Margaret Cho
Posted on November 1, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 7:30 PM at Cody’s Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley MARGARET CHO explains why I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight. One of America’s most original and outrageous comedians, Cho is well-known for a liberal activism that garners her both an intensely devoted following and intense hate mail. Cho’s new book lays out her principled [...]
Read More..>>Davy Rothbart
Posted on November 1, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 7 PM at Cody’s Fourth Street, Berkeley DAVY ROTHBART turns his hand from Found to fiction with a collection of stories that captures the oddity, poetry, and dignity of every day life. THE LONE SURFER OF MONTANA, KANSAS, rather like an early Bruce Springsteen album in its leanness and grittiness, is full [...]
Read More..>>Pretty Girls Make Graves
Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Pretty Girls Make Graves Eleventeen Razrez @Bottom Of The Hill Monday, October 31st 9 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30) $12 (all ages) NOTE: Rescheduled to Monday, October 31st (from Tuesday, Oct. 25th)
Read More..>>American Analog Set [2 Nights]
Posted on October 29, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
The American Analog Set Vervein The Lonelyhearts @Bottom Of The Hill Sat, October 29 + Sun, October 30 10 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30) $12 Check out some unreleased MP3s from their web site.
Read More..>>Against Me! [2 Nights]
Posted on October 26, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Against Me! @Slim’s October 26th & 27th
Read More..>>Lucero
Posted on October 25, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | 1 Comment
Lucero Blackpool Lights Decibully @Slims Showtime: 8:00 PM (Doors: 7:30 PM) Ticket price: $13 Tickets available on-line at: Virtuous.com, Tickets.com All Ages
Read More..>>The Sadies/Heavy Trash
Posted on October 24, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Heavy Trash* The Sadies The Husbands @Bottom Of The Hill Mon, October 24 9 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30) $10 (* featuring Jon Spencer of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Matt Verta-Ray of Speedball Baby; new record on Yep Rock)
Read More..>>Laila Lalami
Posted on October 24, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Monday, October 24 at 7 PM A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books Laila Lalami is the creator of the popular blog, Moorishgirl.com. Her first novel, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, tells the story of four strangers whose lives collide on a flimsy lifeboat as they attempt to immigrate illegally to Spain from Morocco.
Read More..>>Okkervil River
Posted on October 23, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Okkervil River Ban of Horses Last of the Blacksmiths @Cafe Du Nord Sunday, Oct. 23rd Show: 8:00pm Doors: 7:00pm Door: $10.00 Ages: 21+
Read More..>>Erase Errata
Posted on October 22, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
The Gossip Erase Errata We Are Wolves @Bottom Of The Hill Sat, October 22 10 :00 pm (doors at 8:30) $12 (all ages)
Read More..>>Calexico / Iron and Wine
Posted on October 19, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Calexico / Iron and Wine @The Warfield October 19th, 2005 – 8:00 PM
Read More..>>David Dondero: Katrina Benefit
Posted on October 18, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Benefit For Hurricane Katrina David Dondero Peskevino Chinese Radio Cast Of Thousands Bottom Of The Hill 9 : 00 pm (doors at 8:30) $5 to $20 (all ages)
Read More..>>Myla Goldberg
Posted on October 18, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 18 at 7 PM A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books Myla Goldberg’s first novel, Bee Season, was dazzling. Her brilliant second novel, Wickett’s Remedy, is an imaginative story of a charming Irish American shopgirl facing down the tragedy of the 1918 Influenza epidemic.
Read More..>>Ha Jin
Posted on October 17, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Monday, October 17 at 7 PM A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books Ha Jin won the National Book Award for his novel Waiting. His latest novel, War Trash, now in paperback, is a masterful work that chronicles the experience of Chinese soldiers held in American POW camps during the Korean War. In this stirring journey [...]
Read More..>>Martha Wainwright
Posted on October 9, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Martha Wainwright @Cafe Du Nord Sunday, Oct. 9th Show: 8:00pm Doors: 7:00pm Door: $10.00 Ages: 21+
Read More..>>Liquake Kick-Off
Posted on October 7, 2005 - Filed Under Books, Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Litquake 2006 kicks off Friday, October 7th, with a fancy-pants Howl reading (including celeb-writers reading seminal Bay Area authors). Events go on for daaaaaays (find me at the lit crawl, at least). There are events for readers of every stripe, so mark your calendars posthaste.
Read More..>>Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Posted on October 5, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
Do they live up to the hype? Find out at the Mezzanine on October 5th.
Read More..>>New Pornographers
Posted on September 27, 2005 - Filed Under Event Calendar | Leave a Comment
The New Pornographers w/Destroyer, Immaculate Machine @ Bimbo’s 8:00 PM
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