Entertainment

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…

Hollywood discovered a long time ago that audiences will pay good money to be frightened. Of course, this isn't the frightened you felt when you were riding shotgun with your Mom and she ran a red light and you were almost hit by the…

In middle school, when Ashland native Peter Hollens made a pact with his mother allowing him to drop French class, little did he know it would change the direction of his life forever. "When you were young, you usually had to hide the fact…

At the age of 17, Fred Stockwell borrowed his father's camera. He's been taking pictures ever since. Along the way, he took up flying, learning from a pilot on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. The flying and later, barnstorming gliders, took him…

BY AMBER FOSSEN Ashland Daily Tidings The children that inspired "Indigo," the feature length film slated for production in Ashland, will be coming from around the world to share their gifts and messages of peace at the second annual…