Jim Flint: A decade after Rick Robinson and his wife, director Valerie (Val) Rachelle, stepped into ownership of Ashland’s Oregon Cabaret Theatre, the pair has transformed the intimate playhouse into one of Southern Oregon’s most vibrant cultural hubs.
“My daughter suffered for 21 days in the hospital. I can suffer for 30 hours in the wilderness, running in her memory.” That’s what Tim Smith, a pharmacist at Asante Ashland Community Hospital, says about his plan to run 100 miles through the Siskiyous six years after the passing of 11-year-old Kharma Smith in 2019 and days before what would have been her 18th birthday, Sept. 28.
When composer Webster Young steps onto the stage of Paris’ Salle Colonne on Sept. 16, it will mark both a career milestone and a tribute to two late Ashland philanthropists who quietly helped make it possible.
Loss of access to a pair of popular Ashland watershed trails for a half-year ended up lasting less than three weeks after public outcry and the realization a temporary pedestrian bridge could be installed in a former creek-crossing site without undergoing a time-consuming permitting process resulted in opening of a temporary bridge on Aug. 8, just 19 days after the July 21 trail closure.
Southern Oregon residents interested in learning more about composting have multiple upcoming chances to get acquainted with the details of scraps-to-soil and its importance and role in a changing climate.
Jim Flint: When he returned, he told me to leave my cane at the doorway. “So the magnetic field won’t suck it into the MRI machine.” Which raised the question: If it could suck in a cane, what about my fillings?
Review: “Tales of the Direwood” echoes Shakespearean themes used in “Hamlet,” “King Lear” and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Add a bit of Joseph Campbell’s myth and the zany style of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and you get a blend of present-day and ever-universal elements done in audacious ways.
Big-name comedians will perform at the Holly Theatre in Medford on Sept. 5 at the BASE Southern Oregon Comedy inaugural Comedy Jam. The event will raise money for local youth and community initiatives.
Despite an expected loss of $750,000 over the next two years, the Siskiyou Mountain Club is devising ways to continue its mission of maintaining and improving public lands in Southern Oregon and far Northern California.
Following her visit to Japan earlier this month for the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, Hiroshima survivor Dr. Hideko Tamura shared her experiences of the memorial and of the bombing with those at a Southern Oregon Japanese Association gathering at the Medford Public Library’s Community Room Sunday, Aug. 17.
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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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