Posts by Eric
Sunday, December 11 – 10am — a live stream
Sunday, December 11SF Lives Live Talk:Photographer Mabel Jiménez in conversation with journalist Denise Sullivan San Francisco journalist Denise Sullivan conducts a monthly series of conversations (the second Sunday of each month from 10-11 a.m.) with The City’s activists, educators, arts and cultural leaders and lesser-known workers, the everyday people who help make this place we…
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And mark your calendar for this!
Wednesday, December 7th – 7:30pm
Some Evolved Stuff Indeed!
All-Star Tribute to Grachan Moncur III
Trombonist Grachan Moncur III emerged from the Benny Golson-Art Farmer Jazztet, steeped in hardbop, to become one of the more original improvising composers of the mid-‘60s New York jazz scene. With evocative titles like Gnostic, Esoteric, Love and Hate, Frankenstein, Air Raid and Ghost Town, his pen and his bone discovered new solutions to jazz…
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Sunday, December 11 – 5pm
Maurice Tani
Americana noir from a master songwriter, with bassist Mike Anderson.
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VOTE NOVEMBER 8TH!
Fight the deep cuts continuing at
City College of San Francisco
Our friends at City College are emphatic that Prop. O is a yes vote! And that the College Board needs candidates Soloman, Martinez and Chung to be elected to 4-year terms! Get to the polls and vote to protect one of San Francisco’s most valuable resources! Here’s what we relayed to you months ago…
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Yes! Believe your five senses–
shows for in-store audiences
resumed in mid-June 2021, and continue,
albeit masked.
Bird & Beckett’s events open to the public have been back since mid-June 2021. Mask up and come in! (do please bring proof of full vaccination. Not vaxxed? Please get vaxxed and join us!) Jazz, poetry & more live in the shop and live streamed Come to 653 Chenery if you’re in town! Doors open…
Read MoreO Pioneers of the Cosmostream! We’ve been vaccinating you against the plague of boredom and the scourge of demagoguery with live streamed events twice a week and more since March 2020, when it all came down1
Hungry to hear some of Bird & Beckett’s past live streams? On the home page you can scroll down to read the individual posts for the shows we’ve mounted in the past several months, a hint of what’s gone down since the pandemic lock-down began. In more amazing times, it would take you right back…
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