653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six
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Sunday, November 11th:
Hawkeye – a jazz quartet
Sunday, November 11th — 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series. Your generous donations help us pay the bands. All ages welcome! Mas Koga (sax). Grant Levin (piano). Sam Bevan (bass). Bryan Bowman (drums). Hawkeye is a collaboration of extremely fine young jazz players–all active musicians on the local scene who have…
Sunday, November 11th
Two poets read their work
Katherine Hastings and Toni Mirosevich
Sunday, November 11th – 2:00 pm Katherine Hastings grew up in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco, a city that has deeply influenced her poems. She is the author of Cloud Fire (Spuyten Duyvil NYC, 2012) and several chapbooks, including Updraft (Finishing Line, 2010). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and other…
Monday, November 5th
POETS! on food and love
Jennifer Barone reads from Saporoso
in a program with Jacques Korn
Monday, November 5th – 7:00 p.m. Featured poets plus an open mic on the 1st & 3rd Monday of each month, with m.c. Jerry Ferraz, peripatetic troubadour. Both poets will be reading poems on food and love, sometimes, though not necessarily, at the same time… Jennifer Barone reads from her new book Saporoso – poems…
Pugsley Buzzard
Stride piano professor on tour
from Down Under
Sunday, November 4th – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series Never a cover charge, but your generous donations help us pay the performers. All ages welcome! Pugsley Buzzard, once again on tour from Australia, returns to the Bird & Beckett stage for the second year running. He’s a consummate artist, serving up a…
Poets Junior Clemens
and Meredith Stricker
read their work
Sunday, November 4th – 2:00 pm Poets Junior Clemens & Meredith Stricker read from recently published works. Junior Clemons received his MFA in Creative Writing at the California College of the Arts. His work can be found in Actually People, Zen Monster, the Newer York, and other fine publications. He was born, lives and writes…
Spotlight on the legendary
baritone sax player Pepper Adams!
Sunday, Oct. 28th Pepper’s music played live 4:30-6:30 p.m., preceded at 3:00 p.m. by a talk by discographer, biographer and jazz fan Gary Carner. Gary Carner has recently completed and published a comprehensive discographic work on Pepper Adams, one of the most respected of modern jazz men and a player unequaled on his horn-of-choice, the…
NLCS Game 7! Closing early!
No kidding! This is big! Better get to the bookshop before 4:30, ’cause by then you’ll find that closed sign flapping in the breeze. We’ll be back — elated, we’re sure! — at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. Go Giants! Cain, a deep bullpen and some serious hitting… we can’t wait!
Ragtime Skedaddlers
Sunday, October 21st – 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. which way west? weekly concert series. No cover charge, but your kind donations helps us pay the musicians and make the propagation of the culture possible! The name sounds quaint, perhaps. It evokes another time. But this band’s music mines that time with absolute focus. If you’re feeling…
Books getting too expensive?
Look at it this way… A new book published by Random House, Yale University Press or Penguin — or any real publisher — has a set retail price that’s the same whether you buy it in San Francisco, Fresno, Atlanta or Dubuque. Ok, maybe Amazon discounts it 84%, but we’re not talking about that here…So,…
The Oy Way!
Sunday, October 21st – 2:00 p.m. Follow the Path of Most Resistance! Cogitator, philosopher & humorist Harvey Gottliffe imparts the technique and wisdom — and the beneficial health effects – of “The Oy Way”. Feeling a little stiff after a vigorous Saturday of windsurfing, gardening and gesticulating through the social hour after synagogue?  Maybe those bones and muscles just won’t…