Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

’cause she likes it that way
bed made when she comes home
from the job dishes done
a possible snack even a meal
in the ice box with a white wine

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The old man across from me on the train peels
an orange. He carefully pulls off the skin
that reluctantly leaves behind a few white veins.

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Come, catch them with a bright CD–
use songs, or pics, or a “MySpace” blog.

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I?m telling you she is bad like nothingI have ever seen.
Met-a phor-ic liquid sugar
meets black coffee on a tapestry of blue velvet butterflies
laced in a touch of class
shjowcasing adjectives and verbs
held sensous and close
while mind bending sexual inuendo
into symbolism advancing

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Sounds like Martian stuff. We can find the strange ?face in the leaves? all over the world. It is a common decorative motif on buildings in the British Isles, many parts of Europe, and was prevalent in ancient Celtic cultures. The [tag]Green Man[/tag] is a name coined by Lady Raglan in 1939 for this strange [...]

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Welcome to another week of self discovery and universal understanding. Your week’s forecast will begin Thursday when the Sun, your source of vitality and light at 28? Taurus will conjunct Mercury, the planet of communications and details of daily life. The energy expressed from the conjunction of the Sun with Mercury in this fixed earth [...]

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[tag]Pumpernickels[/tag] are peasant breads that go way back to in the history of middle Europe, especially Germany. The yeast starter 2/3 cup warm H2O 2 TBLS Dry yeast 1 TBLS Sugar For the Breads 1 1/2 cups Sourdough starter 1 bottle dark beer (Iprefer Stout or porter) 3 cups unbleached white flour 3 cups pumpernicel [...]

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Living with a persistent health condition often feels like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Chronic pain, arthritis, anxiety, depression and other persistent health conditions can put us in the unwinnable situation of experiencing our bodies as an uncomfortable, unsympathetic even hostile environment in which to live. We are in it, we [...]

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For anyone who lives or shops near the top of Springs Road, there is a new neighborhood restaurant with big ambitions. [tag]Momo?s[/tag] at 2621 Springs Road is open everyday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. My dining partner and I stopped one day for lunch and found the restaurant [...]

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The production of [tag]Peter Pan[/tag] currently showing at the Orpheum in San Francisco is delightfully entertaining and wonderful fun for the whole family. Cathy Rigby is nothing short of amazing. Ok, she is really short, but also thoroughly amazing. From the moment she flies through the London window of the Darling children flinging fairy dust [...]

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Get Rich Entertainment sent copies of its recent releases to the Listen & Be Heard office. Editor Martha Mims handed the CDs to me, saying, ?I don?t know whether this is your kind of thing.? I replied that I would not know until I listened to them, took the discs, and headed for home. The [...]

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Mel and Belle Orpilla, directors of the upcoming Pista sa Nayon: Filipino Cultural Celebration, have set their sights on accomplishing three major goals: They want this year?s event to highlight local Filipino achievements, showcase the culture?s rich talents, and broaden the majority community?s understanding of its largest minority group. On Saturday, June 3, thousands are [...]

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During the Spring and Summer seasons, the city of Benicia closes off First Street from the 300 block to the end of the block fronting the Carquinez Straits. A somewhat symmetrical line of vendors presenting their fresh wares for a reasonable price, add color and a vibrancy to Benicia?s Farmers Market. Part of this social [...]

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I have spent the better part of the last four months doing theatre reviews for Listen and Be Heard. In that time I have seen a full range of offerings from drama to comedy, musical to Shakespeare, and they have ranged from excellent to pathetic. The most recent show I went to review will not [...]

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places of benign neglecting
regions of defuncting logix
playing realities? games
shells husks looking
for the right junk man

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