Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Pat Montandon, Part II - 'I Fixed My Heart In San Francisco' After a three-week hiatus (it's been a busy month), SFist Memoirs returns with the second half of our conversation with the legendary San Francisco party girl, Pat Montandon, about her noteworthy first experiences
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Pat Montandon, San Francisco's Golden Girl SFist Memoirs is beyond honored to be featuring the magnanimous Pat Montandon this week and next. Fans of San Francisco high society and local history in general are likely already very familiar with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Anthony Gordon, Delinquent Teenager Continuing with SFist Memoirs' tradition of featuring spouses' back-to-back stories, we present Anthony Gordon, Loquat's bass player and husband to Kylee Swenson Gordon. Anthony took our request to hear stories about aspects of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Kylee Swenson Gordon, Small Town Girl This week's SFist Memoirs begins in the early 1990s with Kylee Swenson Gordon, who is one of the founding members of the long-time, S.F. band, Loquat. Kylee's first San Francisco experiences as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: San Francisco Light This week's SFist Memoirs features Lt. Dwayne Newton of the San Francisco Fire Department, who's also an S.F. native and veteran photojournalist. Dwayne says he owes his passion for photojournalism to growing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: A Baseball Love Story Reader Jayn Pettingill brings us another great piece this week about her Great Aunt Maye and Maye's husband Tony Lazzeri, a major league baseball player — most notably of the New York Yankees. Both
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Dinah Washington This week's SFist Memoirs comes to us from reader Jayn Pettingill, who is a fourth generation San Franciscan as well as an accomplished saxophonist and composer. In this fabulous piece, Jayn introduces us
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Alternate Realities, Part II This week, we continue with Eric Becker's stories from the late '80s/early '90s, in which Eric picks a fight with James Hetfield, goes against popular opinion regarding Anton of Brian Jonestown Massacre,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Alternate Realities Today's SFist Memoirs is set in the late '80s hard core punk scene, as told by Eric Becker, husband of Rene Becker, last week's SFist Memoirs contributor. Eric has quite the knack for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Alive In Albany This week's SFist Memoirs takes us to the East Bay in the early 1990s, as contributor Rene Becker shares some coming-of-age stories from her time spent as a teenager throwing spaghetti at Blatz
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Peace On Sixth Street This week's SFist Memoirs contributor is Reynaldo R. Cayetano Jr., a self-taught film photographer whose collective Inks of Truth — a Guardian Best of the Bay 2011 winner — has been engaging and empowering the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Hardly Strictly Family [Updated] In honor of the big Warren Hellman tribute concert happening on Sunday, the schedule of which you can find over at SF Weekly, we've invited Corie Woods to talk about her experience as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: Paid To Party This week's installment of SFist Memoirs comes from Jim Doeppers, the uncle of this contributor. In 1973, Jim drove his hippie van from the Midwest to San Francisco at the tender age of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Memoirs: The Gentleman Chefs Club SFist is beginning a new series in which Bay Area natives and long-time residents can share their stories from bygone eras. Our inaugural story comes from Bev DeBeaumont Warnecke, who worked at Baruh
