Archive for October 2013
Every Friday, 5:30 to 8:00pm:
jazz in the bookshop
We’ve been doing it for 11 straight years now– straight-ahead hard bop every Friday evening by seasoned pros and some of the most talented youngsters on the San Francisco scene, ever since sax player Chuck Peterson got the ball rolling back in October of 2002. Last month, we finished out our 11th year of consecutive…
Read MoreThe Rent is Paid!
And our other bills are all up to date! That’s a first for quite a long time, and we have the community to thank for it. This past Saturday’s “Rent Party” — a 10-hour bebop concert/jam that turned out the bookshop’s neighborhood patrons in substantial numbers – was a huge success. All of the store’s rent for November…
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Sunday, November 3rd — 2 pm
Poets Caroline Goodwin and Laura Walker
Caroline Goodwin — newly announced poet laureate of San Mateo County! — moved to the Bay Area from Sitka, Alaska in 1999 to attend Stanford’s Creative Writing Program as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her work has been widely published in literary journals in the US and Canada; a short collection entitled Text Me, Ishmael was published in…
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Sunday, November 3rd, 4:30 to 6:30 pm
CD release party!
The George Cotsirilos Trio
Guitarist George Cotsirilos, bassist Robb Fisher and drummer Ron Marabuto have been making astonishingly lovely music together for several years, and this date marks the release of their third CD as a unit. Join us for a beautiful and intense afternoon of music. GEORGE COTSIRILOS: GUITAR.  George has been a member of the San Francisco Bay Area…
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Rent Party! Bop for the Bookshop!
Saturday, October 26th
Open to Close, 11am to 9pm
Ok! Push comes to shove… we gotta raise the rent! Fortunately we know legions of tremendous jazz musicians & they’re not hesitant to lend a hand… From the time the doors open at 11 a.m. ’til we push ’em shut at 9 p.m., the bop will not stop. That’s not just a rhyme scheme, friends,…
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Thursday, October 24th at 7 pm
Book Release!
Poet John Brandi reads from
The World, the World
joined by Joseph Stroud
John Brandi grew up in California where he avidly hiked the Sierra Nevada and explored the Big Sur coast. He graduated from Cal State Northridge with a BA in art and anthropology, worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer with Quechua farmers in the Andes, held odd jobs in Mexico, drove a truck in Alaska, pruned vineyards north of…
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