Feb 27, 2024
Huckleberry 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...
Feb 20, 2024
We 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...
Feb 13, 2024
Anita 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...
Feb 8, 2024
Something 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...
Feb 6, 2024
Part 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...