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Glen Park’s Nicki Michaels nominated for prestigious award

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Nicki Michaels, resident of Glen Park since 2007, has been nominated along with two collaborators for an Eisner award, the “Oscar” of comics and graphic novels. There are 32 categories of awards. The trio was nominated in the Best Comics-Related Book category for Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy. (Fantagraphics […]

Bird & Beckett Turns 25!

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Celebrating 25 Years A quarter-century ago, in May 1999, Bird & Beckett Books flung its doors open with reckless abandon, and somehow, some way, we’ve kept those doors open ever since. We’ll keep them open come hell or high water. But like Slim said to Steve in To Have and Have Not, it’s better when you […]

Glen Park author writes book about San Francisco’s “buried history”

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On Sunday, September 17, at 3pm, prolific author and journalist Beth Winegarner will be discussing her new book, San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History, just published by The History Press, at Bird & Beckett Bookstore. She’ll be in conversation with Courtney Minick, chronicler on her website of all things macabre in California, Here Lies […]

Bird & Beckett Bash Celebrates Tony 6/16!

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This month’s Neighborhood Bash honors Tony from Critter Fritters! The ongoing third Thursday celebration is free and open to all. Great tunes provided by the Larry Vann Trio, with groove merchant Larry Van on drums, Michael Warren on bass and Tim Landis on guitar. No cover charge, though donations for the band always gladly accepted. […]

Bird & Beckett bash celebrates our neighborhood–a new tradition

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Photos by Marian Dalere Big fun this past Thursday when Bird & Beckett hosted a party for the neighborhood with free beer & snacks and live music (The Potrero Hillbillies with intermission piano by Eric Shifrin). At the center of the festivities was Soo Emens, a partner in the POD design studio across the street […]

Neighborhood Party at Bird & Beckett

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Thursday March 24, Bird & Beckett kicks off a regular bash that’ll take place in the bookshop every third month for the sole purpose of celebrating Glen Park, toasting a merchant or community member with music, chatter and libations. This time out, Soo Emens is in the spotlight, serenaded by her friends in the droll […]

Neighbors still say Hi in Village of Glen Park

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If you think this headline was written today, think again.  Think about over twenty years ago, May 26, 2000, when this was the headline in SF Gate, followed by a rundown of the people and places that make our neighborhood cozy and warm. After you read the SF Gate story, look at the “footnotes” that […]

Saturday night life takes a hit in Glen Park

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Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The usual weekend hustle and bustle of folks enjoying a Saturday night in the neighborhood was nowhere to be seen tonight.  The village was eerily quiet.  The only establishment that seemed to be thriving was Canyon Market, which experienced a surge of shoppers all day and into the evening. The obvious […]

Glen Park: Home to one of the City’s long-term, intimate venues for live jazz

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Neighborhoods change. Just look at ours. In a little over a decade Glen Park has witnessed Canyon Market claim the corner of Diamond Street and Wilder Street while it watched Hal and Susan Tauber retire as hardware store owners on Chenery Street and Aaron Esquivel and his crew take it on. We’ve seen Chenery Park […]

Deb Lunsford’s rent party at Bird and Beckett — What goes ’round, comes ’round

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“Dollars for Deb” Eric Whittington billed the fund-raiser. Whittington, proprietor of Bird & Beckett, has thrown rent parties with live jazz before, to help keep his independent bookstore open for another month. But over the summer, he threw a rent party for Destination Bakery’s Deb Lunsford, a neighborhood favorite who’s recovering from surgery. Bakery regulars […]

Mark your calendar for a Deb Lunsford Benefit! Destination Bakery’s goodwill ambassador!

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Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery Street, SF July 26, 2019 – 5:30-8:00pm If you can’t make it in person you can donate online! Go to https://www.tinyurl.com/helpfordeb All proceeds go to Deb! –Glen Park Neighborhood Icon –Weekday Mornings Counter Gal at Destination Bakery, at the corner of Chenery & Castro –Friend and co-conspirator with all small […]

10th Anniversary Retrospective: Bird & Beckett Bookstore Recognized at City Hall

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To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Eric Whittington, proprietor of Glen Park’s Bird & Beckett Books, was honored at City Hall on Tuesday with a commendation from Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. (Or “Condemnation,” as Whittington accidentally referred to […]

Local Author on Sheep, Wool and Life

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Glen Park resident Stephany Wilkes, vice president of the Glen Park Association, has managed to pull off a coup: taking a niche, arcane subject and writing a page-turner of a book about it. Wilkes, now 41, is one of those people who end up doing things that weren’t on their original life trajectory. She didn’t […]

Glen Park Merchants Rock in 2018

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This year has been a big one for Glen Park’s merchants. In May, the Cheese Boutique was honored as an exceptional business with a ceremony at City Hall. Last month, Dalere’s Beauty Salon, Glen Park’s oldest business at 50 years, was celebrated by Mayor London Breed and other dignitaries at the shop on Chenery Street. […]

Glen Park Businesses: Longevity Rules One family. Three locations. Fifty years.

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Even for tiny Glen Park, where a surprising number of businesses are in their second, third or even fourth decade under the same ownership, Dalere’s Beauty Salon stands out for longevity. Glory Dalere is 83 now, a widow, and has long since turned over the operation of the shop to her daughter Marian, who runs […]