Entertainment

Only the superlative "cheer-tastic" can adequately describe the infectious excitement that cheerleaders bring to a game. It's also a perfect word for the giddy feeling of joy and inspiration I get watching someone cast aside all traces of…

You don't have to quit your job, put off having children or wait until retirement to be a writer, according to Ashland author, editor and writing instructor Midge Raymond. In her newly released book "Everyday Writing: Tips and Prompts to…

What would happen if Euripides, Shakespeare and Rodgers and Hammerstein all met on a single stage? It's a question Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch answers with the experimental play "Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella." The…

By Roberta Kent For the Tidings  Posted: 2:00 AM April 04, 2012 "Troilus and Cressida," the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's latest offering in the New Theatre, gives us Shakespeare in a dark and reflexive mode. In this fascinating…

Tango has seized Ashland. Every day of the week, couples are locked in a tango embrace, directed by subtle cues and guided by the music. Beginners are in workout gear, the more experienced in flirty clothing, but everyone is invited onto…

By Chris Honoré Tidings correspondent Posted: 8:55 AM March 31, 2011 Overlooking Rio de Janeiro stands the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer, arms outstretched, facing south, overlooking the people of Rio. But not all of the people.…

On a day in mid May of 1575, a powerful 25-year-old English nobleman named Edward de Vere landed in Venice in northern Italy. One of the foremost cultural and mercantile cities in the world, Venice would be the young man's base for almost a…

By Laurie Heuston Ashland Daily Tidings Posted: 10:35 AM August 12, 2010 A mélange of characters from the celebrated books of Dr. Seuss are brought to life in "Seussical the Musical," an extravaganza with music and words by songwriting…

The documentary film "Between the Folds" is breathtaking. Think of it: artists, scientists, mathematicians, seemingly eccentrics all, have devoted their lives to origami, meaning folding squares of paper and thereby creating metamorphic…

s: A legacy of Ashland tunes It was 5 p.m. on a Friday in 1979 as scores of us met at Jazmin& s, there to wind down from the week with hors d& oeuvres, cocktails and the wide-ranging conversations as cliques and groupings…