Archive for November 2012
POETS! (no open mic)
Meazle – Noonan – Whittington
chapbook release celebration
Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Three poets introduce their new chapbooks. Sorry, no open mic tonight. Nicholas James Whittington, poet and editor/publisher of Bird & Beckett’s Amerarcana annual literary review, is bringing out a trio of chapbooks under the Bird & Beckett imprint — Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades by…
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Friday, November 23rd:
The Chuck Peterson Quintet
with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits
Friday, November 23rd – 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. jazz in the bookshop – every Friday without fail, since October 2002! Never a cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. All ages welcome! This week, it’s the 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band, also known as…
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Sunday, November 25th:
The David Widelock Trio
Sunday, November 25th – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. No cover charge, but your kind donations help us pay the musicians. All ages welcome! The art of the jazz trio, performed by guitarist Widelock together with bassist Fred Randolph and drummer Jim Kassis. Decades ago, famed Brazlian guitarist and composer…
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Sunday, November 25th:
jazz writer Paul de Barros
presents his new biography of
pianist Marian McPartland
Sunday, November 25th — 3:00 p.m. Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland A book event with biographer Paul de Barros. Marian McPartland has done more to edify jazz lovers than anyone alive, we’d have to say, with her radio interviews — collaborations, really — with…
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November 25th, 1 pm:
Walker Talks
on Joseph Campbell’s explorations
of human consciousness
Sunday, November 25th — 1:00 pm (note early start time) Walker Brents III investigates the writings and thought of Joseph Campbell, whose influence on the creative work of filmmakers, poets and novelists over the past half century has been profound and pervasive. A seminal late 20th century sage, Campbell wrote and lectured tirelessly, synthesizing global…
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Sunday, November 18th:
“On Borges: A few of his enigmas”
a talk by Carlos Suarez
Sunday, November 18th — 2:00 p.m. A talk on Argentina’s blind visionary, the writer Jorge Luis Borges. Carlos Suarez explains: I am not sure if I am reaching some synthesis or if I am starting to forget, so… just in case the fog gets too deep into the bay, I would like to share with…
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