Audiograph

In this week's Audiograph we head to San Francisco's Fillmore district, once known as the 'Harlem of the West,' jammed with clubs overflowing with song. While the district has changed over the decades, reverance for one musician in particular has not — a tenor saxophonist who has been canonized and praised for half-a-century. The St. John Coltrane Church celebrated it's 50th anniversary this month.

Artists, drag queens, and members of the queer and trans community gathered together to mourn the closing of San Francisco’s oldest LGBT bar, The Stud.

If you live or work in San Francisco, you probably hear this week’s Audiograph sound every Tuesday at noon.

In this Audiograph , we're taking you to a neighborhood favorite.

In this Audiograph , we head to the Golden Gate Park Angling and Casting Club.

In this Audiograph , we climb inside the third tallest bell and clock-tower in the world, UC Berkeley's Campanile.

In this week's Audiograph , one man shares his talent in an unlikely place.

In this Audiograph , we’re headed for the South Bay, to go behind the scenes of a famously haunted mansion. Click the audio player above to listen to the story. This story originally aired in October of 2017. Audiograph is a radio project mapping the Bay Area’s sonic signature, telling the story of where you live and the people who live there with you.

In this week's Audiograph we head to San Francisco's Fillmore district, once known as the 'Harlem of the West,' jammed with clubs overflowing with song. While the district has changed over the decades, reverance for one musician in particular has not — a tenor saxophonist who has been canonized and praised for half-a-century. The St. John Coltrane Church celebrated it's 50th anniversary this month.

In this week's Audiograph , we go to Aunt Charlie's Lounge, a Tenderloin institution that's one of the oldest gay bars in San Francisco. There is an ongoing series of exhibitions about Aunt Charlie’s at the Tenderloin museum through 2020.

In this week's Audiograph , we go to Aunt Charlie's Lounge, a Tenderloin institution that's one of the oldest gay bars in San Francisco. There is an ongoing series of exhibitions about Aunt Charlie’s at the Tenderloin museum through 2020.

In this week's Audiograph we head to the mouth of the Bolinas Lagoon.

With Pride around the corner, we're bringing you a Bay Area signature sound that sings the songs of LGBTQ resistance. Specifically, the story of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, and how they use song as an act of protest.

In this Audiograph , we go to the San Francisco Library in Bernal Heights on a Saturday afternoon. It's packed with excited, brightly clad kids and caregivers here for story time. Instead of a librarian, they’re circled around a tall figure. Wearing a black sequined gown, stilettos, and a platinum blonde wig, and seated with a book in her long painted nails, it's Yves St. Croissant, aka Sean Santos, one of San Francisco’s beloved Drag Queens.

Second Fridays at the Legionnaire Saloon in downtown Oakland are not just any bar night. In this week's Audiograph , we're going to a dance party that feels like a family reunion. Outside, strangers bond over the delicious tacos sold at the pop-up-food-stand, Tacos El Último Baile . And inside, the dance-floor is packed with crews of women in their flyest kicks and threads getting down to classic and rare 45s of cumbia, funk, and more. “There’s a sense of comradery and also sisterhood here ” says Martha Brenda Valdez, one attendee. “You feel like your at a baile for your family.” The DJs who host this throwback party are known as the Chulita Vinyl Club , an all-vinyl, all-“womxn of color” DJ collective. Between Texas and California, there are seven Chulita chapters, including this one in the Bay Area. Spinning rock en español, soul, and more, the Chultias play a hybrid sound at the Legionnaire that is especially nostalgic for the Latino millennials who make up most of the crowd. “It’s

For this week’s Audiograph , we’re going somewhere that’s unusually quiet.

In this Audiograph , we go to Twin Peaks, a signature San Francisco landmark and a focus of the city's history and legends. The Ohlone believed the peaks were once a single mountain, united as husband and wife, but they argued so much, the great spirit split them apart. This story was originally published in March of 2017. Audiograph is a radio project mapping the Bay Area’s sonic signature, telling the story of where you live and the people who live there with you.

In this Audiograph , we go to a warehouse tucked away behind a metal scrap yard. Kinetic Steam Works is an industrial workspace for people to tinker with old machines in West Oakland. A mish-mash group of engineers, artists and hobbyists gather here every weekend to bring back the lost art of steam power. You can catch Kinetic Steam Works at the next Maker Faire in San Mateo from May 17-19. This story originally aired in August of 2017. Audiograph is a radio project mapping the Bay Area’s sonic signature, telling the story of where you live and the people who live there with you.

In this Audiograph, we go to a place that’s a little more than an hour’s drive from San Francisco, right in the middle of the California Delta — Bethel Island.

This is an Audiograph , a radio project mapping the Bay Area’s sonic signature. Audiograph tells the story of where you live and the people who live there with you.