Review: When Hercule Poirot investigates a seemingly impossible-to-solve crime you know it’s just a matter of time before he resolves the mystery. And that’s just what he does in “Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre.
Review: The play’s staging and script is rich with careful detail. But it’s the performances of its real-life actors that make “Circle Mirror Transformation” interesting and provocative.
Selene Aitken: When we ask for what we want, we are taking care of ourselves while giving others an opportunity to help us meet our needs.
Barry Thalden: The Oregon DEQ and Justice Department have been remiss in their responsibility to hold Union Pacific to federal requirements. … Ashland is a residential and tourist community that has no need for a toxic waste dump in the city.
The Ashland City Council wrestled in a quagmire without coming to a solution on a proposed ordinance to regulate small cell wireless facilities Tuesday night, but did approve the appointment of former parks commissioner and Ashland City Councilor Stefani Seffinger to fill the empty commissioner seat on the Ashland Parks & Recreation Commission.
Obituary: At 93 years old, Marcella Louise (Ellis) Owens peacefully passed away in Medford on Friday, Sept. 15, as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund or Dogs for Better Lives.
Three performers are bringing poetry, prose and music to the Applegate Valley, including Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani. Titled “Poetry in the Pasture,” the free event will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, at Plaisance Ranch, 16955 Water Gap Road, in Williams.
The newest of six Evergreen Federal Bank branches, the Ashland facility is Evergreen’s first net-zero building. The facility generates energy on-site in a quantity equal to or greater than the total energy consumed on-site.
Pursuant to Article X, Section 2(c) of the Ashland City Charter, the Ashland City Council will hold a public hearing on October 3, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., in the Civic Center Council Chambers, 1175 E. Main Street, to consider first reading by title only of the following:
William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “Much Ado About Nothing” are among nine plays planned for the 2024 season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, the company announced today. The 89th season, which will also include three “Shakespeare-adjacent” plays, kicks off March 19 and runs through Sept. 15, 2024.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
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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