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The Black Nativity — A Gospel Celebration of Christmas Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, SF – through December 30, 2007 The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco presents its annual gospel celebration of Christmas, a delight for the whole family, and not a moment too soon. This nourishing musical is a treat for all, regardless of whether [...]

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Welcome to another week of self-exploration and universal understanding. We start the forecast week of major transit on Wednesday, when Venus, the planet of personal relationships and artistic expression, at 8º Scorpio, will sextile Saturn, the planet of personal restriction, at 8º Virgo. The energy expressed from this sextile of Venus with Saturn will motivate [...]

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During a recent visit to Los Angeles I attended a screening of an unreleased film titled ?ÄúAttitude for Destruction.?Äù Produced by David S. Sterling and directed by Ford Austin, the film?Äôs premise is a simple one. Boy meets girl. Boy leads band. Band does well. Label wants band but not boy. Band kills boy. Band [...]

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When you’re¬?an artist with your own studio,¬?the pressure to¬?produce work¬?must be daunting. When¬?you are part of a¬?large¬?co-op¬?studio,¬?with so many¬?other¬? talented people¬?around you, that pressure must be almost overwhelming. But from that group there also must be the support¬? and drive¬?that comes with working with them as well.¬? ¬? The work that I saw¬?this last weekend [...]

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Two hours before the new issue of Listen & Be Heard Weekly is scheduled to be posted, (powered by WordPress open source software) I sit before my computer, having all else ready to go (being the copy editor/editor/programmer/co-publisher/publicist,) the remaining task for this week is to write this Letter from the Editor. Really I’m none [...]

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I’m still alive thankful for each breath I take each move I make the love of my life to be a wife each child of mine each sign that time has been good to me.

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from “Mission of Love” by Martha Cinader Mims Memories of your hands on my bare skin take me to a place where I’ve never been or even heard of before I saw your crooked walk, heard your crazy spaced out talk. Memories of you bathed in neon light while you explained the world in black [...]

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from “Mission of Love” by Martha Cinader Mims If you did not know love but wanted to would you attempt to devise a love test? Could you distinguish what is false from true and perform dutifully without rest? Fellow shipmates as we spin together toward a star receding in the sky in the universe of [...]

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while some people still sleep and others head for sleep and relief preparations are being made for those waking and leaving home fresh baked goods still warm from the oven clean floors and countertops alarms go off for children excited anxious bored afraid to go to school who dress quickly and slowly or barely at [...]

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Silent with big ideas, alone among many fragile courage to speak the truth consequences foreseen but still unavoided arrogance hides behind facades of feminine weakness and in visible pride.

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The Art of Brewing Tea by gwynn o’gara

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lust look by cyndi combs

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Do You Stop and Reflect? by jan bianchi

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Culturas Cultures by matu feliciano

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In de-Nile by charles frederickson

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