HeyJaredNat's Sidewalk Stories
Nat's Sidewalk Stories is a bi-weekly podcast exploring the places, people, and hidden histories that make our neighborhoods vibrant. Join artist and storyteller Nat Kalbach as she walks the streets of Jersey City and beyond, uncovering the stories beneath our feet.
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- Aug 27, 2026
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Episode #330: A One-Person Show with Nat Kalbach (opens the original)
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No guest this time. Nat closes Season 3 on her own with a few minutes on the nine conversations that made up the season, the thread she noticed running through all of them, and an honest account of how this show actually gets made — a one-person operation with no ads, no crew, and no studio. Plus what's coming in Season 4.
Episode #329: Make it Look Cool, Make it Mean Something with DISTORT (opens the original)
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A wall on Communipaw Avenue changed how I see this city — and in this bonus episode, I finally get to talk to the artist who painted it. DISTORT makes murals, graffiti, engraved car hoods he calls shields, and soon, a monumental first sculpture — all of it asking the same question: who was here before, and what holds a place together? This is a conversation about armor and vulnerability, old masters and spray cans, and why painting the face of someone a neighborhood is grieving might be the most
Episode #328: Ley Lines with Deep Space Gallery (opens the original)
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Deep Space Gallery has been called the spiritual heir to 111 First Street — the legendary warehouse artist community that was demolished in 2007 and never stopped being mourned. What makes that comparison remarkable is that Dutch, one of Deep Space’s co-founders, never once set foot inside 111. He didn’t inherit that legacy consciously. He just built something that carried its spirit anyway. In this conversation, Nat sits down with Jenna Geiger and Keith VanPelt, who goes by Dutch, to mark ten y
Episode #327: I Am You Are with Ivy Huang (opens the original)
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What does a gallery actually owe to the artists it represents? Ivy Huang has a clear answer — and it goes well beyond hanging work on a wall. In this conversation, Ivy talks about what it means to truly see an artist, how to make a gallery feel like a place anyone can walk into, and why she thinks the gallery's role has fundamentally changed in the social media age. She also tells the story of her grandmother, a Chinese opera singer who lost her voice and still woke every morning at 5:30 to prac
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