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Going the Other Direction by martha cinader mims

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According to the Chinese calendar, autumn will begin this year on September 23. This is a good time to contemplate your transition from late summer into fall; the time when children return to school, summer vacations are over, and much of the world becomes focused again on work and readying for winter. It?s harvest time, [...]

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Almost everyone I know loves biscotti, that wonderful, traditional, Italian cookie that you can use as dessert, or give your kids a little gift, or sit around the table with friends, sipping a glass of wine and gobbling up the biscotti that you?re dipping into the wine as you sit and talk. Here?s a traditional [...]

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I would like to welcome you to another week of self-discovery and universal understanding. On August 23rd the Sun moved into the constellation of Virgo. I would like to wish all those meticulous Virgos out there a happy Earthday. The life giving light of the sun is in your sector of the Zodiac, and it’s [...]

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The Athenian Grill is all about the view. Sit on the patio and you can watch boats motor in and out of the marina, people stroll past on the walkway with dogs, or dance by on roller skates. The patio is covered and has heaters. This is a fabulous place to relax with a glass [...]

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Throughout my numerous conversations with coffee drinkers, I always try to define what makes their cup of coffee taste better or worse. The answers are as diverse and as varied as the people with whom I talk. But usually those answers fall into one of several categories. The first and most often cited is the [...]

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[tag]Jason Peri[/tag] made the six hours-and-change drive from the Southern California city of Diamond Bar to play at Listen & Be Heard?s Poetry Caf? on the afternoon of August 12. He performed on guitar and vocals with a trio comprised of Folsom?s John Colter on cajon and some guy named Tilton on harmonica, guitar, udu, [...]

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What is E Music you ask? It could have emanated from Pete Escovedo’s Mexican born father. Or perhaps from listneing to latin dance bands such as Machito and Tito Puente. Or even again when in high school (McClymonds in Oakland) he put down his saxophone to learn latin percussion at the request of a friend [...]

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The weather for this year?s [tag]Jazz Festival on the waterfront[/tag] couldn?t have been any better. The memory of baking in the sun last year blew away in the balmy weather that made it easy to listen and enjoy the music. Carol Larson, organizer along with the festival?s founder, Kristy Juliano, told me that they were [...]

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I recently filled a vacancy for a community theatre group that had lost some actors during rehearsals. I had two weeks to learn my lines which were, fortunately, not many. I could write about how another layer of Teflon is added with every passing year so that new information rarely sticks as easily as it [...]

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Corrupt and ineffective civil servants, wealthy socialites behaving immorally, and clever up-and-comers manipulating their way to the top. It could be an episode of The Daily Show, but it?s actually the 19th century satirical comedy [tag]Diary of a Scoundrel[/tag]. The play?s enduring themes from the pen of [tag]Alexander Ostrovsky[/tag], father of realism in Russian theatre, [...]

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More Threats to Local Control & Community Channels: Oppose AB 2987 & HR 5252 It has beeen said that “Telecommunications is the new ‘Water Rights’ of the 21st Century”. I write today to ask those concerned or involved with shaping the future of community access television channels and retaining local control of telecommunications to oppose [...]

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Hamlet was a character in a play who wanted to use a theatrical production to provoke an audience made up of people he knew. The choice of a play is as important to a theatre company as it was to Hamlet. It says a lot about the motivations of those involved, and who the audience [...]

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