Apr 21, 2026
Listen in as I chat with guests at 415 Zine’s 415 Day celebration at Madrone last week.
Find the guests of this bonus episode:
Mackenzie C Kirk
Carrie Cotini
Mike Bruno
Apr 16, 2026
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Todd has just learned the process of importing automobiles into the US. He had one under his belt. He was ready for more.
He’d learned about older Japanese fire trucks and set his sights. He was still going to Japan frequently, and began to make “car friends”...
Apr 14, 2026
There’s a little red Japanese fire truck rolling around all over San Francisco. But instead of putting out fires, Kiri the Japanese Fire Truck is spreading joy and inspiring smiles.
In this episode, meet and get to know Todd Lappin, the human being who brought Kiri from Japan to the US—Bernal Heights specifically.
Apr 2, 2026
For Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Soleil was working in restaurants in Minneapolis, both front-of-house and back, and also starting writing about food around this time.
There was a new food publication in Minneapolis at the time called Heavy Table, and Soleil offered to intern for them. At first, it...