Herbert Rothschild: Perhaps erotic love ends because we forget — or never really grasped — how amazing it is that someone else entrusted us with what they hold most precious, and that we trusted them in the same way.
With Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s official season starting next week, the world renowned nonprofit theater is celebrating its latest major contribution: A total $5 million, joint contribution by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation and the Oregon Community Foundation, as part of what could be seen as a $52 million “love letter” to arts and culture organizations statewide.
In moves that bring together three of Oregon’s homegrown hospitality powerhouses, Neuman Hotel Group has announced the sale of Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites and has entered into a new management agreement for its other two Ashland hotels, including the downtown landmark Ashland Springs Hotel.
Despite the fact nearly every seat in the Ashland City Council chamber Tuesday was filled by residents in opposition to the city’s new telecommunication ordinance, the council voted 5 to 1 to approve the first reading of the ordinance.
Review: There’s much to ponder and speculate about when Sarita and Martin meet aboard an evening Metro North commuter train in “Off Peak,” the Rogue Theater Company’s delightfully insightful season opening play.
A Rogue Valley-raised man has been named as Southern Oregon Climate Action Now’s first executive director and its first paid employee. Daniel Scotton is slated to begin working for the group in April.
Verizon Wireless is proposing to locate a wireless communication facility on the roof of the Southern Oregon University Science Building, 1250 Ashland Street, Ashland, OR.
Rosa Joshi is the dramaturg this year for “Macbeth,” opening March 29 at the Angus Bowmer Theatre, and she will direct “Coriolanus,” opening July 27 at the Thomas Theatre.
The Oregon Legislative session not only yielded more than $6.6 million to fund projects and programs at Southern Oregon University, it also included the appointment of four new trustees to the SOU Board of Trustees.
Wildfire Division Chief Chris Chambers presented a case for a far reaching and expensive helicopter logging project in the Ashland watershed to the Ashland City Council during its study session Monday. Chambers sketched a series of grim predictions for the forest and big numbers for the scale of the project.
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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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