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Name Drop San Diego is a weekly podcast from @sdutOpinion hosted by @abbyhamblin and @kristy_tea. Get to know the people who make San Diego proud.

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Our guest this week is drag queen and educator @AmberStJames! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

San Diego drag queen Amber St. James on confidence and coming out

Amber St. James started out their drag queen career as a self-described “Beyoncé girl.”“I stan, I live for her,” said St. James, whose pronouns are they/them and she/her. Doing Beyoncé numbers like…

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San Diego Botanic Garden@SDBGarden11 Nov 2021
Read / listen to @kristy_tea 's interview with President & CEO @AriNovy for @namedropsd . Ari discusses his vision for SDBG, horticultural mysteries he’s following and why killing plants doesn’t necessarily make you a bad gardener. sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Horticulturist Ari Novy says ‘if you’re not killing plants,’ you’re doing it wrong

As an accomplished horticulturist and fourth-generation florist, Ari Novy has seen a lot of plants.He studied them on the East Coast, worked with them on estates in Italy and gardens in the Philipp...

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Pop quiz: What's the biggest flower in the world? Hint: It looks like it's from Super Mario Bros. sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Horticulturist Ari Novy says ‘if you’re not killing plants,’ you’re doing it wrong

As an accomplished horticulturist and fourth-generation florist, Ari Novy has seen a lot of plants.He studied them on the East Coast, worked with them on estates in Italy and gardens in the Philipp...

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Our guest this week is @AriNovy, president and CEO of @SDBotanicGarden! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Horticulturist Ari Novy says ‘if you’re not killing plants,’ you’re doing it wrong

As an accomplished horticulturist and fourth-generation florist, Ari Novy has seen a lot of plants.He studied them on the East Coast, worked with them on estates in Italy and gardens in the Philipp...

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Our guest this week is @dustchick of @sdcitycollege and @fleetscience! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…
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Our guest this week is Chef Lan Thai, owner of Enclave restaurant at @JuneShineCo Ranch! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Born into tumult, Chef Lan Thai is perfectly comfortable taking risks

When Chef Lan Thai AKA Chef Lando doesn’t like something, she’ll force herself to do it until she does.Take Vegemite, for example. Rather than dodging the salty, yeasty food spread while traveling in...

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SDAFF Artistic Director Brian Hu joins @sdut's @namedropsd podcast on the eve of #SDAFF2021 opening 10/28 at @SDNHM. In the episode, he discusses predicting movie endings, what he’s cooking, and the best advice he’s ever gotten. sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Film professor and festival curator Brian Hu watches movies for a living

Brian Hu kind of has a dream job.As a film professor at San Diego State University and the artistic director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, he basically watches movies for a living. As fun as...

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Film professor and festival curator Brian Hu watches movies for a living dlvr.it/S9tpSH [Opinion]
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Our guest this week is @husbrian, film prof at @SDSU and artistic director at @PacArtsMovement! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Film professor and festival curator Brian Hu watches movies for a living

Brian Hu kind of has a dream job.As a film professor at San Diego State University and the artistic director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, he basically watches movies for a living. As fun as...

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Meet Lisa Easterly, CEO of @SDCCOE. sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Lisa Easterly didn’t plan to go into cybersecurity, but now she’s its biggest champion in San Diego

Lisa Easterly never planned for a career in tech.She started her career in finance, then moved to corporate law and economic development. But when a report about cybersecurity in San Diego highligh...

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San Diego CCOE@SDCCOE22 Sep 2021
San Diego CCOE CEO Lisa Easterly never planned for a career in tech but is now one of San Diego's biggest #cybersecurity champions. Learn more about her story in @SDUT via @kristy_tea : buff.ly/3u40d8X #cybersecurityawareness #cybersafety #datasecurity
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Our guest this week is Lisa Easterly, CEO of @SDCCOE! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…
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Quino McWhinney of @bigmountainband is our guest this week! Listen below. name-drop-san-diego.simpleca…

Name Drop San Diego

Today's guest is Joaquin McWhinney, AKA Quino, the singer behind the 1994 hit "Baby I Love Your Way." His band, Big Mountain, formed in San Diego in the '80s and that song took them to the top of...

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You know this @bigmountainband song. Our guest this week is Quino McWhinney, the San Diego-based singer behind it. youtube.com/watch?v=OIgq9spZ…
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Laura Castañeda@Presspasslc14 Sep 2021
While you wait for the recall results.. listen to our latest episode of Name Drop. Hear from Joaquin "Quino" McWhinney @bigmountainband about his new Baja business adventure and how the hit single "Baby I love your way" changed his life. #namedrop name-drop-san-diego.simpleca…

Name Drop San Diego

Today's guest is Joaquin McWhinney, AKA Quino, the singer behind the 1994 hit "Baby I Love Your Way." His band, Big Mountain, formed in San Diego in the '80s and that song took them to the top of...

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Our guest this week is @codyhooven of @SDCommunityPwr! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

San Diego Community Power just signed a historic deal with the county. Meet its COO, Cody Hooven.

Before Cody Hooven created sustainability policy in San Diego, she worked with sea turtles in Hawaii.The San Jose native attended college at the University of Hawaii, where she studied science, and...

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Our guest this week is @joeljohnroberts of @pathpartners! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Solving homelessness in California is more than a job for Joel John Roberts, CEO of PATH

For Joel John Roberts, the issue of homelessness is personal. Roberts was born to a young, unmarried mother in Hong Kong in the 1960s, and spent the beginning of his life in an orphanage.”For the...

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Our guest this week is beer writer @delightedbite! Listen below or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. name-drop-san-diego.simpleca…
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Our guest this week is @mayareddy of @theQASC! sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…
Our guest this week is @shawnjvandiver, co-founder of the San Diego chapter of the @TrumanProject. sandiegouniontribune.com/nam…

Shawn VanDiver, Navy veteran and co-founder of the Truman Project in San Diego

Before Shawn VanDiver joined the Navy, he attended “a bootcamp for bad kids” — twice.”I was all thrust, no vector, is what you might say,” he said. “I had a lot of energy but not a lot of direction....

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