Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, LA Sports Arena, March 15, 17, 19, 2016 review by guest blogger Ron Wells: Requiem for an Arena
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
They say a building has no soul. It’s just a building. It’s a thing that houses people for short periods of time before releasing them back into the world.
Having said that, then why are we mourning a place that we lovingly call a dump? Therein, lies a story decades in the making.
This Women’s History Month, celebrate with three women poets of the central and southern coast!
On Thursday, March 17 at 730pm, Los Osos’s poet Dian Sousa features at the EP Foster Library’s Topping Room 651 E. Main Street, Ventura in a free reading hosted by Ventura County’s poet laureate Phil Taggart; an open mic follows.
A surfer, wine lover, and environmentalist, Dian is the author of Lullabies for the Spooked and Cool (Mille Grazie Press, 2004) and her work has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including: Solo Cafe (Soho Press, 2005), Asylum Arts Annual (Asylum’s Press, 1994), and Chiron Review.
This Saturday, March 19 at 7pm, Santa Barbara’s Poet Laureate Sojourner Kincaid Rolle and Lois P. Jones feature at the Arcade Poetry Series at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard. Non-members pay $3 for admission. Read more…
Spring into Creativity at Art City Gardens
Art City Sculpture Garden photo by Lynne Okun
Tuesday March 15, join my students and I from 1230-6pm on a field trip to Art City Gardens and Art City Sculpture Studio 197 Dubbers where we will meet with local artists and activists about the creative process, research paper projects, explore, and get our hands dirty too!
Discussion topics include: Read more…
Cheers to women in wine for Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day!
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and yesterday, Tuesday March 8 was International Women’s Day,
…so we thought March would be an appropriate time to take notice of not only some of the women wine makers we admire but also a few wine bloggers as well.
Starting with Kimberly Smith, wine maker at La Montagne, who says,
“May each sip bring your joy!”
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On Celebrating Internat’l Women’s Day 3/8
“We can not all succeed when half of us are held back.” Malala Yousafzai
Today let’s celebrate the women who uplift and inspire us. Read more…
Can you do it all and remain calm?
Can you handle it all and stay calm? Be content?
Probably not. Unless, as Jack Kornfield says, you’re a dog.
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything,” advised George Bernard Shaw
But progress can be challenging when it’s hard to recognize what we’re normalized towards. Because we see discrimination all the time, or we see people using plastic bottles, or on cell phones all the time, we think it is normal. Read more…
Open That Bottle Night Sat. 2/27 + reviews of OLD Ojai Vineyard wines
Happy Open That Bottle Night! What will you be opening tonight? Cheers!
If you love wine, chances are you’ve bought a bottle for a special occasion, or bought a bottle to share with someone, or to mark an event, or maybe it’s just so beautiful that you save and save it and have a hard time opening it because it’s too “special”?
I know it’s true for me!
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Mountain Films Make Us Wild
Growing up in Ventura, I regularly saw colorful and faded posters on telephone poles on Telegraph Road advertising the latest showing of the latest surf films; we went to as many as we could get someone to drive us to. It was such a thrill to watch someone (usually guys) take off on these adventures and I am sure these films inspired me to head off into my own… although it has always been the mountains that called me and not so much the ocean even though the Pacific is in my backyard. Read more…
Full Moon and Margarita Day!
Happy Margarita Day! Can you hear us howling at the full moon? Cheers!
Today’s quite the double whammy– there’s a full moon, the last full moon of winter, and it’s MARGARITA DAY! And that winning combination just might help you see that obscure figure we know and love “The Man In The Moon.” There’s even a song from the 20s that I grew up singing called “Me and the Man and the Moon” that includes these memorable lyrics:
“Just before I’m counting sheep
Through my window he comes to peep
And with each other we’re sympathizing”
I know I usually write mostly about wine, but I do love margaritas, especially ones made with fresh squeezed citrus, top shelf tequila, and an orange liqueur like Grand Marnier.
But I’ll be with Elaine Chukan Brown aka “Hawk Wakawaka” and Jeremy…
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