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- 2 days ago33 min
The SF Bay Area Bench Collective
Listen in as I talk with Danielle Baskin of the San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective. Danielle talks about her move to SF 10 years ago, all the stuff she's been up to, and she shares the story of what the SFBA Bench Collective and what they do. You can see the map Danielle mention's in the podcast here. We recorded this podcast at The Secret Alley in August 2026. Photography by Jeff Hunt
- 3 days ago11 min
Intersections SF: Christian Routzen's "West of Popeyes" story at Divis & Fell (Episode 5)
Christian Routzen is a surfer, filmmaker, creative entrepreneur, founder and CEO of San Franpsycho, a local lifestyle clothing brand and screen printer. You can find them online at sanfranpsycho.com and at four local locations in the Inner Sunset, Haight St, Fisherman's Wharf, and at SFO Terminal One! Christian's story of creative entrepreneurship takes place at Divisadero & Fell in 2012.
- 1 weeks ago37 min
Connie Chan's Run for Congress (S9 rerun)
Listen in on this chat I had with Connie Chan back in April of this year. Topics include: the gerrymandering of D1, the district she represents the 2024 federal election, and how what the administration is doing ties into her run for Congress priorities beyond stopping fascism: health care, education, and immigration Connie's favorite things to do in SF Since we recorded in May, Connie and Scott Wiener won the primary, Wiener's campaign released an AI chatbot that returned racist results about Connie, billionaire crypto fascist bros have dumped millions into Wiener-aligned super PACs, and Wiener has lied about the influence of AI companies on his campaign. You know, politics as usual. The race can be summed up as: working folks and unions vs. billionaires trying to further build San Francisco as a city for rich people. https://www.conniechansf.com/ *In prepping for this rerun, it came to my attention with a simple Google search that right-wing astroturf group Grow SF paid for a search result when your query is "Connie Chan for Congress." Yeah, nothing shady about that. Photography by Dave Glass
- 2 weeks ago16 min
Intersections SF: James Brown's 'always turn left' story at Hawk Hill (Episode 4)
James Brown is a self-described "former ad guy" who turned himself into a leading meditation teacher and founder of Flow Meditation. He his recent book Meditation Made Me Do It is a pithy, personal, practical collection of short essays, stories and life lessons that explains "how sitting to do nothing can change everything." You can find him on the web at flowmeditation.cc and on Instagram at @flow.meditation. James' story of how following his intuition resulted in a major change to his life—and his family—takes place at Hawk Hill in 2011.
- 3 weeks ago1h 20m
Sunny Angulo, Part 2 (S9E3)
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, disowned her years before. She and her parents were eventually able to close that chapter of their relationship. Now in SF and going to school at USF, it was the era of the dotcom boom (in 2000, around the time I moved here). With everything going on around tech, Sunny found community as a founding member of the SF Indie Media Collective. She aligned herself with many women around here interested in an alternative to the onslaught of tech in The City (in hindsight, I wanna say, "Just you wait …"). It was also a time of warehouse parties. People who went to Burning Man were artists, not tech douches. It was peak bike messenger days. Toward the end of her time in college, Sunny became more and more engaged in activism. I ask whether the school (USF) had an impact on her activism, or if it was The City, or a combination of the two. She points to the time when she was 8 and wanted to design fashion that would fight deforestation in Madagascar. All to say, she's had an eye for social and environmental justice since she was a kid. USF and San Francisco served to solidify that for her as a young adult. Sunny speaks to two times in her life that she missed out: 1) being taken away from most of her high school years, and 2) having left San Francisco when she was young, despite visiting regularly, there was a lot of The City she needed to reacquaint herself with. She reminisces about some of the spots, especially around USF, that she and her friends would frequent. Around this time, Sunny was involved in an organization called School of the Americas Watch. The group stood against the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia, which trained paramilitary for dictatorships. That's an easy thing to oppose theoretically. But SOAW did the work on the ground. For Sunny, that meant traveling back to Georgia. School of the Americas had existed long before 9/11. But after that, security ramped up. Before she shares that story, Sunny retells her own Sept. 11 story. She was USF student body vice president at that time. Living off-campus, she ran back still in her pajamas when she knew something was going on that morning. She met with the student body president and they went to the Board of Trustees to try to secure protections for Arab and Muslim students. They tried, but the board wasn't too into that. Back to School of the Americas, there was an annual protest there. 2001 shouldn't have been different, but it was. Prior to that point, there was no fencing. Celebrities would show up. The protest was always peaceful. Post-9/11, a chain-link fence went up. Little did protestors know, but leadership that year planned to make an example of them. The protestors decided to cut a hole in the fence nonetheless. A group that included Sunny was arrested and kept over the weekend. There's a side story here about her witnessing prison racism first-hand. The end result of all that nonsense was that Sunny was released, but was told to come back to Georgia for arraignment. The judge told
- 3 weeks ago1h 1m
Sunny Angulo, Part 1 (S9E3)
Sunny Angulo has one helluva life story. In this episode, meet and get to know Sunny. Today, she does PROPEL San Francisco, 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 big families. He grew up in poverty. He later did fieldwork. Amparo was already an independent young lady. She helped take care of her mom (Sunny's great-grandmother). She worked, which wasn't common for women of that era to do. She had a car. The two met at a dance hall social. Parents served as chaperones at these events, of course. He asked Amparo to dance, but had been so nervous to do so that he got drunk to muster the courage. Instead of dancing, Amparo helped her future husband back to his friend's car. As they carted him away, he told Amparo that he'd call her. "No you won't," Sunny's grandma said. Sunny describes her grandpa as a handsome man, but full of pride and machismo. He asked Amparo out a few more times, and got more no's. Then came the Korean war, and he got drafted to fight. War changed Sunny's grandad, as it often does. He had never left California. He returned from combat and was hanging out with friends in downtown Stockton when Amparo caught his eye. His friend assured him that she wasn't married. This time she accepted his offer, not to dance, but to get married. They had two kids—Sunny's mom, Susie, and her tia Helen. Then we turn to Sunny's paternal grandparents. Her dad's dad is from Bogota, Colombia. Papi Angulo was orphaned when he was 16. He took a banana boat to New York City looking for his two older brothers. They had already enlisted in the military at that point. He wanted to join as well, but he was too young. To pass the two years until Alfredo was eligible, he ran errands for a pharmacy and worked in an actual sausage factory. Across the country at the time, unbeknown to him, in a little town called Shingle Springs in El Dorado County, Sunny's grandma, Eleanor, lived on a cattle ranch. She was the youngest of three daughters in her family. Her lineage was Swiss. Eleanor would be taken out of school to help her family herd hundreds of cattle from El Dorado to Upper Bassie hundreds of miles away. It was a three-day journey by horseback, which is how Sunny's grandma made the trek. They'd spent the winter there, and months would go by when they didn't see a human being who wasn't a member of their family. With her older sisters married and out of the house, Eleanor decided that marriage wasn't for her. She went to Oregon to get a college degree in home economics. After that failed to grab her interest, she joined something called The Secretary Corps, which sent her to Italy. It was just after World War II, and there were still active military bases in the region. Alfredo had enrolled and been sent to Italy. Where he was stationed, they had bowling comp
- Oct 8, 202618 min
Z Space's New Program: Assimilation (S9 Bonus)
Listen in as I talk with JoAnne Winter and Vanessa Flores Chacko of Z Space. We chat about the theater production group. Their program Word for Word's next production, Assimilation, 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 Z Space's website. We recorded this podcast on Zoom in October 2026.
- Oct 7, 202619 min
Intersections SF Episode 3 — Chris Ryan's 'not really a realtor' story at Broderick & Hayes
Chris Ryan is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex at Dawn and Civilized to Death, which have each been translated into over twenty languages. Chris' long running podcast, Tangentially Speaking 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. Chris 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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