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By Jessica Bryan “Bring something special with you next week,” she said. “We are going to do an exercise in ‘Sacred Psychometry.’” The teacher of our mediumship class was referring to the metaphysical practice of holding an inanimate…

Miss America attended the Jackson County Fair in 1958. The Kiwanian-sponsored fair primarily featured a 4-H and FFA livestock show and staged events at the adjoining Medford Armory. Miss America (Marilyn Van Derbur) walked through the…

Actor-director Barret O’Brien is taking a year off the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to take action against climate change — “the biggest challenge ever to face humanity” — and the result is his play “Water Made to Rise,” an ironic and pithy…

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “Snow in Midsummer” is a masterpiece. That’s not surprising. Cowhig, an internationally based playwright whose work has been staged on the West End, the Goodman Theatre, and at the Royal Shakespeare Company, among…