Our May 12 Show starts at 7:30

 

Featured guests

 JOSHUA RAOUL BRODY

Musical Renaissance man Joshua Raoul Brody moved to San Francisco in 1974, where he began his career with the Rick & Ruby Show, touring nationally, playing network television (including Mork & Mindy, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas), and acting as musical director for their theatrical productions, backing up such artists as Boz Scaggs and Pee-Wee Herman. Over the years, he has provided musical services for Lily Tomlin, Penn & Teller, Florence Henderson, The Residents, and Tom Waits, and created scores and songs for theater and films.  He's also played in a wide variety of settings including the Universal Amphitheater, El Teatro Campesino, the Guthrie Theater and New York's Copacabana.  Brody's theater work runs the gamut from fully composed scores to instantly improvised accompaniment with groups such as True Fiction Magazine (of which he is a co-founder).

 TODD ZUNIGA                 

Writer Todd Zuniga  splits his time between San Francisco and New York City. Todd is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen, and online at Lost Magazine. He is hard at work on his second novel. During the day he works as a freelance editor for 1up.com and ESPN Video Games. He longs for a Chicago Cubs World Series victory and an EU passport.

 

 

 

 PAUL JAMTGAARD

Architect and Pecha-kucha SF co-founder Paul Jamtgaard practices with Group 4 Architecture, Research + Planning in South San Francisco.  After attending a Pecha-kucha event in Tokyo, Paul brought back the concept -- which he describes as "karaoke for designers" -- to San Francisco in 2006, and he's been co-hosting it once a month ever since.  At each edition, designers in all discliplines (product design, interactive media, illustration, fashion, graphics, film, architecture & landscape - virtual and real) are invited to present their work in a format that uses 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide

 TANGO NO. 9

Tango No. 9 is an all-star Bay Area ensemble (members have played with The Residents, Tom Waits, Club Foot Orchestra, Eric McFadden, Extra Action Marching Band...) united in a love for a famously elusive non-native art form.  Since 1998, the group has delved deeply into the world of tango, playing countless concerts and milongas, collaborating with many of the top dancers on the west coast, and recording two critically acclaimed albums — the all-Piazzolla All Them Cats in Recoleta (lauded by JazzIz Magazine as one of the best modern tango CDs of 2002) and 2006’s exploration of early tango, Radio Valencia.

The quartet is Joshua Raoul Brody on piano, Isabel Douglass on accordion & bandoneon, Greg Stephens on trombone and bandleader Catharine Clune on violin.