Entertainment

"Walking the Camino" is extraordinary. Who knew that there was a 500-mile trail, known as the Camino de Santiago, that begins just across the border in France, at St. Pied de Port, and stretches westward, across northern Spain, to the city…

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…

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…