Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

[...in loving memory of melissa anne vitug...] you were a rose too beautiful for anything on earth so God restored you to the sky where only the clouds could help you grow the wings you needed so you can fly over us and watch us wrap those wings around us to protect us as we [...]

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What’s art got to do with it? Imagine your life without art. No songs, no pictures, no freedom of movement, no plays, not even television (if you call it art.) What you are imagining is life without Soul. The art we choose to live with and support with our actions and finances represents who we [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week of major transit will begin on early Wednesday, when Venus, the planet of personal relationships and artistic expression at 26º Leo, will trine Pluto, the planet of regeneration and soul evolution, at 26º Sagittarius. (The scientist may have [...]

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Last Saturday, September 29 was memorable here at Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café, when we celebrated the opening of a new exhibition by Cleven “Goodie” Goudeau. It was great fun to see people in portraits on the wall, (all of them performed on our stage at one time or another,) walk through the door [...]

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      1. Shivery cold war lukewarm peace Steamy ghosts reach boiling point Smoking guns spitfire mushroom clouds Icicle slivers dripping numbness thaw Half-baked promises homespun microwave foiled Leftovers reheated terahertz oven trapped Greasy too pooped to popcorn Kernels stalemate exploding baggy farts       2. Standing out from crowd taboo Steely claws pounding nailheads flat Pesky [...]

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      1. Ignoble savages about face turnaround      Severed headhunters slit own throats          Rabid slather frothy jawbone drool              Dimpled cheeks war paint smeared Vanishing trading places pastimes resurrected      Unremembering fearsome momentary darkness eclipsed          Epidermis onion skin peeled away           [...]

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Utopia by charles frederickson

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Welfare vs. Warfare by charles frederickson

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sliding like an arabesque by jennifer l. wadsworth

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Full Circle by jo ann kinney lopez

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I?ll never forget the first time that I learned about and tasted Spanish tapas. In the Mid-twenties, my dear companion Audrey and I visited Spain. We had driven down from Paris in a rented car. We had Spanish friends in New York who had urged us to go to Spain. We drove slowly down through [...]

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I would like to welcome you to a world of universal understanding and self-discovery. I will share with you this month?s forecast of major aspects that will influence the way you think and feel. Some people will ask, ?How can a planet so far away have an affect on the way I think and feel?? [...]

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[tag]Nujo?s Italian Restaurant[/tag] 1201 Georgia St. 557-6012 daily 11am ? 10 pm Usually I do a little homework before dining at an establishment. I?ll talk to people, search the internet, read about another culture. Then I try to let go of all that and have my own experience. Nujo?s has been around for many years. [...]

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A hot week. ?Sweaty and cranky? is never a good combination for listening to CDs followed by writing a review of the music; regardless, I ventured toward the stack of CDs on my shelf to pick one that might fool me into believing the current temperature had been lowered a few dozen degrees. Forget global [...]

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[tag]Johnny Ramos[/tag] was raised in [tag]Vallejo [/tag]by his mother, a professional singer named Billie Loo. That must be why he can?t resist singing the occasional standard when he gets together with a group collectively called Johnny & the ?B? Goods. Whether he?s playing guitar or keyboards, it?s always a night of jazz verging on funk [...]

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