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 Déjà 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 east [...]

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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 hints
of what can be when she continues
along the [...]

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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’s Pattern Recognition, Gibson’s 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’s 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 Mercury [...]

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This show might as well have been named after the Franz Liszt’s famous polonaise “Impromptu.” But because of the diligent last minute work of a few new and core members of the Vallejo Artists’ Guild, the show will go on. Well at least a show will. Because of a number [...]

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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
but repetitive motion
while the machine
accepts its own authority
to crush
life and love
and spit out
things
the silent majority of which
wind up in [...]

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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 I Know.

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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
the netherworld of
the heart
let it speak
words of love
to whatever it wishes
to celebrate
at the people’s
banquet
the feast of
life
in
every
detail.

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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
as my chest beat tears each heartbeat
that couldn’t reach [...]

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So Much Hate by eve hall

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Liberty Bell by charles frederickson

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