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Storied: San Francisco

May 29, 2018

To help elevate the voices and stories of Black San Franciscans, we’ll be rerunning those episodes over the next few weeks. We’ll be back with new stories from your neighbors down the road a bit.

San Francisco artist and poet Mason J. is a survivor. They were born in the city in the late 1980s into two epidemics...


May 24, 2018

After an on-again/off-again stint in New York City, Chris Ohnesorge came to San Francisco in 2003. Through people he knew via music boards, he quickly found friends and fellow musicians.

In this podcast, Chris talks about his first band in SF: The Ex-Boyfriends. The band was excited when local label Absolutely Kosher...


May 22, 2018

Musician and hair stylist ChrisO moved to San Francisco in 2003. Among the odd jobs he had before he learned to style hair, he took a job at mayoral candidate, ex-supervisor, and ex-state senator Mark Leno's sign shop in the Castro.

In this episode, Chris will talk about working in that shop. Then he'll share...


May 15, 2018

SF State Associate Professor of Journalism Venise Wagner loves ice skating. When she's not writing books like Love in the Time of Pinochet and Reporting Inequality: Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity, teaching journalism to a new generation, or spending time with her friends, family, and her dog, Cici,...


May 10, 2018

In Part 1 of this podcast, San Francisco Giants VP of Business Operations Mario Alioto shared stories from his days with the team when their home was Candlestick Park. In this episode, Mario talks about being part of the effort that moved the team north to the South of Market area. That new ballpark, which began its...