Paul Griffiths is a singer/songwriter known and widely admired for such timeless classics as “Headless Body in a Topless Bar.” Tonight, his Scofflaws include Charlie Hancock, Sean Silverman and Randy Lee Odell. Meredith Edgar plies the same trade, writing and performing her songs about bittersweet love, drowning, mistakes, the ocean, and the dark underbelly of…

Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Mitch Polzak is one swingin’ cat! Wait ’til you hear him smoke that pig with lightning speed. His trio is the toast of rockabilly festivals, county…

Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. wordwind chorus comprises the poets q.r. hand, brian auerbach and lewis jordan, and, safe in heaven dead (to quote Jack Kerouac), the late great reginald lockett….

Bring $15 for the band and $15 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Guitarist Tom Lander is joined by Charlie McCarthy on sax, Grant Levin on piano, Chuck Bennett on bass and Mark Lee on drums. Seasoned musicians among…

Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Drummer Vince Lateano joins up with bassist Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble tonight — Al Molina on trumpet and flugelhorn and Jerry Logas on flute, clarinet and…

Bring $10 for the band and $10 for hurricane relief – through the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. It’s Macy Blackman’s Mighty Fine Trio! Macy is a piano professor of the first water. Says jazz writer Andrew Gilbert in Berkeleyside, “Macy is as comfortable rockin’…

Once upon a tme in California… Mallory M. O’Connor talks about her novel, American River: Tributaries, on Tuesday, August 29 at 7 p.m. “O’Connor weaves a complex tapestry that shows us that immigrant bigotry did not start with Trump’s call for a wall.” — Hilary Hemingway, author of Hemingway in Cuba A part of O’Connor’s…