Happy Easter!

Easter egg decorating contest – get creative, no rules, have fun! Submit your entry any time before 10pm on Saturday, April 7. Prizes for all!

EVENTS

Thursday, April 5th: Art Reception – “Jagged Rocks and Long Shadow”, a collection of landscape works by San Francisco artist Tex Buss, 7pm.

Saturday, April 7th: Be sure you bring in your Easter eggs. Contest entries due before 10pm. Prizes!

Sunday, April 8th: Happy Easter!

Wednesday, April 11th: Live music: Charlie Owen Band. Rhythm & Blues/60’s soul music, featuring Katie Guthorn and Kathy Kennedy from Potrero Hill’s Voice Studio and Todd Swenson on guitar, 8pm.

Sunday, April 15th: Live music - “Darktet” performs live Jazz, 5pm.

Thursday, April 19th: Live music – Pushing Air, a live-looping project blending high-diva vocals, jazz-based improvisation, beatboxing and extended vocal technique. Conservatory-trained and bebop-schooled vocalist Diana Thompson writes and performs all parts, all voice, all live, melding jazz, blues, and minimalist classical and African musics into avant world bop, 7pm . www.pushingair.com

Friday, April 20th: Live music – Laura Chandler . Acclaimed singer/songwriter, Laura Chandler 's latest album, Learning to be Human, has been hailed by Vicki Barker (BBC's World Update) as "Outstanding!" GoGirl.net calls her "Insightful, poignant, and profound!" Laura blends jazz, folk, and pop music to create a unique sonic landscape. This summer, Laura will be releasing her latest album - a contemporary "chill" record filled with thick jazz vocals and deep grooves. Don't miss this intimate acoustic performance, 8pm . www.laurachandler.com

Thursday, April 26th: Live music – Big Bones & Emely. The genuine bluesman, Big Bones, is back at Farley ’s joined by his daughter. Bones is one of the San Francisco's premiere harmonica playing Blues men and his funky gruff rap-blues vocal style is compelling whether he's covering standards or his own compositions which features more urban ghetto-influenced lyrics., 7pm. www.cdbaby.com/cd/bigbones

Sunday, April 29th Saturday: Live music - “Presidents Breakfast” performs electro-jazz-funk-dub tunes on a Saturday afternoon, 5pm .

ART

Artist of the Month

“Jagged Rocks and Long Shadows” is a collection of landscape works by San Francisco artist Tex Buss. The show consists of recent landscapes in oil from 2006-2007, painted “en plein air” predominantly in Northern California (with a heavy emphasis on the best dog-parks of San Francisco), but will also include some pieces from Vermont, Greece, and the Southern California wildfires in Morongo Valley last summer. The reception is Thursday, April 5 at 7:00 pm.

Window Display of the Month

A local antique collector will present a display of antique telephones and telephone signs from the roaring 20’s through the groovy 60’s. Styles will include art deco Bakelite phones, candlestick phones, and more. Remember those old rotary dial phones with funny numbers like Farleys 1-2345? This exhibit will take you back to the days when phones were phones and you could slam the receiver down, talk to a live operator, and never have to worry about call waiting or your battery running out! For more information about antique telephones and telephone collecting, visit www.telephonearchive.com. For more information about this exhibit, send email to dave@dmworkshop.com

NEWS

Photo: St. Patrick’s Day and Farley’s Anniversary celebration...thanks for 18 great years!

Bean Ball

Bean Ball is coming! Starting next month, buy one pound of any coffee beans and enter the drawing to win two free SF Giants tickets.

Call for Entries

Third Annual Community Photography Show at Farley ’s:  “Kids (and Young People) Shoot the Hill”
This year for our Farley’s community photography show we seek a different perspective and ask all of those budding or accomplished young photographers out there to bring us images of what they see in our neighborhood.  We would love to see and show photographic images of Potrero Hill and environs printed any size, framed or unframed in this non-juried show. The only limitations are that the images must be created by a young person up to age 16 and taken in or around Potrero Hill. 

Kids, young people—it’s your turn.  Show us what you love or hate about the Hill.  Show us the things that older photographers are too busy, too tall, too tired or just too un-cool to notice.  Where is the beauty on the Hill?  Where are the things we’d rather not look at?  What makes you proud of your neighborhood and what makes you wish you lived somewhere else?

Parents, grandparents, teachers, aunts and uncles, should encourage any young person with a good eye and a camera that they can put in their hands to contribute to this show.  Teachers—this could be a great class project!

We will hang the show on June 2 at Farley ’s Café on 18th Street on Potrero Hill and the show will run for the month of June .  The idea here is to include as many photos from as many young photographers as possible and we are not going to select specific photos to show as before.  There is no entry fee.  We do ask that anyone who wants to show their work sign up at www.schnetzler.com and bring your photos to Farley ’s for hanging from 2-4 pm on Saturday June 2.  There will be an opening reception to be announced.