by Jessie Schiewe | Apr 23, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, Profiles, Recent, SF Weekly
For more than four decades, the KPOO DJ has been spinning ’50s and ’60s tunes on nighttime radio. SF Weekly It’s a little before 8:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Jim Rigsbee is sitting in the studio at public radio station KPOO, shuffling through a stack...
by Jessie Schiewe | Apr 1, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, Profiles, Recent, SF Weekly
The Third Eye Blind frontman dishes on the band’s next album, trolling Republicans, and becoming ‘a whole person.’ SF Weekly Interviewing Stephan Jenkins is like herding cats or trying to get my very untrained dog Mischa to do a trick. He evades...
by Jessie Schiewe | Jun 3, 2016 | Arts & Culture, Profiles, SF Weekly
SF Weekly “It’s a bit far because we’ve got to go all the way to the basement,” says Xavier Dphrepaulezz, as he heads down a carpeted flight of stairs into a downtown Oakland gallery and recording studio. As the 48-year-old, better known as the...
by Jessie Schiewe | Jun 21, 2015 | Arts & Culture, LA Weekly, Profiles
LA Weekly It’s a little past 11 o’clock on Friday and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway is pulsing with sound, lights and bodies. Polyester jellyfish and gigantic LED mushrooms hover above the crowd; the smell of funnel cakes and body odor wafts through the 100-degree air...
by Jessie Schiewe | Apr 17, 2015 | Favorites, News, Other Newspapers, Profiles
San Francisco Chronicle Running a business as large and varied as Oaklandish — ranked 33rd on Fortune’s list of the 100 fastest-growing inner-city companies in America last year — isn’t easy. On the eve of the brand’s recent yearly warehouse sale, with a website...
by Jessie Schiewe | Jan 13, 2015 | Arts & Culture, Music, Other Websites, Profiles
Wesleyan Magazine “Don’t screw this up,” Jay-Z joked when he bumped into Angela Yee ’97 in the hallway. She laughed—she’d known Jay-Z for years and was used to his quips—but still, he was right. Oh man, she remembers thinking, the pressure is really on now. It...
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