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Valona Deli & Market
1323 Pomona St., Crockett
510-787-2022
Many of the places I’ve visited in order to write these reviews have spirit that extends beyond their menu. The Valona Café and Deli in Crockett is definitely one of those places
The deli and grill area opens to a large room with art on the walls, a grand [...]

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fu11 m00n
fears elicited
unkind words, like nails, emailed
it was lunacy
interweb
electronic fire
billions blowing into it
fire, purifying
spring enthusiast
now i have a mane
don’t call it a po-faux-hawk
spring breeze in my hair
by tumi goldsmith

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This week’s forecast will begin Wednesday when Mercury, the planet of communication and the details of daily life at 4º Aries, will trine Saturn, the planet of restriction at 4º Leo. The energy expressed from this trine of Mercury with Saturn will have your thoughts on serious and important concerns all day. Today you must [...]

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Every person’s awareness can be in different states. Awareness can be cultivated, or it can be inhibited. A Martial Artist depends upon his high level of awareness to react quickly to any given situation. It is necessary to understand the definition of awareness as it pertains to your ability to respond to [...]

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Colette, born in 1873, matured during the height of the Parisian Bohemian period, went on to become the best known woman writer in France. An early Feminist, Sensualist, and Bohemian, after WW-1, she published a great number of her novels. She managed to keep herself going until 1954, when she died at [...]

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California Poet Laureate, Al Young, will speak using readings on creativity and the survival of our culture. Open mic follows
JFK Library, Joseph Room
505 Santa Clara St., Vallejo
April 21 at 10am; Free
707-553-5568
Lesley Gore
Brava Theatre
2781 24th Street, SF
April 22 at 8pm; April 23 at 3pm; $40
415-647-2822
Sunday Night Gay Comedy featuring Reannie Roads
Jon Sims Center
1519 Mission, SF
April 23 [...]

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Dreamweavers Theatre in Napa presents the farce Lie, Cheat and Genuflect for the enjoyment of fans of slapstick, stock characters, and broad humor. A certain amount of schadenfreude (laughter at the pain of others) doesn’t hurt either. As one would expect with any farce, the primary goal is to make the audience laugh, [...]

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As Dreamweavers Theatre approaches 20 years of producing community theatre in the Napa Valley, the company has decided to have a few laughs. Its current production, Lie, Cheat and Genuflect is a farce from the repertoire of playwriting duo Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore who also penned Love, Sex and the IRS and [...]

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Magic Circle in Roseville made their final performance of Moon Over Buffalo to an appreciative and hysterical audience on Saturday night. It has been a long time since I have seen a production of this caliber done by a community theatre group. If this production is any indicator of the quality and professionalism [...]

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The most treasured CDs in a collection are the ones with music that gets into your ears, and immediately your feet or fingers start keeping time with the rhythm. A feeling of connection to the music develops with each successive listening, sometimes right away. You might find yourself singing along, playing air guitar [...]

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Listen and be heard. These four words are an excellent definition of a musician. They are also useful in describing the essential duties of someone writing about music, whether writing about a well-known musician, someone virtually unknown, and everyone who falls somewhere in between those two categories.
Take Vallejo’s Saturday morning Farmers’ Market on [...]

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Smuggling Cherokee by Kim Shuck is a collection of poems covering a variety of topics from her background, life events, and seemingly random thoughts. However, it is not the large, life-changing events that provide the main focus. Instead, almost mundane, everyday occurrences are the center of attention. The details in life are [...]

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Dear L&BH Readers,
As you may have heard, we’ve had a number of delays over the past year+ with our studio construction here at Jesse Bethel High, the latest major delay because of requirements administered by the Department of State Architects (CA schools are subject to DSA), which cause a domino effect in one way or [...]

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If I’m not careful it is easy for me to become overwhelmed by the mediocrity that seems to keep us all in constant danger of succumbing to it’s hypnotic siren song. Yeah it’s easy to switch on my television and flop down on my couch, getting up to visit the refrigerator every time one of [...]

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