This week’s crossword commemorates a local file. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next Friday’s crossword: “Canine Capers #02.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
Review: Camelot Theatre’s “Spotlight on the Highwaymen” is entertaining but needs some work. It contains all the elements that make for an evening of genuine country music, including some fine singer-musicians and honestly interpreted, familiar numbers like “Always on My Mind.” But this horse needs a little more ridin’ before it’s ready for the range.
An Ashland artist was given a chance to paint a special mural, one that might help those who are in need. With a mandate to “engage and possibly lighten the load of the people passing beside it,” muralist Sarah Bernard began what would become a four-month project painting a mural on a dining room wall at the OHRA homeless shelter in Ashland.
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.
This week’s crossword: hidden work, in celebration of an upcoming holiday. Solve it directly in the article or download a PDF to print. Next Friday’s crossword: “Almeda Anniv. #05.” More crosswords under the Culture menu.
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.
Lucie K. Scheuer:This is a multi-layered, gut-wrenching exposé about what we bring to our adult relationships. Just remember what you’re getting into when you get on this streetcar. It takes you places you didn’t expect to go. But then, that can be the hallmark of great art.
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.
What do Robin Hood, Miss Marple, Roaring ’20s Chicago, Dracula, and Anne of Green Gables have in common?
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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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