Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Dirtpatch Wedding and Woe for Zora Neale Hurston by slim russell

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HEARTACHE by dr. charles frederickson

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I Had A Dream by dejah lamonte

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Debbie Knows The Wind by michael johnson

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ANEMONE by jennifer sweeney

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If you want to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day authentically, just head on down to the BENICIA COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH on West Second Street at 6:30 PM. THE BENICIA CELTIC BAND will be on hand to get your toes tapping in style. The band started about six years ago when the original group got together to [...]

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The white spider hurries not wasting a minute or a second she scurries along well placed intersections. It’s not that she wants things quickly but that she must be quick because there’s so much needs attending to before the appointed hour when arriving at point b is a complexity of timing details and mirrored reflections [...]

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Carquinez Writers This Monday the 19th at the L&BH poetry cafe, 6:30pm is scheduled for the group. Let me know only if you will be attending, by the latest, Sunday. This way I can let Tony and Martha know if we’ll need the space in a timely manner. Thanks- Hunt Great love in the press! [...]

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Dear Ms. M Here is the word on The Word. EMBED THIS TO YOUR WEBSITE OR BLOG WORDSLAGER POEM: ENDORSE THIS! VIDEO OF HARVEST OF PEACE @LA’PENA DEC, 2006 Wordslanger will be the featured poet for the Listen & be Heard Open Mic on Friday March 16 at 818 Marin Street in Downtown Vallejo, CA. [...]

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Jennifer King, the head of the drama department of Napa Valley College, directed their spring production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. The musical had been first produced on Broadway in 1947. Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan had adapted the book and lyrics from the Pulitzer Prizewinning Novel by James A. Michner, which entails [...]

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It was with a sense of irony that I took my seat in the campus auditorium at Solano College to view their latest musical offering Batboy. Ironic because two live bats were busily flying around inside the theatre. Were these creatures brought in to add ambience to the up-coming musical? Was the stage setting that [...]

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photos by s.n. jacobson The Winners of the 2007 West Coast Blues Hall of Fame & Awards Show Saturday March 10, 2007 Kimballs Carnival Jack London Square If you click above on the winners for 2007, you’ll find that Listen & Heard staff photographer S. N. Jacobson won for the Blues Photographer of the year. [...]

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Alvon pictures here. On December 14, 2006 Alvon played his guitar and sang at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café accompanied by Ron Perry on electric bass. A week or so later he confided to me that he had called several drummers to make the gig, but no one could. It was with trepidation that [...]

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photos by s.n. jacobson Buon Appetito 191 Military East #F Benicia 746-7410 Monday – Thursday 11: 30 – 9 Friday 11:30 – 10 Saturday 4 – 10 Sunday 4 – 9 Stepping into Buon Appetito in Benicia is like walking into an Italian auntie’s dining room. Opera plays on the sound system. White tablecloths cover [...]

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Welcome to another energy filled week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast week of major transit on Friday, when four favorable major transits will happen; making your friday a great day for communicating your deep feelings in your personal relationship, and making long-range plains. The first of these four transits is when [...]

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