The last time Reverend Victor Floyd saw his friend Charles Davis, he was smiling.
Davis had spent much of the last 45 years unhoused, living on the streets of San Francisco and Seattle....
When Thomas Halloran gets ready to embalm a body, he makes sure to remove the silver watch from his left hand and hide it from view. He won’t look at the clock's hands until he has completed...
When SF State grounds manager Robert Murphy and the rest of the grounds team arrive on campus at 6 a.m., it is eerily quiet. The sun won’t rise for another hour, and students and faculty won’t begin...
They wear flowers and ribbons in their hair that bounce around their shoulders, blowing in the wind as they twirl to the sounds of Ukrainian folk songs. Their dynamic dances and bravado stances are reminiscent...
Nestled between vibrant green trees and stone-paved paths, Philip Gerrie gently puffs pine needle smoke on his honey bees to calm them before pulling out each frame from his hives. Dressed in...
It’s 8 a.m. at San Francisco State University. Classes start in thirty minutes, and there is no parking in sight. Arturo Garibay begins to get nervous as he drives around campus in search of an available...
The rows of locked glass cases in Bay Area dispensaries display colorful jars and bags of premium Cannabis for customers to choose from, like fine jewelry. Much like the ingredients on the back of a cereal...
Every time Layla Smith steps into a skate shop, she feels invisible. The men behind the counter often fail to recognize her as a fellow skateboarder, let alone as a customer.
“If...
This podcast was created to accompany the story Queer Indigenous Community Finds Spaces Online Amid Pandemic by Emily Cardenas, published on March 18th, 2022.
This podcast was created to accompany the story More than a trend: Mezcal Finds a Home in Bay Area Bar Culture by Lorena Garibay, published on March 18th, 2022.
