Podcasts about san francisco's mission district

As I am fond of saying... "I appreciate dance, but I don't always understand it." So, I thought I would chat with someone who might help to understand this often underappreciated art form. Brenda Way received her early training at the School of American Ballet and Ballet Arts in New York City. She is the founder and artistic director of ODC/Dance and creator of the ODC Theater and ODC Dance Commons, community performance and training venues in San Francisco's Mission District. She launched ODC and an inter-arts department at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music in the late 1960's before relocating to the Bay Area in 1976.

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, Postal Service) hates brunch. But heck, so did Anthony Bourdain! Host Rachel Belle explores the history of the mid-morning weekend meal and asks New Yorker writer Sadie Stein what's not to like about bottomless mimosas and Instagrammable #yolkporn. Ben is an ultramarathon runner who runs 100 mile races and, in turn, consumes a whole lot of calories. But what (and how??) does one eat while running for 23 hours straight? Ben shares his pregnancy-level food cravings and the drink that must be present at all races to keep the runny people from rioting. BURRITOS! We also talk about burritos! Ben's last meal takes us to the epicenter of burrito fanaticism: San Francisco's Mission District. Turns out, Ben and Rachel have been equally obsessed with the same burrito at the same taqueria for the past 20 years. And writer Gustavo Arellano, author of the book Taco USA, joins the show to share the history of the burrito. Follow Your Last Meal on Instagram!

For the Audio Program portion of Repisodes, we read out loud from the dramaturgy material from the show’s program in an effort to make the information around our shows accessible to all audiences, in multiple formats. It's like we are reading you a short series of stories. For the CULTURE CLASH (STILL) IN AMERICA Program, we will read The Origin Story - about the play's development process - and Sarah Rose Leonard's essay about the history of the company. And a special bonus: Charlie Dubach-Reinhold will read Richard Montoya's wacky ode to the birth of Culture Clash in what can best be described as...performance. CULTURE CLASH (STILL) IN AMERICA runs February 20–April 5, 2020 and tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org. Culture Clash was founded on May 5, 1984 at the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco's Mission District, by the writers José Antonio Burciaga, Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza. The founding date is significant due to the importance of Cinco de Mayo to Mexican-Americans, the shared ethnicity of the majority of collaborators. Montoya and Sigüenza had both been involved in the Chicano art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montoya being the son of Chicano poet, artist, and activist José Montoya, and Sigüenza having been involved in the art collective La Raza Graphics, which created works of graphic art to support campaigns of the Chicano Movement. Culture Clash's works range from comedic sketches to full-length plays and screenplays, all of which feature political satire and social satire. The troupe's members have appeared separately and together in several films and received numerous awards, commissions and grants. In 1993 they filmed 30 episodes of a sketch comedy television series, also called Culture Clash. Several episodes were aired on Fox affiliates. Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Music credit to Peter Yonka.

In this Repisode we talk with Culture Clash - the legendary Latino performance troupe made up of Richard Montoya, Ricardo Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza - about what it was like to update material from their 20+ year catalog of interviews and create a new political satire for 2020. CULTURE CLASH (STILL) IN AMERICA runs February 20–April 5, 2020 and tickets are available at berkeleyrep.org. Culture Clash was founded on May 5, 1984 at the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco's Mission District, by the writers José Antonio Burciaga, Marga Gómez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza. The founding date is significant due to the importance of Cinco de Mayo to Mexican-Americans, the shared ethnicity of the majority of collaborators. Montoya and Sigüenza had both been involved in the Chicano art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montoya being the son of Chicano poet, artist, and activist José Montoya, and Sigüenza having been involved in the art collective La Raza Graphics, which created works of graphic art to support campaigns of the Chicano Movement. Culture Clash's works range from comedic sketches to full-length plays and screenplays, all of which feature political satire and social satire. The troupe's members have appeared separately and together in several films and received numerous awards, commissions and grants. In 1993 they filmed 30 episodes of a sketch comedy television series, also called Culture Clash. Several episodes were aired on Fox affiliates. Follow Berkeley Rep on SoundCloud to keep up with the whole series. You can also listen on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Music credit to Peter Yonka.

It was an amazing date in San Francisco's Mission District. Now? She's avoiding him. We're going to call Jackie to get some straight answers.

At least once a week, I have a slight crisis of environment. We're lucky enough to work from home pretty regularly, but as anyone who works from home full-time can tell you, it's not always all it's cracked up to be, and there eventually comes a time where you're going to go batshit insane if you have to stare at your home's walls for another minute. But at the same time, leaving to go somewhere else wouldn't necessarily be an improvement — sure, you could go to the corner coffee shop, but the outlets are usually taken and the lattes are criminally overpriced. What's a woman to do? Molly Goodson lived that conundrum over and over again as a remote worker herself. As an added layer of complexity, she and her friends were starting to plan workout dates more and more often — but the struggle to hang out post-sweat was real. Most studios were too small for comfy conversations, so they'd have to change locations, often after waiting for a shower in crowded locker rooms. (And as Molly was telling me this, I was vigorously nodding, silently stopping myself from saying, "Oh my god, me too!" after every sentence) Recognizing all of those issues, she realized a place was needed where women could have a sort of home away from home, with space for work, play, socializing, working out, and trying new things. Thus, The Assembly was born and built in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District. But unlike what you might see at a WeWork or The Wing, The Assembly uses health and wellness as the unifying theme across the open, airy old church it inhabits. Like aSweatLife, Goodson recognizes that your best life can come with fitness as the catalyst, even if the best moments of your day happen outside of that gym. Their daily schedule is a dream whether you're a health nut or just a little wellness-curious. Yes, there's the usual yoga, meditation, and run clubs, but you'll also see workshops on negotiation, watercolor painting, and indigo dyeing. "I felt that as I was getting older, health and fitness was something I made a point to prioritize... truly it is the biggest thing I do on a daily basis for my mental health," shared Goodson. Her lightbulb moments came when leaving her job in the media world. "I had this nagging thought in my head about this idea, this topic of changing the way we speak about health and wellness, and how do you actually build community into a topic a lot of people throw the word around in," explains Goodson. As she was thinking about community and wandering the city looking for that elusive perfect co-working space, Goodson was also reading about new health and wellness trends like cupping or reiki.  She was curious about trying them out, but realized it was tough to actually go out and find a practitioner. Those three layers — community, co-working, and trying new things — combined to form the foundation of The Assembly. So on a goal-focused podcast, I had to ask Goodson how The Assembly helps foster goal-setting and achieving among its members. She immediately launched into an impressive analysis of all the different ways The Assembly's staff and environment are optimized for helping members achieve goals in three different areas: fitness goals, professional goals, and social goals. You'll have to listen to the episode to get the full rundown, but the one that affected me the most was hearing her talk about social goals; all too often, we focus on that next promotion or that faster mile as the only types of measurable goals worth chasing after. But shouldn't it be just as important to set goals for yourself to make a new friend, get back in touch with an old one, or organize a friends' night out for you and your core women? Goodson and her crew think so — and that's why her staff is specially trained to engage with members, ask about their interests, and even make introductions between members who might get along or have a common interest. Whether it's in a workout studio in Chicago or in the historic church that houses The Assembly, everything really is better with friends. (Including podcast ratings and reviews — if you liked this episode with Molly Goodson, please subscribe to #WeGotGoals on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or any other podcasting app, and while you’re at it, leave us a rating or a review.) Want to visit The Assembly for yourself? Click here for more info on how to say hi IRL.

A wide-ranging talk with Borderlands Books' owner and founder Alan Beatts. Matthew and Alan discussed Borderlands' history -- including the controversy that garnered it unexpected national attention in 2015, landing Alan everywhere from the pages of the New Yorker to on camera for Fox and other news outlets. Matthew and Alan also talked about what the climate is like today for indie bookstores, both how they've dealt with Amazon and some of the innovative ways they continue to adapt to the future. Borderlands Books is a new and used bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror, located in San Francisco's Mission District. Borderlands is one of the largest stores in their specialty in the world, with nearly 30,000 titles in stock. The store has been mentioned in AAA's travel magazine VIA, Gourmet Magazine, and the Washington Post. Last April, Borderlands made Atlas Obscura’s list of 62 of the World's Best Independent Bookstores.

Art has changed people's minds, shifted public opinions and made history. In our first “Groundbreakers Q&A,” we're talking with four people who create art that does just that.

 The Chicano Movement, known as "El Movimiento," was a major effort in the 1960s and 1970s to extend Mexican-American civil rights and empowerment. A major component of El Movimiento was the artists. They created a socio-political movement that highlighted the plight of Mexicans in the U.S., they gave birth to a Chicano world view and, they generated a cultural renaissance, particularly here in California. 

Think of the famous murals in San Francisco's Mission District and in San Diego’s Chicano Park. The creation of art collectives like the Mexican-American Liberation Art Front in Oakland, Mujeres Muralistas in San Francisco, and the Royal Chicano Air Force in Sacramento. In today's politically-charged times, with DACA and ICE raids and National Guard troops summoned to the border and gentrification impacting Chicano/Latino neighborhoods, El Movimiento is getting a second wind. We're talking with four major artists who made that movement happen, and have inspired a new generation of activist artists in California. 

THE GROUNDBREAKERS
 
* Juana Alicia, artist, former field organizer for the United Farmworkers Union, and founder of the True Colors Mural Project at Berkeley City College 
* Malaquias Montoya, founder of the Mexican-American Liberation Art Front and UC Davis professor, teaching both in the department of Art and the department of Chicana/o Studies.

 * Juanishi Orosco and Esteban Villa, founding members of the Royal Chicano Air Force and still-active artists (their latest work with the RCAF is on display at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento

Comedy nerds, rejoice! This week Jesse talks with Eugene Levy - the SCTV vet, co-creator of great Christopher Guest movies and American Pie star. Levy just wrapped up season 4 of his terrific CBC series Schitt's Creek. He talks about working with his son, who co-created the show with him, plus lots of great stories from SCTV's good old days! But first: legendary director Alexander Payne. One of the most charming and stylish dudes around. He talks about Downsizing, his latest film. Plus: writer and director Kay Cannon tells us about the Craziest ******* Day of Her Entire Career and Jesse tells you about the pathos and beauty behind the lost bird posters that used to dot San Francisco's Mission District.

This week's Team Human comes to you recorded live at the historic Grand Theater in San Francisco's Mission District, home to Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. We'll be sharing four installments of this live event, kicking it off with a conversation with Annalee Newitz, author of the mind blowing sci-fi novel Autonomous, as well as prior work Scatter Adapt and Remember: How Humans will Survive a Mass Extinction, founder of I09, and journalist for outlets such as Ars Technica among many others.Annalee joins Douglas on stage to talk about artificial intelligence, autonomy, tech ethics, robot sex, saving the planet and more. It's a lively discussion, energized by the presence of a wonderful and welcoming audience.Rushkoff kicks off this live series with an excerpt from his Team Human Manifesto, an excellent primer on the motivation driving this podcast and the connections being forged through its members.Next week we'll pick up with part two of this live show, featuring cyberculture pioneer, educator, and artist Howard Rheingold.During this live performance we featured Intro music from Fugazi, plus excerpts from Throbbing Gristle (Listen to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Douglas on Episode 67)You can sustain Team Human by subscribing via Patreon. Patreon members received free access to these San Francisco Events. Visit patreon.com/teamhuman to join. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Wide Open Walls (WOW) is the official name for Sacramento's annual mural festival, now in its second year. Between August 10-20, 2017, 50 artists from 12 countries are painting 40 individual surfaces, from small-business walls and back-street alleys on the Grid to silos and water towers in the suburbs. When they look around Sacramento, what will catch their eye? When they put down their brushes and paint-sprayers, what will they leave behind for us? Street art is a big deal around the globe -- think Montreal with its own famous Mural Festival, Wynwood Walls in Miami, San Francisco's Mission District. As the capital of the (currently) 5th largest economy in the world, is it Sacramento's time to join the ranks of international cities known for their colorful, vibrant street-art scenes and communities? If so, what should those look like? What images should be on those walls? Who decides what they should be and where they should go? And how do the non-painters of us living here figure into creating a world-class street-art scene in Sacramento? We hosted a WOW-focused panel on August 9, 2017, at Beatnik Studios, which showed work from every local artist participating in WOW. PANELISTS * Raphael Delgado, a Sacramento artist who recently returned from a residency in Montreal, home to the largest street art festival in North America -- his WOW mural will be on the wall of Jalapeño's on 21st Street in Midtown Sacramento * David Sobon, founder and producer of Wide Open Walls, and a member of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission * Mike Testa, the brand-new CEO of Visit Sacramento, the city's convention and visitors bureau, which is a big sponsor of Wide Open Walls * Demetris "BAMR" Washington, a Sacramento-based artist who has painted more than 20 murals throughout the city, with his latest one being for WOW and located in South Sacramento PODCAST TIMEFRAME * 0 to 1:50 - Intro to California Groundbreakers * 1:50 min - "'Hey, I curate a gallery, come jump in my car!" - - The panelists introduce themselves * 5:20 min - "It was nothing more than being inspired by walking the dog with my wife in the alleys of Sacramento" - Comparing and contrasting last year's inaugural mural fest to this year's WOW * 11:20 min - "It's something that media will be interested in across the country" - How (and why) the City of Sacramento is supporting WOW * 15:15 min - "They're so into what we are doing, so we have to dictate the trends" - How Raphael Delgado gets inspired, both here in town and outside the U.S. * 19:05 - "They have something to say, so they use my voice" - How BAMR does his murals * 22:05 - "We'd like to give everybody complete control, but we also have sponsors that need to be taken care of" - What WOW artists are told before they start painting * 25 min - "It's 90 feet wide, 25 feet tall and it's filled with poetry" - Should Sacramento's street art reflect the city itself? * 31:50 min - "Put us in the ring with the best in the world. We'll be all right" - What's the right mix of international artists and local artists for the WOW festival? * 37:15 min - "We're going to go paint in areas that are not cool" - Incorporating residents and the community into WOW * 44:55 min - "You're living in a dream world" - The artist/sponsor collaboration, and how that affects the final work * 50:10 min - "Find people who are willing to push" - Cutting the red tape to get artists working more closely with businesses, nonprofits and government agencies * 58:05 min - "It boosts the esteem of an entire community of people" - the political and economic impact of WOW * 1 hr, 2 min - "Great ideas are only great ideas unless people take them off the paper they're written on" - When did this start happening in Sacramento? * 1 hr, 6 min - "Suddenly we see not only Downtown and Midtown full of murals, but the entire region" - What the goal is after WOW ends on August 20

An affordable housing project for seniors in San Francisco's Mission District was just taken to court. Affordable housing for low-income residents in Orange County was waylaid for several months. And a homeless shelter for teenagers originally planned for San Francisco's Marina District had to move elsewhere. They're just a few examples of how the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, is used as a way to block housing and other types of development. But CEQA’s defenders say the landmark law, passed in 1970, has given California cleaner air, less congestion and sewage, and made it a more desirable place to live. Home developers say that, depending where you are in the California, the onorous fees, codes and CEQA-specific reviews mean they pay at least $50,000 before even putting a shovel in the ground. So do we love CEQA for keeping California from being congested and over-built? Do we champion it as it is because it gives people the power to block development they want? Or should we tell state government to reform CEQA or even scrap it? This is the final part of our Crazy Housing Market Series, held on April 28 in the basement of Graciano's Speakeasy in Old Sacramento which, based on CEQA regulations, maybe wouldn't get the go-ahead for construction today. PANELISTS * Tom Buford, senior planner with the City of Sacramento * Chris Norem, director of government and legislative affairs at the North State Building Industry Association * Howard Penn, executive director of the Planning and Conservation League * Tina Thomas, founder of the Thomas Law Group in Sacramento and original co-author of the environmental-law textbook "Guide to the California Environmental Quality Act" PODCAST TIMEFRAME O to 5:15 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers 5:15 min - Panelists introduce themselves 11:15 min - The layman's description of CEQA, how it works, and what it covers? 14:40 min - How does CEQA affect housing? 16:15 min - What real estate developers and homebuilders think about CEQA, and how they want it to change 20 min - An environmentalist's POV of CEQA and how it should change/not change 26 min - How CEQA has shaped the City of Sacramento, and how it's shaping its future landscape 31:55 min - How does our CEQA act compare and contrast to what other states and the Feds have on the books 34 min - The process for how anyone can file a CEQA-related lawsuit 46:20 min - Does CEQA affect where developers build, and not build? 47:40 min - How CEQA has turned into an industry 49:25 min - How can cities and developers create accurate Environmental Impact Reports on empty plots of land? 1 hr, 1:25 min - How Mayor Darrell Steinberg has affected CEQA and made changes to it 1 hr, 15:15 min - How are local jurisdictions doing in streamlining CEQA 1 hr, 24:25 min - What's the sweet spot for CEQA being streamlined, and the public still having their say?

Grapes: Preston Vineyards Madam Preston 2013 Grass: Mendo Outdoor/"Blue Burmese" We thoroughly enjoyed this pairing of grapes and grass, which evoked in us memories and musings about springtime, gardening, the Grateful Dead, vegan desserts, and the good ol' days of San Francisco's Mission District.

Chef Trish Tracey of Myriad Gastro Pub in San Francisco's Mission District sits down with Menu Stories host Rebecca Goberstein to share what inspired her to put everything on the line to open her first restaurant. Subscribe to the Menu Stories podcast on menustories.com. Music provided by Ben Sound.

The 7th episode of Menu Stories features Caleb Zigas, Executive Director of La Cocina, an incubator kitchen that helps low income women get their start as food entrepreneurs. Part of what La Cocina, based in San Francisco's Mission District, strives to achieve is maintaining cultural diversity among the city's small business owners - something Zigas passionately feels makes cities stronger and better for all its residents. Subscribe on menustories.com for more episodes. Music by Ben Sound.

Chris Johanson was born in San Jose, California and grew up skateboarding and participating in San Francisco's punk scene. He works in many different visual art mediums and also plays music with his band, Sunfoot. Johanson's meteoric rise to fame began in the early 2000s, and since then, he has created a rich body of work that references nature and universal human emotion, often with a humorous edge. In this episode of Art School, we catch up with Johanson at the famed Adobe Books in San Francisco's Mission District where he spent many of his formative years as an artist. In town for a public art exhibition curated by SFMOMA as well as a signing for his new monograph published by Phaidon, Johanson reflected on the past decade of his career and shared his philosophies on art making. Find more Art School videos at Kqed.org/ArtSchool.

This week: San Francisco check in with an interview with art collective/gallery Will Brown. Will Brown is a collaborative project that currently takes form as an experimental exhibition space in San Francisco's Mission District. Will Brown is Lindsey White, Jordan Stein, and David Kasprzak.

All at once a filmmaker, archivist, culture jammer, exhibitor, teacher and underground film historian, Craig Baldwin is one of the pillars of the experimental film world. As a filmmaker, his landmark TRIBULATION 99 (1991) is a calculated frenzy of reworked found footage layered with every conspiracy theory ever made forming a pitch-perfect statement of our times. He hasn’t slowed down since, making four more features, a DVD label and running Other Cinema in San Francisco's Mission District. A screening room with an eclectic lineup programmed by Baldwin of beautiful art films and important political works, OC finds the fringes of film and embraces them. We talk about filmmaking and how to get unusual cinema to the masses.

Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make cool projects, teach, and brainstorm with collaborators on everything from coding to cooking. With no leaders, they have one rule: "Be excellent to each other." Take a tour of the hackerspace Noisebridge, located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, with co-founder Mitch Altman.

Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make cool projects, teach, and brainstorm with collaborators on everything from coding to cooking. With no leaders, they have one rule: "Be excellent to each other." Take a tour of the hackerspace Noisebridge, located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, with co-founder Mitch Altman.