by kitchensisters | Mar 9, 2021 | Podcast
On this episode of The Kitchen Sisters Present, Shonen Knife – a story of cultural exchange through the cassette tape. But also a story of an era in history just before the stronghold of the looming internet drastically changed, among so many other things, the way we...
by kitchensisters | Mar 4, 2021 | Events & Appearances, Hidden Kitchens
Alice Waters, The Kitchen Sisters & the Telluride Film Festival just had a juicy conversation with the filmmakers of the enchanting new documentary, The Truffle Hunters, that comes out Friday, March 5. Plunge into a secret Italian world of men, dogs, forests,...
by kitchensisters | Feb 24, 2021 | Podcast
Our dear friend and North Beach neighbor Lawrence Ferlinghetti passed away on Monday at age 101. In honor of Lawrence we’re sharing a story we produced for his 99th birthday, featuring the work of sound designer Jim McKee who, for more than 20 years, recorded and...
by kitchensisters | Feb 16, 2021 | Podcast
Sometimes you read a book and it alters the course of your life. That’s what happened to Frances McDormand. Twice. First it was Olive Kitteridge, the HBO series she produced and starred in based on the book by Elizabeth Stroud. This time it’s Nomadland. Academy Award...
by kitchensisters | Jan 27, 2021 | Events & Appearances, Workshops
Our January 27th workshop is sold out. Get tickets for February 5th workshop here. The Kitchen Sisters are hosting a two-hour live workshop on Zoom to share some interviewing, recording and podcasting skills and talk with you about what you’re working on. This session...
by kitchensisters | Dec 14, 2020 | Podcast, The Keepers, Workshops, Youth on Fire
Dear Friends, Sending our best to you and your family as 2020 crawls to a close. A throughline of hope and activism ran through all our stories in this year of unraveling, upheaval and possibility. Stories of people who are grappling with the now, with where we are...
by kitchensisters | Dec 8, 2020 | Podcast, The Keepers
2020 is mercifully drawing down. Here at The Kitchen Sisters we have a tradition of creating a radio special based on the themes we’ve been chasing across the year. Our host for the Special, The Keepers: Archiving the Now, is the Academy Award-winning actor and...
by kitchensisters | Nov 20, 2020 | The Keepers
“I see America as a model for how…the assembly of images can serve as an archive of the past as well as a document of the present.” -Garrett Bradley Projects: Garrett Bradley opens this weekend at MoMA… According to the Library of Congress, around 70...
by kitchensisters | Nov 18, 2020 | The Keepers
“Donald Trump is not much of a note-taker, and he does not like his staff to take notes. He has a habit of tearing up documents at the close of meetings. (Records analysts, armed with Scotch Tape, have tried to put the pieces back together.) No real record...
by kitchensisters | Nov 16, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay: David Johnson Photograph Archive at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. Johnson spoke with pictorial curator Jack Von Euw about his photo “Boy and Lincoln” taken in 1963: “The NAACP was sponsoring a demonstration downtown in San...
