Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

I wanted to go see The Lake House, but my movie viewing partner opted for Over the Hedge and I let her have her way this time. I?m glad I did. Over the Hedge is one of the funniest movies to come along in many, many moons. RJ the raccoon has never had a family. [...]

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I love actors. They are committed and determined folk who will go onstage and give their all even in the face of a dated and ill-conceived production. [tag]Dreamweavers Theatre[/tag]?s current production of [tag]Seven Keys to Baldpate[/tag] is such an offering. When George M. Cohan wrote this play, it was a different time and place. It [...]

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Quick! Somebody, get this play into an established theater! One of Oakland’s best kept secret, the [tag]Lower bottom Playaz[/tag], have created in [tag]?Mama’s Letters[/tag]? a powerful poetic drama that sings of the pain and the beauty that is the lives of Black women. It?s an original, compelling and engrossing piece of [tag]theater [/tag]that leaps from [...]

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If the History Channel decided to hire a vaudeville act to present all of its best material on the good ol? U.S. of A. in just under two hours, you?d end up with [tag]The Complete History of America[/tag] (abridged). Billed as ?600 years is 6000 seconds,? The [tag]Sonoma County Repertory Theater[/tag] presents this silly send [...]

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[tag]Markus James and the Wassonrai[/tag] performed in [tag]People?s Park[/tag] on June 3, 2006 as part of the [tag]Berkeley World Music Festival[/tag]. I was there, standing in a spot somewhere between the band on stage in front of me and the pickup basketball game on the court behind me. Any curiosity of mine regarding the game [...]

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While driving home from this year?s [tag]Berkeley World Music Festival[/tag], I kept replaying in my mind the music I had heard earlier by [tag]Markus James[/tag]. I was not familiar with his music prior to that afternoon, which probably made its impact on me all the stronger. His music is based in both the blues structure [...]

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Hi Martha, Hope you’re well and working well! Just a brief note to say THANKS for your wonderful review of our second CD, Chromatology, in your April 26 edition. We think the writer, Dave Tilton, really got what we are trying to do! THANKS again for the review, and for your continued support of the [...]

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What does the multi-billion dollar deal between [tag]Knight Ridder Inc.[/tag] and [tag]The McClatchy Co.[/tag] have to do with you? I’ll tell you about one thing. It means that the sources of the news you read from here to Denver, have shrunk even further. Your [tag]local daily newspaper[/tag], whether it is the Vallejo Times-Herald, or the [...]

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