa, his mom had three sets of kids from three men, but grandpa didn’t talk about that. Traci is an only child. She and her family visited the East Bay when she was a kid, bu...
Joanna Lioce and Vesuvio Café, Part 4 (S6E2)
November 21, 2023 16:17 - 26 minutes - 48.6 MBPart 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 supposed to train her ended up not showing up that day, and Joanna really didn’t know what she was doing. But she winged it. A customer saw her inexperience and helped her out with some sage advice. The conversation moves on to cover many of the ins and outs of serving vs. bartending. She says tha...
Joanna Lioce and Vesuvio Café, Part 3 (S6E2)
November 14, 2023 15:32 - 27 minutes - 51 MBIn 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 Orange County, in fact, a place Joanna left as soon as she could. In fact, the day after she graduated high school, Joanna went to Europe. While she was away, her dad got a job at the San Jose Mercury News and her mom, a pediatric nurse, worked as a public-health official in Berkeley. Joanna was i...
Janet Clyde and Vesuvio Café, Part 2 (S6E2)
November 09, 2023 16:18 - 26 minutes - 47.9 MBIn 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 many shows in LA when she lived there and loved the scene. She lived in the Basque Hotel at 15 Romolo, made good money, and stuff was cheap back in the late '70s. Janet describes herself as a lightweight, which meant she couldn’t really hang out as late as most people around her. Eventually, sh...
Janet Clyde and Vesuvio Café, Part 1 (S6E2)
November 07, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 48.8 MBThis 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 where it all began in 2017 to chat with Vesuvio co-owner Janet Clyde. We begin with a talk about what a great place for bars San Francisco is. Janet brings up touristic spots we love, as I had joined my wife for Irish coffees at the Buena Vista just before our recording in North Beach. Then...
SFFILM's Doc Stories (S6 Bonus)
November 02, 2023 15:39 - 21 minutes - 40 MBEarlier 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 kicking off its documentary mini-fest tonight. This bonus episode is a quick chat with Jessie Fairbanks, SFFILM's director of programming. Enjoy our talk and go see some killer documentaries this weekend! This episode was recorded over Zoom in October 2023.
San Francisco Cemeteries, Part 4 (S5E3)
October 31, 2023 15:15 - 33 minutes - 63.1 MBIn Part 4, we meet Rob Thompson, federal preservation officer at the Presidio Trust. Rob shares the history of San Francisco's pet cemetery, which dates back to 1952. The pet cemetery sits in a part of the Presidio known as Cavalry Bowl, which for a century was dedicated to animal management when the Presidio was home to the U.S. Army. The cemetery was established by Army families during that time, until they left in the 1990s. Since then, the only burials there are what we decided to call...
San Francisco Cemeteries, Part 3 (S5E3)
October 31, 2023 15:15 - 36 minutes - 67.1 MBIn Part 3, Courtney tells us all about Alma deBretteville Spreckels, the San Francisco sugar baroness who built the Legion of Honor at Lincoln Park, the cemetery-turned-golf course in the northwest corner of The City. From there, we recount the history of the "Big Four" cemeteries, which were located in and around the intersection of Geary and Masonic. Then we hand things over to Kathy McCall, director at the Presidio's San Francisco National Cemetery, one of two graveyards that remain in ...
San Francisco Cemeteries, Part 2 (S5E3)
October 26, 2023 15:51 - 31 minutes - 56.7 MBIn Part 2 of our four-part series, we first hear from Courtney Minick of Here Lies a Story about the parking lot just outside of Mission Dolores. Then we meet Andy Galvan, the Mission's curator. He tells us all about his work and his Ohlone/Bay Miwok ancestral connection to the place, including the graveyard. We end this episode with a walking tour of the graveyard, which Andy guided us on. Among others, we encountered the graves of: Francisco Sánchez Charles Cora and Belle Ryan Berna...
San Francisco Cemeteries, Part 1 (S5E3)
October 24, 2023 15:18 - 27 minutes - 49.9 MBSan Francisco's cemetery history is rich, to say the least. It goes something like this: Mission Dolores cemetery Yerba Buena cemetery San Francisco National Cemetery (in the Presidio) City Cemetery/Golden Gate Cemetery The Big 4—Calvary, Odd Fellows (including the Columbarium), Masonic, Laurel Hill In Part 1 of the four-part series we're doing on San Francisco Cemeteries, we'll meet Courtney Minick of Here Lies a Story. Courtney will serve as our guide through this history. Alo...
Chef Eddie Blyden, Teresa Goines, and Old Skool Café, Part 2 (S6E1)
October 17, 2023 15:06 - 28 minutes - 52.5 MBIn 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 youth in the nascent Old Skool program, which was still taking place at Teresa’s house. Eddie agreed to join the Old Skool crew and he brought in other SF chefs. They did supper salons and pop-ups as well as gala fundraisers with as many as 250 guests. Chef would cook outside the events, which ...
Teresa Goines and Old Skool Cafe, Part 1 (S6E1)
October 10, 2023 15:15 - 36 minutes - 66.1 MBWelcome 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 and president of Old Skool. Originally from Tucson, Teresa spent a lot of time growing up in the country (which we call desert) outside Tucson. She left to get a bachelor's degree in psychology at UC Santa Barbara. She had planned to become a therapist, citing her father's severe disability ...
Mini Bar, Part 3 (S5E20)
July 18, 2023 16:07 - 23 minutes - 43.8 MBIn 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 orphaned. When you consider time in the state of California, her family history goes back here to when it was part of Mexico. Much like John, she was born at Kaiser on Geary. In fact, Erin says, John's mom could've delivered her and her twin sister. She comes from a lineage of twins, actually. H...
Mini Bar, Part 2 (S5E20)
July 13, 2023 15:58 - 25 minutes - 47.2 MBWe 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 bar when she also left the 9 to 5. Sommer researched spots in the general area of Divisadero and stood in lines at City Hall. After scouting a couple other locations, they found the current spot, which looked like it would work. Sommer and John worked out an agreement with the landlord and th...
Mini Bar, Part 1 (S5E20)
July 11, 2023 15:38 - 27 minutes - 50.3 MBWelcome 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. But it's also a neighborhood bar, and neighborhood bars are such a great symbol of the beating heart of San Francisco. Our whole dang thing, Storied: SF, was founded in a neighborhood bar, in fact. In Part 1, we meet Mini Bar co-owner John Ordoña. (Nerius Mercado is Mini's other co-owner.) Joh...
The New Babylon Burning, Part 3 (S5E19)
July 05, 2023 15:27 - 42 minutes - 78.2 MBIn 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 fire. Mike recounts the SFFD firefighters taking care when breaking into the 63 Bluxome art gallery doors that led to Babylon Burning. It was Mike, his wife Judy, and his brother, Clam's, gallery, and it was special. Firefighters also saved finished orders that were just inside the doorway to the...
The New Babylon Burning, Part 2 (S5E19)
June 27, 2023 15:07 - 39 minutes - 72.4 MBWhen 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 Lynch and Judy Tam-Lynch about the several years of hardship that lead to their new location. It started with the worldwide shutdown back in 2020. They were lucky enough to already have orders from essential businesses around The City. Two that Mike cites are Cheese Plus and Balboa Theater. ...
The New Babylon Burning, Part 1 (S5E19)
June 20, 2023 15:16 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MBWelcome 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 their new location on Howard Street. We'll also chat about their new art space: Gallery 939. We recorded Part 1 of this podcast at Babylon Burning in the South of Market in August 2018. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather
Bayview Opera House, Part 2 (S5E18)
June 13, 2023 15:56 - 22 minutes - 42 MBPart 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-level job, which she didn't mind doing because it got her foot in the door. Built in 1888 by the Masons, the then-designated "South San Francisco Opera House" was a spot for them to meet and host performances. Acoustically, that intention shows to this day. The opera house also has dressing rooms...
Bayview Opera House, Part 1 (S5E18)
June 06, 2023 15:19 - 31 minutes - 57.6 MBIn 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. Her mom was born and raised in SF, but her mom's mom, a mixed-race woman, came from Texas. Her family was run out of that state by the KKK. That family landed in the Hunter's Point area and ended up in the Fillmore. Her maternal grandfather came here from Haiti via boat. Upon his arrival, he bou...
Season 5 Home Stretch BONUS
May 30, 2023 14:57 - 4 minutes - 8.58 MBHi! 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! And join us next week for an all-new episode about the Bayview Opera House.
Friends of the Urban Forest, Part 2 (S5E17)
May 23, 2023 15:20 - 23 minutes - 43 MBIn 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 plantings work, starting with FUF's community engagement team identifying areas delineated by grants and specifically targeting disadvantaged parts of The City. Another criteria is simply areas that look like they could use trees. The team walks block to block, collecting addresses so that FUF can then...
Friends of the Urban Forest, Part 1 (S5E17)
May 16, 2023 15:19 - 20 minutes - 38.1 MBFriends of the Urban Forest exists on the premise that there are "no trees in San Francisco." That of course isn't the literal truth. But we'll get to that. In Part 1 of our episode on FUF, we sit down with Tree Planting Program Manager Zeima Kassahun and Executive Director Brian Wiedenmeier to chat about the non-profit's 42-year history of making San Francisco greener. We learn a little about Zeima and Brian's lives, where they're from, how they ended up moving to The City, and what bro...
The Women's Building, Part 2 (S5E16)
May 09, 2023 15:42 - 31 minutes - 56.9 MBIn Part 2, Maria speaks about the many types of events that have taken place at the Women's Building over the years. This includes: poetry readings, quinceañeras, baptisms, weddings, even a Green Day show and other punk shows in the '90s. It's also served as a safe space. Many non-profit community groups have come out of the Women's Building. La Casa de las Madres and the Women's Foundation California are two examples. Then Kristen talks about what's happening at the Women's Building t...