

Headlined a vaudeville show with a young up and coming comic The Holy City Zoo was another comedy mecca, across the streetįrom Jack Anderson’s Open Theatre, where the Pointless Sisters It then became an ice cream parlor and is now The Pointless Sisters, Duck’s Breath, RebeccaĪll played there. There was a place on the corner of Market and Laguna, Green Mustard Seed Coffeehouse, but I never went there. Shadow of its former producing self, now just a (still very valuable)Īrts administration organization in a building owned by the Chronicle.Ī lot of the comedians who played the Intersection also played the On Valencia, then the former mortuary that became New CollegeĪnd is now a bunch of yuppie fuckwad shoppes, and ended up a Transamerica Pyramid, then the black box that is now StageWerx Washington Square, then a storefront on Columbus near the Intersection for the Arts - started on Union Street a block from The Stone (part of Freddie Herrera’s Keystone empire) United State Cafe (whose owners bifurcated, with one sect movingĪ few blocks south to open the Other Cafe) Over on this side of the Bay, allow me to venuedrop the following: That Residents show) also hosted in-store performances - I saw

Rather Ripped Records (whose anniversary was celebrated by Long-departed LongBranch Saloon on San Pablo hosted Eastīay regulars like Little Roger & the Goosebumps, Rubinoos,Įarthquake, etc., and an at-the-time incredibly rare performance Including Orchestra Nostalgico, Phillip Greenlief, and ahem me. Of commercially-unviable artists from the East Bay improv scene, On University between Shattuck and the campus, and hosted a lot I would also add the Berkeley Arts Festival, which had a storefront I played there with deadheadĭavid Gans and again with ex-Hot Lick Maryann Price. Was on Shattuck, is it? Adorable hippie quonset hut, featuringĪ roster of mostly 60s holdovers. That’s not the same Art House Gallery & Cultural Center that The link for Subterranean Arthouse on Bancroft now goes toĪ page for Toko Buku Islam Online, probably a terrorist hub. Joshua "Righteous Raoul" Brody, who has probably played every Bay Area music venue listed here, sent this note with several important updates:
