Archive for February 2013
Sundays, February 10th & 17th:
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Fest
Two Big Shows at Bird & Beckett!
The Get Happy String Band, Feb. 10th. Triple Chicken Foot (from L.A.), Feb. 17th. Both shows, 4:30 to 6:30 pm. No cover charge, but we’ll be sure to ask you to help us pay the bands and we surely hope you will! Expect very limited seating and a big ol’ crowd and a very, very good time! All…
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Wed. Feb. 6: Tamim Ansary at 7:00 pm
on Afghanistan & Games Without Rules
Tamim Ansary gives a talk this evening on “the often-interrupted history of Afghanistan” as engagingly elucidated in his newest book, Games Without Rules (Public Affairs, 2012). With deft narrative momentum, Ansary helps the reader get past the generalizations and assumptions that obscure the realities of Afghanistan and its national history since the mid-1700s, revealing a…
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