Novelist Victor Lodato will receive a financial boost to continue touring and participating in author talks for his latest book, “Honey,” after being one of 29 artists to receive Career Opportunity Program grant awards from the Oregon Arts Commission.
Poetry Corner: Two poets share their memories, one about a radio personality and the other a nostalgic time growing up in the Rogue Valley. Both poems exemplify a love of our richly poetic home and the people and things that make it that way.
Catherine Butterfield will read from her first novel and sign copies at Village Books in Medford July 13 and at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland on July 14. At Bloomsbury, she will be joined by actor and director Michael J. Hume for a Q&A.
The book “The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate” will serve as a jumping-off point to discuss the importance of understanding Oregon’s history of racism and how that knowledge can be applied to address racial injustices that the state still faces. Monday’s free talk, the third in a series presented by Ashland Sunrise Project, is entitled “Uncovering Difficult Truths.”
Ashland photographer and author Christopher Briscoe will talk about the recently published second edition of his book “The Child on the Train: And Other Stories in War-torn Ukraine” from 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 29, in the Gresham room at the Ashland Public Library.
Poetry Corner: Poetry can stimulate and soothe at the same time, and in these hot summer days, a poet remembering an Ashland winter day can do both. Read, and dream about snow before going out into the summer sun.
Poetry Corner: It’s haiku and beyond, proving once again, if proof were needed, that Ashland, Oregon, is the nursery of poets. Elaine Maveety and Jim Flint find beauty in subjects from the natural world to Burma Shave, and each has its own particular poetic charm.
“Harriman’s Ghost” tells side-by-side stories of the life of the fictional Ben Harriman, a revered film and television star, and Janet Cooper, ghost writer of Harriman’s official biography. In “Harriman’s Ghost,” she is goaded into writing another book that unveils the truth about the actor’s troubled life.
Fifteen middle-school girls and boys were honored and awarded cash prizes May 4 as winners in the Friends of the Ashland Library (FOAL) essay contest. An enthusiastic gathering of families, teachers, friends and community members crowded the Ashland Public Library Gresham Room to cheer them on.
A processional of about 170 first grade Ashland students and their teachers walked through a colorful balloon arch leading up the steps of the Mountain Avenue Theatre on Wednesday, applauded by Ashland Rotarians gathered to lavish the royal treatment on 6- and 7-year-olds celebrating learning to read, a major milestone in first grade.
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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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