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Meet the maker behind the prized ‘Luciene dresses’ at this Oregon artisans market
Luciene Cruz Designer Luciene Cruz has been selling her sundresses at the Lithia Artisans Market of Ashland for 32 years. (Janet Eastman/Janet Eastman/The Oregonian/OregonLive) Women in eye-catching sundresses flitted by Luciene Cruz’s clothing booth at the Lithia Artisans Market of Ashland on a recent Sunday. “That’s my dress,” said Cruz,...
Catty Corner: Meet them at the (Feline) Fair
This monthly adoption event at the Rogue Valley Mall brings together cats, kittens and community. Last Saturday, at the Rogue Valley Mall, a crowd gathered outside the retail space across from Kay Jewelers. Some held cat carriers. Others tried to get a peek inside. At 11 a.m., the gates opened...
Human Bean to donate $1 to local food bank for every drink sold on Friday
The Human Bean is gearing up for its annual Food Drive Giveback happening Friday. For every drink purchased, the coffee company will donate $1 to local food pantries, food banks, and programs that work to end hunger. The Human Bean says it takes $1 to provide three meals for those...
The town buzz: Beekeeper extracts beehive from downtown facade
Southern Oregon Swarms makes hive ‘bee gone’ from The Village Baker on Main Street. Two stories of scaffolding leaned up against The Village Baker on Monday afternoon, providing a platform for a beekeeper to reach up and remove a colony of unwelcome tenants: honeybees. Tristen Tartaglia, owner of...
Mt. Ashland presents biggest renovation in 60 year history for Winter 24-25
ASHLAND, Ore. – The Mt. Ashland Ski Area is announcing it’s largest renovation in it’s 60 year history. Ahead of the 2025 season, Mt. Ashland is adding the Lithia chair lift, the first new lift in 40 years. The lift’s new terrain will double the acreage of youth, upper beginner and lower intermediate trails.
Opera singer Marian Anderson, denied Washington, D.C., stage, was welcomed at this southern Oregon theater
A sold-out recital in March 1940 forever changed the story of downtown Medford’s Holly Theatre. Classical singer and Black civil rights activist Marian Anderson, who was denied performing in the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall in segregated Washington, D.C., a year earlier, stood on the Holly stage and faced the audience of 1,200 people, about 10% of Medford’s population at the time.
Review: ‘Behfarmaheen (If You Please)’ tells an immigrant’s story with humor and poignancy
Barzin Akhavan’s one-man show at the Thomas Theatre tells of his embracing American life and his Persian heritage as a storyteller. Like a number of one-person shows that have graced and transformed the small stage of the Thomas Theatre at OSF this year, its final production for 2024, “Behfarmaheen,” now playing through Sept. 15, offers a touching, poignant, sometimes irreverent, often humorous vision of a Middle East immigrant’s assimilation into American life. This time it is from the point of view of Barzin Akhavan, a multitalented writer and OSF actor, who as a boy in the 1980s, immigrated with his parents from Iran to the United States.
Sticks and Scones: A Bakeshop Mystery by Ellie Alexander #Review @StMartinsPress @BakeshopMystery
Publisher : Minotaur Books (August 20, 2024) It’s late spring in Juliet’s charming hamlet of Ashland. Spotted deer are nibbling on lush green grasses in Lithia Park, the Japanese maples are blooming, and Torte is baking a bevy of spring delights—lemon curd cupcakes, mini coconut cream pies, grapefruit tartlets, and chocolate dipped almond Tuiles.
Ashland Theater Review: Jane Eyre
In all my years of reviewing plays presented at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, I never expected to see an adaptation of Jane Eyre at the Allen Elizabethan Theatre. I thought the intimate tale wouldn’t fill the big stage, but Elizabeth Williamson’s compelling adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel plunges us into the heartfelt emotions of a poor orphan girl who finds love where she least expects it.
Ashland New Plays Festival to Take Place in October
Ashland New Plays Festival will present new works by playwrights Shanna Allman, Minita Gandhi, Keiko Green, and Novid Parsi at its annual Fall Festival. The festival features staged readings of four winners of the annual playwriting competition, as well as talk-backs, and playwriting workshops. The winning plays were chosen from 350 submissions, read and evaluated by a group of dedicated volunteers.
Poetry Corner: A classic car, a summer drive
Relief from hot August days and nights might take many forms. Some of us use the cooler mornings to get in our daily walk, often with a pup by our side. Some wait for sundown before venturing out of their air-conditioned homes and perhaps a stroll along Main Street with an ice cream cone in hand. Others seek relief in whatever shade trees may provide or on the south side of Main Street, where buildings keep the sidewalks cooler. It may also be a time when a classic sports car beckons our poet to go for a ride up the hill to Callahan’s, cooling off with the thrill of driving a classic car.
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