Ventura Gets Funky with Legendary Artists of the Genre | Ventura celebra con artistas Legendarios Del Género Funk
Oxnard, California – Longtime local promoter Chuck Dennis has teamed up with the Oxnard Performing Arts Center (PACC) to present “A Night of Funk,” with legendary artists Michel’le, Dazz Band, Lakeside, Tom Browne, and Club Nouveau on Saturday, April 14. The night will include some of the most iconic songs of this genre, including Lakeside’s “Fantastic Voyage” […]
Stuck?
By Brynne Betz Stuck in your morning routine. Stuck driving the same way to work. Stuck wearing the same things. Stuck buying the same foods Cooking the same foods Eating the same foods. Stuck expecting the same responses. Stuck receiving the same ones, too. Stuck in a relationship, in a dance you once chose. Stuck […]
Let Nature Speak
By Brynne Betz She let nature speak. And without voice or word, nurse she listened. She let nature unravel the complicated parts. She let nature soothe. She let nature till And weed And sow The garden of her soul. * * * There it was A dark brown spot of dirt. If you walked too […]
Soften
By Brynne Betz Wind carries the sea to her skin. She closes her eyes and lifts her head, her body longing. She listens as the salty air rustles the palm fronds, as they dance in their knowing, in their silent secrets. I’m coming, she whispers, I’m coming. Bare feet, toasted brown. Along a dusty dirt […]
Redefine Success
They play marbles in the dirt and I can hear their laughter from up the street—an entire family, cost together. He cuts me off and somehow we end up at the same store. He gets out of his car and walks over to mine. “I’m sorry I cut you off back there, I wasn’t paying […]
Pumpkin Bread
She is dressed in a suit and ready to leave for work, buy her head already spinning with all the emails waiting for her, all the phone calls to be had, all the attitudes in the hallway waiting to accost her. She breathes in through her nose and out through her mouth, slowly, like the […]
