Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Stepping out of a Dr. Wilkinson’s mud bath, I had clumps of who-knows-what sliding off my skin onto the white-tile floor. But, I’m feeling pretty snazzy. The attendants who clean up after me don’t realize that the impact of their service will last at least a week. Dr. Wilkinson’s mud is a carefully developed combo [...]

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Sixteen years ago when we installed our first espresso machine, prospective baristas used to ask us how to pronounce the words ?mocha? or ?latte.? At the time, if you had asked me what I thought of coffee chains and especially the one from Seattle, I probably would have anwered that I thought they were promoting [...]

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With such rare screenings of Tibetan American film perspectives, the last showing of Dreaming Lhasa is sure to garner much attention. As part of the 24th International Asian American Film Festival, the screening takes place on Wednesday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive (2575 Bancroft Way) in Berkeley. Dreaming Lhasa, the [...]

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Rania & David Kharsa owners of Falafel King, 835 Texas St., Fairfield 707 434-9621 Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-8pm Saturday 11am-7 pm Enter the Falafel King and you are welcomed with a big hello. This is a tiny place on a street busy with all kinds of eateries. The Falafel King ensures its place with friendly service, [...]

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Jose M. Molina was promoted to the rank of General in the Mexican Army due to his musical contributions throughout the state of Sonora. In addition, he taught all of his children, starting with his first born Alfonso, how to become musicians. Alfonso Molina, a professional musician performing mostly in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s [...]

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by hunter austin It?s not about Oil or Power or Terror or Freedom It?s not about the DMZ or JFK or WMD or An axis Our safety of homeland is taking the time to imagine atrocities of flesh and bone and muscle blown apart The brains of our children and ourselves flung all over the [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week begins late Friday night when the Sun, your source of vitality and light at 4? Aries will trine Saturn, the planet of restriction at 4? Leo. The energy of this Sun/Saturn trine will create the opportunity to organize [...]

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There are significant differences between sparring and self-defense. Martial Artists and potential practitioners must understand the fundamental differences. These are two different modes that don?t really resemble each other when the fundamental differences are actually evaluated. It is vital to know what those differences are, so one is not caught in an inappropriate mental position. [...]

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I?ve been hooked on cheese, ever since I was a kid. In truth, I?m not alone with this passion. Almost everyone I know/knew, seems to have the same addiction. And for good reason, there is hardly any other source of food that offers the wide varieties of tastes to tickle our palette, that cheese does. [...]

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Zorro in Hell Roda Theatre 2015 Addison St., Berkeley Opening this Week 510-548-9666 The Temptations Lincoln Theatre 100 California Drive, Yountville March 23 at 8pm; $35-65 707-226-8742 and The Paramount Theatre 2025 Broadway, Oakland March 25 at 8pm; $60-70 510-465-6400 Erica Jong reads Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life Book Passage 51 Tamal Vista [...]

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Walk into T. Louis Giles? Vallejo home and you are struck by a sweeping ceiling graphic that looks like the vibrant blue shadow of a grand mosque. That expansive sweep of color, or the fact Giles painted it on his living room ceiling, came as no surprise to anyone who knows the artist. ?It?s something [...]

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About fifty years ago, a youthful black woman named Lorraine Hansberry broke new ground by having her play, A Raisin in the Sun open on Broadway in New York. The play is an American classic, and still has the ability to move audiences of all backgrounds and ages. Solano College Theatre is presenting this powerful [...]

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Onstage Theatre opened its ambitious first venture into Restoration Comedy this weekend with William Wycherly?s The Country Wife. For an intimate theatre on a modest budget, tackling this 17th century comedy of manners is no small feat.Plot twists and deceptions abound in Wycherly?s biting social commentary on marriage as the aptly named Mr. Horner (Mark [...]

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—————————————————————————— Martha and Tony, Thank you for inviting me to be the featured poet on St. Patrick?s Day. I hadn?t done anything like that in a loooooong time. You are really doing a service to the community with your open mic. What an incredible amount of talent we have here in Vallejo and what an [...]

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in recognition of womens history month by martha cinader mims When Grandma Sadie became a great grandma she wanted to be called G.G. The lone matriarch of the Cinader clan for many years she had her own way of doing things. She held out in her New York City apartment visiting her friends playing cards [...]

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