WAY MORE FUN AHEAD THIS WEEKEND!

thanks to your generous support, the good life goes on in San Francisco! From 5 to 7pm on Sunday the 9th, kicking off St. Valentine’s week, the eloquent country-noir singer/songwriter Maurice Tani, assisted by pianist Henry Salvia and bassist Greg Kehret, explores the darker corners of timeless romance in the modern world, with yearning tales…

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Friday, February 7th – 6pm
Jazz, Joy & Justice
The Doug Goodkin Trio

Doug Goodkin – piano. Marty Wehner – trombone. Sam Heminger – bass. $20 suggested donation per adult; byob. Teens and students – $10 suggested. Kids, free. Celebrating Doug’s new book Jazz, Joy and Justice. Doug Goodkin, as well as being a wonderful musician himself, is a celebrated educator, loved for his work by generations of…

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Sunday, February 9th – 2pm
Poets James Yeary, Chris Ashby
& Julien Poirier

James Yeary makes poems, art objects, performances, readings, books and the like. For the last couple years he has worked in a surgery-adjacent laboratory turning human tissue into colorful pictograms, very occult and ethically suspicious but presumably for a good cause. He will eventually do something else but presumably still will make poems.   Chris…

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Sunday, February 9th – 5pm
Lessons of Love
Maurice Tani sings romantic songs of organized crime, the fashion industry and unrequited love

Maurice Tani, guitar and vocals. Henry Salvia, piano. Greg Kehret, bass. $20 cover charge; byob. Reservations, call the shop at 415-586-3733. This week we’ll be celebrating the 1529th running of the Valentines since Pope Gelasius I ordered Cupid to fire his starting bow in the streets of Rome in 496 AD. Times have changed… or…

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