Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe

09/13/2026

Tonight!! ✨✨✨ Join us for jazz and swing with the fabulous Mr. Lucky & his Cocktail Party! 7-10pm, no cover 🎉🎶🍸

09/08/2026

Tonight! 🎶 Luis Salcedo & Nathan Bickart duo, 7-9pm

Lu and Nathan reunite for an evening of original compositions and cherished tunes from the jazz standard repertoire. Born and raised here in the Bay Area, Lu and Nathan have collaborated for more than a decade, most notably as part of LUMAMA, and have continued to grow their musical relationship even at a distance: Lu now lives in Brooklyn, whereas Nathan is based in Oakland. The duo will bring a joyous, buoyant, sensitive, playful and deeply-felt set of music to Specs, and hope that you can join us!

09/06/2026

Join us this afternoon for Joe Donohoe's 'Get In The Cab' Book Party! 4-6pm

Joe Donohoe is a practicing nurse and former San Francisco taxi driver of 16 years. He’s also a winner of the 2012 Kathy Acker Award for Contributions to the Avant-Garde for his magazine Speciousspecies, and contributor to ReSearch Books. ‘Get in the Cab’ is his noir and SF folklore infused memoir about driving for Luxor Cab while working his way through city college nursing school.

Additional readers include:

James Tracy - an activist, labor historian and teacher at City College and SF State and the author of Hilbilly Nationalists

Joe Clifford - a successful crime writer and the author of the seminal Ju**ie Love

Charmayne Berry - a former investigator for the Environmental Protection Agency who likes to read in public

Steven Black - a man about the Bay Area and a curator for the Bancroft Library

09/04/2026

Hats are back baby!!! If ya know ya know 😎 available in black plus brown and maroon for fall 🍁 get em while they’re hot! 🔥❤️ thanks so much to our friends at 💪

09/01/2026

Happy September! The weather’s warming up and we’re ready for our real SF summer to begin!! 😎🌞🍻 join us for tons of great shows and events this month! All free and 21+ 🎉🎉🎉 more info at specsbarsf.com 🦀

08/30/2026

Join us tonight for New Orleans Jazz with drummer and bandleader Benny Amón and his New Orleans Pearls! 8-11pm, no cover 🎉🎉🎉

08/27/2026

Our favorite Balkan and Klezmer band Hernandez Hideaway are back at Specs tonight!! Join us for drinks and dancing 💃🏻🎉 7:30-10!

This Thursday will be Specs'tastic!!
730-10, no cover!!

08/25/2026

Join us for live jazz and blues tonight with the Jinx Jones trio! 8-10:30, no cover 🎸🔥

Jinx Jones has been twice nominated for Male Rockabilly Artist of the Year by the Ameripolitan Music Awards, has received gold and platinum record awards for his work with R&B divas, En Vogue, has won songwriting awards and has been recognized as one of the hottest acts on the San Francisco music scene.

In Jinx Jones’ impressive musical career he has visited nearly every conceivable style and genre of the electric guitar. From his work Chuck Berry, Solomon Burke, and Roy Buchanan to his own acclaimed rockabilly albums, “License to Twang,” “Rumble & Twang,” “Rip and Run,” Live Twang in Finland.” And “Twang-Tastic!,” Jones has always strived to expand the possibilities of the instrument. He accepts every musical challenge head on, always making an impressive statement with his music. The one thing that remains consistent throughout Jones’ multi-stylistic journey is the grace and finesse of his virtuoso playing.

08/21/2026

We’re excited to host poet and comedian this Sunday at 6pm for a reading of his brand new book “Notes of a New Dad,” “Notes To Old Friends” and more! This event is free and 21+ 📚🎉

Deemed a less problematic Charles Bukowski meets a younger Big Lebowski by a stranger on the internet, Joshua Turek is a comedian and poet who has amassed a large cult following on TikTok and Instagram. His philosophical comedy rants, like the “Catcalling Construction Worker with a Heart of Gold” and “Existential Car Salesman” have garnered over 1 billion views on TikTok alone and hundreds of thousands of followers. A bibliophile, he is the host of the “Turek Books Podcast” where comedians and other interesting people talk about the books they are obsessed with. His debut poetry book “On the Outside Looking Up” was published in 2024 and sold out of its first printing in three weeks. His subsequent books have also circulated across the globe. He has appeared on Hulu and Comedy Central and headlines comedy clubs across the United States.

https://joshuaturek.com/

08/15/2026

Happy birthday to our beloved Specs who would have been 98 today! Missing his Bostonian growl, his snide humor and his tremendous heart and love for his friends, family and community. So lucky for this incredible place he built that we get to carry on in his honor ❤️ have a g&t today for him (but it’s gotta be Gordon’s) ✨