Cecilia Perez Urias – jarana, vocals, zapateado Diego Perez – bass guitar Dan Neville – vibes, marimba Andres Reyes – tambór and cununo $20 cover charge (cash please). No one turned away for lack of funds. Admission in the last half hour is $5 upon request. BYOB. Created in Mexico City by Cecilia Perez Urias…

This is where it all begins! Where the future comes into view afresh with every sunrise! Sunnyside Elementary School’s brilliant young students produce “The Ray” once a year — their own literary journal! They’re coming to Bird & Beckett this Sunday, from 2-3pm, to deliver the word! Turn out to hear them and to let…

David Hardiman, Jr., trumpet Charles Hamilton, trombone Hal Richards, tenor sax Cory Wright, baritone sax Karl Evangelista, guitar David Parker, bass Valentino Peeps, drums Come out for the late set at the Bird & the Beckett to get a taste of a deep and moody and slammin’ septet led by bassist David Parker and featuring…

Erik Jekabson, trumpet/flugelhorn Sheldon Brown, saxophones/flutes Murray Low, piano Fred Randolph, bass/compositions Isaac Schwartz, drums $20-25 is suggested for quintets (cash or venmo, please), but no one is turned away for lack of funds. Pay what you can at our Friday evening jazz happy hours! Byob if you think you’re going to get thirsty! Fred…

Sheldon Brown – Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet Ben Goldberg – Bb and Bass Clarinets John Wiitala – Bass Tim Bulkley – Drums $20 cash cover charge; byob. Reservations, call 415-586-3733 Sheldon writes: Ben and I have been playing together for longer than he or I can remember. We’ve played together with Clarinet Thing, with Darren…

Ashia Ajani’s position as poet-in-residence at the San Francisco Museum of the African Diaspora was announced just days ago, and her poetry debut Heirloom is newly published by Write Bloody Publishing. Speaking from both a place of restoration and vengeance, Heirloom explores concepts of spiritual nourishment, physical and emotional sacrifice, environmental injustice, sexuality, waste colonialism,…

The intensity of individual, mob and institutional attacks on working journalists and their media outlets is unmistakable in our current age. World Press Freedom Day pushes back. So, too, does the work of many thousands of individuals locally and worldwide who take the tools of journalism in hand to accurately report the news they encounter…

Join your friends from Bird & Beckett this Sunday, April 30th at Keys Jazz Bistro–Broadway at Kearny in North Beach–for a five-hour cavalcade of great San Francisco jazz musicians coming together in the Independent Musicians Alliance to build labor solidarity and jamming to fill the coffers of the IMA’s “Musicians Assistance Fund.” The IMA, born…

Drummer Tony Johnson’s 230 Jones Street Band kicks off the weekend at 5:30pm Friday the 28th, with Bob Kenmotsu, saxophone; Si Perkoff, piano; and Chuck Bennett, long-time veterans of the San Francisco and New York jazz scenes. $20 donation appreciated, byob. Find your happy hour at Bird & Beckett every Friday right up to 8pm,…

Amoranalysis is literary deconstruction for the purpose of interpreting and emanating Amor. So says Ben Bac Sierra… novelist, CCSF writing teacher, lowrider, San Francisco native… He continues, We do not know what life is or where or when it begins or ends, nor do we know what death is or where or when it begins…