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Storied: San Francisco

Mar 25, 2025

In Part 2, we start off talking about the significance of opening a Latinx-owned bookstore in the heart of the Mission, on 24th Street.
 
The folks who run Medicine for Nightmares call the entire space at 3036 24th Street—the bookstore in front and gallery in back—"The Portal." Josiah talks about the intention to...


Mar 18, 2025

This episode is a sequel podcast nearly five years in the making.

We last talked with poet Josiah Luis Alderete back in 2020, over Zoom, in the early COVID days. In this podcast, we pick up, more or less, with where we left off that summer.

Back in those days, Josiah Luis still worked at City Lights Bookstore in...


Mar 11, 2025

In Part 2, we pick up with Ellen's life after she graduated from Washington University. Next up was a move to New York City.
 
In the Big City, she consulted for a financial services company. It was 2007, just before the financial crisis of those years. She found the job market tight, so she got a job in Washington, DC,...


Mar 4, 2025

One of Ellen Lo’s main motivations is to beautify the spaces she’s in.

In this podcast, we meet and get to know Ellen. Today, she runs Ask Me SF, a site and handle she populates with reviews of spots around The City she wants to share with the world. Sounds familiar, but we’ll get to that later in the episode.

We...