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Owl Plaza Opening Leads Into Art Along the Rogue’s 23rd Year
A ribbon-cutting at Owl Plaza will open an afternoon of downtown activity Friday, October 2, as Grants Pass prepares for the 23rd annual Art Along the Rogue chalk art and music festival. The ceremony begins at 3 p.m. at the corner of Fifth and H streets, followed by a 4 p.m. performance by Josephine Jukebox to kick off the festival.
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Art show at Rogue Gallery spotlights an uncomfortable topic
‘Period poverty’ — the difficulty many face in getting feminine hygiene products — is a focus of the exhibition titled ‘WomanKind’. A unique and controversial art exhibition has opened at the Rogue Gallery in Medford. Twenty-six women artists from Ashland and the Rogue Valley are featured in an event that calls attention to an issue rarely discussed.
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Ashland New Plays Festival to present its four winning scripts
The works, selected from 350 submissions, will get staged readings at SOU’s Main Stage Theatre from Oct. 14 through 18. Four plays chosen from hundreds of submissions will stand in the Ashland New Plays Festival spotlight Oct. 14-18, when professional actors and directors bring the winning scripts to life in staged readings at Southern Oregon University’s Main Stage Theatre, 491 S. Mountain Ave., Ashland.
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Art Along the Rogue festival to begin Oct. 2-4
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - 42 chalk artists will transform two blocks of pavement in Grants Pass's Historic District into a gallery during the Art Along the Rogue festival Oct. 2-4. This year's theme is Reflections. Seven artists are traveling from out of state to participate in the event. Sharyn Chan...
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BELITA PALU-AY: AN APPRECIATION – by Larry Rosen
I’M PART OF a very loose coalition of people who take daily walks in Jacksonville. You might have seen me; I’m the guy with the big headphones. Until recently, the best part of any walk was running into Belita Palu-ay, the “coolest person in town,” per my wife and the unofficial Mayor of Jacksonville, per anyone who paid attention for the past five years..
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Standup comedian Swami Beyondananda coming to Bellview Grange Saturday, Oct. 3
‘The comedy is intended to heal the heart and free the mind’. Standup comedian Swami Beyondananda and Bhaerman (aka Steve Bhaerman) says he was “born funny.”. He is here today because of a joke, he adds. His father, home in Brooklyn on leave during World War II, dislocated his hip while putting his foot in his mouth (not a euphemism), a contortion intended for a laugh. Laid up for 12 weeks in a not-so-funny state, he didn’t go when his unit shipped out and went on to join the fight at the Battle of the Bulge. None of the soldiers in that unit returned.
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Audience Vote Brings Two Original Musicals to Grants Pass Stage in October
An audience vote that failed to produce a single winner has become a two-show evening for Clarion Theatre Company. The company will stage Fairhaven and In Time, original one-act musicals by Southern Oregon playwrights, at the Grants Pass Performing Arts Center on October 16, 17, 18, 23 and 24. Last...
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55th annual Talent Harvest Festival offers free fall-time fun for all
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Annual event expected to draw up to 13,000 visitors; look for a parade, live music on 6 stages, food, arts and crafts and community cider pressing. Nothing says fall is here quite like a community celebration honoring the harvest season, and the city of...
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Update on “Where the Crow Lights” Mural on the Elk’s Lodge Building with Pictures
Over the weekend I caught up a little with John Pugh, who has been hard at work the past several weeks on the wall that will become his latest mural, Where the Crow Lights. If you have driven or walked through downtown Ashland recently you may have noticed the scaffolding going up on the side of the Elk’s Lodge building. This is where John will be spending a lot of his time in the next month as he maps out the exact positioning of the piece, preps the wall for installation, and paints the rest of the mural on site. This means smoothing out the wall so that paint can be applied properly and making sure everything is where it should be to create the most striking visual possible.
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Ashland Creatives: Ashland Artist Shari O’Neal — From finger painting to watercolors
O’Neal’s first solo show in 15 years will be on display at KS Wild Friday. Ashland artist Shari O’Neal began her artistic journey with an activity familiar to many children: finger painting. Years and many canvases later, O’Neal’s favorite media combines watercolor and collage, with additional works...
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New Medford murals to celebrate wildlife and landscape
MEDFORD, Ore. - A Southern Oregon artist will paint a new mural for downtown Medford at the Bartlett-Middleford parking garage connection. Anthony Vella was picked to create the piece at 34 N. Bartlett Street. The mural will span four panels, each measuring 4-by-16 feet, for a total of 256 square feet.
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Downtown Grants Pass Set for Three Days of Chalk Art, Music and Community Celebration
Forty-two chalk artists will turn two blocks of downtown Grants Pass into an outdoor gallery October 2 through 4 as Art Along the Rogue returns to the Historic District. This year’s theme, “Reflections,” will take shape across the pavement alongside live music, food and 67 craft vendors.
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Ashland-born ‘Parcel From America’ completes its journey to New York stage
After years of development in Ashland, Chicago and Dublin, the Irish musical will open off-Broadway with Nov. 4 debut. An Ashland-born musical that began with a storyteller at the Ashland Community Center nearly three decades ago will arrive on West 42nd Street this fall when “Parcel From America” makes its New York premiere off-Broadway.
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Locals Are Quietly Buying Homes Under $170,000 In This Overlooked California Town
There’s a town in Northern California where the mountain views are jaw-dropping, the air is clean, and people are actually buying homes without needing a second mortgage on their soul. That town is Weed, California, and yes, the jokes write themselves. Go ahead and get it out of your...
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His beloved instrument broken, a beloved musician asks for help and a community responds
After an accident damaged Lithia Park musician Daniel Sperry’s cello, Flare, a GoFundMe campaign has brought in a wave of support. Daniel Sperry was looking forward to playing an exuberant rendition of “Can’t Help Falling in Love” as a bride made her entrance at the Ashland Springs Hotel on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 19.
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Mystery Fest expands its lineup and its reach in fourth year
The four-day October festival will bring 15 cozy mystery authors, audiobook narrators and more than 60 events to Ashland, drawing readers from more than 27 states. Four years ago, the idea sounded almost like the setup for one of Ellie Alexander’s cozy mysteries: Take the fictional Ashland of her popular Bakeshop Mystery novels, mix it with the real Ashland that inspired them, invite readers and mystery writers to town and see what happens.