Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

photos by s.n. jacobson This was the first time, in the three years since I joined the Vallejo Artists?Äô Guild, that I have not had a place to show my work. I was to show at Tiki Tattoo parlor but they were in the middle of a move (and I thought they just didn?Äôt like [...]

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The Friday open mic wasn’t crowded last Friday but it was Soulful. You had to be there to understand. This Friday, we’ll be featuring Opal Palmer Adisa, which you won’t want to miss if you are indeed a poetry afficianado. On Saturday morning the kids were moved to dance when a GREAT blues singer walked [...]

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6th Street Playhouse production of The Grapes of Wrath Photo by Eric Chazankin. Packed with poignant moments, the 6th Street Playhouse production of The Grapes of Wrath, adapted by Frank Galati from Steinbeck’s historically detailed novel, embedded a long lasting visual impression. There were scenes/monologues when one could hear a pin drop. The dialog describes [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Your forecast week of major transits will begin Wednesday night at 10:01, when the Moon at 17¬∫ Libra, will conjunct the Sun, creating this month’s New Moon. This month’s New Moon will focus her light on the balance of energy exchange [...]

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What’s Art Got to Do With It?” forum sponsored by Listen & Be Heard, October 4, 2007 at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. Photos by S.N. Jacobson. Listen & Be Heard wants to thank Jim Kern at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum for allowing us to hold a forum entitled “What’s Art Got [...]

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As sure as church bells Sunday morning, ringing on Halsted and State Street, Chicago, these memories will be soon forgotten. I stumble in my life with these words like broken sentences. I hear and denounce myself in the distance, mumbling chatter off my lips. Fragments and chips. Swearing at the parts of me I can’t [...]

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Borderline fantasy or sheer insanity     Wavy bent curves separate imagination        From uncontrolled surreal wild hallucinations           Whimsical passion yielding outlandish weirdness           Indulging in quirky nightmarish visions        Where does sound reason end     And disorderly madness take over Bizarre unconventional wisdom oddly far-fetched Art compensates for life¬ís imperfections     Mixing eclectic sensibilities [...]

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I am so frustrated I want to chew the dandruff out of the internet hair implant and dislodge it, for a lost love affair I never cared about and hardly knew. Don’t tell me about my sentence structure, I am human in these simple words. I swear to you I curse. Then the ram of [...]

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TIN silvery coating resists corrosion     Label attached to smooth curves        Rim butterfly opened lid unwinds           Packed sardines evacuate air-tight              CANCANCAN TINTIN absent-minded Professor Calculus adventures     Shark submarine treasure hunt search        Secretly sentimental innocent dreamy allusions           Destination moon repeat deaf              EAREAREAR TINHORN petty braggart mathematically exact     Connecting [...]

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Where are My Dreams? by cyndi combs

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60 Years Later / After the Internment Camps by adelle foley

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Rondelet for TV by george stratton

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THE MARX BROTHERS RUN THE COUNTRY by jack foley

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YOU by tony mims

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[tag]Italian Cooking Tuscany[/tag] by Elizabeth Cornish is a relatively small (96 Pages) book published by a company that calls itself, ?International Gourmet.? It?s a great little book filled with the traditional dishes of that area of Italy that borders on a section of Italy called Tuscany. Tuscany is an area of Northwest central Italy that [...]

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