Come to the Barbershop and see how December’s readers and musician take on the theme of incredible and improbable impossibilities. Enjoy an eclectic creative mix in an irreverent, unpretentious setting. As the Examiner described a recent Barbershop event: “For only $5 at the door, this event, which included endless amounts of wine, cupcakes, and beer, [...]
November’s readers will tackle the theme of literal and metaphorical journeys, so make a special trip of your own to the Barbershop, where you can enjoy an eclectic mix of genres and styles in a casual, irreverent, unpretentious setting. As the Examiner described a recent Barbershop event: “For only $5 at the door, this event, [...]
Forgive your host for his apparent neglect of this blog, but he has been hiding in the desert for the last two weeks, trying to push his book a little closer towards finished. And now I’ll drop the pretentious use of the third person to tell you that I’m a little behind on hammering out [...]
Please join us for an exceptionally scary event, a joint production between The Barbershop and Litquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival, now celebrating its Tenth Year.
BE AFRAID!
Evil Queens, Menacing Dykes, and Secret Gay Agendas
From lurid pulp novels to YouTube sermons, America’s fear of the gay menace still runs strong. They could be your neighbors or [...]
When you create something from scratch – a restaurant, a clothing shop, a reading series – and flip over the OPEN sign on the front door, you run the risk of the worst thing happening: nobody shows.
On reading nights, once a month, I get to the babershop around five, kiss Joe hello, then descend to [...]
UPDATE: Author Jane Juska had to cancel for this event, though we hope to have her read in the future. That still leaves two writers and a musician for our Chains of Love event…plenty of love and dysfunction to go around.
In honor of September’s annual Folsom Street Fair, “the granddaddy of all leather festivals,” and [...]
Clockwise from upper-left: 1. Poet Oscar Bermeo, Host Michael McAllister, and Poet Barbara Jane Reyes. 2. Oscar Bermeo. 3. Writer Brent Fluty. 4. Michael McAllister. 5. The Barbershop crowd. 6. Barbara Jane Reyes and Joe Gallagher, shop owner. 7. Musical Curator Michael Mullen. 8. Musician Terese Taylor. 9 (center): Barbara Jane Reyes.
Our August 1st event [...]
Our unofficial house musician, Wolf Larsen, who wowed our opening night crowd, will be playing a long set at the Hotel Utah this coming Monday. Totally thrilled to hear that she will also be selling copies of her brand-new EP, which I hope she brings with her to our September show, for her second appearance [...]
Our second event, on July 11th, was another successful night of music and words. The writers and musicians performed to a full house. Chris Jensen read the beautiful opening of his novel, featuring the first memory of his protagonist, a memory of the eruption of Mt Saint Helens. Pete Kushmeider read a mysterious and sharply-detailed [...]
Our debut event was an amazing night, and we hope you’ll join us for the next event in the Barbershop Reading Series. Normally the events will happen the first Saturday of every month, but because of the Fourth of July holiday, we’ll be skipping a week. So just keep in mind 7/11.
The evening will feature [...]
