653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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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!
Sundays, February 10th & 17th:
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Fest
Two Big Shows at Bird & Beckett!
The Get Happy String Band, Feb. 10th. Triple Chicken Foot (from L.A.), Feb. 17th. Both shows, 4:30 to 6:30 pm. No cover charge, but we’ll be sure to ask you to help us pay the bands and we surely hope you will! Expect very limited seating and a big ol’ crowd and a very, very good time! All…
Wed. Feb. 6: Tamim Ansary at 7:00 pm
on Afghanistan & Games Without Rules
Tamim Ansary gives a talk this evening on “the often-interrupted history of Afghanistan” as engagingly elucidated in his newest book, Games Without Rules (Public Affairs, 2012). With deft narrative momentum, Ansary helps the reader get past the generalizations and assumptions that obscure the realities of Afghanistan and its national history since the mid-1700s, revealing a…
Thursday, January 31st:
Poets Richard Silberg
& Willis Barnstone
Thursday, Jan. 31st at 7 pm: Two distinguished poets, reading their original poems and translations. Richard Silberg reads from his new collection of poems, The Horses: New and Selected Poems, published in September of last year by Red Hen Press. Silberg is an important member of the contemporary Bay Area poetry community — as a…
Jazz in the bookshop:
every Friday 5:30 to 8:00 pm
Friday, Feb. 4: Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble with Jerry Logas, sax Michael Parsons, piano Don Prell, bass Chris Bjorkbom, drums Bassist Prell got his start in L.A. in the 1950s, when he was a core member of the Bud Shank Quartet, traveling internationally and recording three albums. The first Friday of every month, he brings…
Sunday, February 3rd:
Poets Les Gottesman & Jodi Sanchez
This reading celebrates Les Gottesman’s newest chapbook, Misuses of Poetry and Other Poems, from Finishing Line Press. Les’s first published poems were in Ted Berrigan’s C magazine in 1965. More recently, his poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals as well as in thirteen chapbooks from his own imprint, Omerta Publications. Les has…
Sunday, January 27th:
Bay Area Jazz All-Stars
which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, Jan. 27 – 4:30-6:30 pm: The Bay Area Jazz All-Stars. Mark Levine is widely known (with a couple of Grammy nominations) for his Latin jazz work, but he’s no…
Saturday, January 26th:
Writers Lucille Lang Day & Herbert Gold
7 p.m. – Two accomplished writers take entirely different ends of the spectrum as their starting point in memoirs of humor, insight and no small measure of narrative grace. Lucille Lang Day’s Married at Fourteen tells the tale of her young life and its trajectory, while Herbert Gold’s Not Dead Yet takes up the other…
8 Day Forecast:
Friday, Jan 25th to Friday, Feb 1st
Seven events over eight days… and one more on Super Bowl Sunday (before the game!) Friday, the 25th, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Come down to the shop after work for The Chuck Peterson Quintet, summoning up the golden days when West Coast jazz hipped the fans to driving bebop solos on a pillow of laid…
Sunday, January 27th:
Walker Talks!
Walt Whitman & the Civil War
Sunday, Jan. 27 at 2:30 p.m. A talk on the poet in the time of America’s greatest trial, his work amidst the intense misery of the hospital wards bringing him face to face with the suffering wrought by the national suicide then in progress. The experience was inevitably incorporated into his evolving poetic persona, resulting…
Monday, January 28:
Poets Lee Slonimsky
& Katherine Hastings
Monday, Jan. 28th at 7:00 p.m. Poets from the West Coast and the East Coast converge in Glen Park. Lee Slonimsky has published one book of poems in free verse, Talk Between Leaf and Skin (SRLR Press, Austin TX, 2002), but has been working primarily in traditional forms and meter for the past several years,…