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SUMMARY:All About San Francisco’s Stairways: No Walking Required! w/ Mary Burk & Alexandra Kenin
DESCRIPTION:Take a comfy seat and celebrate the grand finale of SF Stairway Month hearing authors Mary Burk (Stairway Walks in San Francisco) and Alexandra Kenin (Urban Trails series\, San Francisco\, East Bay\, Peninsula and South Bay). And sharpen your wits: We will have special SF stairway trivia game designed by moderator Liz Novoa (aka Instagram’s staircase queen). \nMary and Alex will delight you with stories of SF’s known and hidden stairways\, tell you about the best views\, and share the whereabouts of secret gardens and more. Mary enjoyed a longstanding partnership with Adah Bakalinsky\, co-authoring these now renowned stairway books until Adah’s passing at over 100 years old. Alex is the embodiment of energy. In addition to highlights from her book(s)\, she will share her detailed map of everything that you have wanted to know about SF’s roughly1000 stairways. \nThis event is organized by Glen Park Beautiful (www.gpbeautiful.org). It is the 3rd annual SF Stairway Month\, which was inspired by the creation of Glen Park’s Burnside Tiled Steps. The event is also featured in this inaugural year of Walktober\, a month-long celebration of guided walks in San Francisco hosted by the Crosstown Trail.
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/stairway-to-stairway_2026-10-27/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
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SUMMARY:Danny Rosen & J Grabowski w/ Starry Skemes: A Two-Way Mirror Book Party & Concert
DESCRIPTION:Two-Way Mirror books celebrates the release of its latest books: Danny Rosen‘s A Love Poem Called War and J Grabowski‘s POMPEI: or The Notes Are In The World\, with music by J Lee’s Starry Skemes. Publisher Marina Lazzara hosts. \nEach morning Danny Rosen pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East Branch of Big Salt Wash which flows into the Colorado River several miles below Fruita\, Colorado. Early on he learned to swing a hammer and that changed everything. He has been a poet\, publisher\, teacher\, geologist\, astronomer\, and carpenter. In the middle of his journey he found himself running an astronomical observatory in the heart of the Namib Desert under the southern sky where he cultivated an optimistic outlook based on his familiarity with big space and deep time. He is the author of Suspended Erosion (2024)\, The Tuscan Journals & Other Poems (2022)\, Primate Poems (2016)\, Ghosts of Giant Kudu (2013)\, and That Curve (2006). He founded Lithic Press in 2007 and has run Lithic Bookstore since its opening in 2015. An inveterate rock hanger\, he has collaborated with beavers on a variety of landscape installations. \nJ Grabowski is an artist from New York whose practice explores drawing\, writing\, painting\, sculpture\, movement\, and music. He cofounded PUSH Press\, the Heliopolis Project (2010-2015)\, POMPEI and Turtle Records. Previous publications include Time Landscape (Bird & Beckett\, 2017). \nJ.Lee is a San Francisco is a San Francisco multi instrumentalist\, songwriter\, improviser\, modular synthesist and visual artist. He is a member of the indie psych rock band Starry Skemes and the experimental rock band Warm Spell. He has formerly played with the Rabbles\, Static Faction and Aerosol Species. jleeartsandmusic.com
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/rosen_grabowski_starry-skemes/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Live Music,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Tom Molanphy - Marie's Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Local journalist Tom Molanphy will discuss his new book\, Marie’s Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco\, with the three people who played crucial roles in this biography of Bayview Hunters Point environmental activist Marie Harrison (1948-2019.) Arieann Harrison\,  her daughter who carries on her mother’s fight through the Marie Harrison Community Foundation; Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai\, who continues to fight for a thorough cleanup of the Hunters Point Shipyard; and Bradley Angel\, Director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice\, an organization that Harrison joined in 1999.
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/tom-molanphy_2026-11-24/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
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SUMMARY:Esmail Rahimian - "I Was There Before: Stories Without Names"
DESCRIPTION:They said it didn’t happen. But someone remembers.\n\nEsmail Rahimian’s book is a gripping work of literary fiction that draws you into the moments where everything begins to break\, and nothing ever returns the same. A girl steps into the streets and does not come back. A mother listens through the night as the sky becomes a threat. A man carries what he cannot leave behind. A witness holds onto what others try to erase….
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/esmail-rahimian_2026-12-02/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
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