Glen Park Festival

They’ll be dancin’ in the streets! Glen Park Festival All day Sunday May 1st 10 a.m to 4:30 p.m. there’ll be music… sweet, sweet music… Come out to the Glen Park Festival for the fun,  the sun and the beautiful neighborhood vibe, and a cavalcade of great bands mc’d by man-of-all-seasons Misisipi Mike. Dozens of…

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Baseball Poets

Writers Step Up to the Plate! After a tough homestand against the Braves, the Giants have a travel day on Monday, so we’ll use the pause in the schedule for a literary take on America’s favorite pastime… Monday, Apr. 25, 7 pm: Come out to our celebration of the unfolding baseball season, as five writers…

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jazz in the bookshop

Jazz bookends the weekend The Chuck Peterson Quintet on Friday, 4/22, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Also known as the “230 Jones Street Local 6 Literary Jazz Band,” Chuck’s quintet plays a whole lot of beautiful straight-ahead jazz, in a classic West Coast mode. Dorothy Lefkovits joins the band for a few tunes on every set……

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Living to spite the devil

here on the roof of hell… Thursday, April 14th, 7:00 pm Bird & Beckett Political Book Discussion Group This Month’s subject of discussion: All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis Have a yen to hash out the cynical and self-serving machinations of the powerful? C’mon down! In its monthly meeting,…

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Books for sale

The pleasures of the page Nothing is really like a book, though only a very few of them are really important as books… still, many would lay down their lives if it would  save the book from obliteration, for many fine and very important personal reasons. Fortunately, it will never come to that. So let’s…

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anachronistic and obsolete

old-time is not a crime talked to a couple of guys at the shop on Sunday, while the Saddle Cats held forth on the stage, zipping along the route felicitously preserved on the Bob Wills Tiffany transcriptions, kidding about the idea of a district in town zoned to support a gamut of anachronistic and obsolete…

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