Sunny Angulo, Part 2 (S9E3)
Storied: San Francisco
Trigger warning: Part 2 contains a story of domestic abuse. In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Sunny arrived anew in her hometown of San Francisco. After that “talk” with her dad about her tattoo, she peaced out on her parents and went to stay with a friend in El Paso ahead of her move back to SF. Before leaving, when she went back home to get the rest of her stuff, Sunny ran into her mom, who was upset. Sunny told her, directly, that she would make mistakes in her life, and that moving away was not one of them. She reminded her mom that her dad, Sunny’s grandpa,...
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Sunny Angulo, Part 1 (S9E3)
Storied: San Francisco
Sunny Angulo has one helluva life story. In this episode, meet and get to know Sunny. Today, she does , a group promoting progressive policies rooted in pragmatism and effectiveness. In Part 1, Sunny begins her own story with that of her maternal grandparents. Her mom’s mom, Amparo Espinoza (née Cruz), was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. Amparo’s dad worked on the railroad, meaning she lived a nomadic life when she was young. Eventually, her family made it to Northern California in is now Stockton. Amparo’s husband was younger than she was. He was a gangster back in the day. Both came from...
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Z Space’s New Program: Assimilation (S9 Bonus)
Storied: San Francisco
Listen in as I talk with JoAnne Winter and Vanessa Flores Chacko of . We chat about the theater production group. Their program Word for Word’s next production, , includes two short stories, one by E.L. Doctorow and another by Tatyana Tolstaya. For more information and to buy tickets for Assimilation, which runs Oct. 14 through Nov. 8, visit . We recorded this podcast on Zoom in October 2026.
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Intersections SF: Chris Ryan's 'not really a realtor' story at Broderick & Hayes (Episode 3)
Storied: San Francisco
is the New York Times bestselling author of and , which have each been translated into over twenty languages. Chris’ long running podcast, includes more than 800 episodes, has been downloaded over 30 million times and has featured guests such as Rick Beato, Theo Von, Johann Hari, and Neil Strass. is also a friend, and a neighbor in the rare, remote, strange, and very beautiful settlement of Crestone, Colorado. Chris’s somewhat apocalyptic SF love story takes place at 454 Broderick near Hayes in 1989.
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Vanessa + Raina/Valkyries, Say Less, Part 2 (S9E2)
Storied: San Francisco
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1, with the origin story of Raina and Vanessa’s show, Valkyries, Say Less. It goes something like this … The two went to the first-ever Valkyries game, technically a preseason game, at Chase Center, in 2025. Once she discovered discounted tickets, Vanessa got about 20 friends and fellow teachers to join in. Then folks from the Valkyries cme to Vanessa’s school, Roosevelt Middle School in the Richmond, for a career fair day. She was decked out in Valkyries merch that she’d already made and had been selling. Vanessa told the team reps how...
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Vanessa + Raina/Valkyries, Say Less, Part 1 (S9E2)
Storied: San Francisco
When Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely and Raina Mast aren’t going bananas about the Golden State Valkyries, they’re teaching kids in San Francisco. In this episode, meet and get to know Vanessa and Raina, cohosts of the . We begin with Vanessa. Her parents met in San Francisco in 1970. Her mom came here the year before from her home country, France. In her mom’s first month in The City, she met the man who became Vanessa’s dad. She had just finished photography school back home, and planned to return to France. But fate wanted a word with her. Vanessa’s dad grew up on the East Coast....
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Kate Campbell/WhoDidWhat? (S9 Bonus)
Storied: San Francisco
Listen in as I talk with Kate Campbell, cofounder of , a congressional accountability tracker. Their website goes live October 12. Once it’s up, folks all over the country will be able to access their congressperson’s voting recording, committees they serve on, any petitions with their names on it, and a score that the site gives them. It will launch covering a single topic, but an important one—how members score on the Epstein Files. Please register to vote or check your registration by October 19, the last possible day to do so in California. Follow Who Did What on Instagram . And...
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Intersections SF: Maria Finn's "I saw a fin" story at Fort Point (Episode 2)
Storied: San Francisco
is a forager, chef, event producer, author of a fantastic cookbook called and fellow Lagotto Romagnolo dog parent who also happens to be a neighbor of mine on the houseboats in Sausalito. She is founder of The Institute for Ecosystem Based Living and . You can find her on the web at and . Maria’s Intersections story about swimming in San Francisco Bay—and getting more comfortable with being uncomfortable—takes place at Fort Point in 2019.
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SF Lowrider Council Founder Roberto Hernandez (S9 Bonus)
Storied: San Francisco
Listen in as I talk with Roberto Hernandez, founder of the . The council is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year. And their Lowrider Parade and car-hopping contest will take place in the Mission this Saturday, Sept. 19. We recorded this podcast at Roberto’s home in the Mission in August 2026. Photography by Tyrone Malow Diaz
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Photographer Dave Glass, Part 2 (S9S1)
Storied: San Francisco
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1, with Dave’s time in Europe to get away from being drafted to fight in Vietnam. By that time, with a couple years at City College taking photo classes under his belt, Dave had built a portfolio. He took all his gear with him because he didn’t know whether he was ever coming back. His French cousin had a friend whose mom worked at the US Embassy in Paris. Dave got about a dozen photos into a group show at the American Culture Center there, his first public showing. Through another connection, he was able to print photos for the show at the...
info_outlineListen in as I talk with Kate Campbell, cofounder of WhoDidWhat?, a congressional accountability tracker. Their website goes live October 12. Once it’s up, folks all over the country will be able to access their congressperson’s voting recording, committees they serve on, any petitions with their names on it, and a score that the site gives them. It will launch covering a single topic, but an important one—how members score on the Epstein Files.
Please register to vote or check your registration by October 19, the last possible day to do so in California.
Follow Who Did What on Instagram @whodidwhattracker. And donate to this nonprofit’s Kickstarter, up through Oct. 3, here.
We recorded this podcast at 540 Bar in the Inner Richmond in September 2026.