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How to Do the Pot
292. Sticky Fingers Brownies: Women, Weed, and the Birth of Medical Cannabis, part 1
Before weed was legal in any U.S. state, it was medicine passed hand-to-hand—often in the form of a brownie. In part one of our Webby-nominated series Before Legal Weed, host Ellen Scanlon brings you the untold story of how San Francisco’s gay community turned to cannabis during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis—and how a woman-run cannabis operation called Sticky Fingers Brownies quietly became a lifeline. You’ll meet Meridy Volz, a mother delivering pot brownies on roller skates through the Castro in the 1980s, and her daughter, author Alia Volz, who grew up...
2025-06-10
34 min
How to Do the Pot
246. AIDS & Cannabis: How Love and Perseverance Paved the Way for Legalization
In this powerful kickoff to our Pride series, join us as we honor the resilience and love of San Francisco’s gay community during the 1980s AIDS crisis. Meet Meridy Volz, the woman behind Sticky Fingers Brownies, and her daughter Alia Volz, who witnessed the transformative power of compassion and community from a young age. Discover how delivering cannabis brownies to AIDS patients provided relief and hope, and learn about the pivotal role this played in sparking a national legalization movement for medical cannabis. Celebrate Pride with us and hear these remarkable stories of courage, advocacy, and the enduring fi...
2024-06-18
38 min
Snap Judgment
Buds - Snap Classic
Weed brownies, firefighting, and friendship. Amazing stories by friends, about the friend you did not expect. STORIES Weed Brownies At school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret... after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined. Thank you, Alia, for sharing your story with Snap...
2023-07-13
49 min
Snap Judgment
The 2022 Look Back Special
A prison librarian thought he just had to keep track of books until he started reading between the lines. And a young girl in San Francisco discovers something about her mother that turns a secret she's keeping into a burden. It’s time to Look Back before we move forward. Happy Holidays to all you Snappas! We are so grateful for you. STORIES Secrets in the Stacks When Avi Steinberg became a prison librarian, he thought his job would be to keep track of the books. Then he started reading between th...
2022-12-23
44 min
Litquake's Lit Cast
Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar: Lit Cast Live Episode 139
Famed bohemian saloon Vesuvio Café welcomes Litquake for an edgy and hilarious North Beach reading celebrating 2020 authors (who didn’t get to have any damn fun). Featuring Vanessa Hua, A.H. Kim, Roberto Lovato, Caitlin Myer, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Hosted by Alia Volz. A rare opportunity to glimpse authors performing new work in their natural habitat. Held outdoors in Kerouac Alley.
2022-02-23
1h 28
The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast
Season 5 Ep. 117 In The Weed(s) with Memoir and History with Guest Alia Volz
Our guest this week, Alia Volz, wrote a book titled Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and The Stoning of San Francisco about her experience growing up in San Francisco in the late 1970s and 80s. Alia’s parents were the owners of Sticky Fingers Brownies which made pot brownies that were known all over the city. While these brownies were the source of relaxation and fun for many people, when HIV and AIDS hit San Francisco, Sticky Fingers became a lifeline for many gay men who were devastated by the disease because the pot brownies helped them with pain an...
2021-12-15
1h 01
The Canna Mom Show
Joyce’s Canna Story
Today’s show is a little different because our scheduled guest was in Jamaica without good Wi-Fi! So, Joyce and Dave took the opportunity to talk about The Canna Mom Show winning best podcast of the year at the Women In Cannabis Expo, recommend a few books and Joyce shares her own canna story. She talks about why it is so important for women, moms and caregivers, to join the cannabis industry because cannabis is a female caregiver and the industry should be built in her image and the industry needs you!We also want to th...
2021-10-14
36 min
The Weed Witch
All In The Family: Growing Up in a Weed Brownie Family w/Author Alia Volz of "Home Baked"
This is Pipe Dreams by The Weed Witch, a newsletter, podcast, idea sampler platter and content wildcard featuring stream-of-consciousness tales and divine wisdom from free-thinking societal outliers, a.k.a. the weed witches. Today's guest is Alia Volz, author of Home Baked, My Mom, Marijuana, and The Stoning of San Francisco—a journalistic memoir that came out last year that is a riveting tale worthy of becoming National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Alia talks about what it was like growing up in a weed family during the Reagan administration, the racist undertones of the War on Drugs, how the "St...
2021-10-14
25 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
From Pot Brownies to Black Lives Matter with Art Activist Meridy Volz
Meridy Volz is an internationally acclaimed artist who’s known for her paintings of figures and use of shockingly innovative electric color to create a mood. In 2020, Meridy’s daughter Alia published the book “Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco,” which chronicled Meridy’s life running Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked. Learn more about The Passionistas Project. ...
2021-06-09
36 min
Get Lost In Your Day With A Addictive Full Audiobook.
The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco by Tbd
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/494910to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco Author: Tbd Narrator: Matt Yang King, Wayne Carr, Brittany Ishibashi, Betsy Foldes Meiman, Will Collyer, Erin Bennett, Dan Woren, Tracey Leigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 acclaimed writers tell their stories of living in one of the most mesmerizing cities in the world. Over the last few decades, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon V...
2021-05-25
7h 28
KPFA - Bookwaves/Artwaves
Bookwaves/Artwaves – May 13, 2021: Pre-empted for fund drive
On-air program pre-empted for fund drive. Weekly Links to streaming book and theatre events. Bay Area Book Festival Richard Flanagan, Thursday June 3, 7 pm. See website for streaming events from the 2021 festival Books Inc Stacey Abrams, May 13, 6 pm. Jhumpa Lahiri, May 18, 6 pm; Rachel Kushner, May 20, 5 pm; Michael Lewis, May 20, 6 pm. Andy Weir, May 27, 5 pm. Book Passage. Ian Manuel, May 16, 4 pm. Neal Allen with Anne Lamott, May 27, 5 pm. The Booksmith The Bindery has moved to 1727 Haight Street in San Francisco. Lilly Dancyger with Alia Volz, May 13, 6 pm. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See...
2021-05-13
59 min
Dazed And Infused
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco with author Alia Volz today on Dazed And Infused only on Cannabis Radio. Alia is the author of the new memoir Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction from the California Independent Bookseller Alliance, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. She’s a homegrown San Franciscan. Her work has been published in The Best American Essays, The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Salon, and The Best Women’s Trav...
2021-04-23
40 min
Hempresent
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco with Author Alia Volz today on Hempresent only on Cannabis Radio. A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood. During the '70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in th...
2021-04-19
29 min
Stoner Chicks Podcast
04. Women and Weed Brownies
Careful dude, these brownies have magic in 'em. This week on Weed in the News, Kayla covers a High Herstory interview with Alia Volz, the author of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Alia's mom was an OG #cannamom who medicated the Bay Area with thousands of pot brownies in the '70s and '80s. Eat it, baby! In Stoner Chicks-related news, Phoebe had her collages published in the Home Grown Zine (@homegrownzine), Grace has been strumming away on her ukulele, Stephani has been getting high as a kite and flying h...
2021-04-16
30 min
Storied: San Francisco
Author Alia Volz, Part 2
In this podcast, Alia picks up where she left off in Part 1, sharing stories of joining her mom on pot-brownie runs in The City in the late-'70s. She pivots from there to just a few years later, when Alia witnessed the devastation of AIDS first-hand. She also speaks of communities coming together around the epidemic to provide support for those who needed it. We fast-forward to around 2000, when Alia began traveling in Europe for many years. While walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, she began writing. She started a writing program but left that to spend some t...
2021-04-15
27 min
Storied: San Francisco
Author Alia Volz, Part 1
It isn't every episode that we get to learn more about the main character in a book. First of all, if you haven't already read Home Baked, Alia Volz's autobiography about her mom, her dad, and the pot brownie business they had in San Francisco in the 1970s, please do. In this podcast, Alia, who was born and raised amid that booming business four decades ago, dives deeper into her parents' stories, both individually and as a couple. As she does in her book, she sets the stage for her eventual arrival, back when her parents...
2021-04-13
26 min
Total SF
A total San Francisco book club! w/ "Home Baked" author Alia Volz
Total SF hosts Peter Hartlaub and Heather Knight introduce the Total SF Book Club, interviewing "Home Baked" author Alia Volz. The San Francisco memoir, featuring Volz growing up around her cannabis brownie-dealing parents, is the first book in the new club in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library and Green Apple Books. Volz joins Hartlaub and Knight for a conversation across the street from the Mission District warehouse where her parents used to bake hundreds of brownies a day for recreational and later medical drug use.Produced by Peter Hartlaub. Music is "The Tide Will Rise"...
2021-03-26
36 min
California Foodways
Season 3 Episode 3 Home Baked: One Woman's Subversive Response to the AIDS Crisis
The coronavirus brings back memories of another public health crisis, where the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic. One woman who became an unexpected caregiver is Meridy Volz. Starting in the 1970s, she ran a bakery called Sticky Fingers Brownies. "The business changed," Meridy says. "It went from something fun and lightweight to something that was a lifeline." This is her story, told by her daughter Alia Volz whose memoir, Homebaked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, came out in April.
2020-11-24
28 min
California Foodways
One Woman's Subversive Response to the AIDS Crisis
The coronavirus brings back memories of another public health crisis, where the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic. One woman who became an unexpected caregiver is Meridy Volz. Starting in the 1970s, she ran a bakery called Sticky Fingers Brownies. "The business changed," Meridy says. "It went from something fun and lightweight to something that was a lifeline." This is her story, told by her daughter Alia Volz whose memoir, Homebaked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, came out in April.
2020-11-24
28 min
Queer The Table
"Good Outlaws"
Nico is joined by Alia Volz to talk about her book "Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco," and how AIDS activists paid the way for marijuana legalization in this country. Find a Black-owned bookstore near you: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/bookstore-map.phpHeritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network, support Queer The Table by becoming a member! Queer The Table is Powered by Simplecast.
2020-08-12
30 min
Midlife Mixtape
Ep 80 “Home-Baked” Author Alia Volz
“A family of raconteurs”: Alia Volz on her new memoir “Home-Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco”, her parents’ pioneering cannabis business, industry evolution from dealing to healing, and maturing right along with our parents. * Alia’s website * Find Alia on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter That first concert: When an actual sweet child was crushing on a guy singing about a Sweet Child
2020-08-04
42 min
Midlife Mixtape
Ep 80 “Home-Baked” Author Alia Volz
“A family of raconteurs”: Alia Volz on her new memoir “Home-Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco”, her parents’ pioneering cannabis business, industry evolution from dealing to healing, and maturing right along with our parents. The post Ep 80 “Home-Baked” Author Alia Volz appeared first on Midlife Mixtape .
2020-08-04
00 min
Thoughts from a Page Podcast
Bridgett Davis - THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FANNIE DAVIS
Bridgett discusses her decision to honor her mother with a memoir, growing up in Detroit and participating in her mother’s business, writing the screenplay for The World According to Fannie Davis for Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B, and some great reading recommendations. The World According to Fannie Davis can be purchased at Murder by the Book. Bridgett’s 4 recommended reads are: The Yellow House by Sarah Broom Black is the Body by Emily Bernard Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry Home Baked by Alia Volz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
2020-07-24
30 min
California Sun Podcast
Alia Volz's homebaked journey
Alia Volz reminisces about growing up in the family business in the 1970s and ‘80s, where her mom baked and sold 10,000 “magic” brownies per month in San Francisco. It was a time when growing a single marijuana plant was a felony offense. The business that started selling to hippie craftspeople in Aquatic Park became a cultural icon.
2020-07-23
26 min
Different Leaf: the Podcast
My Mom Was the Brownie Lady with Alia Volz
This week's guest Alia Volz is the author of the new book "Home Baked - My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco." Alia’s mother Meridy was known to countless people around the Bay City during the 1970’s as “the Brownie Lady.” Meridy eventually ran the largest underground pot brownie business of the time. Sticky Fingers Brownies started out as a great way to make money... and ended up being an essential medical supply for gay men in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic.An account of dozens of people’s memories, Volz’s book is a valuabl...
2020-06-26
31 min
Weed + Grub
Sweet Summer Solstice & Magical Brownies with Alia Volz
Alia Volz (Home Baked). Mike and Mary Jane get loose with Alia about her inspiring book Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Alia's book is a rich history of San Francisco in the '70s and '80s, and tells the story of how her parents baked some 10,000 illegal pot brownies per month in their home, delivering them throughout San Francisco—often from Alia's baby stroller. LEAVE US A REVIEW / WE'RE ALL DOING OUR BEST / BE BAKING Music by Jesse Case Weed + Grub IG Alia Volz ...
2020-06-22
51 min
F***ing Shakespeare
Official Podcast of #AWP20 LIVE with Bloomsday Literary—Day 3
Fantastic advice from the authors, poets, & industry professionals at #AWP20. This is part one of a three-episode series featuring Bloomsday Literary’s partnership with #AWP20 to bring you all the literary goings-on from this year’s conference. Here’s Day Three!Richard Z. Santos 1:22Santos’ debut novel Trust Me came out on 3/31/20 from Arte Público Press. The main character is an “East Coast political hack” who moves from D.C. to Sante Fe and “stumbles into corruption and danger.” We talked multiple POVs, airport mottos (Sante Fe: Connecting You to the World!), and the similarities betw...
2020-05-27
1h 46
The Canna Mom Show
Amy Larson Explains Why Compliance Is The Sexiest Word in Cannabis
Amy Larson, VP of Marketing & PR at Simplifya, speaks with Joyce and Amie from her home in Colorado. Amy’s work in cannabis tourism was a good learning experience that helped her see the necessity of professionalism in the emerging cannabis industry. Amy is the first person Joyce ever heard claim that professional cannabis years are like dog years!During Amy’s tenure at an integrated marketing agency, she chose to invest her time in learning about the cannabis industry. She had an “ah ha” moment when she attended a panel of NFL players who spoke of the ineq...
2020-05-14
44 min
The Mary Jane Experience: A Cannabis Podcast
EP 48: Alia Volz on Her Mom, Marijuana, and The Stoning of San Francisco
Alia Volz grew up in San Francisco in the 70’s and 80’s with a mother famous for selling her pot brownies. Alia recounts her experiences and what she later learned about the political landscape in her new book Home Baked, My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. She gave us a sneak peek into her life and what she wrote about in this new book. This Episode is Sponsored by LeafWell - A network of Doctors Dedicated to getting patients their Medical Marijuana Cards from the comfort of their own homes. Thinking about gettin...
2020-04-23
00 min
All the Books!
New Releases and More for April 21, 2020
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss If I Had Your Face, The Silence of Bones, Late To the Party, and more great books.This episode was sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service; Ritual; and Book Riot Insiders.Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these lin...
2020-04-22
46 min
Snap Judgment
Weed Brownies
At school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret... after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined. Thank you, Alia, for sharing your story with Snap! Produced by Shaina Shealy, original score by Doug Stuart
2020-04-21
15 min
Snap Judgment
Buds - full episode
Weed brownies, firefighting, and friendship. It’s a 4/20 Snap Special! Amazing stories by friends, about the friend you did not expect. STORIES Weed Brownies At school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret... after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined. Thank you, Alia, for sharing your story with Snap! Produced by Shaina Shealy...
2020-04-21
37 min
Ignite This Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569035to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Author: Alia Volz Narrator: Alia Volz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 20, 2020 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood Du...
2020-04-20
2h 07
Enhance Your Knowledge Through the Magic of Full Audiobook
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Audiobook by Alia Volz
Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 569035 Title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Author: Alia Volz Narrator: Alia Volz Format: Unabridged Length: 14:07:53 Language: English Release date: 04-20-20 Publisher: HarperAudio Genres: Biography & Memoir, General Comedy Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Ma...
2020-04-20
2h 07
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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Author: Alia Volz Narrator: Alia Volz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 20, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood During th...
2020-04-20
03 min
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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569035to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Author: Alia Volz Narrator: Alia Volz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 20, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood During the '7...
2020-04-20
2h 07
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Comedy, Satire & Parody
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569035to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco Author: Alia Volz Narrator: Alia Volz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 20, 2020 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood Du...
2020-04-20
2h 07
The Drum: A Literary Magazine For Your Ears
Issue 77. Spring 2020 : Mini-cast Episode 3
Liven up your couch-to-kitchen commute with tales of mug shots, animal companions, unexpected heirlooms and facing the worst-case scenario with Emily Dickinson. Tune in to meet memoirist Alia Volz and poet Lesley Wheeler on Episode 3 of Safe & Sound.
2020-04-10
06 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
BONUS: Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art
Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art. More from Meridy: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days. Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series. Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program. Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist. Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist. Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-21
02 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
BONUS: Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist
Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist. More from Meridy: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days. Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series. Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program. Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist. Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art. Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-21
05 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
BONUS: Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day
Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day. More from Meridy: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days. Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series. Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program. Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist. Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist. Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home B...
2018-03-21
02 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
BONUS: Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist
Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist. More from Meridy: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days. Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series. Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program. Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist. Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art. Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-21
04 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
BONUS: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days
Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days. More from Meridy: Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series. Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program. Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist. Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist. Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art. Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-21
02 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
BONUS: Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program
Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program. More from Meridy: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days. Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series. Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist. Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist. Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art. Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-21
04 min
The Passionistas Project Podcast
BONUS: Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series
Meridy Volz on her Warrior and Angel Heart series. More from Meridy: Meridy Volz on her favorite memories of her Sticky Fingers Brownies days. Meridy Volz on expanding her juvenile hall program. Meridy Volz on advice to an aspiring artist. Meridy Volz on the most important part of being an artist. Meridy Volz on where people can buy her art. Meridy Volz on the pop culture icon she would be for one day. Learn more about Meridy. Get a copy Alia Volz's book Home Baked.
2018-03-21
09 min
Litquake's Lit Cast
Best American Essays: Litquake's Lit Cast Episode 84
Since 1986, Houghton Mifflin's The Best American Essays has delivered an annual treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays selected from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. This past October, Litquake assembled a stellar gathering of some of California's leading contemporary essayists, and contributors to the anthology. With readings from Kendra Atleework, Richard M. Lange, Angela Morales, Karen Palmer, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Alia Volz. Recorded live as part of the Litquake festival, at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco. https://www.facebook.com/litquake https://twitter.com/Litquake
2017-11-16
1h 12
a++
[Criminal] Episode 47: Brownie Lady
Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery business. Meridy agreed to run the bakery, but she only wanted to sell one thing: pot brownies. Her brownies were a massive success, and soon she was making enough money to support three families. Meridy tells her story alongside her daughter, Alia Volz, who describes what it's like when San Francisco's "original brownie lady" is your mom. Visit our website: www.thisiscriminal.com to see Meridy's final brownie bag & recipe. Criminal is a proud memb...
2016-07-15
00 min
Criminal
Brownie Lady
Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery business. Meridy agreed to run the bakery, but she only wanted to sell one thing: pot brownies. Her brownies were a massive success, and soon she was making enough money to support three families. Meridy tells her story alongside her daughter, Alia Volz, who describes what it's like when San Francisco's "original brownie lady" is your mom.Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Ac...
2016-07-15
24 min
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Episode 47: Brownie Lady
Shortly after Meridy Volz moved from Milwaukee to San Francisco, she received a phone call from a friend asking her to take over a small bakery business. Meridy agreed to run the bakery, but she only wanted to sell one thing: pot brownies. Her brownies were a massive success, and soon she was making enough money to support three families. Meridy tells her story alongside her daughter, Alia Volz, who describes what it's like when "the original brownie lady" is your mom. Criminal is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. To see Meridy's final brownie bag & recipe, visit: http...
2016-07-15
21 min