Five-time Emmy nominee Will Durst will by puncturing sacred cows at the Comedy Showcase The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley’s traditional music venue, is spreading its wings on Friday, March 25 with a comedy night. It’s the launch show for a series of comedy showcases presented by Bob Ayres, founder of the Haight-Ashbury comedy club, […]
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704
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New Orleans comes to Berkeley: the Treme second line
If you didn’t make it to the Treme Brass Band second line parade to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Arhoolie Records on Saturday you really missed something. Fortunately, Berkeleyside was there to give you a hint of the wonderful music and atmosphere on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. And it is just a hint: from the […]
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Berkeley’s “jazz funeral without a body”
On Saturday, as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Arhoolie Records, the New Orleans-based Tremè Brass Band will lead a second line parade from Civic Center Park to the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse. One observer of New Orleans traditions calls the second line parade “a jazz funeral without a body”. The parade […]
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Music for everyone at Downtown Berkeley MusicFest
The first man to play the first show at Freight & Salvage in 1968 will be the kickoff headliner event for the Downtown Berkeley MusicFest, a nine-day extravaganza of music. Phil Marsh, described as a “folk-to-country-to-blues troubadour” will reunite with the Energy Crisis band for a performance Friday August 20 at 8 pm the newly-remodeled […]
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Berkeley fields many winners in Best of Bay awards
Freight & Salvage was voted number one in two Best of the Bay categories. Photo: F&S. Several Berkeley businesses won top honors in SFGate’s Best of the Bay Awards, which this year attracted more than 71,000 votes from readers. The Awards are divided into 29 categories, each of which has many sub-categories, so apologies in […]
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Big Sur author brings Bohemian tales to Berkeley
It’s always tricky to write about a pal’s book, you don’t want to come off sounding like a fawning friend, frankly. So, in the case of My Nepenthe by Romney “Nani” Steele, I’m going to let others hand out the praise. Sunset describes Steele’s cookbook-cum-memoir as “a valentine to one of the most beautiful places […]