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  • The Cuban Drumbeat, by Piero Gleijesis - $15.00
    In waging a long war against oppression and misery in the third world, Castro's Cuba sent more troops into battle on foreign soil in defense of besieged populations than all but the U.S., Russia and a few Western European countries. Gleijeses wonders what's next for a post-Castro Cuba. […]
  • Two Underdogs and a Cat, by Slavenka Drakulic - $17.00
    Drakulic, well known to readers of The Nation, the New York Times and the New York Review of Books, ponders the fate of the communist idea through three stories: "An Interview with The Oldest Dog in Bucharest," "A Guided Tour of the Museum of Communism" and "A Cat Keeper in Warsaw" […]
  • The Idea of Communism, by Tariq Ali - $15.00
    "What Was Communism" series editor Ali ponders the over-arching question, and argues for a new form of socialism and global planning. […]
  1. Glen Park Festival

    April 25, 2011 by Eric

    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 Glen Park volunteers have put this festival together for your pleasure, and you’ll find Diamond and Wilder Streets lined with art, food and a panoply of other booths. Activities for the kids on Wilder, including our own Walker Brents telling stories at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

    Bands on the mainstage will include Orange Sherbet, Los Train Wreck, Misisipi Mike and the Midnight Gamblers, Jinx Jones and the High Tones and Valerie Quevedo and her Cincopaters.

    It’ll be a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Call friends and tell them to come see Glen Park at its best!

    Don’t forget to drift up the block during the festivities to Bird & Beckett, for a tribute to tango singer Carlos Gardel, Irish writers illuminating the language and, to top it all off, a few arias and a little light opera!


    When you need a little break from the party, Bird & Beckett offers a cool spot out of the sun plus Argentinian tenor Roberto Traina (1:30 pm), Irish writers Eddie Stack, John Norton and Whitman McGowan (2 pm) and mezzo soprano Cary Ann Rosko  (4:45 pm)!

  2. Baseball Poets

    April 20, 2011 by Eric

    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 and died-in-the-wool baseball fans step up to the plate to take their cuts… Phil Cousineau, seasoned writer on myth, creativity and so much more, is coming over from North Beach… Jeff DeMark, monologuist extraordinaire, will come down from Blue Lake… joining our local heroes Al Averbach, Dan Liberthson and David Frankel…

     

  3. jazz in the bookshop

    by Eric

    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…

    it’s a sweetly swinging way to kick off the Easter weekend.

     

     

    NOTE: We open at 2 pm on Easter Sunday, 4/24, and present two programs, at 2:30 and 4:30 — see below!

    Studio 5 on Easter Sunday, 4/24, 4:30 to 6:30 pm

    Studio 5 is Glen Park expat Mark Reynolds’ collaboration with Mike Dixon & friends.

    Mark and family moved back to the North Bay awhile ago, but he’s coming down with Gretchen and the kids (Jillian & Jarrett) for this Easter jazz date!

    Bring chocolate eggs!

    And don’t forget Walker’s talk at 2:30 pm on Easter Sunday… his subject: the Mabinogion.  11 medieval Welsh tales that may or may not be among the early articulations of the Arthurian legend...