Feb 25, 2025
In Part 2, we pick up where we
left off in Part 1. Nato details the three times he's left his
hometown of San Francisco.
The first was when he went to
college, which was at Reed in Portland, Oregon, in the
mid-Nineties. To get us there, Nato rattles off all of the ways
that he was a "comedy head" before that was even...
Feb 18, 2025
Nato Green started hanging out at San Francisco comedy clubs when he was in eighth grade.
Nato’s parents met when they both still lived in the suburbs of Chicago. They got married in 1968 and moved to San Francisco soon after that. Nato says that they “were in the counter-culture, but bad at it.” What he means...
Feb 11, 2025
Part 2 picks up where we left
off in Part 1. Barbara had just really become settled in San
Francisco and was in what would become a decades-long process of
learning the place (I can totally relate, btw). She hung out in the
Castro more than the Mission, which in those days was a lesbian
mecca. Café Flore (nowadays...
Feb 4, 2025
One set of Barbara
Gratta's grandparents came to the US from Calabria, the
toe of the boot of Italy. The other grandparents came from across
the Italian peninsula—Bari.
In this episode, meet Barbara.
Today, she owns, operates, and makes wine at Gratta
Wines in the Bayview. But her journey began in
White Plains, NY....