653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
[email protected]

Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

Live Streams every weekend!

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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, April 6th – 7pm
James Siegel + 1,
followed by an open mic

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Thursday, April 9th – 7:30pm
Zoh Hamrick Quartet

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Zoh Hamrick, tenor sax Spencer Hoefert, guitar Chris Carrera, bass Jon Cavalier, drums

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Saturday, April 18th – 7:30–10pm
The Cottontails
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night
at Bird & Beckett

Jump blues and jazz from the foremost local practitioners of the art! Karina Denike, vocals Michael McIntosh, piano Tom Griesser, reeds Joe Kyle, Jr., bass Randy Lee Odell, drums

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Sunday, April 19th – 2pm
Children’s Author Greg Harmon’s
Tar Pits Cantos

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Sunday, April 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
HowellDevine
which way west?
Sunday concert series

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated

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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, April 20th – 7pm
Jacki Rigoni +
Camincha Benvenuto,
followed by an open mic

Camincha Benvenutto, Poet Laureate of Pacifica…

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Tuesday, April 21st – 7pm
David Kubrin:
Marxism & Witchcraft

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available

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Thursday, April 23rd – 7pm
Richard Grossinger,
Bottoming Out the Universe

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available

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Friday, April 24th – 5:30-8pm
The 230 Jones Street,
Local 6 Literary Jazz Band
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday after work

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated

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Tuesday, April 7, 2020:
Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin
live streamed from Bird & Beckett

Tongo Eisen-Martin, a child of the Bay Area, seemed to emerge full blown on the Bay Area poetry front in 2015 with his debut Someone’s Dead Already from Bootstrap Press and a cascade of uncanny readings, hands in pockets, gaze fixed in the middle distance of his mind. But by that point he had already…

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