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When Gavin Newsom took the courageous and politically perilous step of declaring a moratorium on California’s death penalty, he gave Californians an unexpected chance to think about what having a death penalty tells us about ourselves as a society or even as human beings. Michael A. Kroll has spent a significant portion of his life…

It’s his birthday, and we’ll cry if we want too. You should too. But you won’t feel like it. Jerry!!!!

            Heikki “Mike” Koskinen: e-trumpet & piano Steve Heckman: saxes. flutes, clarinet ‘MONK MEETS NORDIC WINDS’. Heikki & Steve will present their latest material, ranging from Nordic traditional songs to straight ahead jazz. Their long collaborative history includes CD projects such as “Midnight Sun”, “Full Moon” and “Northern Winds &…

Todd Melicker regularly communes with the fog of San Francisco’s Outer Richmond. His most recent book, is this the body / if hovers is just out from lyric press. rendezvous, his first book, was published by Rescue Press in 2013 as the winner of the second annual Black Box Prize. He is the author of…

Francis Vanek, saxophone Terry Rodriguez, piano Chris Amberger, bass Mike Quigg, drums Francis is a legend of the North Coast. His quartet this afternoon will be right in sync. He and Terry and Chris go back quite aways. Mike’s a young drummer whose reputation is rock solid in this town and he’s crossed the Bird…

$10 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…