Cafe du Nord

21 Jan 2024

How Woodhouse Fish Co. Played a Role in the Early Days of Broke-Ass Stuart

Alas, Woodhouse Fish Company will be closing its Market Street location…but what you may not know is that I actually worked at Woodhouse on and off for four years in the 2000s.

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11 Sep 2019

We wanna send you to see Hatchie!

On her debut EP Sugar & Spice, Hatchie delivered the sonic equivalent of falling deliriously in love: a sustained rush of feeling, rendered in swoony melodies and gauzy guitar tones and endlessly hypnotic layers of sound. Now, with her full-length debut Keepsake, the Australian singer/songwriter tries on countless new textures,

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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18 Jul 2019

We wanna send you plus one to see Pixx @ Cafe Du Nord!

A playful, performative record, The Age Of Anxiety borrows its title from a phrase found in a notebook given to Pixx (the moniker of 21 year-old musician Hannah Rodgers) by her brother, Luke. It is the title of W.H. Auden’s final long poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity

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04 Apr 2019

We wanna send you plus one to see Telekinesis and Sontalk @ Cafe Du Nord

If Michael Benjamin Lerner has given us nothing more than an opportunity to nudge the word “effluxion” into the common vernacular, it is still a crowning cultural achievement. To truly appreciate this minor linguistic marvel, you need to say the word out loud—do this right now, wherever you are; it’s

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10 Jan 2019

We wanna send you and your friend to see Azure Ray

Azure Ray are two musicians – both Alabama natives as well as childhood friends – relocated to Athens after school and combined elements of folk, pop, and light electronica into their 2001 debut self-titled album released on Warm Records. The next winter, Azure Ray issued the November EP on Saddle

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06 Dec 2018

We wanna send you to see Lola Kirke @ Cafe Du Nord!

At sixteen, Lola Kirke discovered Gram Parsons and the Cosmic American genre he defined. In spite of being a New Yorker by the way of London, Kirke felt a strong connection to his Country-Rock sound. “For whatever reason, I thought I could resolve all my problems by just becoming him.”

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14 Nov 2018

Simpsons Trivia Night Back at Cafe du Nord, Space Coyote-style. Go There!

For the first time in over six months, the wacky-ass Classic Simpsons Trivia is coming back to Cafe du Nord Sunday and this time around, it’s all about the “Space Coyote Edition.” The whole meticulously-planned evening of animated debauchery is themed after the Carlos Castaneda-inspired episode where Homer eats a Guatemalan Insanity

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20 Sep 2017

We wanna send you plus one to see Widowspeak!

Widowspeak remain purveyors of mood. Whether painting an image of a basement apartment with blinds closed or conjuring the sweeping openness of a desert, they’re an outfit ever preoccupied with the influence of place and the passage of time on personal experience: the way vivid memories can feel like movies

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