Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Her World Was Green by jonathan stroud

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In The Midst of My Healing by jan bianchi

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I Love You for my father by damon hadley

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Seventeen by martha cinader

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One rarely hears much about the actor [tag]Harry Dean Stanton[/tag] these days. A shame. His career reached its peak during the mid-1980s with his roles as the prodigal red cap-wearing brother in [tag]Paris, Texas[/tag] and the one of the titular characters (and ?character? is an understatement: each of his scenes was an explosion waiting to [...]

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After the devastation of Katrina, Listen & Be Heard adopted and elderly lady named Pearl Dudenhefer, who lost her home after the storm. We had a poetry marathon at the time and donated all the money we raised directly to her. We also spoke about producing a Katrina Chapbook of Poetry for the same purpose. [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast week early Wednesday morning with this Month?s New Moon at 28? Sagittarius. The New Moon in Sagittarius relates to the sharing of ideas, travel plans, making connections, and looking at the big picture of events. Sagittarius is [...]

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This is the time of year when our fruit and vegetable markets and our Farmers? Markets have a plentitude of ripe Fuyu persimmons. If you don?t know what I?m referring to, the Fuyu is the firm, apple-like persimmon that has great flavor when you bite into it. Years ago, when I moved to Vallejo, I [...]

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Having just passed our third year anniversary of Listen & Be Heard Weekly, Tony and I, your publishers, have made some major decisions about how to continue into the future. Those of you who have followed our publication for more than a year will know that we have continued as a weekly on-line, while becoming [...]

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Dear Listen & Be Heard, I am so sorry that the print edition will no longer be available. It was my favorite medium for your publication. I understand, however, why you had to quit printing. The arts community that you so enthusiastically embrace and support in every issue has ignored Listen & Be Heard almost [...]

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[tag]Darrel ?Sugar Bear? Francis[/tag]. Not Wynton Marsalis. Not Branford Marsalis. Not the Marsalis patriarch Ellis. Darrel ?Sugar Bear? Francis. Jazz bass player. Native of New Orleans. ?First call? sideman (from Fats Domino to Hank Crawford). Leader (contractor for countless numbers of New Orleans musicians for over a quarter of a century). A face to put [...]

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