{"id":460843,"date":"2026-09-11T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460843\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:42:24","slug":"inside-the-sf-church-where-john-coltrane-is-a-saint-ca-gold-fever-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460843\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the SF Church Where John Coltrane is a Saint; CA Gold Fever in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\"><a to=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-california-report-magazine\/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-california-report-magazine\/id1314750545?mt=2\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">If Coltrane were still alive, he\u2019d be celebrating his 100th birthday this month. In a story from our friends at KQED\u2019s Bay Curious podcast, Asal Ehsanipour visits the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in San Francisco, where Reverend Franzo King and Mother Marina have spent 60 years turning the jazz legend\u2019s music into a spiritual practice. What began as a living room listening clinic in the 1960s grew into a congregation that has weathered evictions and a copyright lawsuit. Still, they persist in the belief that Coltrane\u2019s saxophone carries a divine message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">With gold prices hovering near record highs, a new wave of prospectors is showing up along California\u2019s Yuba and American rivers, joining old-timers who\u2019ve been panning for generations. KQED\u2019s Katherine Monahan talks to sixth-generation miners, gold-shop owners and newcomers about whether the modern gold rush is worth the effort or mostly hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u00a0 If Coltrane were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-460843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}