653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood
1-415-586-3733
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Tuesday to Sunday
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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…
House of the Unexpected — poet Julie Rogers, together with David Meltzer
Sunday, October 14 – 2 p.m. A dual reading to celebrate the release of Rogers’ book, House of the Unexpected: Selected Poems, 1981-2012, from Wild Ocean Press. Julie Rogers began writing at age 12 and began reading her poetry in San Francisco cafes in the late 1970’s. She’s self-published five chapbooks and has read on public…
Messin’ with Mezz
Sunday, October 14 – 4:30 p.m. which way west? Sunday concert series Gerry Fialka & jazzbos reinvent the seminal music book Really The Blues by Mezz Mezzrow (Louis Armstrong’s herbalist) and Bernard Wolfe (cybernetics pioneer) with LIVE music, readings and rare film clips. Mezz influenced everybody from Henry Miller to the Beats to Tom Waits…