Nov 5, 2025
Listen in as I chat with SFFILM’s Soph Schultz Rocha and Keith Zwolfer all about this year’s Schools at Doc Stories program, which runs Nov. 6–10.
Learn more about this year’s film festival at SFFILM’s website.
We recorded this podcast at SFFILM’s Filmhouse in South of Market in...
Oct 30, 2025
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Ian and I talk about how big baseball was in his life in his high school and early college years. He was a left-handed pitcher, which made him attractive to coaches. By the time he transferred to UC Berkeley, though, sports receded and academics took over. He played...
Oct 29, 2025
Listen in as I chat with Tommy Leyva, who has been decorating the fuck out of his home on Divisadero for nearly 20 years.
Whether you’re able to drop by, now or until a few days after Halloween, check out the video below the photos on this page.
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Oct 28, 2025
This one starts out a little differently. Ian Paratore was born and raised in San Francisco, but he’s moving away. This week. To Oakland.
Ian’s dad, Vince Paratore, moved into a Victorian in The Haight in the late-Seventies/early Eighties, and is still there. That’s the house Ian grew up in starting roughly 10...
Oct 16, 2025
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1.
It was 2010, and seeing that guy with the broken guitar on Risa’s next visit to SF was the nail in the coffin, so to speak. She was moving here. One of her friends who already lived here found a spot in The Sunset for her. She packed up a car and drove north with her...