“Seinfeld meets Sedaris in the Snapchat Age.” – Jill Dearman, LAMBDA-winning author of The Great Bravura. From the Erie Gay News (EGN): The Art of the Anecdote. After the success of his first novel 85A, Kyle Thomas Smith found a new register in his literary voice while exploring and experimenting with dynamic innovations in short fiction,…

Grant Levin, piano James Mahone, saxophone Aaron Cohn, bass Hamir Atwal, drums Four top San Francisco jazz musicians weave their magic for an avid audience. $20 cover charge; $10 for students, musicians, limited income

Jessica King, vocals & washboard Clint Baker, trumpet, trombone & clarinet Jeff Hamilton, piano Sure, you could stay home. But you’d miss the chance to tell your friends, “I saw Jessica King at Bird & Beckett before she became A Star.” Because Jessica is on her way for certain. She’s studied her craft from the…

JoAnn DeLuna is a bilingual journalist and poet from Texas who earned her Masters degree in journalism at City University London and put in a decade as a print journalist with work published through the U.S. and in the UK, the Netherlands and India. She recently moved to San Francisco to study audio journalism and…

“When Music appears…oceans disappear” Jazz Musician: Omar Faqir Amman, Jordan Sunday January 6th 2018 BRING IN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT It’s THE ANNUAL HEALING EVENING of POETRY, JAZZ & THE FIRE OF WORDSONG with members of AVOTCJA & MODUPUE (the Bay Area Blues Hall Of Fame Jazz Group Of The Year 2010 & 2005) JON JANG (Piano) SANDI…

Many decades ago, Dan Richman sallied forth from Whitman’s Long Island with an advanced degree in English under his belt, heading west to the fabled land of California. Landing kerplunk in San Francisco, he proceeded to make his living as a contractor while living as something of a philosopher of the natural world that envelopes…

$20 cover charge.$10 for students/musicians/low income Roy Hargrove burst onto the jazz scene in the early 1990s in the league of such players as Antonio Hart and Christian McBride; later he nimbly participated in the fusion of jazz with R&B and hip hop. All along the way, he was the brightest of the young trumpet…

Eric Shifrin, piano Charlie McCarthy, sax Joe McKinley, bass Mark Lee, drums Eric Shifrin, jazz pianist par excellence and free spirit, has gathered the in crowd in the saloons and salons of the City for decades.