Join us for the 14^th annual art reception for the Janet Pomoroy Center

Daisy and the staff from Farley's wish you a happy New Year! May 2008 be filled with health, happiness, peace and prosperity for you and your loved ones. We look forward to seeing you in the new year.

January Events

Tuesday, January 1st: New Years Day hours: 8am-10pm

• Friday, January 11th: Live Music: Go Van Gogh and surprise guests! Go Van Gogh features a blend of Middle Eastern, jazz & punk fit for belly dancing, 7pm. Visit the band online at: www.GoVanGogh.net
• Wednesday, January 16th: 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, January 20th: Art reception AND live music! Reception for artist of the month, photographer Ralph Granich. Visit Ralph online at: www.ralphgranich.com. Come enjoy the sights and sounds! 2pm-5pm
• Sunday, January 20th: Live Music: The Nancy Wright Quartet.  In conjunction with the Artist of the Month reception, the Nancy Wright Quartet will perform. Come enjoy the sights and sounds! The jazz quartet (Nancy, Bruno, Ken and Ralph) returns to Farley's at a new Sunday afternoon time, 2pm-5pm.
• Saturday, January 26th: Live music: Nearly Beloved plays original vintage music in the Folk, Country, and bluegrass veins with a mix in of cover songs by: Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Roger Miller, Merle Haggard, Doc Watson, Gram Parsons, Mississippi John Hurt, Taj Mahal,  Ernest Tubbs, Sons of the Pioneers. The group includes: Matt Lax-guitar vocals, Pearson-Banjo, Guitar, Vocals, Pat Campbell-upright bass and Pete Lax-harmonica, 4pm.

Throughout January: Live music: Big Bones, genuine bluesman & harmonica player supreme, will be dropping in for surprise one hour sets throughout January!

Artist of the Month

Ralph Granich – Photographer

A protégé of Guggenheim Fellow and National Endowment of the Arts recipient Bill Dane, Granich's photos are both imaginative and innovative in conception. "For me, photography is a visual conversation between the subject, the viewer, and the camera." The resulting photos are rich in color and finely focused.

Visit Ralph online at: www.ralphgranich.com.

Window Display of the Month

Robin MacQuarrie, Baseball fan and collector extraordinaire

A San Francisco native, Robin MacQuarrie, first began going to baseball games at Candlestick Park back in 1978.  A few years down the road they began giving out plastic cups and being the collector he is, Robin decided to start collecting them. Since then, Robin has been to 37 different major league ball parks and has tried to obtain and keep the cups whenever possible. Hope you enjoy the trip into this part of baseball history.

News

Thanks to all those who donated toys for the Fire Fighters Toy Program. With your help, we donated five barrels of toys for needy families in San Francisco.

It's a new year, come check out the new 2008 Sheedy calendar!

Manager's Corner

Well 2008 is upon us. Here at Farley's it seems like the year has flown by. In the coming month we will see more folks drinking decaf coffee as part of a New Year's resolution. January is a time of reflection and new beginnings and in the spirit of that I would like to share with you a few coffee facts adapted from the Specialty Coffee Association of America website:

• Every day Americans drink more than 300 million cups of coffee.
• Like wine and honey, specialty coffee has a unique flavor thanks to the microclimates that produce it.
• In 1683 one pound of coffee in New York was worth as much as four acres of land.
• Thanks to some popular commercials, some of us believe that coffee originated in Colombia or Brazil. Not so; it originated in Ethiopia.
• Surprisingly, espresso contains less caffeine than a regular serving of drip coffee (yes it's true). In fact, in the espresso brewing method, water is in contact with the grounds for about 20 to 25 seconds and extracts less caffeine than methods that put water in contact with the grounds for several minutes.

So next time you get into that old disagreement about which has more caffeine - coffee or espresso, you can be sure to win.

Best to you and yours in 2008!

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