We wanted a way to host different kinds of events — different spaces, different formats — with our community of writers, documentary filmmakers, radio producers, photographers, and artists. So we created a spinoff title: Sidebar. Our first Sidebar production, commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, was a themed mini-show in the museum's atrium, to go with their exhibit "How Wine Became Modern." Next time, something totally new.

"Wine!"

  • March 17, 2011
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  • SFMOMA
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  • San Francisco

Contributors

Angela Watercutter is associate research editor at Wired magazine. She is also a contributor to Wired.com's pop culture blog Underwire and a senior editor of Longshot magazine.

Wendy MacNaughton is an artist and illustrator based in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in Juxtapoz, GOOD, 7x7, and Time Out NY, and she is a staff illustrator at Longshot magazine. Her documentary illustration series "Meanwhile" appears regularly on TheRumpus.net.

Amy Standen is a staff radio reporter for KQED-QUEST and a frequent contributor to NPR. She's also a co-founder of Meatpaper magazine.

Steven Leckart is a correspondent for Wired. He recently survived US Army boot camp for Maxim. He also contributes to GOOD, Men's Journal, and Men's Health. For even shorter doses, you can follow @stevenleckart on Twitter.

Angie Cao is a San Francisco-based photographer who focuses on interiors, food, and still life. Conveying a sense of warmth, comfort, and simplicity, her images can be found in titles from Chronicle Books and Ten Speed Press, as well as various magazines.

Dwight Eschliman is a lover of all things anti-oxidant–particularly coffee and wine. He is a San Francisco-based artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Wired, and in campaigns for Absolut, Apple, Audi, and other companies whose names do not begin with the letter "A." You can check out more of Dwight's work at eschlimanphoto.com.

Alison Bing eats, drinks, and writes for the BBC, Cooking Light, and the New York Times, and is the author of Lonely Planet's Napa & Sonoma Encounter, San Francisco, Marrakesh, and Venice & Veneto guides. She's crossed the Sahara, Atlantic, and San Francisco Bay for a drink, and she's still thirsty.

Pendarvis Harshaw is a product of Oakland. He's a Youth Radio graduate who took his media-making skills to Howard University, where he studied Telecommunications Management. Pendarvis has since returned to Oakland, where he is a freelance journalist and a high school teacher. Twitter: @ogpenn. Blog: ogpenn.wordpress.com. Photography by Philip Chambliss and Wilmer Tejada, video by Denise Tejada.

Antonio Roman-Alcalá attempts to live both a well-examined life and a joyful one, splitting his time among such pursuits as: teaching farming at the Alemany Farm; playing music; making movies; writing about the sustainable food movement as a perpetually critical insider; and getting schooled at UC Berkeley.

Eli Horowitz is the coauthor of The Clock Without a Face, a treasure-hunt mystery, and Everything You Know is Pong, an illustrated history of ping pong.

Emily Craig is a graphic designer from San Francisco.

Daniel Patterson is a dad (one boy, one girl). Chef (Coi). And sometime writer (the New York Times Magazine, etc).

Erin Kunkel is an award-winning editorial and advertising photographer who works around the world and calls the foggy outerlands of San Francisco home.

Kevin Gordon worked in public interest law before turning to documentary filmmaking as another tool for change. He has since worked on productions for PBS and Discovery. His most recent film Dreams Awake won a 2010 Student Academy Award. Kevin is currently pursuing an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University.

The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) are producers of the duPont-Columbia Award-winning NPR series Hidden Kitchens, and two Peabody Award-winning NPR collaborations, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project. They are dedicated to creating intimate, sound-rich documentaries that bring seldom-heard voices to the air, mentoring young producers, and building community through storytelling. Their current NPR series, The Hidden World of Girls, explores the lives of girls and the women they become.