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- Written by: Soper Reese
Entry to the film is by donation.
One of Walt Disney's finest live-action adventures, this film brings Jules Verne's classic sci-fi tale to vivid life, and features an awesome giant squid.
Captain Nemo’s submarine is a wonder of imagination, with its two large viewing windows resembling eyes, and overlapping hull plates that give it a crustacean look, and James Mason’s portrayal of Nemo, who’s taken to the sea as his refuge from the evils of mankind, is a hard-edged, standout, dramatic performance.
The movie is sponsored by Diane Plante, CPA. Rated G. Run time is 2 hours and 7 minutes.
The Soper Reese Theatre is located at 275 S. Main St., Lakeport, 707-263-0577, www.soperreesetheatre.com.
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- Written by: Jan Cook
Each library will present a slate of local authors who will talk about the inspiration behind their books and how they got started writing.
The writers participating in the “Local Author Showcase” are Lake County’s Poet Laureate Richard Schmidt, author of “Virgil Cooper,” a western fiction novel; Anusha Amen-Ra, “Woman’s Water, Man’s Fire: the metaphysics of love, sex and relationship”; Steve Bartholomew, who writes tales of the Old West; Carolyn Decanti, creator of the Cobb Mountain mystery series; Linda Green, “Solving the Post Traumatic Stress Brain Injury Puzzle”; Jordan O’Halloran, “Clean Up on Aisle Three,” a work of young adult fiction; JoAnn Saccato, “Mindful and Intentional Living: a path to peace, clarity and freedom”; Jodi Schneider, “Raising Rover,” a self-help book; John Urfurth, “Adventures of the Buckaroo Dogs” for children; and Mimi Whitaker, a self-help guide, “Happiness is your Purpose,” and a volume of poetry, “Pears From My Mother’s Tree.”
At Lakeport Library, 1425 N. High St. on Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. the authors will be Richard Schmidt, Mimi Whitaker, Jordan O’Halloran, Linda Green, John Urfurth and Jodi Schneider.
Middletown Library, 21256 Washington St. will host Richard Schmidt, JoAnn Saccato, Carolyn Decanti, Anusha Amen-Ra, Linda Green, Mimi Whitaker, Jordan O’Halloran, John Urfurth and Jodi Schneider on Nov. 8, at 3 p.m.
Richard Schmidt, Steve Bartholomew, John Urfurth, Mimi Whitaker, Jordan O’Halloran and Jodi Schneider will be at Upper Lake Library, 310 Second St. Nov. 15 at 3 p.m.
Richard Schmidt, Jordan O’Halloran, Jodi Schneider, Mimi Whitaker, and John Urfurth will visit Redbud Library, 14785 Burns Valley Rd. in Clearlake on Nov. 16 at 10:30 a.m.
The Lake County Library is on the Internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary.
Jan Cook is a library technician for the Lake County Library.
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- Written by: Cobb Artist Collective
The event will be held at various artist’s studios in the Cobb Mountain area from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.
Cobb Mountain Artists began Open Studios back in 2004 to support the artists living in our community.
It was one of its most successful events that happened yearly until the Valley fire, when most of the group’s board members lost their homes and studios.
After a four-year hiatus, some of the members decided to bring it back via a new group, the Cobb Artist Collective.
Set in beautiful south Lake County and the Mayacamas Range, members are artists from varied backgrounds and disciplines.
When you visit the studios, you're visiting some of the most resilient artists who stayed back after the devastating fire, rebuilt their homes or moved here later.
“We hope our art and craftsmanship speaks to you like our hot springs and our retreats, with the silent whisper of our pines,” the group said in a statement.
For more information visit www.cobbopenstudios.netlify.com.
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- Written by: Ted Kooser
One of poetry's most important tools is sensory imagery, and the following poem, by Christie Towers of Massachusetts, brings in pleasurable smells, tastes and sounds to evoke a rich experience starting with what? Just a bowl of water.
This poem was a semi-finalist for the 2018 Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod International Journal.
Sugar Water in Winter
A bowl of rose water dreams itself empty
on the radiator: It's December and we can
hardly afford the heat, our milk money
crinkling hungry over the cold counter
of our convenience store, the very last
of our cash for creamer, for pleasantries,
for cheap tea and cigarettes, for the barely-
there scent of roses burning softly. We trade
our hungers for hearth, for the clank and hiss
of warmth. Small fires, these, but even we,
in our clamorous poverty, demand pleasure:
steal sugar, our neighbor's flowers, and never,
ever are caught thankless in better weather.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2018 by Christie Towers, "Sugar Water in Winter," from Nimrod International Journal, (Vol. 62, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2018). Poem reprinted by permission of Christie Towers and the publisher. Introduction copyright @2019 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.