Posts by Eric

Oop Bop Sh’Bam embarks on another three-month “first Fridays” run starting March 1st! A fabulous band of jazz veterans! Al Molina, trumpet and flugelhorn Jerry Logas, clarinet, tenor sax, baritone sax, flute & vocals Larry Chinn, piano Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums  

Celebrate City College of San Francisco’s Forum literary magazine this Tuesday at a reading/party with the editor, staff and contributors! Thinking of submitting a piece of writing or art? Now’s the time! The deadline is Wednesday, the day after this party in the bookshop. So get your work done early in the week, ’cause you’ll…

Charlie McCarthy, sax; Larry Dunlap, piano; Ruth Davies, bass; Jim Zimmerman, drums. One of the great pleasures of jazz is to spend a few hours in the company of the pianist Larry Dunlap. Larry played early on in Portland with jazz greats Leroy Vinnegar and Ralph Towner, and has been based in San Francisco since the 1970s. In…

Escaping the chaos and emotional stagnation of the aftermath of the first world war, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke at last found the hermitage he sought in a small village in Switzerland. There, in February of 1922, he endured a visitation of such creative intensity it has become a legend unto itself. Not one but…