Anthony Wallace
Producer, The FinestAnthony Wallace is the producer of The Finest, a documentary and interview style podcast that covers the people, stories and art that are redefining culture in San Diego.
He produced two documentary podcast series for KJZZ, Phoenix’s NPR member station, and his audio and written work has been published by BBC, NPR, Associated Press, and The Guardian. He lived and worked in 2023 in Mexico and Peru, where he covered migration, history, and culture stories for a variety of outlets.
Anthony grew up in the Phoenix area and studied philosophy at Northern Arizona University before earning a master’s degree from Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism. In 2021, he received an Edward R. Murrow award for a podcast series about the American juvenile justice system.
In his free time Anthony makes music, hikes, and eats adventurously.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, KPBS turned fundraising into a weeklong TV event — auctioning items ranging from custom cars to doctor visits, with celebrities on stage and kids running bids. Decades later, those auctions remain central to one family's most powerful memories, and the excitement and community of live bidding is finding new life on today's digital marketplaces. -
Lucky's breakfast, also known as Lucky's Golden Phenix, closed after nearly 50 years in North Park. Owner Lucky Wong was a legend, serving simple breakfasts to diners well into his 80s. The Finest producer Anthony Wallace shows how the community is honoring his legacy, and what's next for the space. -
Recorded live at the KPBS San Diego Book Festival, this episode features authors Emily Greenberg and Moses Ose Utomi as they discuss how their very different approaches — political satire and West African-inspired fantasy — converge to explore truth, myth and the power of shifting narratives in storytelling. -
Ground Floor Murals' Paul Jimenez painted a fast, emotional tribute after the deaths of three longtime San Diego Zoo residents. -
Lucky's Breakfast was more than a diner — it was a community. After the passing of beloved owner Lucky Wong, his family and loyal customers-turned-friends reflect on the man whose generosity, humor and daily breakfasts brought North Park together, and whose name now graces the street where generations of San Diegans gathered. -
A U.K.-born approach to health care is coming to San Diego, where doctors will prescribe art and culture to help young patients ease anxiety and depression.
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CHP officers assigned to these Crime Suppression Teams are expected to saturate high-crime areas, target repeat offenders and seize illicit weapons and narcotics. -
"Fashioning an Icon" explores the use of the Virgin of Guadalupe in fashion, textiles and adornment in Mexico and the San Diego border region. The exhibit includes work by locals Claudia Rodríguez-Biezunski, Diana Benavídez and Arianna Ytselle alongside nearly 70 Mexican artists. It is on view April 5 through Sept. 7. -
The alternative weekly is laying off staff and shifting to online-only publishing after printing approximately 2,600 issues.
- In Escondido, a school board member changes her name but not her politics
- Community reacts after school board member comes out as transgender
- SCUBA divers volunteer at San Diego's Birch Aquarium
- San Diego City Council approves parking fees in Balboa Park
- San Diego Unified is getting rid of some K-8 middle schools