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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, November 4th – 7pm
Jessica Loos + Cara Vida
followed by an open mic
Jerry Ferraz and Kim Shuck host and egg them on! Seriously, they’re as serious as your life.
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Sunday, November 3rd – 7-9pm
Bruce Martin Remembered:
A memorial gathering and reading
Friends and family of Bruce Martin — architect and city planner, public servant, poet and great friend of Bird & Beckett, who passed away a few weeks ago — gather to read some of his poems, reminisce and pay our respects to a kind and astute individual who will be sorely missed.
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Sunday, November 3rd – 4:30pm
Albatross Clarinet Quartet
which way west?
Sunday concert series
$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated Dave Tidball (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jim Dukey (clarinet, bass clarinet) Dick Mathias (clarinet, bass clarinet) Charlie Keagle (clarinet) With this concert, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet will present an array of new music, much of it recently conceived and arranged. Bebop to polytonal funk, musical commentary on classical pieces from the late 19th century …
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Sunday, November 3rd – 2pm
El Rondin
A Narrative of the 1912 Orozco Uprising
Jonathan Van Coops
Here are the wrappers. Send me more tamales. — Esteban Lujan to Porfirio DÃaz, January 2, 1911 Esteban Lujan’s EL RONDIN is his account of events leading to the suppression of General Pasqual Orozco, Jr.’s 1912 revolt against the Madera presidency in Chihuahua, Mexico. It is perhaps the earliest written document about this important chapter of…
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Saturday, November 2nd – 7:30-10pm
Jinx Jones Trio
jazz club! when lights are low…
every Saturday night
Guitar god Jinx Jones– twang & rockabilly monster, cover guy for numerous guitar mags, darling of North Beach, oft-featured star of music festivals throughout the western United States as well as the annual Glen Park Festival– has jazz chops to burn, and brings them to          jazz club!…
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Friday, November 1st – 5:30-8pm
Oop Bop Sh’Bam!
jazz in the bookshop
every Friday since October 2002
$20 per set donation is much appreciated… whatever you can manage! Flat broke? No problem, pay what you will… Al Molina, trumpet Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocals Larry Chinn, piano Dean Reilly, bass Vince Lateano, drums It’s loose, and it’s deep; at one and the same time. Come out and find out for…
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