Contributors Betsy Chafcouloff, Rita Delgado, Kathryn A. Johnon and Mary Jo Lazear join editor Marjorie Lasky to read from their pieces included in the new anthology, You’re Doing What? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure — which is bursting with 62 memorable first-person tales and photos. In the book, you’ll meet daring older women — like…

As we start to think about our 20th anniversary coming up in May, we at Bird & Beckett think it’s appropriate to reproduce this email from the proprietor to the store’s patrons, dated June 24, 2008: Big Move Coming Up! After nine years in its present location on Diamond Street, Bird & Beckett is moving…

Born September 27, 1934, Blanche Bebb passed away on March 10, 2018 at the age of 83. She lived for years on Chenery Street, near the corner of Diamond, with her daughter Karen and granddaughter Jenna, and was a constant presence at the bookshop from the day it opened until a stroke made it impossible…

$20 cover; $10 for students, musicians, limited income. On their new recording, “A History of Choro,” Duo Violão + 1 survey the history and evolution of choro music, revealing its rhythmic and harmonic permutations. In the process, they have created an album “coherent in timbre and vision while marvelously varied in its nuances.” Guitarists Rogério…

Scott Barnhill, tenor saxophone Keith Saunders, piano Eric Markowitz, bass Smith Dobson, drums with guest vocalist Louise DeLucchi Scott Barnhill has been a force on the Bay Area jazz scene for decades. Son of the well-traveled drummer Buddy Barnhill and singer Louise DeLucchi, it’s in his blood. Scott has held his own on stage with…

The great jazz writer Gene Lees writes, “Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer was, ‘My technique, Al Cohn’s ideas, and Zoot’s time.’ The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in thirty-year-old Harry Allen.” Harry is a fifty-two-year-old now, but that only means he’s had another…

A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street Sarah Menefee, Beau Beausoleil, Mahnaz Badihian, Neeli Cherkovski, Rosemary Manno, Jessica Loos,Agneta Falk, Barbara Paschke, Karen Melander Magoon, Jack Hirschman

Faculty, students and friends of the Community Music Center gather to play music from many traditions – classical Chinese to American jazz… and to celebrate the Year of the Pig!