Stu's End-of-the-Year Grfateful Dead Showcase. $13. 525-5054.
www.ashkenaz.com
12 midnight, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA 94702, United States
Gregory Pardlo's collection Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Digest was also shortlisted for the 2015 NAACP Image Award and is a current finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem received the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007.
12:10 noon to 12:50 noon, Morrison Library Doe Library
Canadian cowboy Freight debut, critically acclaimed new CD. $18 adv / $20 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
$15-$74. 841-2800, x1. www.tickets.berkeleysymphony.org
8pm, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus