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With its own small-scale vineyard underway, Southern Oregon University’s Center for Sustainability (CFS) wants to nudge Oregon’s growing viticulture industry towards organic growing techniques. Although the vineyard is barren ground right…

Los Angeles, 1942. A teenage girl returns home from school one day to find her mother screaming at her father. "Pack your suitcase," mom says. "We all have to leave." Soon they’re dragging their bags down a dirt path alongside other…

Universal design is one of the most important trends in residential construction and home improvement today. Also known as disabled access or visitability, this type of design allows everyone to enter and exit a house, move from room to…

The Ashland Emergency Food Bank collected 24,500 pounds of food in February from city residents who put those bright-green food bags on their doorsteps every two months for the Ashland Food Project — but the pantry expects it still would…

There will be twice as much local produce on the table this year for the Southern Oregon University community grown by its own Center for Sustainability, which expects to nearly double its level of food production thanks to a major donation…

Oregon Cabaret Theatre will celebrate its new beginnings with some sweet memories. The opening show for the Cabaret’s 30th season — the first for new artistic director Valerie Rachelle — is “Dames at Sea,” the first show produced when a…

Posted Feb. 14, 2015 @ 12:01 am Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice who conducted the annual Houston Area Survey, was in demand as a public speaker. A point he often made was that well-paying unskilled and semi-skilled jobs in…

Varsity Theatre Feb. 13-19 Still Alice Fri.-Sun. early show: 1:30 Daily showtimes: 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 One Academy Award nomination (best actress) — Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics…

Posted Jan. 31, 2015 @ 2:00 am Updated Feb 2, 2015 at 9:31 AM Despite historically high graduation rates from our public schools — 81 percent in 2011-2012, the latest for which comprehensive data are available — we often hear elected…