Friday, April 25th – 8:30-10pm
Joyce Todd McBride Trio

January 7, 2025

Joyce Todd McBride, piano & compositions. Stacy Starkweather, bass. David Rokeach, drums. $20 cover charge, cash please! $1.50 surcharge per seat for credit/debit cards. please pay at the door, and byob. for reservations, call 415-586-3733. Joyce Todd McBride, widely adored as the director of the massed vocal ensemble Conspiracy of Venus, is also much admired…

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Friday, April 25th – 6-8pm
The 230 Jones Street Band

January 7, 2025

Drummer Tony Johnson corrals the usual suspects — Charlie McCarthy, saxophone; Sam Cady, piano; Chuck Bennett, bass. Make Tony’s dates a habit. Fourth Sunday of every month. The 230 Jones Street band plays two months in a row, then switches out for the Tony Johnson Quartet (Bob Kenmotsu, tenor sax; Keith Saunders, piano; Eric Markowitz,…

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Thursday, April 24th – 7:30pm
Writer/Director Megan Robertson
a reading of her theatrical documentary
If San Francisco Collapses

January 7, 2025

Join us for a reading of “If San Francisco Collapses,” a new documentary theatre play by Megan Robertson. As we live in an age defined by technological advancements, this play examines technology’s impact on the region which birthed it. San Francisco has historically been a mecca for revolutionaries, artists, and activists. How does this truth…

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Tuesday, April 22nd – 7pm
Journalist/Ukraine war correspondent
Jen Stout and her book
Night Train to Odesa:
Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War

January 7, 2025

Night Train to Odesa just won a major award in the UK, and was abridged for BBC Radio 4. It sits between memoir, reportage, and literary journalism, and has been praised for its pacy narrative style – definitely not a dry tome on the war in Ukraine, but on-the-ground reportage, starting in Russia just before the invasion, moving…

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