SF Weekly Podcast

When you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants.

This week on the podcast we learn all about this Nacho Libre-ism — and also about "taqueria shorts" — the hard way... or, more precisely, the soft and squishy around the midsection way.

Also! We speak with Grace Z. Li about her thoroughly researched story on systemic racism and performative allyship at Boba Guys; chat with Mike Huguenor about the San Francisco librarians on the front lines of the pandemic; and catch up with the boys from Fast Times, a local band with a killer new indie garage single, "Tuesday Night."

We hope you'll join us.

This week on the podcast, we talk about fireworks and high school shenanigans — plus reckoning with our country's racist legacy on the 4th of July.

We're also joined by Jack Herrera, who wrote this week's cover story — ICE Out — which looks into Governor Gavin Newsom’s reluctance to take on Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in the state of California.

This week's Pride-focused podcast we talk with Staff Writer Benjamin Schneider, who wrote this week's cover story on the history of San Francisco's brightly colored Victorian homes. In his reporting he discovered that the architectural trend has roots in hippiedom and the LGBTQ community. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, though.

"Like any San Francisco story, it’s a complicated one, clouded by racism, homophobia, and big money," he writes.

Also on the podcast: Ivan Mairesse — a.k.a. Sagittaire — talks about his new album, "Lovely Music," and Nuala Bishari gives us the rundown on the "Pride is a Riot" demonstration.

The second episode of the SF Weekly podcast is here. This week we chat with our intrepid photo editor, Kevin N. Hume, about covering San Francisco in the midst of a pandemic and getting comfortable being shoulder-to-shoulder with demonstrators, despite the risks posed by COVID-19.

We also speak with Chiara Bercu, who wrote this week's cover story on the ways social justice organizers have adapted to shelter-in-place orders by leaning on digital technologies. The surprising takeaway: the novel coronavirus may have actually helped them increase access and become more inclusive.

Finally, we have a conversation with Will Vincent, a middle school English teacher from Oakland. Beginning in March, Vincent got a crash course in Gen Z culture, as he made the shift to distance learning, using tools like YouTube Live, Zoom, and a hip-hop vocabulary program called... uh... Flocabulary.

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Hey there! How’s it going out there in quarantine land? Here at SF Weekly, we’ve been staying busy — covering the news, covering our sneezes, and working to bring you a new product: a podcast.

This week, on our very first foray into setting our conversations to tape, we discuss our most recent e-edition, which you can flip through here.

We talk about how we’ve all be holding up during the pandemic, the newly energized movement to defund the police, and take a look forward to what you, the reader, can expect to see from us next.

Led by host and SF Weekly Editor Nick Veronin, this week’s program also features SF Weekly Staff Writers Grace Z. Li and Ben Schneider, as well as our intern, Emily Zhang. The podcast was engineered by Sophia Valdes and Nick Veronin.

We’re still finding our footing and figuring out what this podcast will look like and how frequently we’ll be able to bring it to you. But please, give it a listen, and keep an eye (and ear) out for future episodes.

Thanks for listening!