Edward Hirsch: “We can recognize this as a call from that deeper place within us, rather than something we have to do (but don’t want to), forced upon us by unforgiving circumstances.”
Herbert Rothschild: “The question is not whether Shakespeare needs OSF but whether OSF needs Shakespeare. Its current leadership seems determined to find the answer to that question by staging fewer and fewer of his plays.”
Allison Mendel: “I wanted to write in reaction to Mr. Rothschild’s criticism of OSF, but I concur in the observation that he offers no evidence or examples — so I don’t really know what I am arguing against.”
Carola Lacy: “In cleaning out my files, I came across this ever-timely article by the late Abigail Van Buren.”
Members of Ashland High School’s Native American Student Union and the AHS Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee recently finished the first stage of installation of a hand-carved canoe known as “Otterlifter” in front of the high school. AHS will hold a formal celebration to unveil the canoe to the community on Thursday, Oct. 6, preceding Indigenous People’s Day weekend.
Mary Lou and Andy Bayliss: “The best traditional plays present the ‘other’ as humans so that we might understand those we normally feel separate from. We feel empathy, love, and equality.”
A draft urban renewal plan should be scaled back and the revised plan put before city voters next spring, the Talent City Council unanimously decided at a meeting Tuesday, Aug. 16. Staff was instructed to prepare a resolution formalizing those decisions for adoption by the council at its meeting starting at 6:45 p.m. today, Aug. 17, its second meeting in two days.
Sue Kurth: “I thought OSF would just continue to build, while keeping the Shakespeare plays as the core. Angus Bowmer proved in 1935 people will show up for Shakespeare.”
The threat of new fire starts due to expected “abundant lightning on dry fuels” has prompted the Medford office of the National Weather Service to issue a red flag warning for noon to 11 p.m. Wednesday for wide swaths of Southern Oregon and Northern California, including Ashland and the south end of the Rogue Valley.
While three Ashland City Council seats will be undecided until November, a number of other elected offices within the Ashland saw only the incumbents filing for office, though additional candidate information could be published later this week.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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