Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Welcome to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding.
This week�s forecast begins on Thursday when Mercury, the planet of communication at 23� Pisces will sextile Venus, the planet of personal relationships and artistic expression at 23� Capricorn. The energy expressed from this sextile of Mercury with Venus will put you in touch with your feelings [...]

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Back in July of 2004, I drove to Hiddenbrooke to conduct an interview with Curt Johansen, Executive Vice President of Triad Communities. We spoke about Triad�s plans for Vallejo�s downtown. He told a compelling story, even if some of it was merely conjecture, (like rent breaks for arts organiztions�like incubator loans to stir up economic [...]

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by s.n. jacobson
This weekend in the tradition of grand salons of the past, a master artist, his students and his friends opened a wonderful show filled with sensuous oil paintings, insightful portraits and whimsical pastels. Bob Gerbracht, who has been painting since the 8th grade (I was too polite to do the math) hasn�t let [...]

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[Preface: I left a job and, eventually, a profession I was unhappy with a year ago this May. While at this job, I penned this piece of writing. It was an affirmation that I needed at the time to guide me through a situation in which I felt undervalued and underutilized. Having encountered quite a [...]

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Buddy Guy
Luther Burbank Center
50 Mark West Springs Road,
Santa Rosa
February 22 at 8pm; $35-55
707-546-3600
George Jones
Luther Burbank Center
50 Mark West Springs Road,
Santa Rosa
February 23 at 8pm;
$45-65
707-546-3600
Ailey II Dance Company
Napa Valley Opera House
1030 Main Street, Napa
February 23 & 24 at 8pm; $35
707-226-7372
A Celebration of Spirituals
featuring Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
First Presbyterian Church
27th & Broadway. Oakland
February 24 at 7:30pm
February 25 [...]

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I don�t know anyone that doesn�t like cookies. Although I�m pretty good at keeping my sweet tooth under control, every once in awhile, I get a yen for some cookies. So here is a basic recipe that I�ve developed, (from a recipe given me by a friend) that I think you�ll like. In addition, they�re [...]

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Sometimes you just fire all shots in unison. Imagine two potential lovers are battleships each on their own voyage but currently mooring next to one another. They don�t even have to be potential lovers, just two boats bristling weaponry going in different directions and casually saying �hey wassup what your name is?� As they pass. [...]

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Ethics and justice in any given self-defense situation must always be taken into account by the Martial Arts practitioner. Anyone can learn techniques that can be devastating and destructive to the human body, but what tempers the ethical use of one�s skills? It is the application of responsibility and justice as per the [...]

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Good Night & Good Luck has been nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for David Strathairn who plays Edward R. Murrow. This is not a typical Hollywood film. It�s closer to a documentary than the usual entertainment variety Hollywood serves up with extra helpings of special [...]

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So you are afraid, and you stand near me in fear.
Wanting and needing in fear;
that�s no way to come to me,
and that�s no way to come to life, your life.
To meet life with fear
is to live life without growth.
And to enter my world there must be growth.
But you say that �I�m trying�
and that �I did [...]

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Zio Fraedo�s, 23 Harbor Way, Vallejo
642-8984
I knew I�d miss the warm spinach salad at the WaterBarge restaurant, but still I had hopes that Zio Fraedo�s would retain some of the qualities I appreciate in a restaurant, authentic, fresh food, in a clean comfortable setting. I was seriously disappointed.
When my date and I arrived on [...]

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The 24th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival kicks off this year in San Francisco on March 16 with a full line-up of films from home and abroad. Produced by the Center for Asian American Media (formerly the National Asian American Telecommunications Association), the 10-day festival will present a strong set of narrative [...]

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Dear Editor,
I am writing in about a print error that was published in your February 15-21 online issue. On the �slideshow� section of your issue, there are two pictures of cast members from Vallejo Music Theater�s Ain�t Misbehavin� cast and two of the names are wrong that are listed underneath the pictures. The one picture [...]

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