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!
Sunday, December 9th:
Parlor Tricks! Industrial Ragtime!!
with special guest, Shotwell–
San Francisco Alt Country
Put your holiday season in high gear with a few Parlor Tricks!!! Sunday, December 9th – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Bird & Beckett’s weekly which way west? Sunday concert series. Never a cover charge, but your generous donations help us pay the musicians! All ages welcome. Picture a snowy New York Sunday morning in 1904,…
Featured Publisher:
Laurence King Publishing
The visual arts are the domain of this British publisher, whose half dozen “100 Ideas” books are chock full of game-changing innovations that shifted paradigms in photography, fashion, graphic design, architecture, art, etc. Surprising, the little things we take for granted!  (paperback, $29.95 ea.) A terrific book on graphic designer Saul Bass (remember that credit sequence from Hitchcock’s…
Featured Publisher:
Tara Books
of Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India)
Beautiful books… children’s books, but are they? If it takes the eyes of children to take us into these rich and gorgeous artifacts, so be it. Tara Books is: Gita Wolf, a former academic rash enough to start a publishing house V. Geetha, an historian and political activist with a soft spot for popular culture…
Sunday, December 2nd:
Tango No. 9
Sunday, December 2nd – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. No cover charge, but your donations help us pay the band! All ages welcome. Why do we love this music so much, and Tango No. 9′s deeply soulful takes on it in its many guises? Carlos Suarez, a dear friend of…
Monday, December 3rd:
POETS!
Paula Hackett & Alfonso Texidor
open mic follows
Jerry Ferraz, native son & troubadour, hosts this last session of the year in our ongoing poetry series. Monday, December 3rd, beginning at 7 p.m. Two of our favorite poets, and a few surprises are in store for you! And you’re welcome to bring your own work to read in the open mic segment… Paula…
POETS! (no open mic)
Meazle – Noonan – Whittington
chapbook release celebration
Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Three poets introduce their new chapbooks. Sorry, no open mic tonight. Nicholas James Whittington, poet and editor/publisher of Bird & Beckett’s Amerarcana annual literary review, is bringing out a trio of chapbooks under the Bird & Beckett imprint — Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades by…
Friday, November 23rd:
The Chuck Peterson Quintet
with vocalist Dorothy Lefkovits
Friday, November 23rd – 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. jazz in the bookshop – every Friday without fail, since October 2002! Never a cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. All ages welcome! This week, it’s the 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band, also known as…
Sunday, November 25th:
The David Widelock Trio
Sunday, November 25th – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. No cover charge, but your kind donations help us pay the musicians. All ages welcome! The art of the jazz trio, performed by guitarist Widelock together with bassist Fred Randolph and drummer Jim Kassis. Decades ago, famed Brazlian guitarist and composer…
Sunday, November 25th:
jazz writer Paul de Barros
presents his new biography of
pianist Marian McPartland
Sunday, November 25th — 3:00 p.m. Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland A book event with biographer Paul de Barros. Marian McPartland has done more to edify jazz lovers than anyone alive, we’d have to say, with her radio interviews — collaborations, really — with…
November 25th, 1 pm:
Walker Talks
on Joseph Campbell’s explorations
of human consciousness
Sunday, November 25th — 1:00 pm (note early start time) Walker Brents III investigates the writings and thought of Joseph Campbell, whose influence on the creative work of filmmakers, poets and novelists over the past half century has been profound and pervasive. A seminal late 20th century sage, Campbell wrote and lectured tirelessly, synthesizing global…