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The Merola Opera Program's exile from Herbst Theatre this summer has been a godsend. The annual operatic training program moved their concerts temporarily to the auditorium at Everett Middle School at 16th and Church Streets. It's a beautiful building and the auditorium has unusually good acoustics, along with a slightly larger stage than Herbst or Fort Mason's Cowell theaters. There is no orchestra pit, but you can't have everything, and for orchestral fans sitting in the front row it is almost like being in the middle of the band. 
The happiest result of the new hall involved two performances last week of Mozart's opera, The Marriage of Figaro. The San Francisco Opera House is a great venue for grand opera, but Handel and Mozart operas were not meant for huge halls, and productions of their operas often get lost on that big stage. A handsome, expansive production of The Marriage of Figaro by Sonja Frisell with sets and costumes by Zack Brown premiered at the Opera House in 1982, and it's been revived at least eight times over the decades. It's been looking a bit shabby lately, and may need to be replaced, but I have fond memories of some of its starry casts that included Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Samuel Ramey, Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Wolfgang Brendel, Renee Fleming, Bryn Terfel, and so on. However, I don't think I have ever enjoyed that production as much as Merola's last week, partly because a small house is so perfect for this opera. 
The individual singers all had their strengths and weaknesses, as students usually do, but the outstanding ensemble work made the whole production much more than the sum of its parts. The performers not only sang together in Mozart's endless array of duets, trios, quartets, and more-tets, but they also acted off each other's cues and body language. Robin Guarino's direction drew a viewer into the complicated plot with all its mistaken identities and hiding behind farcical doors, and made it funny and sad. (In the above production photos by Kristen Loken, the ensemble in no particular order is John Arnold, Maria Valdes, Thomas Richards, Daryl Freedman, Rihab Chaieb, Joseph Lattanzi, Casey Finnigan, Jacqueline Piccolino, Rhys Lloyd Talbot, Matthew Newlin, and Alisa Jordheim.) 
The real star of the production was the 40-year-old conductor Xian Zhang above. She took the overture at breakneck speed, and didn't let things go slack for the next three and a half hours. The act two and act four ensembles are some of the most extraordinarily beautiful music Mozart ever wrote, and the singers, orchestra and conductor did themselves proud. I spent most of the fourth act in tears, something that has never happened with this opera in the big house with the big stars. Congratulations, everyone.Merola's Intimate Marriage of Figaro Images
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Lotsa 'Splainin' 2 Do: Happy birthday to my big sister.
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5 Secrets to Enjoying All the Benefits of Money (Without Actually Having Any) After some time on the road,Vanessa Runs realized everything she ever wanted in life was there all along, and none of it came with a price tag.By Vanessa Runs / Source: MindTrip MagazineThis year, my boyfriend and I took the dog, the cat, and walked away from our home and our jobs. We moved into a tiny Rialta RV, relinquished our possessions, and gave up many of our luxuries. In exchange, we opted for a life of endless travel, complete freedom, and all the time in the world to do whatever we wanted. Neither of us had ever lived in an RV before, and we've both worked hard all our lives. We had "normal", 9-to-5 office jobs, and lived for the weekends just like everyone else we knew. We believed that to enjoy some aspects of life, money was required. We didn't have the financial luxury to do what we wanted 100% of the time … but oh, if we ever won that lottery … THEN we could really live! What we've found after some time on the road is that everything we wanted was there all along, and it didn't come with a price tag. Here are the principles we embraced to retire into a wealth we never thought possible.#1: TO BE TWICE AS RICH, HALVE YOUR EXPENSESThe 9-to-5 rat race is a bum deal. It requires you to work yourself thin to afford things that you never have the time to enjoy anyway. You kill yourself to own a big home that you can never spend any time in. Your PTO piles up with vacation time which you never use because work is too demanding. You're too busy climbing the ladder, earning money to afford those vacations which you never take. See the pattern here? You live for the weekends, except by the weekend you're so exhausted that you have limited energy. So you mostly just rest. It's a terrible cycle. It doesn't work this way for everyone, but for us it did. We decided to opt out by drastically cutting our expenses. Giving up the home was a big one. Mortgage was a money suck. So was maintenance, things to fill our home with, and cleaning. I gave up my cell phone and replaced it with a free Skype number. By installing solar panels on the RV (in progress), our electricity expenses will be reduced to a big fat zero. No money spent at RV parks either, since we need no hook-ups. If we don't feel like driving, we can self-support at a remote trailhead with no amenities for weeks at a time. We use free wifi, which we can find on pretty much any corner these days. And when we want to, we disconnect by parking on a mountain trail somewhere, embracing isolation. Our water use is minuscule, as we use creeks and waterfalls to rinse off or hand wash our clothes with biodegradable soap. We have no cable or television, but we like going to the movies! We have one small pot and one small pan, which we use to make food in the RV. Living is simple and extremely cheap. With our family of two adults, one dog and one cat, we can live very comfortably like this on $1,000/month or less. I have a laptop where I do all my writing, and then drop into town for a wifi connection to email things or make a post. I also have a Kindle with over 300 books on it, which I pull out before bed for some good quality reading. I get free Kindle books online on thousands of topics. Since everything interests me, I don't think I'll ever finish all the books I want to read. Without a 9 to 5 job, I can do more writing (potentially more income), more reading (higher quality research for writing), and more living (many more experiences with so much more to write about). Want to be twice as rich? Halve your expenses. You'll be surprised at how little you actually need to feel happy and fulfilled. #2: YOU DON'T HAVE TO OWN SOMETHING TO ENJOY ITThis principle blew my mind. There are so many things we can get for free, or for minimal payment that others work tirelessly to own. Some of them I have already mentioned, like cable, internet access, and e-books. But also other things: Instead of owning a pool, we can park at the ocean for days of free water play.Instead of a gym membership, we can spend weeks playing on endless miles of trails.We also enjoy activities like kayaking, fishing, or scuba diving (to name a few) via rentals, for a fraction of the cost of what it would take to own the gear for these activities. Not to mention that the things we value most – fresh air, travel, and the freedom to enjoy life – don't cost us a cent anyway.#3: LACK OF MONEY BUYS FREEDOMIf you're filthy rich, you can enjoy limitless freedom. But when you're dirt poor, you can actually enjoy pretty much the same freedom. If you happen to be somewhere in the middle, that's when you're tied down. In the middle, you need to work to pay your debts and expenses. You're not rich enough to stop working, and not "poor" enough to give up those expenses and luxuries. You're stuck indefinitely. When you're too poor to afford a lot of the "luxuries" so common in that middle space (say, furniture and lawn care for example), you have complete freedom to spend your time doing whatever you want. Just as if you were rich. You don't have to work as much or at all. You have no one to report to. You can come and go as you wish. No home to maintain. No rooms to clean. You can pick which opportunities and activities you want to be involved in, and actually be picky about it. Your range of choices in life is substantially wider. These days, many people consider a good travel trip a resort vacation, which of course implies money. But I'm convinced the reason we crave resort-type spots is because we're exhausted from working so much that we need a quiet place to rest and unwind. However, when you're working less, you'll be amazed and how much energy you have. Suddenly a resort vacation sounds boring. You want to run. Hike. Move. Swim. Travel. All of which we can do indefinitely, and free of charge. And if you still want to rest, try lying on a beach like a sand bum for … as long as you want. And that's the life we're living now.#4: THERE'S FREE STUFF EVERYWHERESadly, we live in a society where so much is wasted: food, products, energy … the list goes on. Fortunately for RV bums like us, this also means we have an endless supply of free goodies at our fingertips. We can get our hands on anything from food to travel products to personal hygiene products. In this consumerist society, we could easily survive on samples alone. And if that's not possible, we are happy to offer manual labor or personal service in exchange for the goods we need. No currency exchanged. Between the two of us, my boyfriend and I have a wealth of bartering services at our disposal. He has an engineering background and is awesome at all those "boy" things like manual labor and figuring things out without not needing directions. I'm more creative and great at anything related to writing, PR, editing, publishing, promotion, online, etc. This, combined with my journalism background, gives me additional access to limitless products in exchange for reviews or help with promotion. For example, we don't always pay for running gear or races (unless we want to, and we still do when we want to support certain products or events). I get free pet gear for our dog and cat – things like food, leashes, running harness or packs, etc. The most common things I get for free are clothing, running shoes, and sunglasses. These are the three things I regularly have to turn down because I either don't have enough space for them in the RV, I'm not interested in the product, or I don't want to put in the time to write a review. The product benefits extend to my boyfriend as well, and this aspect alone has saved us thousands of dollars. I often joke that my boyfriend and I are the best dressed hobos out there, testing all the latest "stuff". I should also mention that not having a job means I have more time to put lots of miles on all this gear, promote what I like, and produce many more reviews and videos, making the freebies much easier to get. Yet another aspect of freebies we enjoy is sponsorships. Over the years we have been sponsored by SportKilt, INKnBURN, and GORE-TEX. If you're not a writer, these same freebie possibilities are still open to you. One common misconception is that you have to be an elite in order to get sponsorships or freebies. Untrue. All you need is to be noticed, to have some clout. To have a personality or an appearance or a following that makes you stand out from the crowd. Anything at all. You could wear a costume. You could cover yourself in tattoos. You could have a popular blog. In the world we live in now with endless blogs and opportunities to self-publish, it's easier than ever to "be a writer". But keep in mind – you still have to be good in order for people to follow you. You have to offer something. Check out this great post by Jason Robillard to get you started on the road paved with freebies.#5: MOVEMENT, NOT MONEY, BUYS HAPPINESSWe've all heard variations of the saying that "money buys (or doesn't buy) happiness". I don't know too much about that, but I can tell you without a doubt that movement definitely equals true happiness. I have this epiphany every time I'm running on a deserted trail in the middle of the week when everyone else is at work. I am happy when I'm moving. And I don't think it's just me. I can tell you without a doubt that movement definitely equals true happiness.My boyfriend and I can indulge this thirst for movement on a daily basis and sometimes several times a day. The joy we feel in being able to physically move our bodies all day long is unparalleled. I've watched our dog make a transformation as well. In her old life, she stayed at home and waited for us to get home from work. She got long runs on the weekend, and sometimes a shorter run or ball play during the week. We tried to take her out as much as possible, but her outdoor time didn't compare to what it is now. As soon as we put our dog in the RV environment, she transformed. She is more well behaved and, for the first time since I've known her, genuinely tired at the end of the day. She is no longer jealous of the cat (ha!), and she used to be more skittish of other dogs. Now she wants to meet them as her doggie self-esteem has improved too. As soon as we wake up in the morning, Ginger and I step right out on the trail to run or hike. Then it's breakfast. Then more playtime until it's time to go to bed. Yesterday she was prancing through a creek with us, jumping and barking playfully while we all splashed around. Ginger lives a better life now than some humans do. And I believe that this is how all humans are meant to liveThe truth is, we belong outside. Our bodies, our skin, our organs, were built to be outdoors. We belong to the trails and the mud and the streams. Yet these are precisely the things that we have built walls to keep out. We sanitize ourselves against the very things that scrub our souls clean, and then wonder why our bodies are breaking down along with our spirits. Our minds were not created to be satisfied with the repetitive motions of menial jobs. We are not stimulated that way. We are not happy. But here on the trails is where we find ourselves.And the best part is that all of this is free. I could run a new trail every day from now until my dying day and never cover all the great space that this beautiful country has to offer. So much of it we will never see. And yet during the week, we are all alone on this great land. We run and laugh and play and wonder where everyone else is. And then we remember … they're all at work. Vanessa Runs is a trail runner, mountain lover, endurance athlete, and author. In 2012, she quit her job and gave away all her worldly possessions to travel the world. Her first book, The Summit Seeker, hit Amazon's list of Best Sellers and Hot New Releases in the Sports & Outdoors category.Edited by: Lawyer Asad5 Secrets to Enjoying All the Benefits of Money (Without Actually Having Any) Images
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Beverly Osu, who we will all agree kinda talks too much in the BBA House, claimed a few days back that she was battered to the extreme by an ex-rapper boyfriend and even pulled up her shirt to show a scar she got from one of his numerous beatings…to prove she wasn’t lying about the abuse. (Women usually don’t lie about being abused. If anything, they try to hide it).She said one time while he was beating her she ran into the bathroom to escape him, but instead of leaving her alone, he broke down the bathroom door and continued beating her. Beverly didn’t mention names…she said rapper boyfriend…and some of us know she once dated 2shotz who is a rapper. She may have been referring to 2shotz or another rapper she dated…I really don’t know but some blogs believed Beverly was referring to 2shotz and called him out. 2shotz has responded to the allegations. Find the statement he posted on Facebook below:
William Orioha13 hours ago via MobileIn view of the baseless,unfounded and utterly false representations made against my person being circulated on various blogs and social networks which have prompted a barrage of calls,messages from my fans,friends and family urging me to respond to the allegations levelled against me,i consider it imperative to address these highly derogatory and defamatory allegations being levelled against me.whilst i understand that bigbrother is a game where a vast sum of money is on offer on a winner takes all basis and housemates deploy several antics and tactics to win,i totally reject the ploys of a certain housemate using serious character assassination means which are injurious to my person and hard earned reputation as a musician and a respectable and responsible member of the NIgerian society to evoke sentiments in order to garner votes to succeed in the house.i want to state on record that i have never battered any woman and would never do so.i consider acts of battery and assault against women even against men as barbaric and puerile and as such will never indulge in such acts.I as a person appreciates the importance of women and appreciate their efforts as home builders,mothers and wives and would never raise my hands on a woman contrary to the repulsive and erroneous allegations being levelled against me.I therefore urge all my fans,friends and family to discredit the false reports being circulated against me as they are totally untrue,false and baseless.i want to thank those who inundated me with calls,text messages and facebook messages expressing concern on the false allegations.God bless you all.2shotz Reacts to Beverly Osu's Claims of Being Battered By An Ex-Boy~Friend Images
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Photo from Web Dante's vision of hell rendered here in the living color.Exalted as one of the preeminent works of world literature, the Inferno was the first of the three books that made up Dante Alighiere's Divine Comedy - a 14,233-line epic poem describing Dante's brutal descent into the underworld, journey through purgatory, and eventual arrival into paradise. of the Comedy's three sections - Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso - Inferno was by far the most widely read and memorable. Composed by Dante Alighieri in the early 1300s, Inferno had quite literally redefined medieval perceptions of damnation. Never before had the concept of hell captivated the masses in such an entertaining way. Overnight, Dante's work solidified the abstract concept of hell into a clear and terrifying vision - visceral, palpable, and unforgettable. Not surprisingly, following the poem's release, the Catholic Church enjoyed an uptick in attendance from terrified sinners looking to avoid Dante's updated version of the "underworld". 
Photo from WebAs depicted by Botticelli, Dante's horrific version of hell was constructed as a subterranean funnel of suffering - a wrenched underground landscape of fire, brimstone, sewage, monsters, and Satan himself waiting at it's core. The pit was constructed in nine distinct levels, the Nine Rings of Hell, into which sinners were cast in accordance with the depth of their sin. Near the top, the lustful or "carnal malefactors" were blown about by eternal windstorm, a symbol of their inability to control their desire. Beneath them the gluttons were forced to lie facedown in a vile slush of sewage, their mouths filled with the product of their excess. Deeper still, the heretics were trapped in flaming coffins, damned to eternal life. And so it went . . . getting worse and worse deeper one descended.In the seven centuries since its publication, Dante's enduring vision of hell had inspired tribute, translations, and variations by some of history's greatest creative mind. Longfellow, Chaucer, Marx, Milton, Balzac, Borges, and even several popes had all written pieces based on Dante's Inferno. Monteverdi, Liszt, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Puccini composed pieces based on Dante's works, as Loreena McKennitt. Even the modern world of video games and iPad apps had no shortage of Dante-related offerings. Sneak Peek of Dan Brown's Inferno Images
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Image source: Brain PickingsI. Walking to the marketMoist wipe on the sidewalkand a matchbook that says Thank YouIn the mortuary planteran empty Menthol MarlboroAnd a Funeral car window sticker foldedon a parking space looks like FunNo surprise, a discarded used cigaretteand a Popsicle stick in the other planterFarther, on the driveway, a straw wrapperand a pack of Camel Menthol in a flowering bushAt the corner gutter a plastic twistedshopping bag waits for any flow of waterAcross the street a trail of toilet paperforms an S in a rectangular planterOn the church steps an opened veggie bagis imprinted Stay Open To The PossibilitiesBus stop planter sports a half-used Arby'sTangy BBQ Sauce tublet and what I believeis a mangled Kit Kat wrapper next to atorn four tablet package of Pepto ChewablesThere is also a balled up sandwich wrapperprinted with the word Comment insideII. At the marketParked next to a car an almost clear McCafe cupand next to another one a barely sippedEl Pollo Loco drink might be lemonadeG Series Gatorade Prime 01 packet squeezedout and discarded on a parking lot medianOn the asphalt between the lines of a space,hard plastic container used to holdHome Grown Sweet Flat PeachesA concrete space bumper has the ripped offlabel of a pack of Value Soft White Facial TissueA classic crushed in two red plastic drinking cupreflects late afternoon Alhambra sunAnd what's this? A soiled menu for a Chineserestaurant and another crushed cup (this onewas a Golden Mini Oreo Bite Size Go-Pack!)III. On the walk backA banana peel in a parking spacelooking like one of Prince's guitarsA Popsicle stick partially stained orangeand stuck in its plain white wrapperAn upside down In-N-Out smashed cardboard traywith equally flattened red palm tree emblazoned cupI think I found the clear plastic lidthat belonged to that sodaYellow soda cap, another Arby's wrapper,another moist wipe, another emptied clear cupFinally! A single dandelion on the mortuary lawnready for a confused child in need of funAnd not far away two tossed Super Heavy DutyEveready batteries in the grass below the viewing roomIV. Back homeOne apartment's got 14 cigarette buttsresting on the window air conditionerAnother has three recently finishedplastic bottles: two water, one Coke ZeroAnd the pool below our apartment supportstwo broken parts of a blue Styrofoam noodlefloating near an un-tethered life saver Don Kingfisher Campbell has recently been published in Statement, Poetry Super Highway, Writers At Work, The Bicycle Review, Crack The Spine, Lummox, Poetic Diversity, The Sun Runner, and Poetry Breakfast. He is currently working on an MFA in Poetry at Antioch University in Los Angeles.REMNANTS OF A 100 DEGREE DAY Images
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Swimming time!
Judah by the slide.
Collin works the gate. (Gotta keep the dog from eating our latest new pool.)
Judah watches the fun.
Hayley and Collin go down the slide.
The grown-ups eat dinner.
The kids eat dinner.
Watching some cartoons before fireworks. 
Judah gets a sparkler.
Hayley and Judah do sparklers.
Mike hands out sparklers to the kids.
Hayley and Collin and their sparklers.
Fire pit in the backyard for s'mores.
Alethia roasts her marshmallow. 
Alethia and Judah eat their s'mores.
Hayley munching.
Collin and his s'more.
Even Aunt Laura gets into the act.
Judah and Hayley watching the backyard fireworks.
Collin and Alethia.
Mike setting off the fireworks.
The fireworks were a little loud for Judah. 
The next morning, Alethia and Collin cleaned up the used fireworks.
Morning time bath time -- three cousins in a tub.
The morning of the sixth, making cards for Lael's first birthday party. Fifth of July Images
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