Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

He can still do it. Wendy & Lisa, and Sheila E. perform on the disc, as well. The new release from Prince and the New Power Generation is called Planet Earth. A mix of pop, rock, funk, and a ballad, the CD was like having a D√©j√? Vu moment from Prince recordings circa 1985. You [...]

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The latest film by director Ang Lee is a stylish, but languid thriller. Set in China during the Japanese occupation of World War II, Lust, Caution at one level seemed a study in patience and planning. Starring such big names as Joan Chen and Tony Leung, the story hops back and forth via flashbacks between [...]

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Dennis Ocampo and Dave Tilton hosted the Acoustic Jam on Saturday morning. When I pause to think about it, it’s actually remarkable the amount of talent that steps onto our stage each week, rain or shine, crowd or intimate gathering, the talent is never lacking. From the esoteric poetry of Opal Palmer Adisa, to the [...]

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Sometimes sunny summer plans seem like far away fantasies; what work was woven has been whipped in the wind and worn away. Gatherings of good and gracious people have thinned down to the few who whistle, work and walk in any weather. Vision is the ability to view the veil and the vague but valuable [...]

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In his latest novel, Spook Country, William Gibson takes another step away from science fiction, yet continues his cyberpunk themes. Widely hailed as the soothsayer of cyberspace, up until 2005?Äôs Pattern Recognition, Gibson?Äôs works were always set in a morally decadent future, laid to waste by rampant technology and corporate encroachment. Continuing down the side [...]

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Solano College Theatre is presenting Shakespeare?Äôs Comedy of Errors at the Harbor theatre in Suisun City now through 28 October. Director Julian Lopez-Morillas serves up a mixed bag of beautifully spoken lines, less-than-perfect farce, and a smattering of ponderous and hard-to-follow soliloquies that leave the audience behind, but nevertheless entertain. I will be the first [...]

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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 early Wednesday morning, when Mercury, the planet of communication, at 7º Scorpio will trine Mars, the planet of ego drive and personal energy, at 7º Cancer. The energy expressed from this trine of [...]

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This show might as well have been named after the Franz Liszt?Äôs famous polonaise ?ÄúImpromptu.?Äù But because of the diligent last minute work of a few new and core members of the Vallejo Artists?Äô Guild, the show will go on. Well at least a show will. Because of a number of unrelated circumstances, what started [...]

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the silent majority continues to operate a machine so large no one knows what it looks like. if one man took time off to try to find the face of the machine caught one glimpse of the hellfire in its eyes he would lose everything. he has lost his sanity already. his life is nothing [...]

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and People Go Round and Round Reaching for Rainbows But I Reach for You to Teach Me with Your Touch It Means Much More than What Might Be Behind a Closed Door or a Promise of things to Come. A Dove in Hand will Stay while Sands of Time Blow and I still Know what [...]

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calm like a placid ocean collecting the heat of the sun on every inch of its skin cool like a leather jacket on a cold night in the city collected in the cycles of the moon sparkling in the sand

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an ode is wonder full a song of praise to raise a voice for any one or any thing to make an eternally ripe tomato with words in a world where tomatoes get eaten or rot on the vine to remember a smile a handshake regenerate a fleeting moment forever to affirm the existence of [...]

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my eyes drifted opposite of right and my thoughts turned to dwell on a sight so fitting of its direction… he carefully, with himself as his own necessary witness, of a life fulfilled and so complete worked away actions speaking illuminated moons to me – i swear he made it make sense – galaxies paled [...]

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So Much Hate by eve hall

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Liberty Bell by charles frederickson

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