Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Still Life with a Cat by bill vartnaw

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ode to an ode
by martha cinader mims

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Romance The Dance
by dejah lamonte

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Ode to Touch
by martha mims

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WHEN MONEY TALKS,
IT SAYS GOODBYE. by charles frederickson

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Love Song by tony mims

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gabi wilson at center with her cousin erin clarke visiting from
san diego and her mother agnes. photo by s.n. jacobson

Now nine years old, Gabriella “Gabi” Wilson has been singing since she was seven. Her father Kenny Wilson is a member of the Urban Bushmen, a local band that we refer to as “The Soul of [...]

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�Fistful at Fifty� (China Coaster Press, Benicia, CA) contains over 30 selected poems by Micheal Merris. Its focus is mainly on his life in the seamy parts of the Far East - Kobe, Kowloon, Yokahama, and especially, Olangapo (The Philippines). This poetry is not for sissies. And you damn sure wouldn�t want your kid sister [...]

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“Bookin’ At The Library” by the Leo Cavanaugh Trio
The appropriately-named Bob Dylan bootleg recording known as “Stealin’” ends with a song titled “The Cough Song.” It is a guitar and harmonica instrumental piece that abruptly stops at the point where Dylan begins to cough, followed by someone’s laughter. Dylan mentions that the cough [...]

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While attending this years 11th annual Flyway Festival on Mare Island, I had in my plans to do the standard shots of birders with telescopes and cameras, cute kids in deep rapture over seeing their first red tail hawk up close, and of course birds, lots of them. What came to be was not quite [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You will start the forecast week of major transits on Wednesday when Venus, the planet of personal relationships and artistic expression at 13� Pisces will conjunct Uranus, the planet of unexpected change and revolutionary ideas. The energy expressed from this conjunction of Venus with Uranus will [...]

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Many years ago, in the early 1980�s when my companion Marilyn and I were wandering around the United States, we went down to New Orleans to visit an old friend, John Clark, who was teaching philosophy at the University of Louisiana. We had a great visit with John and his family. The other things we [...]

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THE BENICIA MAIN STREET PROGRAM�S SEE�S CANDIES STORE is ready for Valentines with Chocolate hearts and delights of all kinds. There is also a new shipment of sweatshirts, and tees for those sweethearts who would rather not have chocolate. Don�t forget those DOWNTOWN DOLLARS, they are $20 gift certificates useable in most downtown [...]

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To: All San Francisco artists and non-profit arts organizations
From: Krissy Keefer, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by the Board of Supervisors
Pamela Peniston, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by Supervisor Sandoval
Ellen Gavin, Artistic Director, Brava Theater Center
Darryl Smith, SF Arts Task Force member, appointed by Supervisor McGoldrick
Laurie Lazer, Artistic Co-Director, the Luggage Store Gallery
Vinay [...]

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