Posts Tagged ‘books’
Friday to Sunday
January 26th-28th
five shows…
jazz, jazz, jazz
British songs of political reform
jazz…
The jazz starts Friday the 26th at 6pm, with Aussie Tony Johnson, shipwrecked on the Barbary Coast in 1959, leading his quartet with Nautical Bob Kenmotsu on saxophone, Cap’n Keith…
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Thursday, August 14th – 7:00 pm
looking for a book club?
Try ours! Â Anywhere from a half dozen to a dozen people show up once a month (two of them have been coming for more than 15 years! while others come…
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Wednesday, May 21st – 7 pm
Book Event: Mingus Speaks
author/interlocutor John Goodman talks!
Author John Goodman will speak at Bird & Beckett the evening of May 21st on the man, Charles Mingus, and the book, Mingus Speaks: Interviews with Charles Mingus, 1972-1974Â (John Goodman,…
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Sunday, May 11th – 2:00 pm
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez,
a talk by Carlos Suarez
Carlos Suarez considers the work of the great writer, whose passing has us so many of us considering the time we first encountered One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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Wednesday, April 23rd at 7:30 pm
Designing with the Mind in Mind
book event with
GUI wizard Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson, Ph.D., founder of UI Wizards, Inc., explores the psychology underlying the rules that make graphical user interfaces work. Early user interface (UI) practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, from…
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The Art of the Memoir
a reading of new works
Thursday, January 23rd, 7 pm
January 23Â (Thursday) – 7 pm A reading by memoir students of Alan Kaufman. Kaufman is renowned for his work in teaching the art of the memoir, and can always be…
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