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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Golden Follies will return to Lakeport for two performances this month.
The shows will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12, at the Soper-Reese Community Theatre, 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport.
These high kicking senior performers, ages 60 to 86, will be certain to dazzle you with their high energy and professional performance in this brand new show as a benefit for the Lake County Arts Council.
Back by popular demand, this exciting troupe of 50 talented women from the Bay Area and Sacramento wowed theater goers in their two previous visits to Lake County.
Producer, choreographer, costume designers and dance instructors Diane Tembey-Stawicki and her sister Susan Bostwick, offer instructions at their studio in Hayward.
Tembey-Stawicki and Bostwick have performed all over the United States, on cruise ships and the Continent.
Their Golden Follies perform at venues throughout the Bay Area and have performed with the Oakland East Bay Symphony at the Paramount.
All seating is $20 and tickets are available at the Soper-Reese Box Office, located at 275 S. Main St. in Lakeport on Fridays or at www.soperreesetheatre.com and at 707-263-0577.
Tickets also are available at the Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main St. in Lakeport, 707-263-6658; and at the Travel Center, 1265 S. Main St. in Lakeport, 707-263-3095.
For additional information, please contact the Main Street Gallery at 707-263-6658.
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COBB, Calif. – Cobb Mountain Artists member Gregg Lindsley of Earth and Fire Pottery is offering classes.
Classes are held in Kelseyville on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
In Upper Lake, classes are Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
For more information call Lindsley at 707-490-7168 or visit him online at www.earthandfirepottery.net .
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
It would be nice if we could all get one last ride through a part of our lives we’d left behind.
Patrick Phillips, who lives in Brooklyn, is our guide and pilot in this fine poem.
Elegy with Oil in the Bilge
By the time we got out on the water
the sun was so low, it wasn’t like water
but a field of gray snow that we plowed
in one endless white furrow of water
as I skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers
and abandoned old jetties just under the water,
while you moaned in the bow, slick with fever,
whispering back to whatever the water
chattered and hissed through the hull—
until at last there were lights on the water
and I let the old Mercury rattle and sputter
its steaming gray rainbows out onto the water
as we drifted, at idle, for the last time in your life,
through that beloved, indifferent harbor.
American Life in Poetry 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 ©2011 by Patrick Phillips, whose most recent book of poems is Boy, VQR Poetry Series, 2008. Poem reprinted from the New England Review, Vol. 32, no. 2, 2011, by permission of Patrick Phillips and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2012 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. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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COBB, Calif. – On Saturday, Aug. 11, and Sunday, Aug. 12, the Cobb Mountain Artists group will once again hold its annual open studios tour to the public from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day.
Approximately 14 artists will have work in studios scattered throughout beautiful Cobb Mountain.
Take a leisurely drive and discover the fine art and craft showcased through fiber, clay, glass, paper, paints, herbs, canvas and wax and jewelry.
Maps will have easy directions to each studio with artist name and information.
The Open Studios Tour map will be available at all Hardester’s Markets, Mountain High Coffee in Cobb Village and Hidden Valley, the Loch Lomond Market and also from the individual participating artists.
Cobb Mountain Artists pride themselves in finding ways to support arts in the local schools and will raffle a stellar prize. All raffle proceeds will go directly to art education.
Tickets can be purchased at any or all studios of participating artists.
For more information and where to get maps contact Gregg Lindsley of Earth and Fire Pottery at 707-490-7168 or