Listen & Be Heard Weekly Archives

Once you find the place, it may appear abandoned…the guy on duty was studying in an adjacent room…when i entered the room i was struck by a site studded by melted recycled plastic…formed …slumped….pinned to walls…kaleidoscopic…visionary…silly….shallow and deep…. The current show by Mike Wittels, aka Benny Shaboy, is a great show of creativity. He is [...]

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Attending Benicia Old Town Theatre Group’s (BOTTG) production of two one-act comedies, “Little Nell” by John Nash, and “Little Nell and the Mortgage Foreclosure” by John Donald O’shea, I was entertained by both the company’s frolicking mad-cap humor and that evening’s audience. The production stands as an ideal excuse to gather a group of friends [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. You start your forecast week of major transit on early Wednesday morning when Neptune, the planet of universal love and selfless service, at 19º Aquarius, will turn direct. Now is the time to develop sincerity in your friendships with others, and [...]

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Answering the question of what art is, and whose it is, will take you on a direct route to the heart of a community. Who makes the choices about what cultural activities will take place? Which artists are celebrated and which ones are ignored? The small communities, neighborhoods and tribes, where everyone would have called [...]

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This year’s foray into Elizabethan England is over for another year (drat it.) This last Northern California Renaissance Faire, http://www.norcalrenfaire.com/ was one of my favorite in a long time. The high energy that it takes to put on a six week show was very evident. It shows in the many faces of the cast and [...]

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It was one more chance to see the work of six artists. The show is destined to close on the 2nd of November. But it was also a chance to dress for what I lovingly call “Amateur Night” for costumes. Not to say that what people wore was any less well done, or down right [...]

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…We are this power. I am. You are. It began with desire. That something spontaneous. That frame of mind before it became important to nail things down. We didn?Äôt know. No. It hadn?Äôt occurred to us in just that way before. What?Äôs the big idea? We went right ahead with it. We didn?Äôt doubt ourselves. [...]

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a strange course to take playing golf I was wedged into the middle of a fawn?Äôs afternoon on the wrong side of a doe rising up the hill      to chase me          to a tree where getting back to my roots I was relieved to find Darwin correct this time      and myself safely [...]

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There’s a thread that goes back to the start, the key to everything that unfolds in reverse. But there’s no reason to go back there only know that there’s a karma trail all your own another one we share and one for each contact you ever made all woven in a web. Sometimes the white [...]

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in time there’s rhyme. rhythm vibrates each string making music for work in the right place at the right time. focus so as not to waste a moment’s notice when it arrives.

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Mescaline by christopher barnes

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“We Jus Iz” by sheila.f.johnson

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A Matter Of Form by christopher barnes

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TICKING TIME BOMB by charles frederickson

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