LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Soper Reese Theatre in Lakeport is pleased to present "An Evening With The Swinging Chads & Special Guests: A Benefit for Tricia Danieli" on Saturday, Aug. 12, from 7 to 10 p.m.
My boyhood home in Iowa was surrounded by honeysuckle bushes that my father sprayed with the hose on summer evenings, and we'd open the windows and have 'forties air conditioning, a cool damp breeze.
Here's an entirely different stand of honeysuckle, from Karla Morton, poet laureate of Texas. It's from her book Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works, from Texas Review Press.
Honeysuckle
It sprang up wild along the chain link fence—thick, with glorious white and yellow summer blooms, and green tips that we pinched and pulled for one
perfect drop of gold honey. But Dad hated it—hated its lack of rows and containment, its disorder. Each year, he dug, bulldozed,
and set fire to those determined vines. But each year, they just grew back stronger. Maybe that's why I felt the urge to plant it that one day in May, when cancer stepped onto my front porch and rang the doorbell,
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – “What can one person do about racism, gun violence, climate change, income inequality, bigotry, ignorance, war and greed?” asks satirist Roy Zimmerman.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – The 1951 drama, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh and Kim Hunter, screens at the Soper Reese Theatre on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 1 and 6 p.m.