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 a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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’t know. No. It hadn’t occurred to us
in just that way before. What’s the big idea?
We went right ahead with it. We didn’t [...]

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a strange course to take playing golf
I was wedged
into the middle of a fawn’s 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 on top of
limbs that fit my hands to a tee
Amazon.com Widgets

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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 spider
spins but not
always. There’s
always threads
in need of
untangling.

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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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