Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. Early Wednesday morning the Moon at 16? Aquarius will be opposite the Sun at 16? Leo; forming what is better known as the Full Moon. This month?s Full Moon will focus her light on your personal needs, versus your group responsibilities. [...]

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Sandoval?s Mexican Food 640 1st St., Benicia 707 746-7830 lunch 11-2:30 dinner 5-10 closed Sunday [tag]Sandoval[/tag]?s shows the attention to detail that is necessary to create a good restaurant. The ceiling fans, faux window frames on a solid wall, and fountain on the back wall serve the dual purposes of setting the stage for ethnic [...]

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From the time Theo and Kenyatta Kashaka could pick up a pencil or a paintbrush, the two brothers knew that art, in some form, would be their future. Perhaps, being nurtured in a creative household ? their mother, Ruth, has taught art, their father, Imani, has a deep love of music- may have had something [...]

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The sixties and seventies in the United States was a time of tremendous cultural change and ferment that spawned, among other things, a widespread interest in ?personal growth.? I experienced my first taste of this when my mother, in 1975, insisted that I accompany her to a class on TM, Transcendental Meditation. I was twelve, [...]

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Last week someone threw a copy of [tag]Hood Rebel[/tag] by [tag]E.B. Daddy Of Da Hood[/tag] into my backyard. Whether a gift from the music review gods or a throw-back from a listener expecting something different, this CD immediately became number one on my to-do list. I took it into the house and wondered whether this [...]

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[tag]Open Mic[/tag] on Fridays hosted by Martha & Tony Mims with percussionist Tony Rodriguez. This Friday, August 11 Featuring: Jack& Adelle Foley Jack & Adelle Foley have been writing and reading together for decades. You might have heard Jack on the airwaves, his literary show ?[tag]Cover to Cover[/tag]?, is heard every Wednesday on [tag]Berkeley station[/tag] [...]

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Jazz Saturdays Poetry intermission by Martha & Tony Mims This Saturday, August 12 featuring The Babatunde Lea Trio A master living among us here in Vallejo, [tag]Babatunde Lea[/tag] has an international reputation for [tag]jazz [/tag]laden with knowledge of its African roots. The names of stars he?s played with aren?t so important, although I could go [...]

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[tag]Ross Valley Players[/tag] are in the midst of their run of [tag]Over My Dead Body[/tag], which continues through the weekend of 20 August. This is important information should you be in the mood for a play that spoofs murder mysteries. Director Cris Cassell has assembled a cast of eight, all of them men save for [...]

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Are we our work? Three characters explore this question along with many others in Adam Bock?s intelligent comedy [tag]The Typographer?s Dream[/tag]. [tag]Encore Theatre Company[/tag] and [tag]The Shotgun Players[/tag] present a nearly flawless production of this witty and insightful work at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley through September 3. The premise is simple: a geographer and [...]

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From: “Kirkley, Janice L” Subject: Fiddler on the Roof – VMT WONDERFUL Show!!! I was totally surprised on the fun I had when I saw the cast of VMT perform on the 29th of July? so professional, and made you feel you were there!!! The audience was clapping to the upbeat tunes and I even [...]

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Spider robots with limited senses and sensibilities crawl the net of interlocking webs, searching out information and reporting back to their masters all that they perceive a web site to be. Pause to contemplate what the site of a web is. Where spider robots go frenetic fingertips follow, seeking intersections with directions. Hoping to sell [...]

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