Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

You can fling your words, figments of fancy, debate team demons founded in your fear, force forgetfulness, but truth is flagrant as flowers, defies description, demands devotion, forbids false testimony.

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The week before my 40th birthday, I just had to get away. But being a single mother with little time on my hands, I had a only an afternoon of a few hours to myself. I decided to make the most of it. I discovered Spa Gaia at the new environmentally green Gaia Hotel in [...]

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Anna Bullard, Nick Sholley Danille Cain, Molly Noble photos by Kim Taylor Completely enthralled by all aspects of its production:costume, performance, dialects, lighting, sound, stage design, and ambiance, I was enteratained at every second during Porchlight Theatre’s “Enchanted April.” Matthew Barber’s script, based on the 1922 novel of Elizabeth von Arnim, takes place in London, [...]

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You are probably familiar with the events surrounding the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Wall Street Journal writer Daniel Pearl. Working as a journalist in Karachi, Pakistan, Mr. Pearl was abducted while pursuing an interview. The film A Mighty Heart was presented in a docudrama style and focused on the efforts of Pakistani and U.S. [...]

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In Richard Silberg?Äôs “Deconstruction of the Blues” (2006) I was struck by how many of the poems needed this poet to write them. That is to say, Silberg deserves high praise for deep self-awareness of voice, for a mature understanding of a unique place within our community of thoughtful expression. ?ÄúStilts?Äù, the collection?Äôs opening, and [...]

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Wren?Äôs Café 1005 Merchant Street Vacaville, CA 707 446-4259 Saturday ?Äì Thursday 6 a.m. ?Äì 2 p.m. Friday 6 a.m. ?Äì 8 p.m. Sunday 6 a.m. ?Äì 1:30 p.m. Wren?Äôs Café has been a landmark for as long as I can remember. The sight of Wren?Äôs from highway 80 meant either that the road trip [...]

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Mnandi! This is the long version of Monkey Bread. When I first ate monkey bread, I didn?Äôt get it. Why was it called monkey bread? Apparently when you pull at the loaf, piece by piece, it?Äôs considered an imitation of a monkey move with the hands. Then there?Äôs the Baobab Tree, which is called by [...]

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In ?ÄúRoute 666: On The Road To Nirvana,?Äù Gina Arnold describes R.E.M.?Äôs song ?ÄúWolves Lower?Äù as ?Äúactual feelings murmured into your mind, unintelligible, yet heard by all of us clearly as if they were being screamed in the chambers of our hearts.?Äù Murmured. A perfect description. Michael Stipe?Äôs style of singing on the band?Äôs early [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week of major transits will begin on Saturday when the Moon at 8¬∫ Capricorn will be opposite the Sun at 8¬∫ Cancer, creating what is better known as this month’s Full Moon. The energy of this month’s Full Moon will focus its light on [...]

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Wheel of Fortune spinning fiber     Single spindle notched divining rod        Continuous strain of twisted yarns           Seer telling future linear chiromancy              __________           Where stoic mountains remain unmoved        Crashing Olympian pantheon lofty heights     Observing my own destiny firsthand Unclenched fist revealing fringed palm __________ Moirai trio never relinquishing control     [...]

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Friday June 22nd, was the fourth Friday of the month, which means that the merchants and artists were out from 6-9pm on Marin Street. Of course Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café has been holding it down on Friday nights for a couple years now with the open mic from 8 until 11pm. So we’re [...]

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Puking cry babies     Smelly diapers unchanged        Muffled screams pacified           Nipples dripping grief No cluster bombs No extrajudicial shootings No militia thugs No American invaders Little big men     Deprived of childhood        Boy-toy recruits molded           Into callous hate-mongers No viable options No job prospects No meaningful support No way out Neighborhoods [...]

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All through grammar school and highschool B’s came as easy as breathin’. I took that same attitude to junior college and was flunking out of calculus and chemistry the first semester. I went to see my counsellor, and changed my program to Natural Science and dropped calculus, and struggled on with chemistry. Things improved, I [...]

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LifE is     Expectantly enjoying        Delightful moments LifE is     Going against        Streamlined flow LifE is     Whatever derring-do        Makes it LifE is     Chock-full of        Fantastic surprises LifE is     Focusing on        Achievable excellence LifE is     Learning from        Past miscalculations LifE is     Making gifted        Present [...]

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