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Michael Boughn worked in the Teamsters for nearly 10 years before returning to university to earn a PhD in 1986 after studying with poets John Clarke and Robert Creeley. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Iterations of the Diagonal, Dislocations in Crystal, 22 Skidoo / SubTractions, and Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol.…

Store closed today! You’re invited to join us to accept the City’s commendation!    

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocals Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocals Kenny Owen, drums $10-20 suggested donation. Just the thing to cap off Mothers Day… the Seducers take Bird & Beckett down an entirely different highway, offering up classic, outlaw and honky tonk country music. It’s an all-star band…

Aaron Hammerman and Dave Eagle are the Deep Basement Shakers, delivering primal, joint-rockin’, steady-rollin’ barrelhouse blues n’ boogie from the deep musical traditions of places like St. Louis, Texas, Chicago and New Orleans. Instrumental stuff from the 20’s, 30’s through to the early days of R&B, Jimmy Yancey to Clarence Lofton, Professor Longhair to Cow…

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… jazz club! when lights are low. $20 cover charge tonight (sliding scale available to those with limited means) Tonight, we present two major creative talents working together with improvisational brilliance on material brought to the table by each. Their album “Collect My Thoughts” was recorded 25 years ago, in 1994,…