Marke B., Rachel Ryan, and Honey Mahogany/The Stud Collective, Part 1 (S6E18)
Storied: San Francisco
I'm super-stoked to do a podcast all about The Stud and folks from the collective who run the place! In Part 1, we start with . Many longtime listeners will remember Marke from his Season 3 Storied episode. In this go-round, we get a condensed version of his life story and how he made his way to San Francisco. In his hometown of Detroit, Marke threw raves and made enough money on that to put himself through college. Sometime in those four years of school, he realized that his dream of writing for a local newspaper or weekly was damn near impossible. Also, it was...
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Frameline's Allegra Madsen (S6 bonus)
Storied: San Francisco
In this bonus episode, meet and get to know 's Executive Director Allegra Madsen. Allegra was born and grew up in southern Virginia. As she says, "It was hot, it was humid, it was Southern." From a young age, she fell in love with movies because it was so hot outside. She'd escape to theaters, where she could bask in the AC and watch movies all day long. She left that area as soon as she could. That meant Chicago for college. She wanted to be a writer. Columbia College in Chicago was known as more of a film school, which meant she was on the periphery of movies in her time there. ...
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Brett Cline/The Lost Church San Francisco, Part 2 (S6E17)
Storied: San Francisco
Part 2 begins with a chat about how, when we were both younger and just arriving in San Francisco, neither Brett nor I had any idea that we'd be here so long. After living on Market, Brett moved back to the Mission, where he's lived ever since. His great aunt passed away and left him some money. It proved to be enough for a down payment on a space on Capp Street just off 16th. 65 Capp Street is the address of the original location of The Lost Church, and happens to be where Brett and his family live today. Then Brett shares the story of meeting his wife, Lost Church co-owner...
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Brett Cline/The Lost Church San Francisco, Part 1 (S6E17)
Storied: San Francisco
Brett Cline is, as he puts it, from the "Deep South." But he's such a California kid that by that he means Southern California. In Part 1, get to know Brett, who for the past decade or so has run The Lost Church performing arts theater. His life began in Orange County, where his parents ended up after meeting at UCLA and traveling around the world when his dad was a pilot in the Navy. Brett was heavily into the punk rock scene in SoCal in the Eighties (think bands like Social Distortion and Suicidal Tendencies, among others). But his love of music started in fourth...
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Peaboo and the Catz (S6 bonus)
Storied: San Francisco
Hear the conversation I had in January with my favorite young Bay Area band, Peaboo and the Catz. Follow them on Instagram Subscribe to their YouTube channel: Photography by Paolo Asuncion
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Mike Arcega, Paolo Asuncion, and Rachel Lastimosa/TNT Traysikel, Part 2 (S6E16)
Storied: San Francisco
In Part 2, Mike, Paolo, and Rachel share the story of how TNT Traysikel came to be. We begin with Paolo, who describes the Mission art opening where he and Mike met. Besides having similar "falling in love with San Francisco" moments, they soon learned that back in the Philippines, their brothers had been friends. They hit it off pretty much right away. Mike learned that Paolo worked on films, including his series on YouTube. In 2017, the year after came into existence, Mike was invited to join the nonprofits' arts and cultural group. They were looking to do a placemaking project and...
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Mike Arcega, Paolo Asuncion, and Rachel Lastimosa/TNT Traysikel, Part 1 (S6E16)
Storied: San Francisco
In this episode, we meet the humans behind the artistic and cultural project that is the . We start, in random order, with Mike Arceaga. Mike was born in the Philippines and moved to LA with his family when he was 10. He says that the transition from his homeland to LA was difficult. The family first landed in Highland Park, which Mike points out wasn't hip then. That's where he got started doing graffiti art. In the mid-to-late-Eighties, they moved, first to the Eagle Rock neighborhood in LA, then Pomona, where, by the time he moved there, he'd become a full-fledged...
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Danny Montoya/Butterfly Joint and Café, Part 2 (S6E15)
Storied: San Francisco
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. After getting his credentials, Danny bounced around, teaching at a couple of San Francisco public schools before landing at Live Oak (a K–8 school in Potrero Hill). He stayed teaching kindergarten and first grade there for a total of 11 years. We shift gears in the recording to talk about how Danny met his wife. Full disclosure: I've known Erin Feher since around 2004 when we were both in the Journalism program at SF State. Back in 2020, Erin reached out to me on behalf of her new orgranization—, or Represent Collaborative....
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CAAMFest w/Thuy Tran (S6 Bonus)
Storied: San Francisco
The 42nd annual CAAMFest kicks off tomorrow, May 9, in The City. In this bonus episode, meet CAAM's Festival and Exhibitions Director, Thuy Tran. Hear about how Thuy ended up in San Francisco and working at CAAM, the history of this Asian-American media organization, and this year's film, food, and music festival, which runs through May 19. Visit the for more details.
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Danny Montoya/Butterfly Joint and Café, Part 1 (S6E15)
Storied: San Francisco
In this episode, meet and get to know Danny Montoya, who owns and operates in the Outer Richmond. Danny starts his story by letting us know that, growing up, he had family in The City and visited a lot from his various homes in Southern California. He was born in Burbank and grew up in Santa Clarita Valley, where some of his friends still live. He was immersed in punk and skate cultures from a young age, and once he had friends who were old enough to do so, they drove "everywhere" to skate. His parents, both of whom are from Colombia and met in LA, divorced when Danny was...
info_outlineWhen we sat down to record with this week's podcast guest, John Law, he launched right into the research he did to get to know us better before meeting us. For the next seven minutes, we were delighted to hear John's telling of Ep. 15 storyteller and Mission Creek houseboat resident Sarah Davis's first LSD trip. Hold on tightly for this doozie of a meta-Storied podcast!