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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Coyote Film Festival Presents ‘DIRT! The Movie,” on Saturday, April 23.
There will be a 1:30 p.m. matinee and 7:30 p.m. screening at Cartwright (Calpine) Geothermal Visitors Center, 15500 Central Park Road, Middletown.
The cost is $10 at the door for adults, $5 for children age 16 and under.
If you bring in food of at least $5 in value to support the local food banks, you get in free.
Why dirt? Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter. Dirt holds and cleans our water. Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful. Dirt regulates the earth's climate. Dirt is the ultimate natural resource for all life on earth.
Inspired by William Bryant Logan’s acclaimed book “Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth,” “DIRT! The Movie” takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
“DIRT! the Movie” – narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis – brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil.
“DIRT! the Movie” is simply a movie about dirt. The real change lies in our notion of what dirt is. The movie teaches us: "When humans arrived 2 million years ago, everything changed for dirt. And from that moment on, the fate of dirt and humans has been intimately linked." But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT the Movie is a call to action.
The movie is directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow. It takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility – from its miraculous beginning to its crippling
“Thought-provoking … welcome humor and visual pizzazz.” – Andrew Barker, Variety
“... an uplifting story about people from all walks of life who are striving to renew our relationship with the ground beneath our feet.” – Shannon L. Bowen, The Hollywood Reporter
The film is great plus there will be special surprises.
Let’s get dirty!
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- Written by: Katherine Morgenstern
UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Fans of Mike Wilhelm and Hired Guns should mark their calendars for Monday, May 2, when the popular Lake County band will play at the Blue Wing Saloon from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The band's recording of their reggae-ized version of Louie Louie was recently honored by the Louie Report (www.louielouie.net/blog) by being named the Louie of the Week. The Louie Report is the blog for all things Louie.
Wilhelm has recently welcomed bassist Jamie Webber to the lineup.
Webber has a wall full of gold records as souvenirs of a long career and played with and managed Lonnie Mack.
Previous Hired Guns bassist Randy Hare is now able to show off his considerable skills on guitar. Leader/guitarist Wilhelm, smooth tenor saxophonist Jim (Jimmy the Lion) Leonardis and drummer Slammin' Scott Slagle round out the group.
The Blue Wing Saloon & Cafe is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is located at 9520 Main St., Upper Lake, CA 95485.
Reservations are recommended for parties of six or more, call 707-275-2233 or email
Information on Mike Wilhelm is at www.mike-wilhelm.com.
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Salituri's judging skills come by having served as a judge for the California County Fair System over a period of 10 years.
Her art career started with studies at San Jose City College and many seminars with internationally known artists including Leonard Wren, Bill Schnider, Rom Villa and Edgard Garcia.
Since that time she has received many accolades for her work, which is done exclusively in oils.
Working from her Lake County home studio she superbly depicts from her artistic vision the Golden State's missions, courtyards, vineyards and wineries, which all reflect her talented use of vibrant color and composition to produce canvases of serenity, peacefulness and appreciation for her subject matter.
Her work has appeared in “Steppin' Out,” “Southwest Art” and “Art of the West” magazines.
Her work currently is featured in the Lee Youngman Gallery, Calistoga and her own Inspirations Gallery in Lakeport.
Lake County artists wishing to submit their work for jury can pickup entry information from the Main Street Gallery, located at 325 N. Main St., Lakeport.
Work for jury process will be received at the gallery on May 20 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., or by special appointment by calling the show coordinator Ray Farrow at 707-278-0323.
Work juried into the show will hang in the Linda Carpenter Gallery for the month of June.
There will be two awards, the “Judges Award” and the “People's Choice Award,” both of which will be presented during the First Friday Fling on June 3.
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I’ve mentioned before how much I like poems that take the time to carefully observe people at work. Here David St. John, who lives in California, gives us a snapshot of workers protecting an orchard.
Peach Fires
Out in the orchards the dogs stood
Almost frozen in the bleak spring night
& Mister dragged out into the rows
Between his peach trees the old dry limbs
Building at regular intervals careful pyres
While the teeth of the dogs chattered & snapped
& the ice began to hang long as whiskers
From the globes along the branches
& at his signal we set the piles of branches ablaze
Tending each carefully so as not to scorch
The trees as we steadily fed those flames
Just enough to send a rippling glow along
Those acres of orchard where that body—
Sister Winter – had been held so wisely to the fire
American Life in Poetry 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 ©2002 by David St. John, whose most recent book of poetry is The Face: A Novella in Verse, Harper Collins, 2004. Poem reprinted from The Place That Inhabits Us, Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010, by permission of David St. John and the publishers. Introduction copyright © 2011 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.