Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

The word has been spreading and people are joining in the plans even as I write this column, about our First Annual L&BH Summer Arts Festival. Since writing about the event last week and inviting artists to join the growing list of vendors who will participate, we have gotten commitments from Jim Cosgrove, photographer, Ric [...]

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From director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later), the film Sunshine was moody and tense from the start. Set in a dateless future, eight astronauts are nearing the end of their outbound leg to the sun. The payload is a stellar bomb, intended to regenerate the dying star. This is actually the second attempt?Äîthe mission launched [...]

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The animated series titled The Simpsons has been a part of television broadcasts for over twenty years now. In the feature length release, The Simpsons Movie takes the world of Springfield to the big screen. This time, the entire town faces a catastrophic pollution problem. Once again, Homer Simpson becomes the unlikely hero, taking care [...]

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In The Bourne Ultimatum, the story picks up from the end of The Bourne Supremacy. The buzz about the efficient and resourceful Jason Bourne just won?Äôt die down. Now the CIA is chasing him with renewed vigor after secret information on Bourne is leaked to the press. Driven to gather the remaining portions of his [...]

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The film El Cantante presents the life of Hector Lavoe. Considered the most talented Salsa singer of all time, Hector Lavoe was born Hector Perez in Puerto Rico in 1946. His father was a musician and thus Hector received formal musical training as a child. Encouraged to explore the saxophone, young Hector instead turned his [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. I would also like to wish a Happy Earthday to all those Leos out there. It’s your time of the year to shine in the sun’s light. On July 22nd the Sun moved into the constellation of Leo. The creative light [...]

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Hanging from a rope cradled in a cloth basket harness, I feel like a western horse rustler, getting last rites, while being forced to stare into my mirror hanging from my door as punishment; just before they kick the door open and smack the horse on the ass. ¬? My chin is shoved into my [...]

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Hollow people, small people with big ear openings, aisle walkers of endless babble- big heads, small heads, big thoughts, no thoughts at all, mounds of¬? words piling up on each other. Free time is cell phone time. Jaw bone structures jumbling up and down like pairs of disjointed loose lips; skeletons of moving gestures fingers, [...]

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it is the grid we lay over experience to understand i was 16 before they told me i couldn?Äôt see clearly what does that mean i wanted to drive there are laws a policeman once told me ?Äúit?Äôs a privilege to drive on the streets & highways of CA?Äù then he handed me a 25-dollar [...]

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stubborn as an aspirin in the bloodstream, I deem walnuts fall leaves are lighter, land      almost without sound don’t pound the ground but collectively cackle in a windswirl the squirrels are back from their ward across the boulevard cats watch from the grass pass on the chase make no haste whatsoever lick a paw, [...]

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The part I that leads us in to participation. The thing-in-itself, of itself, is always & never complete. A lover like Don Juan, forever at the mercy of his next conquest, prefers evolution to the power of his own magic. ?ÄúMarriage,?Äù she said, as if it were entrapment. What I mean is only the beginning. [...]

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Remember Whitney, before she imploded? When she was an unstoppable singing force? Consider this a challenge: read this without the tune cropping up uninvited in your head, like The Annoying Coworker at your company picnic: I decided long ago never to walk in anyone?s shadow If I fail, if I succeed at least I?ll live [...]

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Blame it on the old, craggy juniper bushes. Brian Hicks had just about had it with the overgrown and unsightly bushes that greeted Millennium Sports Club members as they made their way to the gym. ?It was a mess,? Hicks said, recalling the endless hours spent trying to maintain and clean out the 50-year old [...]

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Here in the United States, very few people are knowledgeable about the cooking of the Arab people. It wasn?t until the middle seventies when I spent a lot of time in Paris, that I became aware of Arab cuisine. After all, the Arab country of Algeria, had been a French colony. It was my living [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week will begin on Friday, June 9 when Mercury, the planet of communications at 10? Cancer will trine a retrograde Jupiter at 10? Scorpio. The energy expressed from this trine of Mercury with Jupiter will open your psychic centers to receive communications from what [...]

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