Beckett Down Bottom

The Classical Theatre of Harlem has staged a performance of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in the Katrina ravaged Lower Ninth Ward. Check out the article in today's New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/arts/design/02cott.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Grand Opening Party! This Weekend, All Weekend.

Come celebrate the opening of the new store! The party starts this Friday October 19th, and rages on straight through Sunday evening

FRIDAY
5:30 - 8:00 Don Prell's Sea Bop Ensemble

SATURDAY
1:00 Kick off
2:00 Josha Brody and his intimate friends play some tango
3:30 writer Jerry Rosen
4:00 Tango Dancers Kathleen Blake and Maurice Wren
4:30 Poets Sharon Doubiago, Neeli Cherkovski and David Meltzer
5:00 Danny Cassidy (American Book Award winner for his new book How the Irish Invented Slang) with Charlie Stack
7:00 Musical performance

SUNDAY
1:00 San Francisco poet laureate Jack Hirschman
1:30 The Noah Frank Quintet
2:30 Marv Hiemstra and poet Al Averbach
4;00 Betty Wong on piano and Corey Weinstein on clarinet doing some of Cuban musical giant Paquito d'Rivera's pieces
5:00 poets Clara Hsu and Bill Mercer
6:00 Mel Clay
7:00 Jonathan Richman

More artists to be announced! Check the Bird and Beckett website http://www.bird-beckett.com/ for more detail.

New Store Open Now!!!

Bird and Beckett is now bigger and better, beatin' and boppin' at our new store. Come see us at 653 Chenery in Glen Park.

New Location!

A Glen Park institution since 1999, Bird & Beckett is proud to announce the opening of our new location, just around the corner from our place of birth. The new store is located at 653 Chenery Street, between Diamond and Castro. Come help us move this weekend, September 22nd and 23rd and get a sneak peek at our new digs.

Bird Lives

This is a clip taken from the only known footage of Charlie "Bird" Parker actually playing live, not miming for the camera.

Beckett's "all seeing eye"

Buster Keaton tries to evade the all seeing eye in Samuel Beckett's "Film" (1965).