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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Land Trust and the Lake County Rural Arts Initiative partnered on May 5 to have a wonderful event at the Land Trust’s Rodman Preserve.
The event kicked off with a photography walk along the Rodman Preserve’s nature trail and included a family hike, local art exhibits, yoga for kids, hand-painted tattoos, live music, plein-air stations, scavenger hunts, nature journaling, and educational nature booths. It was a lovely day.
The student photo contest was a huge hit with amazing cash prize winners for kids of all ages.
The photos were of the local nature and close to one hundred photos were submitted. We have some very talented student photographers and nature lovers growing up in our county.
Art & Nature Day was instituted as a way to participate in and support “Take it Outside California,” a statewide initiative designed to connect Californians with great outdoor spaces.
To learn more about Lake County Rural Arts Initiative go to www.lcrai.org and to discover the ongoing activities of the Lake County Land Trust go to www.lakecountylandtrust.org .
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The GenX Cinema series presents a double feature celebrating 1980s film classics with “Police Academy” and “Revenge of the Nerds” screening on Saturday, June 16, at 7 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
Entry is by donation.
No host beer bar will be open; additional refreshments will be on sale at the concession stand including popcorn and candy.
The 1984 comedy, “Police Academy,” is directed by Hugh Wilson, and stars Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall. So dopey and sophomoric you can’t help but love it. In fact, this film spawned six sequels and an animated TV series. Rated R. Run time is one hour and 36 mins.
Undeniably lowbrow but surprisingly sly, “Revenge of the Nerds” (1984) has enough big laughs to qualify as a classic in the slobs-vs.-snobs subgenre. Rated R. Run time is one hour and 30 mins.
Both films are sponsored by Valenzuela Tire & Wheel and by The Nerd Cave.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, 707-263-0577, www.soperreesetheatre.com.
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I'm writing this column in the earliest days of another spring, and here's a fine spring poem from Rose King's book Time and Peonies, from Hummingbird Press. The poet lives in California.
In Spring
I'm out with the wheelbarrow mixing mulch.
A mockingbird trills in the pine.
Then, from higher, a buzz, and through patches of blue
as the fog burns off, a small plane pulls a banner,
red letters I can't read—
but I do see, over the fence,
a man in a sky-blue shirt walking his dog to the beach.
He says he missed it, will keep an eye out.
Four barrows of mulch around the blueberry bushes,
I'm pulling off gloves, and he's back, beaming.
"It says, I LOVE YOU, MARTHA.
Are you Martha?"
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright 2017 by Rosie King from Time and Peonies,(Hummingbird Press,2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Rosie King and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2018 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The 1957 courtroom drama, “Witness for the Prosecution” starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton, screens at the Soper Reese Theatre on Tuesday, June 12, at 1 and 6 p.m.
Entry to the film is by donation.
An unusual murder case tempts an ailing barrister back into action in this Billy Wilder-directed suspense adapted from an Agatha Christie play.
Charles Laughton delivers a first-rate theatrical performance as the defense attorney in this powerful, immensely satisfying film with a killer ending.
The film received six Academy Award nominations.
The movie is sponsored by Classic Film Fans. Not rated. Run time is 1 hour and 56 minutes.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, 707-263-0577, www.soperreesetheatre.com.