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Storied: San Francisco

Dec 28, 2017

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 Solomon Burke at Slim's. Lavay will share the story of the Swing for Choice benefit show she did with Ledisi, and she'll...


Dec 26, 2017

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. Chris and Lavay also do regular gigs at the Royal Cuckoo Lounge every Sunday. For this podcast, part one of two, Chris and...


Dec 19, 2017

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 1980s. He retired in 2011.

In this episode of the podcast, Graham talks about a particular call he got for a man who died on...


Dec 12, 2017

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 there, she moved over in the Tenderloin to Deco Lounge, the spot that is now Emperor Norton's Boozeland. In this episode...


Dec 5, 2017

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 something special, with their precision and cheeky playfulness.

For this episode of Storied: San Francisco, fnnch describes...