Takoma Podcast | Hyper-Local Interviews from DC and Takoma Park Maryland

The TPSS Co-op has been a fixture in Takoma Park for 45 years—but most people walking past the mural-adorned building on Ethan Allen Ave have no idea what's actually going on inside. This grocery store isn’t owned by a corporation or a single investor. It's owned by 11,000 of your neighbors, and it does about $11 million in annual sales from its 4,200-square-foot home. We joined GM Mike Houston fo...

Scott Horsley is one of the most familiar voices in American public radio—tens of millions of NPR listeners have heard him cover presidential campaigns, the White House, the 2008 financial crisis, and now the economy as NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent. But for nearly 20 years, he's also just been a neighbor here in Takoma, walking his dog Ribsy to Rock Creek Park, grabbing things at Ac...

Charbel Abrache didn't set out to be a pizza maker. From pharmacy school in Venezuela to the high-pressure pastry lines of Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Seylou Bakery, his journey from medicine to the kitchen has been a series of calculated risks and constant learning. Now, at Red Hound Pizza in Takoma Park, he’s applying that same obsessive attention to detail to a "grandma style" pi...

Amazon can deliver a book to your door in a day. What it can't do is hand you a free coffee when you just got laid off. That's the edge Matt and Megan Bormet are betting on with People's Book in Takoma Park, Maryland—and two years in, they've both quit their day jobs to run it full time. In this episode, they break down how a community-first bookstore is not only surviving in the Amazon era but th...