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Live streams coming up this weekend…
full details in the posts below!
Simon Rowe Organ Trio on Friday, 12/4
Kalil Amar Wilson / Javier Santiago Duo on Saturday, 12/5
Fabulous music time and again at Bird & Beckett. It’s a time of few gigs and little gig income, so please help us pay the Bay Area’s treasured professional musicians! Enlist your friends in the effort to provide a decent paycheck on these outings. If you’re making a living in these times, help us see…
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Miss your evenings in the bookshop?
Live streaming from Bird& Beckett Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30pm
right in your living room, but more than six feet away!
The live streams from Bird & Beckett all started in mid-March on Friday the 13th, when the towering saxophonist Michael Zilber brought his trio (Jason Lewis on drums and Tyler Harlow on bass) into the shop before a scant audience in the face of the exploding novel coronavirus crisis. Angela Bennett pioneered our broadcasting foray…
Read MoreHey, it’s not June any more!!
Whither goeth jazz?! We haven’t resigned ourselves to live without live audiences We’re cooking up a new idea for when jazz club opens back up. Stay tuned! Especially you members of the Jazz Philanthropists Union– you know who you are. Your country will be calling on you to make it work for all the peoples…
Read MoreNow open for business at the storefront six days a week!
We’re now open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. We can fill your requests for specific titles and help you find the books you don’t know you need. Upon request, we can admit you to the shop to browse. Walk down, take a bus or find a parking space — and visit our…
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coronavirus considerations – the proprietor is in and out, taking orders and making deliveries, seven days a week.
Live music on the bookshop’s stage every Friday and occasional Saturdays & Sundays, live streamed to the world, without an in-store audience
5/5 update: Slow down, people! Just kidding, but really, the onslaught of orders is hard to handle. We’re in it for the long haul, so we need to slow it down. Twenty years and counting now… When the City announces that you can come to — though not into — the shop, we’ll ask you…
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Wednesday, July 15 – 5:30 pm
Emily L. Quint Freeman, with her memoir
Failure to Appear: Resistance, Rebellion and Identity
a live stream
The New York Times, June 6, 1970 10 Foes of Draft Guilty in Chicago: Convicted of Burning Files — 3 Absent from Court On May 25, 1969, Linda Quint, now Emily L. Quint Freeman, with a number of others, broke into the South Side Chicago draft board office. dragging 40,000 files of draft-eligible young men…
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