Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

the white spider smiles by martha cinader mims

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My Love Song by dejah lamonte

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Photosynthesis by dr. charles frederickson

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Perilous Planet by dr. charles frederickson

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Date: February 9, 2007 9:00:53 AM PST Subject: FW: “Hot” Cartoon ————– Forwarded Message: ————– From: Rik Livingston Subject: “Hot” Cartoon Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:25:51 +0000 My buddy, Mark Fiore puts out one of these animated cartoonz each week. I thought this weeks was particuarly good. Check it out: http://www.markfiore.com/animation/warming.html ————————————– Dear Poet [...]

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My version of Bill Vartnaw is that he is the powerful poet from Petaluma who publishes prophetic poets and appears at our open mic periodically with people of pride. This Friday, February 16, he will be our featured poet during the Open Mic at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Caf?. The caf? i slocated at [...]

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The Cat Lady, by Laura Stamps, is a delightful and inspiring read. It follows a year in the life of Mirabella, an abstract artist living in North Carolina. The reader watches as Mirabella overcomes challenges of faith, flowers and finances in positive and life affirming ways. While I would label this an “easy read” (no [...]

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“[tag]Ornette[/tag]” by [tag]Ornette Coleman[/tag] One of the truly surreal moments of this year’s Grammy Awards broadcast was Carrie Underwood accepting her Best New Artist award from Natalie Cole and Ornette Coleman. Ornette COLEMAN? He was on the program to accept a lifetime achievement award, which gave the audience the rarest of treats: the creator and [...]

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Hairspray, The Producers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Wedding Singer, and now Legally Blonde. Broadway has seen a rash of movie-turned-musical entries in recent years, apparently banking on the success of the Hollywood formula, or perhaps hoping that audiences will go see anything as long as it?s familiar. Before this latest movie adaptation tests those theories [...]

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Johnny Ramos grew up in Benicia and Vallejo. While very young he listened to the big band music that his mother, Billy Lou, loved and sang with many of the local big bands. Spending weekends with his Mom and the rest of the time in a foster home, he listened a lot to everything on [...]

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As the editor of Listen & Be Heard I became familiar with the name Tia Carroll by reading it over and over again in our calendars. Then there was the CD Review by Dave Tilton. Then I was hearing that CD in the office when it became the current favorite of our then calendar editor [...]

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On Tuesday February 6, my husband Tony and I were invited to be the featured poets at Poetry Diversified, an open mic poetry event that takes place at World Ground in Oakland on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Hosted by Tres Santos, a poetry performance group (who have been featured at Listen [...]

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It?s official. [tag]Vallejo Community Access Television Studios[/tag] are open and ready for independent producers who become members of the local not-for-profit to use to produce programming for Channel 27 here in Vallejo. There was an open house on Saturday, Feb. 10 to celebrate the long awaited day. If you switch on your TV and you [...]

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photos by s.n. jacobson Fratello?s 1906 Broadway Vallejo 557-2137 Dinner only Monday ? Thursday 5:00 ? 9:00 Friday ? Saturday 5:00 ? 10:00 Closed Sunday The bad news is that the Foothill Caf?, a down home restaurant in Napa closed soon after I visited. The good news is that there is a restaurant in an [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-exploration and universal understanding. This week?s forecast of major transits began late Tuesday night when Mercury, the planet of communication and details of daily life at !0? Pisces, went retrograde. Mercury will be moving retrograde until March 7th. Whenever Mercury is retrograde you can expect disruption of schedules, travel, communications, [...]

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