Showings are planned for 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22; Saturday, Oct. 23; Friday, Oct. 29; Saturday, Oct. 30; Friday, Nov. 5; and Saturday, Nov. 6; and midnight shows will take place on three Saturdays – Oct. 23, Oct. 30 and Nov. 6.

The venue will be the Little Theater at the Lake County Fairgrounds, 401 Martin St., Lakeport.

The original production of the musical, written by Richard O'Brien, made its debut in 1974 at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles and moved on to Broadway in 1975.

Then came the movie, which has become one of the top box office earners of all time, with many people seeing the film time and again.

The Lake County Theater Co. will not admit anyone under age 18 without a parent.

VIP tickets, which include down front couch seating, a specialty program and “goodie bag” (featuring squirt guns and other items for audience participation cost $25; reserved seating, $20; general seating $15.

There is a $2 discount for seniors, Lake County Theater Co. members and students, and those who come in costume.

VIP, reserved and general tickets are available in Lakeport at Catfish Books, 707-263-4454, and at The Game Shop, 707-262-5824.

General seating tickets are available at Griffin Furniture in Clearlake, 707-994-2112, and the Shannon Ridge tasting room in Clearlake Oaks, 707-998-5686.

Everybody will be talking about “The Rocky Horror Show” in Lake County for years to come. Don't miss it.

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Coyote Film Festival will present “Coming to Light,” a film by Anne Makepeace, in two screenings on Saturday, Oct. 16.

There will be a 1:30 p.m. matinée and a 7:30 p.m. screening at the at Cartwright (Calpine) Geothermal Visitors Center, 15500 Central Park Road, Middletown.

The cost is $10 at door for adults, $5 for children 16 and under.

“Coming to Light” tells the dramatic story of Edward S. Curtis, a complicated, passionate, self-educated pioneer and visionary artist who set out in 1900 to document traditional Indian life before it was gone.

He created an astonishing body of work; thousands of wax recordings, a full-length motion picture with Kwakiutl people, 20 volumes of text and 40,000 photographs.

“A beautifully crafted epic,” David Anson of Newsweek said.

“Abundant, Odyssean, told with impressive sensitivity,” said Todd McCarthy of Variety.

“Coming to Light” explores the often controversial nature of Curtis’ romantic images and the meaning they have for Native Americans today.

In the documentary, Hopi, Navajo, Cupig, Blackfeet, Piegan, Crow, Suquamish, Kwakiutl and Gros Ventre people, descendants of Curtis’ photographic subjects, tell stories about the people in the pictures and describe ways in which they are using the photographs to revive their own traditions in the modern world.

Though not highlighted in the film, Curtis came to Lake County in 1923 and documented the indigenous Pomo. His images include portraits, clothing, ornaments, basketry and other aspects of native life in these very lands. He recorded the oral traditions and creation stories as well.

You will see the tapestries of Sheila O’Hara, internationally acclaimed fiber artist. Sheila will be on hand for the afternoon matinée to discuss her translation of Curtis photos to a fiber medium and we get to see these beautiful tapestries that capture the nobility of Curtis’ subjects through the deft hand of O’Hara. The tapestries will be up through the evening screening.

There is plenty of parking, large restrooms, refreshments for sale and a great time.

Coyote Film Festival is the fundraising arm of EcoArts of Lake County, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing visual art opportunities to the residents and visitors of Lake County, Calif.

Contact Karen Turcotte at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Main Street Gallery, 325 N. Main St., Lakeport.

Introductions of the current board, gallery committee and Soper-Reese Committee will be made during the meeting.

Light refreshments will be served as Travis Rinkler executes his original music on acoustic guitar.

For more information, please contact the gallery at 707-263-6658.

The performance will start at 5 p.m. and continue to as late as 8 p.m. at Williams' Silk's Bar & Grill.

Williams will put his incredible voice to work on old favorites.

Silk's Bar & Grill is located at 14825 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake.

Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. Photo by UNL Publications and Photography.

There’s only so much we can do to better ourselves, and once we’ve done what we can, it still may not have been enough. Here’s a poem by Michelle Y. Burke, who lives in N.Y., in which a man who does everything right doesn’t quite do everything right.

Nocturne

A man can give up so much,

can limit himself to handwritten correspondence,

to foods made of whole grains,

to heat from a woodstove, logs

hewn by his own hand and stacked neatly

like corpses by the backdoor.

He can play nocturnes by heart.

They will not make the beloved appear.

He can learn the names of all the birds

in the valley. Not one

will be enticed to learn his.

Ted Kooser was US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.

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 ©2009 by Donal Heffernan, whose most recent book of poetry is

“Duets of Motion,” Lone Oak Press, 2001. Poem reprinted by permission of Donal Heffernan.

Introduction copyright ©2010 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. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

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