Archive for August 2017

You’ve taken on your first teaching assignment from the San Francisco Unified School District, at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School: five classes of 8th graders studying U.S. history. Say, 150 students. And a class in the graphic novel open to 6th to 8th graders. Imagine contemplating the $300 materials budget the District has given…

Last chance to get in with the in crowd in 2017 — capping more than a dozen In Crowd shows since we started harboring a handful of Riptide refugees back in the late summer of 2015 in the series we’ve called “canyon moonlight music.”  $10-15 requested donation tonight. Be here or be squeere! Eric Shifrin…

Multi-instrumentalist Peck Allmond will be out from Brooklyn over the holidays and is featured on drummer Vince Lateano’s date tonight! $15-20 sliding scale cover charge; students – $10. With Keith Saunders on piano and John Wiitala on bass, you’re in for a superb evening of jazz. Peck is a Bay Area native (he’s a notable…

Los Authenticos! thinking of Cuba… Scott Foster, guitar Adam Gay, bass Omar Aran, percussion Sandra Aran on vocals!

The legacy lives on… Chuck Peterson founded our Friday night jazz programming fifteen years ago… That’s him on tenor sax in the accompanying photo. He’s retired now and just comes back once in awhile, but his colleagues carry it on. The 230 Jones Street, Local Six Literary Jazz Band is his concoction. Now it features…