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"Green Light Trilogy" is a highly entertaining, lighthearted and apolitical exploration of some of the realities gays face in today's rapidly changing world. The trio of short plays, written by former Ashlanders L.N. Saleh and Tom Lipski…

Ashland Contemporary Theatre's current production of Tom Dudzik's comedy "Greetings," now playing at the Ashland Community Center, features Levi Anderson as Andy Gorsky, a young man who brings his fiancée home to meet his family only to…

Playwright Tom Dudzick's funny and serious 1990 play "Greetings" shows us what can happen when a working-class, religious family finds itself at odds with ideas that are independent of tradition. When Andy Gorski brings his freethinking…

By Angela Decker For the Tidings Posted: 2:00 AM November 22, 2013 Nearly 40 years before baseball great Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, boxer Jack Johnson became the first black man to hold the world…

Kids who are part of a Secret Book Club in Ashland are using their imaginations to turn everyday places into settings for fantastical stories. Members of the club meet at TreeHouse Books on the Plaza in downtown Ashland and make treks to…

By Amelia Covert Zeve For the Tidings Posted: 2:00 AM September 28, 2013 A disturbing piece of Southern Oregon history continues to haunt Tunnel 13, a railroad tunnel near the Mount Ashland exit off Interstate 5. Though it's private…

By Vickie Aldous Ashland Daily Tidings Posted: 2:00 AM August 19, 2013 Chinese restrictions on imports of contaminated recycled material have made it more difficult to recycle everything from clear plastic strawberry containers to…

Baylin Stich could have let his 14-year-old brain turn to mush this summer. Instead, the Ashland High School sophomore is staying sharp by playing cards and board games. "Unlike video games or watching TV, these games keep me mentally…

By Vickie Aldous Ashland Daily Tidings Posted: 2:00 AM June 22, 2013 With the scent of freshly cut Douglas fir and madrone heavy in the air, James Esqueda stacked newly cut branches and brush in a pile for burning in the fall. While…

By Ryan Pfeil For the Tidings Posted: 2:00 AM May 03, 2013 Jackson County's Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose a proposal for an American Indian casino in Medford, and will send a letter to the U.S. Bureau of…