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Storied: San Francisco

May 30, 2019

No living situation is permanent, especially in San Francisco. The residents of the houseboats on Mission Creek, which are nestled amid one of the hottest areas of development in the city, are always are aware of this.

In this podcast, Ginny Stearns and Bob Isaacson talk about their efforts to secure their homes on the...


May 28, 2019

Before there was the ballpark where the Giants play ... before the elevated I-280 freeway ... before most of the northeastern half of what we call the Mission District ... before the Gold Rush, there was Mission Bay. It was fed by many sources, the biggest of which was Mission Creek, which flowed over waterfalls down...


May 23, 2019

​Bernadine Sewell (aka, Pinky Winchester) opened her restaurant, Pinky and Red's, last summer in the UC Berkeley Student Union building. It was the culmination of a long journey—she and her daughter (Red) took courses with La Cocina, the San Francisco non-profit that cultivates "low-income food entrepreneurs as they...


May 21, 2019

To help elevate the voices and stories of Black San Franciscans, we’ll be rerunning those episodes the rest of this week.

Bernadine Sewell has an alter ego: Pinky Winchester. When you meet this incredibly colorful woman, you know why.

She and her daughter went through the La Cocina program and opened...


May 14, 2019

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.

Darnay McPherson likes to stress that, when he was a kid growing up in San Francisco's Fillmore neighborhood in the...