Nov 13, 2025
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1, with that fateful visit Saikat took to The Mission. He and friends worked a lot, but didn’t have a lot of money (sound familiar?). To learn The City and have some fun, they signed up for as many walking tours as they could find. After a few months living in Park...
Nov 11, 2025
The story of Saikat Chakrabarti begins in a time when his parents’ and ancestors’ country was being torn apart, almost literally.
In this episode, meet and get to know Saikat. These days, he’s busy knocking on doors and otherwise hitting the ground in a bid to represent San Francisco in the US Congress. As I write...
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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