Posts by Eric
Tuesday, October 28th – 7pm
Poet Alison Luterman
Alison Luterman reads from her new volume of poetry, Hard Listening (Wildhouse Publishing, 2025), and is joined in conversation about her work by Leslie Absher. Hard Listening focuses on women’s voices raised up in song, poetry, and activism. Spiritual teacher and writer Mirabai Starr has said, “Alison Luterman is one of my favorite poetic voices.…
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Wednesday, October 29th – 7:30pm
Anne Whiteside reads from The Moon in Splinters
Anne Whiteside’s The Moon in Splinters: Searching for Maurice Pertschuk, British Secret Agent in the French Resistance, a moving and meticulously researched account that brings to light the extraordinary life and tragic death of British Special Operations Executive (SOE) lieutenant Maurice Pertschuk. On a moonless night in 1942, Pertschuk, a handsome and brilliant 20-year-old officer,…
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Thursday, October 30th – 7:30pm
Alison Owings reads from Mayor of the Tenderloin
in conversation with Del Seymour
In Mayor of the Tenderloin: Del Seymour’s journey from living in the streets to fighting homelessness in San Francisco, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour–whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping and drug dealing. Once…
Read MoreJazz students! Jam Session on the first Sunday of each month!
This Sunday, November 2nd, at 5pm, a jazz combo from the Community Music Center performs a set and conducts a jam session open to all comers, especially students currently engaged in the study of the art! No charge, but donations help us sustain the series. Bird & Beckett is dedicated to supporting the gamut of…
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Three author events Tuesday to Thursday
And on Halloween: Easifingers Shifrin plays blues for dracula at 6pm, and at 8:30pm Winston Tong with Dreambounders + M 5tevens
Saturday: Martin Luther McCoy!
10/28, 7pm – Alison Luterman reads poems from her new book, Hard Listening, joined in conversation with journalist Leslie Absher. 10/29, 7:30pm – Anne Whiteside celebrates the release of her memoir and investigation into her uncle’s World War II underground experience: The Moon in Splinters: Searching for Maurice Pertschuk, British Secret agent in the…
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November 6-9: 5 events
poet & film industry vet Harvey Waldman… Beth Schenck album debut… Latin cabaret ensemble Cantos de mi Tierra… Clif Payne performs songs by Sinatra & Stevie Wonder… Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces whoop it up…
At week’s end, Mitch Polzak jumps in his own luxury automobile to ride a southern route to a richly imagined honky tonk heaven. Plenty of room for you to ride shotgun. Call the shop at 415-586-3733 for a reservation. Along the way from Wednesday to Sunday, there’s much terrain to be traveled… (note that the…
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