Latest Klatte Podcast Episodes
Porchlight: The Bitch is Back: Stories of Resurgence
Porchlight Storytelling Series - March 30, 2022 18:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsThe Bitch is Back: Stories of Resurgence Back in hot vax summer of '21, we were so jazzed about coming out of the pandemic. We brought our live show to the courtyard of the historic San Francisco Mint to hear tales of bouncing back, renaissance and reemergence. Stories from business executive ...
Porchlight Presents: North Beach Episode 8: Graziano Cerchiai
Porchlight Storytelling Series - May 17, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsWe wrap up our North Beach series with an interview with Graziano Cerchiai, the patriarch of the city's legendary Bimbo's 365 Club, on his 91st birthday.
Porchlight Presents: North Beach Episode 7: Jonathan Moscone
Porchlight Storytelling Series - April 16, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsOur guest this week is theater director and current Chief Producer at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Jonathan Moscone. Jon talks about his North Beach memories, including memorable nights at Tosca, and how the pandemic has unveiled inequities in our society that we cannot ignore.
Porchlight Presents: North Beach Episode 6: Pia Hinckle
Porchlight Storytelling Series - April 02, 2021 15:56 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsAuthor, journalist, and fifth generation San Franciscan Pia Hinckle joins us to talk about growing up and raising her own kids in the city. Topics include her legendary father, journalist Warren Hinckle, and nearly every single bar in North Beach.
Porchlight Presents: North Beach Episode 5: Jack Hirschman
Porchlight Storytelling Series - March 19, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsArline and Beth catch up with poet Jack Hirschman. He looks back on his friendship with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and shares a poem he wrote for Lawrence on the night of his passing.
Porchlight Presents: North Beach Episode 4: Stacey Lewis
Porchlight Storytelling Series - March 05, 2021 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsArline and Beth catch up with City Lights Books' linchpin Stacey Lewis. She looks back on 25 years at the iconic bookstore and remembers her mentor and friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Porchlight Presents: North Beach episode 3: Lyle Tuttle and Danielle Boiardi
Porchlight Storytelling Series - February 19, 2021 16:59 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsA year after Tuttle's death, Arline and Beth remember the tattoo icon with his friend and archivist Danielle Boiardi.
Porchlight Presents: North Beach: Episode 3: Lyle Tuttle and Danielle Boiardi
Porchlight Storytelling Series - February 19, 2021 16:59 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsA year after Tuttle's death, Arline and Beth remember the tattoo icon with his friend and archivist Danielle Boiardi.
Porchlight Presents: Peggy Knickerbocker
Porchlight Storytelling Series - February 05, 2021 17:54 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsArline and Beth talk to San Francisco legend Peggy Knickerbocker. The cookbook author and gal about town talks about The Dolphin Club, her new memoir, and childhood friends helping get her through the pandemic. Her story about running around North Beach was recorded at Bimbo's in 2018.
Porchlight Presents North Beach: Episode 2: Peggy Knickerbocker
Porchlight Storytelling Series - February 05, 2021 17:54 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsArline and Beth talk to San Francisco legend Peggy Knickerbocker. The cookbook author and gal about town talks about The Dolphin Club, her new memoir, and childhood friends helping get her through the pandemic. Her story about running around North Beach was recorded at Bimbo's in 2018.
Porchlight Presents North Beach: Episode 1: Jesse DeNatale
Porchlight Storytelling Series - January 18, 2021 03:17 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsBeth and Arline remember a great show back in 2019 in the perfectly lit, crowded lounge at Bimbo's. Porchlight favorite Jesse DeNatale was there. He spent the pandemic creating a beautiful album "The Wilderness." Hear all about it and the roads that lead us wherever the hell we wind up.
Porchlight Presents: Jesse DeNatale
Porchlight Storytelling Series - January 18, 2021 03:17 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsBeth and Arline remember a great show back in 2019 in the perfectly lit, crowded lounge at Bimbo's. Porchlight favorite Jesse DeNatale was there. He spent the pandemic creating a beautiful album "The Wilderness." Hear all about it and the roads that lead us wherever the hell we wind up.
Porchlight: Show Me As I Want To Be Seen
Porchlight Storytelling Series - October 14, 2019 01:38 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsWe were so excited to join forces with both the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the California Institute for Integral Studies for a night of stories exploring our understanding of self and the fluidity of identity. An amazing group shared personal stories inspired by the CJM exhibition Show Me as...
Porchlight Presents Green Apple Books' 50th Anniversary Jubilee
Porchlight Storytelling Series - September 02, 2019 21:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsA not-to-miss variety show celebrating the wonderment and weirdness of SF's landmark indie bookstore with author Mary Roach, illustrator Wendy McNaughton, Thao of the Get Down Stay Down, Vetiver's Andy Cabic, Forum's Michael Krasny, author Robin Sloan, author and musician Willy Vlautin and more!...
Porchlight's 15-Year Anniversary Show-tacular!
Porchlight Storytelling Series - October 13, 2018 17:37 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsIt's our 15th birthday and we're putting on a killer storytelling show to celebrate! BACK IN THE DAY will feature true tales from a stellar assortment of humans including: Muni Diaries founder Eugenia Chien Lawyer, activist, and artist Matt Gonzalez Bartender and writer Ginger Murray Master...
Porchlight + Sketchfest! Bombs Away! Night 1
Porchlight Storytelling Series - August 16, 2018 06:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsPorchlight and Sketchfest present: BOMBS AWAY! Stories of Implosions and Explosions With Dana Merwin, Eddie Pepitone. Erin Foley, Karla Martin and Mike Phirman
Annual Litquake Show! Life During Wartime
Porchlight Storytelling Series - March 09, 2018 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsEvery year, we join forces with the amazing Litquake Literary Festival to bring you a night of stories told by authors and writers. Our theme for this show is ripped from the Talking Heads song “Life During Wartime,” and involves tales of explosive scenarios, epic struggles, and living each day ...
14-Year Anniversary Romp: Identity Crisis!
Porchlight Storytelling Series - March 05, 2018 00:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsWho am I? It's a queston that never fails to amuse, confuse, bewilder, and humble us as we plunk along our journey on this earth. To what end, no one knows. To paraphrase Oliver Sacks, it is an enormous privilege and adventure to be a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful plane...
Porchlight + Greenhouse: JOBS
Porchlight Storytelling Series - August 01, 2016 18:27 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsPorchlight partners with Greenhouse, a software company that optimizes hiring practices, for a show of stories about JOBS. Our storytelling superstars for this special edition include writer/musician Eric Shea, HIV educator Ed Wolf, and producer/comedian Dana Merwin. Hosted by Arline Klat...
Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution
Porchlight Storytelling Series - June 29, 2016 21:56 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsPorchlight returns with a Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution edition featuring Wavy Gravy, Bob Barsotti, Eric Shea, Deanne Franklin, Bart Davenport, and Lorrie Murray. Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick on May 12, 2016 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Recorded by Brandi Howell....
Kitchen Confidential 2016
Porchlight Storytelling Series - June 04, 2016 00:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsKitchen Confidential is back! Hear some of SF's finest onstage with their insider stories about food, restaurants, kitchens, customers, and the vagaries of having a life in the service industry. Writer and restaurant person Karen Leibowitz. Natural foods expert/writer Matt Levine. Cookbook autho...
You're Doing It Wrong: SF Sketchfest 2016
Porchlight Storytelling Series - March 10, 2016 04:36 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsYou're Doing It Wrong: Stories from Porchlight's annual SF Sketchfest show featuring Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte with guests Iris Haas-Biel, Moshe Kasher, Jackie Kashian, Kyle Mizono and Aparna Nancherla and songs by Bart Davenport. Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick January 22, 2016 at...
Kill Your Darlings: The Unpleasant Art of Starting Over. Porchlight + Litquake 2015
Porchlight Storytelling Series - December 15, 2015 03:08 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsLitquake’s edition of the Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight series (15 years!) returns to the festival for a special storytelling night of authors and writers, telling tales on the theme of “Kill Your Darlings.” Featuring stories by Heather Mackey, Martha Tolles, Neal Pollack, Mark Haskell Smit...
Flip The Switch: Stories of Change In An Instant
Porchlight Storytelling Series - November 18, 2015 02:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsIt seems like only yesterday that we got some friends together at the Hemlock Tavern to tell us their stories and now BAM, it's somehow 13 years later! Arline, Beth, and Marc celebrate the thrill again as some of our favorite Bay Area storytellers delight and surprise you with the theme Flip The...
Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights
Porchlight Storytelling Series - May 12, 2015 02:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsA very special edition of the Bay Area’s longest-running storytelling series, now in its 13th year! An evening of unforgettable stories by a stellar cast of feisty San Franciscans who are STILL HERE. So you know: This show is not meant to be a bummer, but rather a rollicking night featuring peop...
Kitchen Confidential 2014
Porchlight Storytelling Series - March 20, 2015 02:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsKitchen Confidential, Porchlight's most anticipated show of the year. Get all the dirt from the top food people in this unapologetically food-obsessed town, as stories from the kitchen, the front of the house, and the food truck are told onstage. Stories from: Chef and TV Personality Joey Altm...
Comics Take the Stage: SF Sketchfest 2015
Porchlight Storytelling Series - February 17, 2015 01:38 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsFor the fifth year in a row, Porchlight teams up with the San Francisco Sketchfest to bring you a rollicking night of storytelling by a line-up of people in the writing and funny business. Working with the theme FAKE IT TIL YOU MAKE IT, six superstars tell ten-minute stories for your joy...
Porchlight Open Door: Scary, Creepy, Not OK!
Porchlight Storytelling Series - December 23, 2014 09:20 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsPorchlight Halloween show. Hosted by Arline Klatte and Marc Capelle on October 27th, 2014 at San Francisco's Hemlock Tavern
Brushes with the Other Side of Fame. Porchlight + Litquake 2014
Porchlight Storytelling Series - November 25, 2014 04:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 100 ratingsThis installment comes from our collaboration with the yearly Litquake Literary Festival. The theme of the evening was brushes with the other side of fame told by Jennifer Longo, Antonia Crane, Caitlin Doughty, Joshua Safran and Owen Egerton along with songs by Frank Portman. Hosted by Arline ...
Bay Area Love Stories
Porchlight Storytelling Series - October 21, 2014 18:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 100 ratingsStories about love and the Bay Area told by Chinaka Hodge, Thao Nguyen, Anthony Bedard, Dana Merwin, John Reichmuth, Hiya Swanhuyser and music by Carletta Sue Kay. Hosted by Arline Klatte & Beth Lisick on September 4, 2014 at the California Academy of Sciences.
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