Sunday, October 5th – 2pm
Taurean Horn 40th Anniversary Reading
Taurean Horn Press 40th Anniversary Reading — Publisher Bill Vartnaw and a roster of fine poets celebrate one of California’s key small presses.  Poets Q. R. Hand, Gail Mitchell, Jeanne Powell,…
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jazz club: Saturday, Oct. 4th – 8-11 pm
The Smith Dobson Quartet
with Ben Goldberg
Clarinetist Ben Goldberg has been playing at the top echelon of American progressive jazz for a couple of decades and has recorded prolifically, including a recent session with tenor sax…
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First Fridays jazz in the bookshop!
Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble
5:30 to 8:00 pm
The first Friday of every month, it’s always Don Prell’s Seabop Ensemble — a fixture in San Francisco’s longest running neighborhood jazz party! Don has had a six decade love affair…
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Sunday, September 28th – 4:30-6:30 pm
El Guajiro! Johnny Escobedo
Cuban son, boleros y guajiras from a three-piece ensemble led by singer and guitarist Johnny Escobedo, with Norman Downing, percussion and vocals; Roberto Razon, tres cubano and vocals! The sounds…
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Sunday, September 28th – 2:30 p.m.
Walker Talks!
Eriugena’s theology of the logos
Walker Brents IIIÂ weaves a fascinating web of insight, association, speculation and delight the last Sunday of every month, following his muse where it takes him on topics divers — from…
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Saturday, Sept. 27th – 8-11 p.m.
The Michael Parsons Quintet
Farewell concert
& live recording session!
Michael is leaving for Paris, drawn by love, and vowing to return, in 2016, married, we sincerely hope, to the lovely Siham! Â He’s unquestionably the best young bebop piano player…
Read MoreThe CCSF Struggle: A report from the trenches
A report on a recent ACCJC/Herrera conference– A friend of Bird & Beckett writes: “​If I had known it would be this interesting, I would have urged more to attend.…
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Tuesday, Sept. 23rd – 7:00 pm
Poets Maria Mazziotti Gillan
and Jan Beatty
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, in California from her home back east for the Petaluma Poetry Walk, recently published a new volume of poems called The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets.  She is…
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Sunday, Sept. 21st – 4:30-6:30 pm
The Forest and the Zoo:
A Tribute to Steve Lacy
feat. poet Clark Coolidge, et al.
As part of a series of Bay Area tributes to the late soprano sax specialist and innovator, Steve Lacy, we’ll present an exciting two set concert offering aspects of Lacy’s work…
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Sunday, Sept. 21 – 2 pm
Poets Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
+ Robert Thomas
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s The Greenhouse, published this month by Bull City Press, won the 2014 Frost Place Chapbook Contest.  Judge David Baker praised The Greenhouse “for its interplay of restlessness and patience, its…
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