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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – This Saturday, Feb. 24, Middletown Art Center offers a full day of art and culture to the community.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – There’s no better time to be current than Oscar season.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The GenX Cinema series presents the 1985 adventure-comedy, “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” starring Paul Reubens, on Wednesday, March 7, at 7 p.m. at the Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport.
Entry is by donation.
Directed by Tim Burton, with script by Phil Hartman and Paul Reubens, and score by Danny Elfman, this is an engaging, very funny film for both kids and adults.
Reubens’ famous man-child character, Pee Wee Herman, is off on a country-wide search for his stolen bicycle, meeting a bizarre cast of characters along the way.
The film features delightful walk-ons by Milton Berle, Jan Hooks and Twisted Sister.
The film is rated PG with run time of 1 hour 31 minutes. It is sponsored by Redwood Empire RV, and presented by the Lake County Theatre Co. and the Soper Reese Theatre.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, 707-263-0577, www.soperreesetheatre.com.
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"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" has been attributed to a half dozen different writers.
It can be helpful in encouraging people to write, but also in describing poetry that arises out of meditation.
Greg Kosmicki is a Nebraska poet whose work is deeply thoughtful but also cordial and conversational.
Here's an example from his new book “It's as Good Here as it Gets Anywhere,” from Logan House Press.
You Never Get One Thing
This notebook is so old the paper is yellow.
I wonder where the tree grew.
Seems like you never get one thing without losing another.
There's some sort of law about that
to do with finite resources.
Somewhere some guys have figured out to the exact ounce
how much my life has cost the earth,
how many people have died that I might live.
Start with my parents, and theirs, and all who died
because of them. It's like we drip in blood.
Who can wake up then tomorrow morning,
do the tasks set out before them
as if it was their work and their work only?
Who has the courage to look out to the east again
at someone else's sun?
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 ©2016 by Greg Kosmicki from It's as Good Here as it Gets Anywhere, Logan House Press, 2016. Poem reprinted by permission of Greg Kosmicki 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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