Volume 6, Issue 3 // February 21 - March 13, 2019

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The Rogue Valley Messenger PO Box 8069 | Medford, OR 97501 CONTENTS 541-708-5688 roguevalleymessenger.com FEATURE page SCREEN page [email protected] Oregon Shakespeare The road has been long and travelled well (in a Porsche THE BUSINESS END OF THINGS Festival’s Director of Literary Development 7 911 and a ’66 Volkswagen 17 WEB MASTER Tammy Wilder and Dramaturgy Amrita Van) from New York to OUR FINANCIAL WIZARD Sara Louton, Ramanan talks about California to Vermont to Advanced Books the challenges and Wyoming to Canada to Taos DISTRIBUTION Coleman Antonucci opportunities for equity and most recently Ashland, ADVERTISING MANAGER Sasha Armstrong and inclusion on Oregon. And wherever OUR WORDSMITHS, ETC. the stage. Goldman goes, he can’t help himself from making films. PUBLISHER & EDITOR Phil Busse MANAGING EDITOR Sara Jane Wiltermood PRODUCTION MANAGER Donna Brosh CALENDAR EDITOR Jordan Marie McCaw CULTURE page SPORTS & page COLUMNISTS Rob Brezsny, Dan Smith There is a little bit of OUTDOORS: and Tanya Reasor betrayal. A little bit of GO HERE FREELANCERS Catherine Kelley, Nolan Kenmonth, loss. Some sex too. But, 18 20 Nick Blakeslee, Vanessa Newman and Josh Stirm Looking to capture a a whole lot of love. Bigfoot? Collings Mountain GET IN TOUCH Fragments is the first Trail in Applegate is set to production for the newly spring (pun intended). A MAIL [email protected] formed Rogue Theater great early spring hike, and MUSIC [email protected] Company opening equipped with traps for EVENTS [email protected] March 7 in Ashland. Sasquatches. ADVERTISE [email protected]

SALES DEADLINE: 5 pm Thurs Profile...... 5 Food & Drink...... 19 EDITORIAL DEADLINE: 5 pm Thurs CALENDAR DEADLINE: 12 pm Thurs Feature...... 7 Drink Local...... 19 CLASSIFIED DEADLINE: 4 pm Thurs Don’t Smoke the Messenger ...... 8 Sports & Outdoor...... 20 Deadlines may shift for special/holiday issues. Our Picks...... 9 Go Here...... 20 ABOUT THE COVER: Live Music and Nightlife...... 10 Profile: Rick Brown...... 21 Curly (Tatiana Wechsler, left) Events...... 11 Wellness...... 21 glimpses the violence and Sound...... 16 Don’t Smoke the Messenger...... 22 resentment lurking in the mind of Screen...... 17 Free Will Astrology...... 22 Jud Fry (Michael Sharon). Culture...... 18 Rec Room...... 23 Photo by Jenny Graham, OSF Art Watch...... 18 4 / WWW.ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 13, 2019 / THE ROGUE VALLEY MESSENGER / 5 PROFILE Eve Smyth & Kate Sullivan Co-Directors, Ashland Children’s Theatre INTERVIEW BY PHIL BUSSE

RVM: How much is an audience is an integral component to this about process theatre. It isn’t really theatre without and how much about them and, we have to say, that’s when production? Meaning, the magic happens. That’s when all how much does the the process work seems to synthesize end-result, the stage time and time again, that’s when we productions, really see kids rise. They’re telling a story, matter, or is it the and the audience is there to meet them, journey to get to that to unwrap the gift that they’ve been point? working hard to create for this moment. ES: Wow, good one. In RVM: When did you first get on stage? our opinion, it’s both, Eve: My first stage was my front porch in perfect balance. The where I performed many an extensive process is so full; learning interpretative ballet, but my first techniques of voice and audience was in the fourth grade when PHOTO CREDIT: KEITH HENTY movement, delving into I played Rumpelstiltskin. Rogue Valley Messenger: The adage is At Ashland Children’s Theatre we see character development, Kate: My first on stage role was in the never act with dogs or kids! Can you so many kids and teens find their voice sequencing, timing, connecting and third grade, when I played Christopher make a good counter-argument? and learn how to stand in themselves playing off your scene partners, Robin in the school play. My big moment Yes! Especially if you’re working with through theatre. It’s incredible. They listening, finding emotional shifts and was pulling Winnie-the-Pooh out of the a kid who is pretending to be a dog, then feel so validated and seen. In our improv narrative beats, being responsible to honey jar; I did a pratfall that took me you get the best of both worlds. Okay, we classes we spend time making mistakes— show up, on time, with your work done, off stage and into the audience’s lap. I can’t really speak to the dog part, but kids and celebrating them. Yep, that’s right. trying new things, being flexible and was hooked. are amazing to work with. They live so Take the risk, make a mistake, and often rock solid—there’s so much. But having much closer to the imaginary world than that very mistake is a gift. That mistake most adults, so they are able to access becomes what your improv scene is the door to that world and take you right about, or the happy accident that reveals through it with them. They’re curious something new in scripted work. And about what stories have to offer and how sometimes; it’s just a mistake. But that’s they can be a part of them. all it is, and we move on. Theatre is a RVM: You host improv classes for 4 – collaborative art form. Everyone is in it 6 years olds. In some ways, that seems together and at ACT we are big believers like the perfect age, as young kids are in building ensemble and support among almost always game for make-up and our students. We build a community, we spontaneity. lift each other up—and they feel it. ES: Yes, our Make Believe Explorers RVM: What would you say are the CCA$H CAA$$HH class is a fun romp for sure. We ask top two lessons or take-aways from students “if you could be anything in a children learning to act? story, what would it be?” The responses Connection. Theatre improv, and acting, FOR YOUR OLD GOLD, cover a vast range—it might be a puppy, are really built on one initial premise— a dragon, the driver of the Titanic (we’re offer and accept. This encompasses a SILVER & DIAMONDS not kidding), or a rock. The possibilities lot if you think about it. Give and take, are endless. (Though, of late, we’ve had a speak and listen, take turns, share, wide variety of animals that are rainbow pay attention. It’s about building a F ather S on J ewelers colored and sporting unicorn horns.) connection. & We see shy children really open up as Fun. When you’re having a good time they become their characters, bouncy you can take the risks that will further 126 East Main St. kids become focused. They are living your creativity. their dream. We also give attention to Through connection and fun, we see Medford listening and sharing the story with the students discover that they contain more 541-774-8900 other actors and the audience. than they realized. We believe strongly RVM: Adolescence, especially early in the power of theatre to enhance a teenage years, can be such a time of child’s self- confidence, self-expression uncertainty and even embarrassment. and ability to collaborate with others. We We Repair It would seem like being on stage see them learn to take their own space on We Offer would accentuate that. Or, is this good stage and in the world and feel the value ALL Types of “therapy”? in that and in themselves. Jewelry... plus (Most Custom Watch Battery Brand s ) Work! & Installation FatherAndSonJewelryMedford.com 6 / WWW.ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 13, 2019 / THE ROGUE VALLEY MESSENGER / 7 FEATURE A Sanctuary for Shared Experiences Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy Amrita Ramanan BY JORDAN MARIE MCCAW Late American stage becoming more self- producer and director aware, especially Zelda Fichandler once a c k n o w l e d g i n g said art is community, their privileges and as well as a personal biases,” she says. experience, spurned “I constantly am from the ideas and figuring out how dreams of the individual. best to encourage Oregon Shakespeare this practice without Festival’s Director of someone feeling Literary Development completely defeated and Dramaturgy Amrita in the process.” Ramanan acts this out She adds, “I daily through her work. additionally had Ramanan arrived to embrace that to OSF in 2016 and is challenge and conflict involved in curating are not a negative, but plays for each season. part of the process. “I was reared in the I wouldn’t accept a philosophy that theater play without conflict. should be foundationally Why would I shy PO Box 1086 rooted in social justice away from it in my Grants Pass, OR 97528 and functions as a lived experience? vehicle for the change These tools have jococulturalcoalition.org you wish to see in the supported me getting [email protected] world,” she says. “As CREDIT: COURTESY OF OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL past what’s difficult such, the integration of other and how the audience will and having the inclusion in a theater’s mission, respond to them not just in the motivation to move forward.” ...TO YOUR FAVORITE vision, and practice has always present moment, but also in the Since arriving at OSF, Ramanan been an expectation I uphold with future. “It is a holistic process has witnessed the company BUSINESSES AND every theater company I work for.” that is grounded in diversity and make equality, diversity, and SERVICES IN THE ROGUE Her history in theater began inclusion from the very beginning.” inclusion a priority within the both at Missoula Children’s Ramanan gives examples of community. Part of this priority is Specialists VALLEY AND Theater and her grandmother’s “dynamic world premieres of offered through the organization in Pediatric encouragement to study new plays that give voice to the artEquity trainings. “The company Bharatnatyam, a traditional Indian marginalized, imaginative and has grown in their cultural Dentistry dance, at a young age. She says, provocative interpretations of sensitivity and awareness and you “Both provided me with a multi- Shakespeare’s comedies and see the impactful ripple effect of faceted perspective to the cultural tragedies, contemporary plays the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion ’s diversity of the performing arts with deep, intimate storytelling trainings in our collaborative your child For the past four years, the and the intersection of art and about families, lovers, and friends culture, from season programming Messenger has hosted the community.” through time; and a popular to how we communicate with each first dental Last year she was involved musical conceptualized with an other on a regular basis,” she says. Best Of Awards in the region. in OSF productions such as inclusive vision.” This season artEquity consults and trains visit should be This year’s issue hits stands on Oklahoma!, Snow in Midsummer, especially she believes OSF has to create a sustainable inclusive and Henry V. She reads, studies, worked hard to artistically achieve community through team building, by their first March 28. Vote now for your and discusses plays to review them its inclusive values. Because the open communication, and ways to with the Artistic Director and selection of plays are diverse in approach equality as smoothly as birthday favorite restaurants, beers, Season Planning Committee. several areas, Ramanan can’t possible. weed and peeps. Voting opens Each play she considers she simply choose one she’s looking To Ramanan, theater is more thinks about how it aligns with forward to the most this season. than telling classic and well- on February 21st and closes on OSF’s values and mission, “how While her role gives her known tales; theater is a vehicle it responds to the current social opportunities to ensure voices are to represent the past, the present, March 15th. Besties announced and political climate of our nation, recognized and the community and make the audience think about in the March 28th issue. and how it celebrates a story remains inclusive, these aren’t the future. “I love the notion of the that we have intentionally or always easy goals to achieve. service of theater and believe it is Pamela J. 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sat 23 sun 24 wed 27 thurs 28 Black, White & the Academy Awards Wonders of the Drag Show 2019 Blues Live Stream Pacific Lamprey DRAG—Every college student’s dream come true must be seeing their professors dress ART—This annual event is in its 40th year FILM—Why watch the Academy Awards in TALK—Local lamprey expert Dr. Steward Reid as drag queens and kings. Especially when to raise funds for the Grants Pass Museum of jammies if the opportunity to get dressed will take listeners on a wild ride following dancing, lip syncing, and singing to win the Art, complete with a live auction, dinner, and up and go out becomes an option? This live freshwater lampreys down our Rogue Valley vote of the audience. Students will join in too, live music by Terry Robb, Ben Rice, and Karen stream of the ENTIRE event is almost like being waterways with the goal of educating, inspiring and donations will benefit the Gender and Lovely with Lisa Mann. 5 – 11:55 pm. Josephine at the Academy Awards, benefits the Ashland and entertaining the public about this unique Independent Film Festival, and includes a five- Sexual Orientation Club and the Trevor Project. County Fairgrounds, Flower Building, 1451 fish. Presentations, along with a Q&A, will course meal from Smithfields and red carpet 6:30 – 8:30 pm. RCC/SOU Higher Education Fairgrounds Road, Grants Pass. $75 each, $525 include light snacks. 5:30 – 7:30 pm. The Haul, photos. 4 – 8:30 pm. Ashland Armory, 208 Oak Center, 101 S. Bartlett Street, Medford. Free. per table of 8. 121 SW H Street, Grants Pass. Free. Street, Ashland. $115 – $880.

fri 1 - wed 6 fri 1 - mar 17 fri 1 sat 2 OSF Opening Marvin’s Room MarchFourth Rogue Valley Weekend THEATRE—Everyone’s family presents its own MUSIC—After 16 years of performing, Rumble X THEATRE—The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s set of challenges. Bessie is stuck right in the MarchFourth is pretty much a force of nature. BOXING—Featuring seven fights, this annual 2019 season promises to be quite the lineup. middle of her family’s as she seeks assistance in Twenty musicians, dancers and artists create boxing event draws talent from all over. Both Shakespeare classics and world premieres caring for her aunt and father, Marvin, as their a team that refuses to be limited to a genre Though, local Mike Wilson, defending his NABA will grace the stages of OSF, and opening health fails. The love of family prevails, as usual, or category, and they sure aren’t a traditional Cruiserweight Title, is one of the featured weekend set the tone with these selections: As but not without some humorous obstacles. 2 marching band. On March First, MarchFourth boxers, along with Victor Morales, Jr., Chris You Like It, Hairspray: The Broadway Musical, and 7:30 pm. Barnstormers Theatre, 112 NE will perform a show like no other. 8 pm. Rogue Johnson, and Abraham Martin. 7 pm. Jackson Mother Road, and Cambodian Rock Band. Evelyn Avenue, Grants Pass. $12 – $15. Theatre, 143 SE H Street, Grants Pass. $20. County Expo, 1 Peninger Road, Central Point. Check out the full schedule at osfashland.org.

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Acoustic. PHOENIX MEDFORD Blades of Grass - Black Sheep Pub & Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant. 9 pm. $5-7. GRANTS PASS GRANTS PASS The Giantess - Habanero’s Mexican Restaurant. Jeff Kloetzel - Pebblestone Cellars. 3 pm to 5 Dos Tacos - Howiee’s On Front. 9:30 pm. Funk, Restaurant. 9 pm to 11 am. Bluegrass. Rock, Folk. Steaksauce Mustache, Attic, Heated, and Rooster - Wine & Brush. 6 pm to 8:30 pm. $40. 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm. Rock. pm. Acoustic. Rock. The People’s Open Mic - Ashland Wellsprings. The Keller Sisters - Belle Fiore. 5 pm to 7 pm. FOES - The Haul. 7 pm. Metal. Latin Tuesdays with JJ Rowan - Climate City Danielle Kelly Soul Project - RoxyAnn Winery. Magic Lantern - Morrtons. 8 pm to 10 pm. 8 pm. Country, Folk. Latin Dance Night hosted by DJ Fluffy - The Brewing Company. 7 pm to 9 pm. $5. 6 pm to 8 pm. Monday, February 25 Classic rock. Manderling Quartet - Oregon Center for the Sound Lounge. 9 pm. DJ Rizlo Rinseout - The Sound Lounge. 9 pm. The God Bombs, BARK, and AL1CE - Johnny ASHLAND Gypsy Gillis - Pier 21. 9 pm. MEDFORD Arts at SOU. 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. Saucy - G Street Bar and Grill. 8 pm to 12 am. Trivia Tuesdays - Double Taps. 6 pm. B’s. 9 pm to 2 am. Hard Rock, Metal. Open Mic - Oberon’s. 9 pm to 11 pm. Open Jam - Pier 21. 8 pm. Dan Engle and Friends - Oberon’s. 6 pm. Funk, Pop. Incognito - Morrtons. 8 pm to 10 pm. Rock, Jazz. Peggy Rose - Wild Goose Cafe & Bar. 7 pm to Saturday, March 2 MEDFORD Live and Dangerous - Grape Street Bar & Grill. 8 10:30 pm. Jazz. ASHLAND PHOENIX GRANTS PASS JACKSONVILLE Ashland Blues Society - Grape Street Bar & pm. Rock. Satsang - Temple Emek Shalom. 8 pm. $15-20. Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley and Frank Solivan Welcome to Our Home Paint & Brush - The Eric Leadbetter Music - Bella Union. 8 pm. Grill. 6 pm to 9 pm. Blues. Tuesday, February 26 Folk, Rock, Hip Hop. & Dirty Kitchen - Hilltop Music. 7 pm to 10 pm. Tipsy Paintbrush. 6:15 pm to 9:15 pm. $40. Blues, Rock. Twisted Insane - The Bamboo Room at King PHOENIX ASHLAND Southern Oregon Repertory Singers - SOU $25-28. Country, Bluegrass, Blues. Saucy - G Street Bar and Grill. 8 pm to 12 am. Wah’s. 8 pm. Rap. Blue Lagoon - Wine & Brush. 6 pm to 9 pm. $45. Open Mic hosted by Robbie DaCosta - Black Music Recital Hall. 7:30 pm. $5-33. Funk, pop. PHOENIX Paint & Sip a Pottery Pint - The Growler King. Sheep Pub & Restaurant. 8:30 pm. Lost Ox - Oberon’s. 9 pm to 12 am. Progressive TALENT Holus Bolus - The Sound Lounge. 8 pm to 11 Mt. McLoughlin - Wine & Brush. 3 pm to 6 pm. 6 pm to 8 pm. $40. TALENT Pub Karaoke - Smithfields Pub & Pies. 9 pm. Rock. The Sweet Lilies - Talent Club. 9 pm. Folk, pm. Psychedelic Rock. $45. Allen Crutcher and the Ruby Slippers - Creekside Strings Jam - Black Sheep Pub & Bluegrass. DJ FiNaTTiK Late Night Dance Party - The Wednesday, March 13 Kindred Spirits. 7 pm to 9 pm. Classic Rock. GRANTS PASS Restaurant. 3 pm to 5 pm. Sound Lounge. 11 pm to 2 am. TALENT ASHLAND Strange Talent - Trium Wines. 5 pm to 7 pm. Trivia Tuesday - Double Taps. 6 pm. Thursday, March 7 Fish Out of Water - Talent Club. 8 pm to 11 pm. Blades of Grass - Black Sheep Pub & Folk, Jazz, Blues. GRANTS PASS ASHLAND JACKSONVILLE Funk, Rock, Reggae, Hip Hiop. Restaurant. 9 pm. Bluegrass. MEDFORD Antlers on Wood - The Tipsy Paintbrush. 6 pm Tom Paxton and the DonJuans - Havurah Sonic Gravity - South Stage Cellars. 6 pm. Jazz. The Brothers Reed - Belle Fiore. 5 pm to 7 pm. Saturday, February 23 aweakebutstillinbed, Sundressed, Motions, to 9 pm. $40. Synagogue. 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. $25-35. Folk. ASHLAND Sunday, March 10 Acoustic, Folk. and Alien Boy - The Bamboo Room at King Frankie Hernandez Band - Cedarwood Saloon. Jen Ambrose - Belle Fiore. 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm. MEDFORD ASHLAND Q&A Duo - Wild Goose Cafe & Bar. Jazz. 7 pm Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter - Grizzly Wah’s. 7 pm. $10. Indie Rock, Punk Rock. 9 pm. Soul, Funk, Reggae. Acoustic, Soul. Jon Galfano and Jen Ambrose - Morrton’s. 8 Benefit Concert for Mark Degroft - Ashland to 10 pm. Peak Winery. 7 pm. $20-24. Celtic Music. Design Your Own Pottery - Growler King. 5:30 Karaoke - Oberon’s. 9 pm. pm to 10 pm. Rock, Folk, Soul. Armory. 2:30 pm. $10-15. The People’s Open Mic - Jackson Wellsprings. Flat Patty - AQUA. 9 pm to 1 am. Rock, Blues, pm to 7:30 pm. $40. MEDFORD Game Knight - Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant. Pressed in Black - Howiee’s On Front. 8 pm. Ska. Celtic Music Session - Black Sheep Pub & 8 pm. BOB HAWORTH WILL PLAY AT Alternative, Country. Gypsy Gillis - Pier 21. 9 pm. 8 pm. Restaurant. 2 pm to 5 pm. BLOOMSBURY BOOKS FEB. 21. Robbie DaCosta and Tom Stamper - O’Shea’s Wednesday, February 27 Board Game Night - Astral Games. 5 pm. Jimmy Pinwheel Band - Wild Goose Cafe & Bar. PHOENIX A St Jazz Collective - Lune Cafe + Mercantile. 4 CENTRAL POINT Irish Pub. 6 pm to 9 pm. Rock. ASHLAND Ballet Folklorico - Central Medford High 8 pm to 11 pm. Honky Tonk Country. Old Year, CALYX, Summer Colds, and pm to 6 pm. Jazz. Sip & Paint Camp Oregon Board Art - Art 4 Thursday, February 21 Blades of Grass - Black Sheep Pub & School. 7 pm. $10-15. Mexican folk dance Trivia with Peter Bolton - Smithfields Pub & Whoopee Cushion - The Phoenix Clubhouse. 8 Joy. 6 pm to 9 pm. $45. ASHLAND CENTRAL POINT Restaurant. 9 pm. Bluegrass. troupe. Restaurant. 7:45 pm to 10 pm. pm. $8. Post, Pop, and Indie Rock. GRANTS PASS Rick Millward - Belle Fiore. 5:30 pm to 7:30 Sip & Paint Poppy Trio - Art 4 Joy. 5:30 pm to The People’s Open Mic - Jackson Wellsprings. Ambur Rose hosts Open Mic - The Sound GRANTS PASS Karaoke - Oberon’s. 9 pm. 8:30 pm. $40. 8 pm. PHOENIX GRANTS PASS TALENT Lounge. 8 pm to 11 pm. Paint and Sip Pottery - Visions of Wonderland. Game Knight - Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant. Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands - Hilltop Sunflower on Wood Paint & Sip - The Tipsy 100 Watt Mind & Blue Lotus - Talent Club. 9 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. $40. 8 pm. GRANTS PASS GRANTS PASS Music Shop. 7:30 pm. $25-28. Bluegrass, Singer- Paintbrush. 6:15 pm to 9:15 pm. $40. pm. Jazz, Rock. WHITE CITY Alterbeast, Continuum, and attic - The Sound Trivia Night with Peter Bolton - Smithfields The Anima Effect, Renascentia, and Friends Trivia Night - SpeakEasy Tap Room songwriter. Cosmic Strings - The Sound Lounge. 9 pm to Sonido Alegre - Kriselle Cellars. 1 pm to 4 pm. Lounge. 7 pm to 11 pm. $10. Hard Rock, Metal. Pub & Pies. 7:45 pm. Insanity’s Reign - The Sound Lounge. 9:30 pm and Wine Bar. 6:30 pm to 9 pm. Shaky Harlots, Spicy When Naked, Death 11 pm. Folk. WHITE CITY Trivia Night - SpeakEasy Tap Room & Wine Bar. Diaatom - Schneider Museum at SOU. 5 pm to to 12:30 am. Metal. Plant, and Montmany Shrieks - The Phoenix Green Mountain Guild - Kriselle Cellars. 5 pm Monday, March 11 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 6 pm. Experimental Electroacoustic. The Rogue Rascals - Climate City Brewing MEDFORD Clubhouse. 7:30 pm. $10. Garage Rock. MEDFORD to 7 pm. Folk, Soul, Pop. ASHLAND Bob Haworth - Bloomsbury Books. 7 pm. Folk. Company. 6 pm to 9 pm. Rock, Country, Open Jam - Pier 21. 8 pm. Smomid - Johnny B’s. 8 pm to 11 pm. Open Mic - Oberon’s. 9 pm. MEDFORD Bluegrass. Sunday, March 3 Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament - Astral Games. 5:30 pm. WILLIAMS Blue Notes - Wild Goose Cafe & Bar. 7 pm to 10 Indigenous Robot and The Music of Frank Karen Lovely - Josephine County Fairgrounds. CENTRAL POINT ROGUE RIVER ASHLAND Alice Dimicele - Good Medicine. 7 pm. Folk, pm. Blue Jazz. Ellis - Johnny B’s. 9 pm. Indie Rock. DEQ Fundraiser Sip & Paint - Art 4 Joy. 6 pm 7 pm. $75-525. Blues, Americana, Roots. Ladies Night with DJ Grene - Cattlemans Bar. Southern Oregon Repertory Singers - SOU TALENT Roots. Open Jam - Pier 21. 8 pm. to 9 pm. $45. 9 pm to 12 am. Music Recital Hall. 3 pm. $5-33. Blades of Grass - The Pump House. 6 pm to 8 Tuesday, March 12 JACKSONVILLE Celtic Music Session - Black Sheep Pub & pm. Bluegrass. Saturday, March 9 ASHLAND TALENT Not Too Shabby Trio - Bella Union. 8 pm to 11 GRANTS PASS Thursday, February 28 Restaurant. 2 pm to 5 pm. ASHLAND Pub Karaoke - Smithfields Pub & Pies. 9 pm. Amendola vs. Blades - Talent Club. 9 pm. Jazz, DJ FiNaTTiK’s Ladies Night - The Sound pm. Pop, Blues, Jazz. ASHLAND Paul Turnipseed Trio - Luna Cafe + Mercantile. Friday, March 8 Pat O’Scannell - O’Shea’s Irish Pub. 6 pm to Tango Practica - Ashland Community Center. Funk, Rock. Lounge. 8 pm to 12 am. Karaoke - Oberon’s. 9 pm. 4 pm to 6 pm. Jazz. ASHLAND 8:30 pm. Irish Music. 8 pm. MEDFORD Game Knight - Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant. The Juniper Berries, Slow Corpse, Derek Smokeshow - Oberon’s. 9 pm to 12 am. Indie- Lisa Sanders - Oberon’s. 8 pm. Country, Folk, Ruby Rain - Howiee’s On Front. 9:30 pm. MEDFORD 8 pm. GRANTS PASS Deon and The Vaughns, and Sleepy Jay - folk Pop. Blues. Latin Night - Grape Street Bar & Grill. 7:30 pm Country, Rock, Blues. Trivia with Peter Bolton - Smithfields Pub & Zebra Paint & Sip - Wine & Brush. 2 pm to 6 to 10 pm. $5. Dead Bird Son - Johnny B’s. 9 pm. Bluegrass. Pies. 7:45 pm. pm. $50. Forest Bailey - Johnny B’s. 9 pm. Acoustic. Danielle Kelly Soul Trio - Walkabout Brewing Sundown DJ Night - The Sound Lounge. 8 pm Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament - Astral Games. 5:30 pm. Company. 6 pm to 8 pm. Jazz, Soul. GRANTS PASS to 10 pm. True Reactions - Grape Street Bar & Grill. 8 pm Terry Lee Burns - The Sound Lounge. 8 pm to TALENT to 11 pm. Blues. 10 pm. Soul. Monday, March 4 Sweetgrass Trio - Pump House. 6:30 pm. Board Game Night - Astral Games. 5 pm. ASHLAND EVENTS Bluegrass. Darling side with River Whyless - SOU Music MEDFORD collection of exceptional regional artists. Was there Reception Feb. 15 from 5:30 pm to 8 pm. Rogue Stand-Up Open Mic - TonTon’s Artisan ROGUE RIVER Latin Night - Grape Street Bar & Grill. 7:30 pm Recital Hall. 8 pm to 10 pm. Baroque Folk Pop. ______an artist at that you loved and no longer see at the Gallery & Art Center, 40 S Bartlett St, Medford. ______Affections. 7 pm to 10 pm. Crossing Gate - Homestead Pub and to 10 pm. Open Mic - Oberon’s. 9 pm. Art gallery? Maybe you wish you had collected one of Classes Restaurant. 9 pm. Classic Rock. Sam Valdez and Rodes Rollins - Johnny B’s. 7 TSA Trio - Wild Goose Cafe & Bar. 8 pm to 10:30 Friday, February 22 SMALL WORKS AT ART & SOUL their works. Now you may have a second chance. EXOTIC AND REMOTE: PHOTOGRAPHY CERAMICS WITH LISA ELDREDGE pm to 11 pm. Americana, Indie Folk. pm. Jazz. GALLERY Join us in February for an exhibition of selected BY R.C. VASAVADA Wednesdays from 4 – 6 pm. Relaxing days call ASHLAND TALENT Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament - Astral Games. 5:30 pm. January through February. Brighten your winter works from the Hanson Howard Collection made Jan. 31 through April 2. Ravindra C. Vasavada for creative time. Spending a few hours spinning Sweetgrass Trio - AQUA. 8 pm to 10 pm. Mercy Duo - StoneRiver Vineyard. 4 pm to 6 Tuesday, March 5 days and celebrate the beginning of a New Year available for purchase at original prices. Hanson photographs nature on his hikes in Alaska, Chile, clay with Lisa Elredge at Ashland Art Center Bluegrass. pm. Soul, Blues, Pop. TALENT ASHLAND Howard Gallery, 89 Oak St, Ashland. is the perfect recipe for a Wednesday. “Learn with us at Art & Soul Gallery with our “Small Works” California, Colorado, Nepal, Norway, Oregon, Rogue Rage Jammin’ - O’Shea’s Irish Pub. 6 pm Scott Pemberton Band - Talent Club. 8 pm to Sinne Eeg with Dan Balmer - Paschal Winery. 7 Open Mic hosted by Robbie DaCosta - Black fundamental skills, get ideas for your next project, show. These small treasures will showcase the and Tibet. His photographs capture the mood of to 9 pm. Country Rock. 11 pm. $15. Surf Rock, Funk. pm to 9 pm. $20-25. Jazz. Sheep Pub & Restaurant. 8:30 pm. artistic talents of Art & Soul Gallery’s Artists, as CARL SEYBOLDT AND ROY MUSITELLI collaborate, or work on your own during this drop- each region, its simplicity, beauty, grandeur, and Perry Road - Belle Fiore. 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The Sam Chase & The Untraditional - Talent Gus Clark & The Least of His Problems - Wild we present original art in a variety of genre and AT ART DU JOUR in session.” The class accepts anyone 13 and older. immensity. Berryman Gallery at Craterian Theater, Southern Rock. Sunday, February 24 Club. 8 pm to 11 pm. Folk. Goose Cafe & Bar. 8 pm to 11 pm. Country, media. Art & Soul Gallery, 247 E Main St, Ashland. Carl Seyboldt as guest artist in the Salon through Ashland Art Center, 357 E Main St. Dan Engle and Friends - Oberon’s. 6 to 9 pm. ASHLAND Americana. February and March, while AdJ member Roy 23 S Central Ave, Medford. Celtic Music Session - The Black Sheep Pub & Friday, March 1 Pub Karaoke - Smithfields Pub & Pies. 7 to 9 pm. ASHLAND LIBRARY ART SALON Musitelli will be featured artist. Carl specializes SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP CENTRAL POINT Restaurant. 2 pm to 5 pm. ASHLAND Tango Practica - Ashland Community Center. 8 Sunday, February 24 at 2 pm. Richard Krieger is a in painting and drawing wildlife, western scenes MILLIE WHIPPLESMITH PLANK AND Thursdays from 3 - 5 pm. Work on your Spanish Sip & Paint Poppy the Pig - Art 4 Joy. 6 pm to Daniel Nickels - Oberon’s. 7 pm. Acoustic, Folk. Daniel Nickels - Pony Espresso. 5 pm. Acoustic. pm to 9:30 pm. fine art photographer. His photography reflects and historical subject matter. He has completed CHRISTIAN BURCHARD AT HANSON speaking skills in a comfortable setting at a 9 pm. $40. Stardust Trio - Luna Cafe + Mercantile. 4 pm to Dan Engle and Friends - Oberon’s. 6 pm. a lifetime of learning about images, color, light a series of limited edition prints of the famous HOWARD GALLERY meeting for those learning Spanish. This group is 6 pm. Jazz. Student Showcase - Oregon Center for the GRANTS PASS and shadow, and textures. In his photography, he Wells Fargo Stagecoach line. A member of AdJ March 1 through April 2. Opening reception for English speakers learning Spanish, and does GRANTS PASS Arts at SOU. 12:20 pm to 1:30 pm. Bohemian Elephant Sip & Paint - Wine & captures beauty as if he were a painter. Traveling since 2016, Roy’s foundation in journalism keeps March 1 from 5 - 8 pm. Millie Whipplesmith not provide practice for Spanish speakers learning English. The group welcomes new participants Jen Ambrose & the Fantastics - The Laughing JACKSONVILLE Brush. 6 pm to 8:30 pm. $40. widely to encounter unique, exotic, and intriguing him in touch with the news of our day which is Plank’s work is informed by her cattle ranching often reflected in his artwork. In an effort to shed interested in increasing fluency in Spanish through Clam. 7 pm to 10 pm. Blues, Country, Soul. Dayton - Schoolhaus Brewhaus. 12 pm to 2:30 CENTRAL POINT Latin Tuesdays - Climate City Brewing landscapes, people, and cultures, the world and heritage. It celebrates biodiversity and the the photographer-turned-artist label for at least casual conversation. Guanajuato Room of Ashland Bass Night - Cedarwood Saloon. 9 pm. DJ, pm. Gypsy Jazz. Sip & Paint Wish Come True - Art 4 Joy. 6 pm Company. 7 pm to 9 pm. nature are his canvas. Krieger will concentrate on preservation of open spaces. Rich colors, simple Library, 410 Siskiyou Blvd. Dance. his recent photographic journey through Bhutan, one month, Roy’s featured wall exhibit will be to 9 pm. $45. Trivia Tuesdays - Double Taps. 6 to 7:30 pm. shapes, and the nostalgia of traditional woodblock Craig Wright and the Understanding - The MEDFORD and discuss his evolution as a photographer, dedicated entirely to illustrations that have come from his drawing board of ideas. Art du Jour, 213 E prints combines with the energy and texture TUTORIAL TUESDAYS Sound Lounge. 9:30 pm to 12:30 am. Rick Millward, Jen Ambrose, and Alissa contrasting images from his “early non-digital GRANTS PASS Wednesday, March 6 Main St, Medford. of spontaneous line. Christian Burchard works Join fellow genealogy researchers at the Jackson Weaver - RoxyAnn Winery. 3 pm to 5 pm. days” to his present work. Ashland Library, 210 MacFourth - Rogue Theatre. 8 pm to 11 pm. Radim Zenkl - House Concert. 7 pm. $15- exclusively with Madrone burl. Beginning each County Genealogy Library––learn to access the JACKSONVILLE Acoustic, Soul. Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland. Dance, Soul. $20. 20. Call (541) 301-5306 for reservations and AN OREGON LOVE STORY: piece while wet, he shapes it freehand with a Library’s websites, use them effectively, and Fourth Friday Open Mic - Pony Espresso. 5 pm Aethereus, The Odious Construct, and Lost Ox - The Sound Lounge. 9:30 pm to 12:30 directions. Mandolin. 40TH ANNIVERSARY AT HANSON WATERCOLORS BY BETTY BARSS chainsaw, bandsaw or sawmill then lets the piece improve research skills. Each webinar is shown to 8:30 pm. Disymbolic - The Bamboo Room at King Wah’s. am. Rock, Country. HOWARD GALLERY Jan. 18 through March 1. Rogue Valley artist Betty dry. As the moisture leaves the wood it begins twice, at 5 pm and again 7 pm. Webinars FREE 7 pm to 10 pm. $5. Metal. Frankie Hernandez Band - Cedarwood Saloon. ASHLAND for Rogue Valley Genealogical Society members, Feb. 1 through Feb. 26. Opening Reception Feb. 1 Barss is an accomplished and versatile watercolor to contract, transforming into elegant, often MEDFORD Sip & Paint - Common Block. 2 pm to 4 pm. $40. 9 pm. Soul, Funk, Reggae. The Brothers Reed - Cabaret. 8 pm to 10 pm. $5 non-members. Jackson County Genealogy from 5 pm to 8 pm. 2019 is our 40th anniversary. artist. This exhibit showcases a wide range of surprising forms. Jeff Kloetzel - The Rogue Grape. 6 pm to 9 pm. Acoustic, Folk. Over the years the gallery has amassed a healthy subjects from her beloved state of Oregon. Library, 3405 S. Pacific Highway, Medford. For more 12 / WWW.ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 13, 2019 / THE ROGUE VALLEY MESSENGER / 13 EVENTS EVENTS than they did 100 years ago. What is the impact and draw cartoons. Lessons and all skill levels. No SHADY COVE LIBRARY EVENTS to reserve your spot and get more info on carpool of sleep deprivation to the level it’s reached in supplies needed. The Point Pub & Grill, 311 E Pine APPLEGATE LIBRARY EVENTS Dungeons & Dragons After Hours CERAMICS FOR KIDS WITH LIZ and what to bring! our society, and what are some ways to combat St, Central Point. Nesting Season in Your Backyard, Saturday, Sundays from 2 pm to 6:30 pm. O’BRIEN it? Please join us for this session which will be March 2 from 1 - 2 pm. Learn about bird nesting, Friends of Shady Cove Library Book Sale Mondays from 3:30 pm to 5 pm. A fun way for kids SISQ ROLLERZ WOLF PACK VS. facilitated by Matt Vogel. Siskiyou School, 632 Clay ROGUE VALLEY TIMBERS 3RD including avian architecture, choosing appropriate Fridays from 10 am to 5 pm. to explore the world of clay! Ages five to six must EMERALD CITY ROLLER DERBY St, Ashland. ANNUAL BEER AND BENEVOLENCE nesting boxes, nesting season stages, bird bring a supervising adult for their first class. Ages Saturday, February 23 at 5:30 pm. Come cheer on EVENT behavior and how to deal with potential predators TALENT LIBRARY EVENTS seven to 12 may come unaccompanied by adult. your local Sis-Q Rollerz Wolf Pack in their 2019 MEDICARE WORKSHOP Friday, February 22 from 6 - 9 pm. $50. Purchase and problems with Laura Fleming of Wild Birds Classical Recorder Group 18+ YRS All parents must sign their children in, pay prior Season Opener vs Emerald City Roller Derby at the Tuesday, February 26 at 4 pm. The workshop tickets at evenbrite.com. Bigham Knoll Campus Unlimited. Bring your recorder and join in the musical to class and leave emergency contact info with Wolf Den! You won’t want to miss this amazing, will explain Medicare Parts A and B, and explore Ballroom, 525 Bigham Knoll Dr, Jacksonville. Second Saturday Arts and Crafts, Sat, March 9 from fun with a group that plays primarily classical Ashland Art Center. Cost: $10 for drop-ins, plus hard hitting action! Get your tickets from your options with Medicare Advantage Plans and 11 am to 12 pm. Make seasonal crafts to share for selections. An ability to read music is necessary. $3 firing fee. Ashland Art Center, 357 E Main St, favorite derby player, or thearcjackson.org. Cost: Medicare Supplements. Participants will also SECRETS AND MYSTERIES AT THE St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, and Mother’s Day. Tuesdays from 12 pm to 1 pm. Ashland. $8-10. SisQ Rollerz Wolf Def, 649 Crater Lake, Ave, learn how prescription drug plans work, how to BEEKMAN BANK Medford. get help with the cost of prescription drugs and March 1 and 2 at 6 pm, 7 pm, and 8 pm. Begun ASHLAND LIBRARY EVENTS WHITE CITY LIBRARY EVENTS KIDS CLAY WITH KEELEY BITTNER how Medicare works with the VA. The workshop is by C.C. Beekman as a gold dust office in 1856 Movie & Popcorn Yarnia!, 8+ YRS Tuesdays from 3:30 pm to 5 pm. A special clay PROTECT ENDANGERED SPECIES AT available at no charge. To register, call Futurity First and moved in 1863 to its current location at 110 Last Wednesday of each month at 2 pm. Wednesdays from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. class created just for kids! Join clay instructor FRENCH FLAT MEADOW at (541) 973-2100, Ext. 1. Club Northwest, 2160 NW W. California Street in Jacksonville, Beekman saw February 27: The story of two men—the great Learn to knit, crochet, or do needlework. Supplies Keeley Bittner for a special clay class tailored just Thursday, Friday 21 from 10 am to 4 pm. Help your Vine St, Grants Pass. over $40 million in gold cross his counters during Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers provided. For all levels. for young people. Explore the medium and make local Bureau of Land Management with a habitat Jacksonville’s heyday in the 1800s—equivalent GM Branch Rickey—whose brave stand against Library Bingo, 6+ YRS some cool stuff! Max 10 students. Cost: $10 for restoration project at French Flat Area of Critical BEGINNING PRINTMAKING WITH to almost $1 billion in today’s currency! Regional prejudice forever changed the world by changing Saturday, March 16 from 2 pm to 3 pm. drop-ins, plus $3 firing fee. Ashland Art Center, 357 Environmental Concern (ACEC), which is home MIDGE BLACK historian Ben Truwe pursues secrets lost with the game of baseball. (2013/128m/PG-13) Join us for a family friendly good time. Win prizes: E Main St, Ashland. to a large meadow with a population of federally Feb. 16 and 17 from 9 am 1 pm. Beginning the last Beekman in 45-minute candlelight tours books, gift certificates, swim passes, and much endangered Lomatium cookii, or Cook’s Desert printmaking. Learn to use tools to make a beginning at 6, 7, and 8 p.m. each tour night. CENTRAL POINT LIBRARY EVENTS more! KIDS’ MUSIC JAM Parsley. The BLM plans to build a fence along the linoleum and foam core prints. Materials are Bring a flashlight to make your own discoveries! LEGO Builders, Architects, & Engineers, 4+ YRS Tuesday, February 26 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 property boundary between the private property available in the Art Center supply store. Cost: $110. Cost: $5. Call Historic Jacksonville, Inc. at 541-245- Tuesdays from 3 pm to 4:30 pm. PROJECT FEEDERWATCH pm. This is an inclusive class for children and the BLM protected botanical meadow, and To learn more and register, go to ashlandartcenter. 3650 or e-mail [email protected] to Build and display your own creations. DUPLO Saturday, March 2 and 16 from 9 am to 10 pm. ages four to 10 to experience music, dance, needs help in getting fence materials to the site, com. Ashland Art Center, 357 E Main St, Ashland. make a reservation. bricks available for younger kids. Help count birds visiting the feeders at North singing, storytelling and playing games. PRE- since it can’t be accessed via a road. Follow https:// Kids’ After-School Chess Club, 6+ YRS Mountain Park while learning to identify them REGISTRATION AT ashland.or.us/register is www.kswild.org/upcoming-events/2018/11/26/ DEMYSTIFY VEGETABLE GARDENING BEHIND ENEMY LINES: AN EVENING Thursdays from 3:30 pm to 5 pm. with expert birders. The information collected required. Cost: $30. The Grove, Ottemon Room, be-a-steward-to-an-endangered-species to sign WITH A SPRING SEED TO SUPPER WITH A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR will be submitted to Cornell University’s project 1195 E Main St, Ashland. up and learn the location of the project. CLASS Thursday, February 24 at 7 pm. The anniversary of EAGLE POINT LIBRARY EVENTS FeederWatch, a nationwide citizen-science bird- Wednesday, March 13 through April 17 from Kristallnacht, considered the first main event of LEGO Builders, Architects, & Engineers, 4+ YRS monitoring effort. Program takes place alternate UKULELE CAMP FOR KIDS ______2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. Whether you live in an the Holocaust, comes as the Jewish community is Wednesdays from 1 pm to 3:30 pm. Saturdays, November - March. Pre-registration Wednesdays from Feb. 16 through March 23. Ages Stage apartment or on acreage, learn low-cost once again in mourning - this time after an armed not required for this free program. Call the 5-6 class is held from 12:30 pm to 1 pm. For ages gardening techniques for building, planning, man opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue GOLD HILL LIBRARY EVENTS Nature Center for more information at 541-488- 6-7 classes held 1 pm to 2:15 pm. The Ukulele OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL planting, maintaining, and harvesting a successful in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed in Oregon Outcast, John Beeson: Indian Rights 6606. North Mountain Park Nature Center, 620 N classes will be taught by Tish McFadden of Rum March through October. Hairspray: The Broadway MIDGE BLACK WILL TEACH STUDENTS THE ART OF PRINTMAKING summer vegetable garden from Jackson County what is being described as the worst anti-Semitic Activist, 18+ YRS Mountain Ave, Ashland. Tum School of Music. A recital will be held at the Musical. Macbeth. Cambodian Rock Band. All’s FEB. 16 AND 17 AT ASHLAND ART CENTER. Master Gardener Association members. Contact attack in American history. 98-year-old Holocaust Saturday, March 2 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm. end of the camp. Scholarship forms available at Well That Ends Well. As You Like It. How to Catch Master Gardener Dee Copley at deecopley@live. survivor Marthe Cohn became a member of the Jan Wright shares about the career of one of _ _ Ashland Art Center. Ashland Art Center, 357 E Main Creation. Between Two Knees. Mother Road. information call 541-512-2340, email reception. $20 non-members. To register call 541-512-2340, com, call/text (541) 601-4374, or visit https:// intelligence service of the French First Army and Oregon’s first human rights activists. Kids & Family St, Ashland. Alice in Wonderland. Indecent. La Comedia of [email protected], or stop by the Genealogy email [email protected], or stop by the jacksoncountymga.org/seeds-to-supper/. OSU was able to retrieve inside information about Movie Classics & More: Women’s History Month Errors. Visit osfashland.org for tickets and more Library. Genealogy Library. Jackson County Genealogy Extension Office, 569 Hanley Rd, Central Point. Nazi troop movements by slipping behind enemy Mondays, March 4, 11, 18 & 25 at 1 pm. JUNIOR ROGUE BASEBALL CLUB _ _ information. Library, 3405 S Pacific Hwy, Medford. lines. Cost: $15. Southern Oregon University Music Watch films related to Women’s History Month. TRYOUT AND CAMP Sports & Outdoor SHORT POSE FIGURE DRAWING WITH Recital Hall, 450 S Mountain Ave, Ashland. See jcls.org for film listings. Feb. 16 and Feb. 17. The first of 4 spring camps will BEEHIVE: THE 60s MUSICAL ANN DI SALVO LEARNING LINOCUTS w/ VANESSA JO ______take place at Harry and David Field and Charter MOUNTAIN BIKING IN JACKSONVILLE Jan. 31 through March 31. “Beehive: the 60’s Community Wednesdays, 6 pm, year-round. Cycle Analysis Musical” recalls the days of miniskirts, transistor Mondays from 10 am to 12:30 pm. Uninstructed Wednesdays in March from 5 - 7 pm. In this 17TH ANNUAL ENTREPRENEUR EXPO JACKSONVILLE LIBRARY EVENTS Field at US Cellular Community Park. Both a hosts an all ages, two hour group Mountain radios and flower power. Told from the perspective Short Pose Figure Drawing moderated by Ann introductory printmaking series, learn the BALLROOM DANCING Saturday, March 9 from noon - 4 pm. The Meet with a Veterans’ Service Officer (VSO) general skills camp and a tryout camp for all ages. Bike ride on the Britt Trails in Jacksonville and of six young women who came of age in this DiSalvo This weekly gestures figure drawing fundamentals of relief printing by creating Every Tuesday from 1:30 pm to 4 pm with lessons Entrepreneur Expo is a trade show featuring local Wednesday, March 6 from 11 am to 3 pm. For more information please contact the Medford John’s Peak, which has over 200 miles of trail. enigmatic decade, now taking a look back on session has short and long poses up to 25 linoleum block prints, aka Linocuts. No previous starting at 12:30 pm. Every week Square Dance businesses for customers in the Rogue Valley. Meet with an accredited representative for counsel Rogues front office at (541) 973-2883 or visit www. Come enjoy good food, friends, and a great ride. a host of issues ranging from their first Beehive minutes. Drop In. Unclothed model. Adults only. experience is required to participate but some Hall is not only teaching the public how to Last year, the event showcased 65 local vendor/ & assistance in obtaining Veterans benefits. medfordrogues.com/camps. Harry & David Field, Everyone is welcome. Helmets mandatory at Dance to the challenges we faced as a nation. Bring your own non-toxic materials. Cost: $9 for basic art skills would be helpful. Along with ballroom dance, but is opening its doors to invite exhibitors and hundreds of visitors. Free and 2929 S Pacific Hwy, Medford. all times, lights in the winter. Cycle Analysis in Featuring music from Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, members, $10 for non-members. Ashland Art their newly acquired knowledge, students walk everyone to enjoy the dance together. Lessons open to the public. Men, women, and families MEDFORD LIBRARY EVENTS Jacksonville, 535 N Fifth St. www.cycleanalysis. Tina Turner, Diana Ross, and Dusty Springfield. Center, 357 E Main St, Ashland. away with a full set of carving tools and linoleum Cost: $3. Live music by Dave Flick. Square Dance are welcome. Join in the fun, including goodie Lunchtime Movies & Popcorn NINJAKIDS net. Free. Cost: $25-39. Go to oregoncabaret.com for more blocks. Cost: $160. To register go to https://www. Hall, 3377, Table Rock Rd, Medford. bags and prize drawings. Find out more at Select Wednesdays at 12:00 pm. Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 pm to 5 pm. POTTERY AND HAND BUILDING WITH ashlandartcenter.org/event/learning-linocuts- www.wesoweb.org. Inn at the Commons, 200 N February 27: Based on a story by Ernest Cline and Children walk away from this class with a tough information. Cabaret, 241 Hargadine St, Ashland. LIZ O’BRIEN AND JEFF EDWARDS with-vanessa-jo-bahr/2019-03-06/. Ashland Art RCC OFFERS FREE DENTAL X-RAYS Riverside, Medford. set in a dystopia in 2044, protagonist Wade Watts workout under his and her belt and having MOVING TARGET 4D ARCHERY searches for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual developed basic Ninjutsu skills. This class is not Wednesdays from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. Featuring FRAGMENTS Tuesdays from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Beginners to Center, 357 E Main St, Ashland. Jan. 18 through March 22. The RCC Dental reality game, the discovery of which will lead him only to teach children these, but also to build self moving targets/4D archery. Beginner’s welcome. March 7 through March 17. Rogue Theater advanced ceramicists looking for greater aesthetic Assisting program is looking for patients who MADRONE TRAIL’S 2ND ANNUAL to inherit the game creator’s fortune. (2018/140m/ esteem, encourage exercising, and discipline. All equipment supplied. Multi-session rates Company’s first production, “Fragments,” is written achievement. Both throwing on the wheel and SUSTAINABLE SOIL SOLUTIONS qualify to get X-rays between. A qualifying patient ANNUAL MONTE CARLO NIGHT PG-13) The first week is free. Cost: $50. Rogue Protection available. For ages 15 and up. More info at www. by Jessica Sage and directed by Liisa Ivary. Set hand-building techniques and covers attachments Tuesday, March 5 at 6 pm. Gain an understanding must have at least 24 fully erupted teeth (visible Saturday, March 9 from 5:30 - 11 pm. Put on your Group, 2185 #A1, Spalding Ave, Grants Pass. MoonbowArchery.com. The Grove, 1195 E Main St, on Long Island in 1977, the story explores the of all sorts, advice on storage and maintaining of sustainable and regenerative management and present in the mouth), be at least 18 years old, best dress (or pants as the case may be), grab your Ashland. strained and combative relationship between works in progress as well as glazing and finishing techniques and practices aimed at cultivating and be eligible for a full-mouth X-ray. This usually friends and join us for another fun Auction Night PHOENIX LIBRARY EVENTS a mother and her teenage daughter. Further pieces. We have 8 wheels available, first come, first and caring for Healthy Soil. Learn to identify means you have NOT had a full-mouth X-ray in the to support Madrone Trail Public Charter School. Phoenix Films: Foxes and Hares FAMILY FUN ARCHERY complications are the intricacies of sexuality, serve. Cost: $15. Ashland Art Center, 357 E Main St, what Healthy Soil is, and its connection to last three years. For more information about free Enjoy Dinner, Drinks, Live and Silent Auctions, and Tuesdays at 2:45 pm. Mondays from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Featuring AFTER-SCHOOL LACROSSE Wednesdays and Fridays, Feb. 27 through March betrayal, and loss, as the family unravels. Ashland. growing healthy food, carbon sequestration, dental X-rays, please contact Carmen Mons at 541- Dancing with DJ Opie! Buy play cash to use at the February 26: A slacker named Fred adopts a rabbit moving targets/4D archery. Beginner’s welcome. 22, and April 3 through April 26 from 3:30 pm to Interspersed with humor and poignancy, water conservation, ecosystem restoration to be 245-7750 or [email protected]. To learn more tables. Games include Craps, Roulette, and Black (voiced by Russell Brand) that jumps in front of his All equipment supplied. Family rates. For INTERMEDIATE ACRYLIC PAINTING applied to all scales from the backyard garden about the dental assisting program by visiting Jack. Cost: $40-50. For information go to https:// car, and it turns out this particular creature is next ages 8 and up. Children required to shoot 5 pm. Join SOU lacrosse club players and coaches “Fragments” reflects the challenges of love in all in line to become the Easter Bunny and doesn’t with a supervising adult. More info at www. to learn about one of the fastest growing sports in its forms. Cost: $15-25. Tickets available online Tuesdays, April 16 through May 21 from 10:45 and landscape, on up to large pasture or farm www.roguecc.edu/dental. www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome. want the job.(2011/93m/PG) MoonbowArchery.com. The Grove, 1195 E Main St, the country! Limited supplies of gear are available roguetheatercompany.com, and at Paddington am to 12:45 pm. Continue your studies in acrylic properties. Cost: $15. Register at https://www. action?vhost=mti. Schoolhaus Brewhaus, 525 Ashland. for participants. PRE-REGISTRATION AT ashland. Station and the Music Coop in Ashland. Bellview painting techniques ranging from nature studies, eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-soil-solutions- DRAG SHOW 2019 Bigham Knoll Dr, Jacksonville. or.us/register is required. Ages: seven to 14. Cost: Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Rd, Ashland. landscape, figures and still life. Instructor-led tickets-54624064046 or call (541) 423-6167. Thursday, February 28 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ROGUE RIVER LIBRARY EVENTS $40. Ashland Middle School, 100 Walker Ave, studies as well as the opportunity for students to Jackson County Soil & Water Conservation District, This gender-bending deejayed event will feature PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT Showing Up: What Does it Mean to Belong to a DINOS AT THE LIBRARY Ashland. BODYLOGUES follow their own interests with individual support. 89 Alder St, Central Point. RCC students and faculty as drag queens and FUNDRAISING FOR CASA Community?, 18+ YRS Digging Dinos with John Jackson of Bugs-R-Us Wednesday, March 6 at 6 pm. Come to the PRE-REGISTRATION AT ashland.or.us/register is kings who will dance, lip sync, and sing to win Saturday, February 23 from 3 pm to 6 pm. We are Oregon Humanities Conversation Project Go back in time to learn about dinosaurs! Explore BODYlogues, a variety show of inspiring required. Please call 541.488.5340 for a supply list. REALIZING THE AMERICAN DREAM the audience’s vote. RCC/SOU Higher Education students from SOU raising money to help a local Saturday, March 2 from 12 pm to 1 pm. real fossils, teeth, claws, and imitation skin. At the BEGINNING PICKLEBALL Feb. 26 and March 24 from 10 am to 12 pm and and powerful original monologues, poems, Cost: $99. The Grove, 1195 E Main St, Ashland. Saturday, February 23 from 9 am to 5 pm. This Center, Room 129B, 101 S Bartlett St, Medford. charity through a silent art auction and giveaway. Being part of a community is an essential need conclusion of the program, participants will get to April 27 from 9 am to 11 am. Students will learn photography, and music that celebrates bodies class is for people who are interested in buying With your help, we can make a difference in for all of us. It is a place where we find others who do a dinosaur fossil dig and take home whatever CPR CERTIFICATION CLASSES their first home and getting information that can 1932 BEEKMAN HOUSE LIVING the lives of our local youth; they are our future. share common ground, and where our values and (or whomever!) they find. Registration required. the basic skills and strategies to play this new and while exploring issues of race, gender, sexuality, identities are reflected. Join facilitator Chi Mei Tam Saturday, February 23 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm at popular game! You will learn proper techniques. ability, size, and health. Doors open at 5:30. The Saturday, March 16 at the Riverside Campus assist them with that. Cost: $45. Pre-registration is MYSTERY Growler Guys, 345 Lithia Way, Ashland. in this conversation to explore what it means to be the White City Library, 3143 Avenue C. All equipment will be provided. Pre-registration BODYlogues will be accepting packaged hygiene from 9 am to 3 pm. Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR required. For more information, email or call the Saturday, February 23 at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1 part of a community. at ashland.or.us/register is required. Cost: $20 per items for SOU Food Pantry. Email the bodylogues@ Instructor Training provides training for students Homeownership Center at ACCESS at hocinfo@ pm, and 3 pm. Cornelius Beekman was the most 13TH ANNUAL FIRST CRUSH session. Lithia Park Tennis Courts. sou.edu with any questions. Stevenson Union, already holding BCS provider status to become accesshelps.org or (541) 774-4305. To register call prominent and wealthy of Jacksonville’s pioneers. Saturday, March 2 from 4 pm to 7 pm. A Fun PRESCHOOL PUPPET THEATER 1118 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland. CPR instructors. Cost: $375. RCC at (541) 956-7303 or online at www.roguecc. With the help of family and friends, his children evening with Silent Auction and Music! You can RUCH LIBRARY EVENTS Second Friday of each month: March 8, April 12,

edu/ce. Rogue Community College, HEC Building, are now closing up their 1873 Jacksonville home, experience the great restaurants, wineries and LEGO Builders, Architects, & Engineers, 4+ YRS and May 10 from 10:30 am to 11:45 am. See what HIKE THE WELLINGTON WILDLANDS THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES NAVIGATING THE NEW “FIND-A- 117 S Central Ave, Medford. going through family belongings, commenting on breweries that our valley has to offer all in one Saturdays from 11 am to 4 pm. Trickster Coyote and friends are up to this season. Saturday, February 23 from 9:30 am to 1 pm. Saturday, March 2 at 2 pm and 8 pm. A group of GRAVE” WEBSITE current events, and sharing memories of life in the place! Profits benefit organizations that support Build and display your own creations. DUPLO A brief nature lesson followed by the puppet This trail is a portion of the proposed Applegate bricks available for younger kids. show and play time. A snack and related craft/ Ridge Trail, which would lead from Grants Pass to performers from the Rogue Valley have come Thursday, February 28 from 10:30 am to 12:30 SLEEP REVISITED late 1800s. Cost: $5-8. Beekman House Museum, children and families in Josephine County: Hiking in the Applegate Valley activity available. Reservations are guaranteed Ruch, where it would link with the Jack-Ash Trail together to offer a fresh take on The Vagina pm. Did you know the website www.findagrave. Tuesday, March 5 from 6:30 pm to 8 pm. With a 470 E California St, Jacksonville. Josephine County Food Bank, ROC, Boys and Saturday, March 2 • 1:00–3:00 p.m. only until 10:30am. Space and parking is limited connecting Jacksonville and Ashland. The BLM is Monologues. Teaming up with aerial performers com has been completely overhauled? Let Rich surge of research in the sleep domain, we will Girls Club, Youth Exchange, Scholarships, BMX, Learn about Applegate Valley hiking trails with (no late seating). Children must be accompanied considering logging here as part of the Middle from Levity Circus Collective, this year’s production Miles answer all your questions! Learn how to examine the impacts on academics, physical CARTOONING AND BREWS Kids Care Fare, and Women’s Crisis Center. Cost: Janeen Sathre, fifth generation Applegater and co- by an adult. PRE-REGISTRATION AT ashland.or.us/ Applegate Timber Sale, which, if successful, would of the beloved monologues will include additional navigate the new site, search for your ancestors, health, brain development, athletic performance, Wednesday, February 27 at 6 pm. Instructor $45. Purchase tickets at FirstCrushtickets.com. author of Favorite Hikes of the Applegate. register is required. Cost: $6 per child. North cease this area’s status as land with wilderness cirque performances and selections of live music. create memorials for your loved ones, and connect and mental health. It is estimated that children Curt Evans will facilitate this adults-only event Josephine County Fairgrounds, 1451 Fairgrounds Mountain Park, 620 N Mountain Ave, Ashland. characteristics forever. Sign up at kswild.org today In the spirit of artistic community, this year’s memorials of family members! $10 for members, are now sleeping two fewer hours per night involving cartoons, beer, and fun. Have a beer Rd, Grants Pass. 14 / WWW.ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 13, 2019 / THE ROGUE VALLEY MESSENGER / 15 EVENTS EVENTS Oregon Historical announce the topics and AUTHOR TEHLOR MEJIA BOOK with lemon caper tartar sauce, potatoes au gratin, commitment of global volunteers, including speakers for the 2019 Windows in Time lecture RELEASE SOUTHERN OREGON and a mixed green salad with herb vinaigrette. individuals from the Rogue Valley. Southern series. The hour-long presentations are held at the Thursday, February 28 from 5 pm to 7 pm. Tehlor is CLIMATE ACTION Cost: $10. To make a reservation, call (541) 535- Oregon University, Rogue River Room, 1250 Medford Library on the first Wednesday of each an Oregon native in love with the alpine meadows NOW MEETING 7957. Paschal Winery, 1122 Suncrest Rd, Talent. Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland. month and the Ashland Library on the second and evergreen forests of her home state. Her Tuesday, February 26 at 6 Wednesday. Fire And Flood: Disasters In The Rogue debut YA fantasy novel “We Set the Dark on Fire” pm. While many of us think 15TH ANNUAL OREGON CHOCOLATE ______Valley. March 6 and 13 with Ron Brown. is a beautiful fantasy story about Daniela Vargas, of insects as mere bugs to FESTIVAL Wellness a young woman from the fringes of society be swatted, there is more March 8 through March 10. There’s so much to love REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE & who hides her identity in order to become a to this class of animals than about the Oregon Chocolate Festival! Each year COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER SUSTAINABLE GARDENING distinguished young woman in a society where just being our enemies. the festival features the dreamy, mouth-watering The Community Counseling Center offers low Tuesday, February 26 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 birthplace means everything. But when Dani Indeed, without insects creations of dozens of West Coast chocolatiers. cost, sliding-scale, professional counseling for pm. Regenerative agriculture and sustainable is blackmailed she will be forced to decide. Is pollinating our crops, we’d These food artisans present a variety of fine individuals, couples, adolescents, families and gardening are holistic methods of growing Privilege and status worth the freedom to be all be going hungrier. chocolates and chocolate-inspired products children. The CCC is located at 600 Siskiyou Blvd, plants in ways that encourage biodiversity, build herself? Oregon Books, 150 NE E St, Grants Pass. And without butterflies that tease the taste buds of over 1500 visitors. Ashland. Cost: $40. Visit www.cccofashland.com soil health and protect watersheds to improve gracing our flowerbeds, Chocoholics up and down the west coast dream or call 541-708-5436 for more information and to the habitat we all live in. We’ll explore tangible WONDERS OF THE PACIFIC LAMPREY especially monarchs–– about this weekend every year! Cost: $15-80. To purchase tickets. The Phoenix Clubhouse, 310 N strategies to manage your garden as part of a Wednesday, February 27 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. an important indicator see a list of events and learn more, go to http:// Main St, Phoenix. bigger ecological system and practice methods Dr. Stewart Reid, the region’s expert on Lamprey, species for changes in www.oregonchocolatefestival.com/. Ashland Hills that will enhance ecosystem services. P-re- will talk about this fascinating species and their our ecosystem––we’d Hotel & Suites, 2525 Ashland St, Ashland. NEW YOGA CLASS WITH WOLF registration at ashland.or.us/register is required. importance to our local rivers and ecology. be esthetically much the PURNANANDA North Mountain Park, 620 N Mountain Ave, poorer. At the meeting Stewart has spent years studying the species and 23RD ANNUAL FRENCH DINNER Wednesdays from 8 am to 9:30 am. Wolf’s Ashland. is a dynamic speaker who has an obvious passion we will explore what is Thursday, February 28 at 6:30 pm. The dinner is enthusiasm for healing infuses his Yoga teachings. for this misunderstood fish. The Haul, 121, SW H St, happening to insects and intended to promote French culture on campus He teaches Hatha based classes focused on AUTHOR DENNIS POWERS AT Grants Pass. why. Medford Library, 205 S and in the community. The dinner is organized foundational alignment and connection within. BLOOMSBURY BOOKS Central Ave, Medford. by the university’s French Club, with the help Thursday, February 21 at 7 pm. The book by POLITICAL REPRESSION IN THE ERA of student union staff, and French and other His Yoga and Meditation classes are designed to Dennis Powers, “Where Past Meets Present,” is OF CLIMATE CRISIS AUTHOR TEHLOR MEJIA WILL BE AT OREGON DIVINELY INSPIRED international students. The dinner will begin with not only advance your practice physically, but to tap into the emotional, mental and energetic about and subtitled, “The Amazing People, Places Wednesday, February 27 from 6 pm to 7 pm. Join BOOKS FEB. 28 TO DEBUT HER NEW BOOK SOBRIETY soup, followed by a palate cleanser, quiche, salad & Stories of Southern Oregon.” It highlights Civil Liberties Defense Center Executive Director, “WE SET THE DARK ON FIRE.” Tuesday, MArch 12 at 7 pm. and cheese, French bread, dessert and coffee or bodies. He completes his classes with sound from town histories and standout nonprofits Lauren Regan, and investigative journalist, Will In this highly interactive tea. Vegetarian options are available for the soup healings and meditation techniques. Wolf’s classes to the creative geniuses, athletes, and movers Parrish as they survey the landscape of anti- discussion group, sober and quiche courses. Whole tables of eight can be have been described as, “Healings…sprinkled and shakers that make our region stand out. pipeline struggles in North America. Talent ______life coach Mark Gibson will explain how he grew reserved by contacting Marianne Golding, an SOU with yoga.” Cost: $15 per class. Family Massage Bloomsbury Books, 290 E Main St, Ashland. Community Center, 208 E Main St, Talent. Meetings to become spiritually empowered to achieve foreign languages professor and faculty advisor to Education Center, 77 Manzanita St, Ashland. Amid spiraling climate disasters, fossil fuel RCC MASSAGE THERAPY PROGRAM complete indifference to alcohol. “It’s about the French Club, at [email protected]. Cost: $9-13. BERRY KRAFT AT BLOOMSBURY pipeline construction in at least two dozen US MEETINGS choosing one’s spiritual commitment instead Southern Oregon University, Rogue River Room, WELLNESS CLASSES AT FAMILY BOOKS states and throughout Canada have been facing March 4, April 16, and May 28 from 5:30 pm to 7 of booze.” His goal is for participants in this 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland. MASSAGE EDUCATION CENTER “A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER” WILL BE PERFORMED Monday, February 25 at 7 pm. Berry Kraft will read fierce resistance, particularly from indigenous pm. Learn about local employment opportunities, discussion group to become inspired to achieve Couples/Singles Massage Class AT CAMELOT THEATRE THROUGH MARCH 17. poetry by Billy Collins. Billy Collins has the ability communities fighting for cultural renewal and including wage ranges and the meaning of of mastery over alcohol while still indulging ______Every Monday and Tuesday in February from 6:30 to be sentimental without being sappy, ironic survival. “accredited,” a “one-year certificate,” and “financial- in a fulfilling social life that is free of fear and Film pm to 8:30 pm. temptation. Ashland Library, Guanajuato Room, production will also be home to the photography without being rude, and complex without being aid eligible.” This program includes the training Every Monday and Tuesday in March from 6:30 pm 410 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland. LIVE STREAM OF 91ST ANNUAL of Jolene Monheim, a local artist inspired to create ______cryptic. Berry Kraft is an actors, dramaturg, and STRATEGIES AND STORIES FROM and practicum hours that meet the requirements to 8:30 pm. 15. Local audiences have the opportunity to ACADEMY AWARDS powerful images that convey the complexity, and Presentations poetry lover. Bloomsbury Books, 290 E Main St, THE GERMAN CLIMATE JUSTICE for Oregon state licensure and national Happy Hands and Feet Reflexology Class watch the acclaimed short films that have been Sunday, February 24 from 4 - 8:30 pm. Film fans beauty of the vagina. Levity Circus Collective, 280 Ashland. MOVEMENT certification. For more information, visit www. March 17 from 5 pm to 7 pm. GUILD LECTURE SERIES: EARLY nominated for an Academy Award. Only one ticket are also invited to join the Ashland Independent E Hersey St #15, Ashland. ROMAN EMPERORS Tuesday, March 5 from 6 pm to 8 pm. Join local roguecc.edu/massage or contact them at 541-956- Register at www.familymassageEC.com or Call AUTHOR GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT 7066 or [email protected]. RCC Redwood is required to attend both the Animated and Live Film Festival for the live broadcast of the 91st Wednesday, March 20 from 12 pm to 1 pm. One and national Rising Tide chapters, Rogue Climate, (541) 482-3567. Family Massage Education Center, Thursday, February 28 at 7 pm. In the ingenious Campus, Building M, Room 1, 3345 Redwood Hwy, Action Shorts on Feb. 8. The programs will run Annual Academy Awards at the Historic Ashland MARVIN’S ROOM of the most fascinating periods in Roman history Interplay, and comrades from the Ende Gelände 77 Manzanita St, Ashland. and vividly imagined narrative poem “The Grants Pass. for a week at the Varsity following the benefit Armory in Ashland. The Oscar Night Fundraising March 1 through March 17. Bessie is facing involves the first century of rule by the Roman movement in Germany at this workshop and Lumberjack’s Dove,” GennaRose Nethercott screenings. Cos: $9.25. More information including Gala is Ashland’s red carpet event of the year. View continuous challenges as the caregiver for a Emperors. This series of three one-hour lectures community event! Bring your experiences and describes a woodsman who cuts off his hand film descriptions, trailers, and ratings are available the Oscars on the big screen, enjoy a five-course AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT pain-ridden aunt and an ailing father, Marvin. will investigate the origins of the office of emperor questions to this opportunity for international MAMA TEA TIME with an axe--however, instead of merely being at https://shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/. Varsity meal by Smithfields, a complimentary libation, WEEKLY FELDENKRAIS CLASS Bessie decides she needs help, so she embarks in the actions of Augustus, grand-nephew of Julius collaboration and movement building! Come Thursdays from 10 am to 12 pm. A safe space severed, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far Theater, 166 E Main St, Ashland. cash bar, and, of course, red carpet photos. Cost: Wednesdays from 10 am to 11:30 pm. Feldenkrais on a humorous and courageous exploration of Caesar, and how the emperorship fared under out to this event and meet with German activists created by women for women. Through deep from representing just an event of pain and loss in $115-880. More information and tickets are is a method that shows you how to move through family. Her journey becomes heroic and one his successors from the Julio-Claudian family, from Ende Gelände on their US tour as they share sharing, we will discuss all things motherhood, the body, this incident spirals outward to explore LIVE STREAM OF 91ST ANNUAL available at ashlandfilm.org. Ashland Armory, 208 the field of gravity in ways that use it to your that celebrates a family’s commitment to love. including Tiberius, Claudius, Caligula, and Nero. stories about successful mass mobilizations from the mystical to the mundane. Whether you countless facets of being human, prompting ACADEMY AWARDS Oak St, Ashland. advantage. Most people have an adversarial Cost: $12-15. For more information go to www. The lecture, will investigate the difficulties in the for climate justice, including their campaign to have been a mother for 2 days or 30 years, are an profound reflections on sacrifice and longing, time Sunday, February 24 from 4 pm to 8:30 pm. relationship with gravity, but it can ground barnstormersgp.org. Barnstormers Theater, 112 NE succession to the Emperorship after Claudius, stop the coal mines of the Rhineland region and Auntie, a Sister, haven’t yet welcomed your babe and memory, and––finally––the act of storytelling Film fans are also invited to join the Ashland SAVING WELLINGTON you if you know how to use it. This not only Evelyn Ave, Grants Pass. with a close look at two controversial emperors, protect and Hambach Forest. Interplay, 1680 earthside, or are still waiting to become pregnant, itself. Bloomsbury Books, 290 E Main St, Ashland. Independent Film Festival for the live broadcast of Sunday, February 24 from 1 pm to 3 pm. Please reduces wear and tear on joints, reducing pain; Caligula, and Nero. Medford Library, 205 S Central Williams Hwy, Grants Pass. you are welcome here. Family Massage Education the 91st Annual Academy Awards at the Historic join the Save Wellington Wildlands Council for it also improves focus and learning. When you WE 3 SPIES Ave, Medford. Center, 77 Manzanita St, Ashland. WHAT MAKES HUMANS SPECIAL? Ashland Armory in Ashland. The Oscar Night a free double feature! First, the showing of a are comfortable in your body, learning is easy, Friday, March 1 and Saturday, 2 at 8:00 pm and Fundraising Gala is Ashland’s red carpet event of new documentary highlighting the beautiful Sunday, March 3 at 2:00pm. The Hamazon’s SEEDS OF SPRING SEMINAR Thursday, February 21 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm. HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAM AT RCC inspiration is spontaneous and creativity abounds. An exhausted majority want to end hyper- the year. View the Oscars on the big screen, enjoy a 7527-acre Wellington Wildlands, followed by a present, “We 3 Spies” a performance where Saturday, March 16 from 8:30 am to 4:15 pm. Monday, March 11 from 5 pm to 7 pm. The human Cost: $15 Drop-in, $50 per month, first class free. partisanship and begin working together again. five-course meal by Smithfields, a complimentary local archaeologist and historian’s presentation comedy improv teams ups with some stylish crime Registration is open for the 30th annual Seeds of services department at Rogue Community College Feldenkrais Studio Jacksonville, 235 Main St, Scientists studying human behavior tell us libation, cash bar, and, of course, red carpet of “Some Historical Aspects of the Applegate fighting in the British Spy genre of the 1960s. The Spring Garden Seminar hosted by the Josephine is hosting several information sessions where Jacksonville. cooperation is the key to our species’ success. photos. Cost: $115-880. More information and Valley.” The Applegate Lodge restaurant will be Hamazons will deliver a full-length improvised County Master Gardeners. Featuring more than students and prospective students may learn What makes humans special is the ability to put tickets are available at ashlandfilm.org. Ashland open for appetizers and drinks starting at 1:00, story filled with evil masterminds, dry wit, mod three dozen workshops, the one-day seminar will about the RCC program and the many career EMBODYING THE SACRED HEART our heads together and do things that none of us Armory, 208 Oak St, Ashland. and there will also be small snacks and coffee/tea gear, and cutting edge technology from the be held March 16 at Rogue Community College opportunities where people focus on helping Thursday, February 21 from 1 - 2 pm. Embodied could do alone––creating new resources that we available at no cost. Gather around the fireplace 1960s. Watch them outsmart and outclass their in Grants Pass. Participants may select up to four others improve their lives. For more information, prayer guide, physical therapist, and Nia Black couldn’t create on our own. Eagle Point Library, while we travel into our region’s past and into adversaries as they uncover secret information 90-minute workshops from a slate of 39 options visit www.roguecc.edu/humanservices or contact Belt Rachael R. Resch facilitate the second of 239 W Main St, Eagle Point. ______our present, as we work together to protect and save the day––again! The stories they act out at the seminar. Topics include beekeeping, Virginia (Peggy) Hull, human services department Food the 2018-2019 Trinity Episcopal Church Celtic chair, at (541) 245-7636 or [email protected]. Wellington Wildlands wilderness for the children have never been seen before and will never be Orchids 101, safe use of pesticides, selling what Program’s InterFaith Embodied Prayer series. Free. AUTHOR GUY FINLEY AT OREGON RCC/SOU Higher Education Center, Room 222, 101 NEW WINTER ROGUE VALLEY of generations to come! Donations to Save seen again making each performance a unique you sow and how to design a firewise landscape. Drop-ins are welcome. No previous movement BOOKS S Bartlett St, Medford. GROWERS & CRAFTERS MARKET Wellington Wildlands are appreciated. https:// experience. Cost: $15-18. For more information Cost: $35. To register go to http://go.roguecc. experience is necessary. Chairs are available for Friday, March 1 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Bestselling, Thursdays from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. We are savewildlands.org. Applegate River Lodge, 15100 and tickets visit www.hamazons.com. Bellview edu/department/community-education/seeds- local author Guy Finley will offer a free talk based now open for the winter, and it’s indoors! Are Hwy 238, Applegate. those who need them. Donations are welcome. Grange, 1050 Tollman Creek Rd, Ashland. spring-seminar. Rogue Community College, 3345 ROGUE VALLEY THRIVING ARTISTS on the groundbreaking ideas in his new book, you looking for fresh, locally grown produce, For information, contact Rachael Resch at (541) Redwood Hwy, Building A, Grants Pass. Wednesday, February 13 from 6 pm to 7:30 “Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together.” At this pm. Network, laugh, support one another, find hand-crafted gifts or artisan foods? Join us each POVERTY, INC. 301-3493, or, [email protected], or www. A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & Friday, March 1 from 7 pm to 9:30 pm. How did RachaelResch.com. Trinity Episcopal Church Parish MURDER talk Finley will answer the toughest relationship community and learn skills to more easily thrive. Thursday for local products and produce. Fry QUILTS AND GENEALOGY TALK: Family Farm Store, 2184 Ross Lane, Medford. fighting poverty become such a big business? Hall, 44 N 2nd St, Ashland. Feb. 20 through March 17. “Gentleman’s Guide,” MOTHER-DAUGHTER CRAZY QUILTS questions, as well as share invaluable insights Make a living, make a life and make a difference into the #1 reason why relationships fail, and how with your creative gifts, together! Hosted by Wealthy western nations committed to helping tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro an Tuesday, February 26 from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. to avoid it. His talk will include special exercises creative career coach and creative business ASHLAND CULINARY MONTH undeveloped countries have built a multibillion RESTORING & EMBODYING heir distant to becoming an Earl and inheriting a Guest speaker Charlotte Wirfs talks about the and personal practices that can transform any teacher, Patricia Morrison, who has helped For the month of February restaurants, wineries, dollar poverty industry by tapping into human RESILIENCY, VITALITY, AND FITNESS fortune. The family disinherited Monty’s mother “Mother-Daughter Crazy Quilts” a local Medford relationship from mundane to magical. Oregon hundreds of creative professionals to create and food artisans across Ashland will be empathy. But helping often doesn’t help––leaving 10 week series on Mondays beginning Feb. 11 and there’s eight heirs ahead of him. So, in resident, Garret Kinser, gave to her a few years Books, 150 NE E St, Grants Pass. thriving creative practices and careers. Learn offering special dishes, several course meals, people worse off than before. Ashland Library, 410 from 10 am to 11:15 am. Though we experience revenge, Monty plots to eliminate the heirs, one ago when she gave a quilt talk at a local gallery. more about her at www.InnerFireOuterLight.com . and classes. The public is invited to dine in any Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland. by one––and they’re all played by the same actor! As Charlotte examined the quilts, she wondered pain in the body, most often the origin is faulty MURDER IN LOWER BERTH Ashland Art Center, 357 E Main St, Ashland. and all participating establishments, with the Further complicating poor Monty’s predicament what she could learn about the ladies that created neuro-movement habits in our brains, which have Tuesday, March 5 at 7 pm. Guest speaker Larry opportunity to wine gift cards and other prizes. THE ANTECHAMBER OF HELL are the beautiful Phoebe and the sensual Sibella, them. Come and learn what she found out at the been “wired” over a lifespan. Patricia will guide you Mullaly, well-known historian and author, offers Ashland Restaurant week is Feb. 4 through Feb. Friday, February 22 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm. You who are both vying for his hand in marriage February Quilt & Genealogy talk! To register call ASHLAND DEATH CAFE in movement explorations designed to wake up insights to the crime that “continues to baffle 10, with more special offers and prizes. For more are invited to hear Hope Foundation’s Founder (he IS in line to an earldom, after all). Cost: $10- (541) 512-2340, email [email protected], Wednesday, March 6 at 7 pm. Explore how death your mind/body/soul for learning, tapping into crime scholars today”; that is, the January 1943 GUY FINLEY WILL BE AT OREGON information, go to http://www.ashlandchamber. & President, Dr. Iftiker Mahmood, joined by a 38. For more information and tickets, go to or stop by the Genealogy Library. Jackson County can inform and inspire the way we live. Come the remarkable self-healing capacity you have murder of a young bride found stabbed to death BOOKS IN GRANTS PASS MAR. 1 com/Page.asp?NavID=1414. panel of local healthcare volunteers who bring camelottheatre.org. Camelot Theatre, 101 Talent Genealogy Library, 3405 S. Pacific Hwy, Medford. together in a relaxed setting to discuss death, at this moment for embodied fitness and health. in a Southern Pacific sleeping car. Four Daughters TO TALK ABOUT HIS BOOK hope and healing to the Rohingya people. “The Ave, Talent. drink tea, and eat delicious sweets. $10 suggested Drop-ins are welcome. Cost: $140 for series, $16 Irish Pub, 126 W Main St, Medford. “RELATIONSHIP MAGIC: CORK ‘N’ FORK Antechamber of Hell” documents serious crimes WINDOWS IN TIME LECTURE SERIES donation. Space limited, registration required. Go for drop-ins. Call to Inquire & pre-register: (414) WAKING UP TOGETHER.” to AshlandDeathCafe.com to register and learn the Wednesday, February 27 at 6 pm. Creative against humanity. The documentary is also an Jackson County Library Services and the Southern 535-7283. 207 Granite St, Ashland. location of the meeting. Cost: $10. Celebrations is putting together salmon cakes inspiring testament to the human spirit and 16 / WWW.ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 13, 2019 / THE ROGUE VALLEY MESSENGER / 17 SOUND Rogue Sounds SCREEN Don’t Trim the Mustache The Phone’s For You From Hollywood Dropout to Here, We Are JAYA (Raise)’s Called / Or / Uncalled Steaksauce Mustache Presents Superwoke BY JOSH STIRM Filmmaker Martin Goldman’s Wild Ride INTERVIEW BY SARA JANE WILTERMOOD BY VANESSA NEWMAN JAYA (Raise) is the stage moniker of Ashland-based conscious What some listeners might find jarring, off- hip-hop songwriter/rapper/producer Christian Altman. Having The road has been in the White House during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. When asked why he hung putting and noisy, others find to be passionate, spent the better part of the past four years releasing singles and long and travelled well around the rodeo and sketched the cowboys, he explained what else would one do exciting and inspirational. There are a lot of collaborations on his SoundCloud page, Jaya has finally delivered (in a Porsche 911 and a ’66 when the checks from past movies stopped coming in and he found out his accountant genres or styles that we personally might not his first full-length album entitledCalled / Or / Uncalled. Volkswagen Van) from was dead? He sold a lot of prints in Jackson Hole but eventually the “movies would enjoy, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have The first track on the album, “unstuck,” right off the bat New York to California to catch up with me.” validity or carry importance to someone else. It features Jaya’s interesting taste for arrangements. The track Vermont to Wyoming to At the ripe age of 86, Goldman may have slowed down his speed, but he has no just depends on if the individual who’s listening opens with the chime of bells, smartly echoing the bell shown Canada to Taos and most intention of halting the joyride. In fact, he and his wife are the stars of a film called, is open to what’s being played. Not everyone beside Jaya on the album’s cover. Throughout this first track, recently Ashland, Oregon. Here, We Are, about growing old together recently accepted into the Ashland is going to love what we write, so with that in we get a taste of what is to come from the rest of the album. It’s And wherever Goldman Independent Film Festival (April 11 – 15). And when asked what he is working on now, mind, we write what we enjoy playing. groovy, it’s catchy, it’s smart, and above all else, it’s resonant. goes, he can’t help himself he just chuckled. The main ambition of Steaksauce Mustache Following “unstuck” is the woozy, soulful “somespace.” On this from making films. Here is a synopsis of Goldman’s independent films in chronological order: as a band is to entertain. Our performances track we get a more concise image of what exactly Jaya wants us “The only thing I Dark August – A visceral horror flick that Goldman wrote and directed about a man can only be described as a chaotic ballet of to see. The instruments take a bit more of a backseat featuring wanted to do was make who must face the consequences for accidently ending a young girl’s life filmed in movies. It was like a drug,” Stowe, Vermont starring Kim Hunter, J.J. Barry and Caroline Barry. Goldman says, “I partytastic comedy. We know that even if more prominent lyrics: “And what a play it is, characters die and Martin Goldman admits. did it the old-fashioned way. I got a producer and we both found people who wanted someone doesn’t love our music, if they see live, and yet the play goes on, so who you playin’ with?” He has successfully made to invest in a movie as a tax write-off. But after they saw the completed film, they one of our shows, they’ll leave the venue with Jaya’s way with words certainly graces this album often, art as a graphic designer, MARTIN GOLDMAN realized that they had a real movie.” unforgettable memories of a group of children but what I find so intriguing aboutCalled / Or / Uncalled is the written and directed PHOTO CREDIT: MARTIN GOLDMAN He goes on to say, “I raised the money ($150,000) while sitting in my Manhattan disguised as adults dawning diapers and immediacy lent to these words by choices in the arrangements. independent films and apartment, projecting 35mm location slides against a background of music of from American flag wrestling singlets, dumping Take for example the moment on “rise&shine” when Jaya spits sleeping bags filled with balloons and bouncy stayed married to his lovely wife Harriet which are fantastic accomplishments for a Pink Floyd along with me reading the script. It started out slow in sales until French “honorary doctorate, professor here to talk a bit, dropping Hollywood dropout. HBO picked it up along with Wednesday balls onto a raging swarm of people covered education like the mic at the school.” Neatly placed behind the in party streamers and swatting at each other Inspired by seeing the British musical comedy, A Hard Day’s Night, starring the Night at the Movies. The film eventually vocals in this section is the sound of an actual microphone being Beatles, he began writing screenplays and has not stopped since. His work on a major achieved occult status and has been re- with pool noodles. dropped. It’s this very concise attention to detail that sets Jaya motion picture for Paramount called Legend of Black Charley meant he “made it” in issued. STEAKSAUCE MUSTACHE The angry yelling was merely the ambience PHOTO CREDIT: TYLER WATLEY apart from his contemporaries. This is especially refreshing given Hollywood. But Goldman says, “It was difficult to take orders from Hollywood, so I went Elliot & The Old Soul – (1984-85) to which the true performance was happening other conscious hip-hop artists’ tendency to be (in this writer’s independent. It’s the only way to go.” To find out why he dropped out, those interested Filmed in Mendocino, California: “It was in front of. humble and often wrong opinion) too doting over their own lyrics. can read his memoir, Mad Ave to Hollywood, written in 2018 and on Amazon. It is a fast a labor of love and everyone wanted to Hearing Steaksauce Mustache’s music for the RVM: You have some interesting Jaya isn’t afraid of injecting levity into his work, and it shows. read based on the incredibly wild ride Goldman took to get where he is today. join in. The film traces the life of a man in first time is like biting into a steak and finding videos available on your website This levity is further exemplified in one ofCalled / Or / One of Goldman’s original art pieces entitled, “Star Spangled Cowboy” once hung the physical realm and beyond the grave that it is so good, there is no need to wipe off SteakSauceMustache.com and YouTube; Uncalled’s several interludes (or ‘ludes as the artist lovingly refers where he tries to communicate with his the Steaksauce Mustasche before going in for what part do they play in your music? to them) titled “clubputo.” We hear a brief interaction between wife while travelling through the seven another bite. Their unique brand of “chaotic TB: Our ultimate business strategy is to push Jaya and a woman in a club hilariously struggling to communicate planes of awareness.” rock’n’roll,” along with super fun live shows, Steaksauce Mustache into a full time global about what they’re drinking. It’s light moments like this that When Sunday Comes – (1996) “I used has given them a reputation of good music and entertainment conglomerate. Instead of humanize Jaya and the message he is trying to communicate. unknown actors chosen from the Meisner good fun. We caught up with vocalist Taylor concerts, we want to hold arena sized rock In a bio attained from the artist, it states: “Jaya wishes six acting school. This time the background Bates via email just before they hit the road on opera tours with full size animatronic talking things for all sentient beings: Health, Wealth, Happiness, Beauty, was the lovely waters of Hawaii. It their Denim Diaper Daddies Tour. dinosaurs and a professional Morgan Freeman Love & Truth.” It is this sort of compassion that blesses tracks like compares the island of Kona to the “STAR SPANGLED COWBOY” IN impersonation voice over. We want to write, FRONT OF THE GRAND TETONS the beautiful “truth.” Jaya delivers lines such as: “I inhale good gripping emotions of divorce.” BY MARTIN GOLDMAN Rogue Valley Messenger: Where do you find direct and star in our own mockumentary. We intention, exhale love, respect” with refreshing honesty. Where Legend of Spirit Dog – A film produced PHOTO CREDIT: MARTIN GOLDMAN by the Discovery Channel in 1997 written your inspiration for your songs? want to create our own streaming platform, other artists might espouse these types of values as a way to sell and directed by Goldman. It tells the story of an Alaskan boy who becomes entangled Taylor Bates: We’re a pretty diverse and odd with all original shows which only feature us. records and promote shows, Jaya’s words come from the heart. group of ducklings, all with different quirks and We have more ideas about creating videos than in a battle between raven and wolf starring Morgan Brittany, David Richards, and George Charles. “It is based on an Inuit legend and the innocent love between a boy quacks. We all enjoy our own tastes, hobbies we do about writing songs. As a bonus to that Stream Called / Or / Uncalled on soundcloud: and his magical dog. With this movie I did something I swore I would never do again and activities, but the one major common attribute, people tend to share goofy videos https://soundcloud.com/100percentof0/sets/calledoruncalled thread that we share is a love for eccentric more than they share a new song. - get involved with the Majors again – but money and ego got in the way.” goofy humor, followed with a love of music. If you saw a video of a man shaving his beard so The Reading – A 2016 film about getting old filmed in a single live reading and acted Some more than others. that another man could eat that beard, wouldn’t by Oregon Shakespeare Theater actors. Goldman withheld the script so that he could Our guitarist studies business, marketing you want to know what their band sounds like, see the creative process in action unfolding in front of him. It won first prize in the 2018 Chico International Film Festival. and enjoys swinging his hips via salsa dancing. and what the beard tastes like? Our bassist illustrates, animates and partners RVM: Your new album Superwoke is coming with Sick Animation on shorts that play on out in March; how does it differ from your comedy central and Adult Swim. Our drummer past work? sells mattresses and enjoys buffalo wild wings, TB: Our new album Superwoke is the greatest monster energy drinks (low carb of course) album ever made. Our last album Eat What and pay per view wrestling. Our vocalist edits We Kill For You was the most mediocre album an international TV show, does graphic design ever made, and our first albumThe Almighty for bands on the side, and really hates finding Aardvoctomalark was the worst album ever someone else’s toenail clippings in his carpet. made. All of those key factors tie into our writing A slew of factors helped us push this album process. into being the greatest album of all time. The RVM: Some would call your music “angry key difference between our previous works of yelling;” you call it “chaotic rock’n’roll.” art being: Everything. What’s the difference? TB: Our angry yelling has instruments behind it. STEAKSAUCE MUSTACHE/ Music is a very broad spectrum and can ATTIC/HEATED/FOES convey an incredible range of emotions and 6:45 pm, Saturday, March 9 The Haul, 121 SW H Street, Grants Pass sounds that potentially cater to the feelings of a Free very diverse range of people in different ways. 18 / WWW.ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 13, 2019 / THE ROGUE VALLEY MESSENGER / 19 CULTURE FOOD & Drink Fresh Out of the Bos Local Hawaiian Vacation The New Rogue Theater Company Presents Fragment Aloha Friday at the Grass Shack BY VANESSA NEWMAN BY VANESSA NEWMAN

There is a little bit of betrayal. A little bit of loss. responded: A dear friend of mine, who lives on a coconut Lemon Ginger grass too. Although the Some sex too. But, a whole lot of love. Fragments is the “I have twin plantation in Hawaii, recently invited me to visit Kauai. phone was ringing with call-in orders, the first production for the newly formed Rogue Theater sisters. Every Island time and tropical drinks enticed me but instead atmosphere was relaxed and reminiscent Company opening March 7 in Ashland. Sunday we have of blowing my latest paycheck on a plane ticket, I did of the only tropical adventure I previously Jessica Sage, Artistic Director, has carefully a three-way call. the next best thing. I took my husband and 14-year had too many years ago. When the plates assembled semi-autobiographical fragments and created One of my sisters old to the Grass Shack in Phoenix, Oregon. Now, on an arrived, they were well-presented, a poignant, connected and clever theatrical production. is petrified and Aloha Friday, with “no work ‘til Monday,” we were in abundantly portioned and aromatic. Mine The play is set in 1977 when she was in high school and the other one luck and had big island appetites. had two mounds of rice, purple and green her family was going through tumultuous times. cannot get here As soon as we entered, palm-tree covered tables, faux cabbage with green onions sprinkled “It’s about relationships and the dark and light of fast enough to grass shacks, and a friendly vibe greeted us, along with throughout near a medium pile of pulled every human being,” Sage explains. see it. In life and an “Aloha.” We must have looked like tourists because pork and five or six pieces of Ono beef. It A human mosaic perhaps; refracting and reflecting on stage, I do not one of the owners (Paul McMahon) asked if we’d been came with a small cup of mango chutney perceptions, emotions and experiences of reality. hold back.” in before. He offered menus, told us to order and pay too, macaroni salad, and a scoop of potato At first, Sage did a script reading of the material and Liisa Ivery, up-front first and then settle into a table where we salad. I tried the beef first. The flavor was got a good response and people wanted to see a full the new theater’s FRAGMENTS ACTORS. PHOTO CREDIT: JESSICA SAGE would be served with down-home hospitality. A small tangy and inviting, but also chewy. As production. And ultimately a new theater was born. Director, is a Dixie-cup sample of their “ono” sauce (which my son I looked over at my son, he was inhaling downright hilarious.” From Northern California, she made Ashland her long-time acquaintance of Sage’s. She had the privilege reminded me means “delicious”) was offered to each the burger. Between bites he said quickly: Sage ultimately envisions that her theater will: permanent home in 2015. of directing her in Oregon Stage Works’ production of of us. An appealing tangy, teriyaki-style sauce that was “juicy, sweet and bursting with flavor.” “Consistently present text-driven, superbly acted, “I have always wanted to build a theater company Annapurna in 2016. sweet music to gurgling bellies. My husband’s plate looked like mine quality work to the audiences of the Rogue Valley.” that focuses more on women in theater,” she says. The “We had a great connection and loved working The menu had an assortment of chicken, pulled pork, except for having all beef and no mango She goes on to proclaim: “I am not doing this to make dearth of material available to women is a source of together,” says Ivery. “We actually met because we Yakisoba noodle dishes and desserts too. I predicted chutney. My pulled pork was a mixture of INSIDE THE GRASS SHACK a healthy living, it’s because I do not have a choice.” PHOTO CREDIT: VANESSA NEWMAN disappointment and frustration in Sage’s opinion, so both are avid hikers. Jessica also co-founded ORD2 that my teenager would choose the teriyaki burger, and flavors that I had not experienced before Ivery is a strong advocate for what Sage is creating her vision is to “turn the tides.” Indivisible and I’ve been an active participant in that I was not disappointed. I chose the combination plate of and a backdrop for the variety of sauces My husband felt it was authentic Hawaiian food with and adds: “As a director, for me personally, it’s all about The Messenger inquired (since there is a lot of theater political action committee because of her. We worked Kahlua beef and pork and my husband decided on the available at a nearby side-table. I liked it best with a well-rounded array of spices that complimented one the team of collaborators. Jessica has created a brilliant in the area) how Rogue Theater Company is unique and together on a large event called “United for Justice” at Ono beef plate. With no big crowd, the ordering was the sweet chili and mango chutney sauces. Creamy another. My only concern was tipping at the start of the team of artists at Rogue Theater Company. I rely on different? the Ashland Armory.” easy, and we went back to our table eager to sample the macaroni salad and dill in the potato salad were transaction made it difficult to determine what to give their talents and abilities and seek to support them. Sage explained: “There is a plethora of talent in the Ivery describes Fragments: “This is a story about island fare. If it had not been a cold February evening, excellent counterpoints to the tangy Ono sauce. While for the excellent service. And that next time I hoped the My job as a director is to essentially be the audience Rogue Valley. I don’t see a lot of it on stage. I want to three generations of women and how they find their we might have elected to sit outside in the courtyard, but we were all chomping away, Lani brought a small plate beef might be more tender. Overall, it was a satiating and reflect back to them what I’m getting—whether the put people to work that do not get a chance. These are authentic power. I hope that everyone sees their own instead I hummed Hawaiian tunes inside and noticed of three identical dessert bars with a few red-foiled affordably-priced down-home cooking experience. story is clear, audible, and credible.” people who may want to do smaller work like one- family reflected in the story; the love and the struggles that another party seemed to be really into their food. chocolates. person and one-woman shows.” But putting a semi included. It’s a compelling contrast, the choices and Lemon Ginger grass, Passion-fruit and Pineapple- By desert, I was full and supremely enjoyed the lemon, FRAGMENTS BY ROGUE THEATER COMPANY flavored iced teas in color-coordinated cups were passion-fruit bar that was soft, fresh and less sweet that auto-biographical work on stage is risky business. beliefs across these decades of women’s experiences 2 and 8 pm, March 7 – 17 THE GRASS SHACK Was Sage nervous about the experience of having and choices. Their interplay and reactions to their Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road, Ashland brought to our table by Lani McMahon, Paul’s wife. We the passion-fruit iced tea. We all remarked about (well 12 – 8 pm, Wednesday – Saturday $15 – $18 all sampled, and I was most intrigued with the pineapple. my son did not) the incredible value of the meal for a 205 Fern Valley Road, Phoenix one’s life up there for everyone to dissect? 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track boundaries, once made of tires, have just been Rogue Rowing Club INTERVIEW BY PHIL BUSSE Is CBD For Me? updated to Tecpro barriers known for the absorption BY DR. MARGARET PHILHOWER technology used to make a safer and more efficient Rick Brown was hired as the new course for karters. Drivers must be 13 years old and at Executive Director and Head Coach Medical Cannabis preparations least 5 feet tall to drive the adult karts and 7 years old for Rogue Rowing less than four have been exploding in popularity to drive the junior styles. Rogue Karting offers party years ago, and quickly began stacking since legalization in Oregon. Lately, and event packages for those interested in hosting a up the awards: With silver medals I have been asked more and more shindig in their 70,000 square foot facility, complete for SOU at the American Collegiate questions about Cannabidiol (CBD), the with a Cafe and Pro Shop. Not to mention the Rogue Rowing championships, and as the constituent of the plant that doesn’t get Karting Arcade which will be housing race simulators 2017 US Rowing club of the year. It isn’t you high and is legal in all 50 states. The surprising. Brown has an impressive in the very near future, a must for any race enthusiast. inquiries are coming from seniors with pedigree—he competed at Bates College Need a break to refuel, the cafe hosts a Nascar themed chronic pain to teens with ADD and all in Maine, a solid program that routinely ages and health conditions in between. menu, offering a variety of sandwiches, burgers, and leads the New England colleges; and While Cannabis is very helpful for pizza. There are also options for those looking to stay has since barnstormed the rowing PHOTO SUBMITTED BY RICK BROWN a wide range of health issues, it is not on the lighter/healthier side; read: salads and fruit world with coaching gigs at top notch the cure all for everything and, like any smoothies. For those caffeine cravings, try the Rogue programs—now adding Rogue Rowing and amazement they all have for our lake Karting Drift Special; vanilla ice cream mixed with a to that list. is priceless. All you need to do is check medication, may have adverse effects double shot of espresso. (As if go-karting isn’t enough Rogue Valley Messenger: You’ve out some of the pictures on our instagram in some people especially if the dose is too high. Although the THC component adrenaline.) coached for a number of high-level to see what a spectacular place it is. and whole plant extracts can also DR. MARGARET PHILHOWER Want to save a few bucks? Why not sign up for a crew programs. What brought you to RVM: A lot of people think of rowing be very useful, I will focus this brief membership, which give go-karters a discounted rate Ashland? as graceful and smooth, which it is. introduction on indications and dosing plus an array of benefits including a free birthday race, Rick Brown: From a professional But in the boat, it is also grueling, CBD will inhibit the effectiveness of standpoint I saw it as a great opportunity hard-work. Is there a certain type of recommendations for CBD because the READY TO RACE! PHOTO CREDIT: HEATHER METZ guest passes and a Rogue Karting t-shirt to sport. your medication. If you are on L-dopa to extend my skills and goals. I believe person you find attracted to rowing? majority of folks I talk to have never So, feeling the need ... the need for speed? Put the for Parkinson’s or taking epilepsy that all too often people believe moving RB: I’ve seen a lot of different people gain tried “pot” in any form, want to use it with local schools and events such as the Medford medications, do the same. Otherwise, Whether dreaming of a summertime county fairs or pedal to the metal and stop on down to Rogue Karting. to a bigger place or organization a lot of different things from the sport. for a specific medical condition and still dry mouth, light-headedness and harboring big-track NASCAR dreams, go-karting is a Cruise are important to keep the money in the Whether it be date night, child’s birthday party or a correlates to a more difficult one. I But I think in general the people who are be able to function throughout their day drowsiness are the only other common gateway activity—and a great indoor escape from the community.” friendly after work competition, this place is a highway think quite the opposite can be true and ready for commitment to the activity are without feeling “stoned.” adverse effects and most are dose cold, rainy weather 50,000 square foot track. In addition to daily open racing sessions, Rogue Karting to good time fun. that going to a smaller location brings the ones who stick around and get the The human body has what’s called dependent. Located on Lars Way, off of Sage Road just beyond offers 30 minutes of straight driving every Wednesday a whole different set of challenges that most out of it. The number of rewards an endocannabinoid system (ECS), Dosing is best started low and Keller Supply Company, Rogue Karting opened their night. And this summer, Rogue Karting also will be ROGUE KARTING help us grow into the people we can all are endless if you are willing to stick which regulates every other body 50,000 square foot track just over a year ago when the involved in the Medford Cruise, including not only the 11 am – 8 pm, Sunday – Thursday be. I was drawn to the opportunity to be around long enough for those to happen. system including the nervous system, increased slow. 11 am – 10 pm, Friday and Saturday owners saw a need in the Rogue Valley for some high- Drift Event, but also the Show ’n Shine and Downtown part of an organization and location that It’s an activity that gets more fun and digestion and the immune system. That The first step to finding your 2065 Lars Way, Medford octane recreation. Cruise in June. I could really make a difference with more frustrating every time you do it. I minimum effective dose is to establish 541.944.3333 is why cannabis has so many varied and grow the access to all that rowing always say that the things in life that are a baseline dosage. Since many people “We are big on being part of the community,” Featuring the SodiKart brand, Rogue Karting has a roguekarting.com health benefits. Our body produces can bring to changing people’s lives. the most worth it are the ones that take Operations Manager, Tony Workman says. “Partnering variety of karts for every skill level and most ages. The its own cannabinoids that bind to the report good results with CBD at low It was also an organization that had a the most work, and I really believe that same receptors as CBD and THC. Other doses, you may wish to start with a great foundation that I believed was about rowing. The more you put into, the medicinal plants such as Rosemary, minimal dose and slowly increase until really ready for that growth to happen more you realize you get out of it. Echinacea, Cloves, and Ginseng have you find results. This could be around for myself and everyone one involved— RVM: Is there a certain type of person phytocannabinoid constituents that 2-5mg two to three times daily (6-10mg Go Here including the organization. And from a who makes a good coxswain? personal standpoint the Rogue Valley is RB: A coxswain is a coach in the boat. interact with the ECS, too. total). Then, maintain this baseline an awesome place to raise a family and Someone who can learn how to take Keeping the ECS in tune helps keep dosage for 7 days taking note of how the it happened to be closer to family than charge, command respect from their all of our body systems in balance. Using CBD interacts with your body. After a The Trail that Tried to Catch Bigfoot we’d lived in a some time. peers and multi-task. I believe coxswains cannabis products is just one way to week at this CBD dosage, if you are not RVM: How is rowing here different are more ready for leadership roles than help keep the ECS healthy. Eating anti- receiving the benefit you need, increase Collings Mountain Trail from other places you’ve coached? their peers because of their experience inflammatory foods like vegetables and the daily dosage by 1-2mg every 3 days BY JORDAN MARIE MCCAW RB: The rowing really isn’t. I do with their teams. good omega 3 fats is helpful. Another until you find the dosage that works best As spring approaches, trails all across Southern Oregon open up for the year. find the community more open to RVM: Have you read Boys in the Boat? important strategy is to avoid over the for you. Once you have determined your It’s time to strap on the hiking boots and head out to Collings Mountain Trail in youth participation than many other RB: I have and would recommend it to counter anti-inflammatory drugs like minimum effective dose you may wish Applegate. communities I’ve been involved with. In anyone. The rowing story is great and Tylenol and ibuprofen, opiate pain to decrease your dosage by one step general more people are excited to hear killers and benzodiazepines such as The nearly seven mile trail when hiked to the end and back offers picturesque Daniel James Brown does a wonderful to see if you can maintain the benefits SOU has a team and that kids in grade job of painting the picture for even non- Xanax and valium whenever possible. views of Applegate Lake. The trail also leads by an inactive Bigfoot trap. Keep a at a slightly lower dosage. 30mg is a school through high school are rowing rowers to understand the experience but The good news is that Cannabis, look out for the box-like structure with a drop door three quarters of a mile down reasonable lower end dose for an adult with us here while in other places they’d I have to admit that I personally loved the especially the CBD component, is much the trail around Grouse Creek. An abandoned mining cabin once sat near the trap, weighing around 150 pounds. Some see involvement from youth being an book because the historical perspective safer and often just as effective as these but has since been knocked down. The trail was named after brothers who mined higher end dosing amounts I have seen inconvenience. It’s an open and fun it gave about the time and the Northwest drugs with fewer side effects. the area in the mid-19th century, leaving a number of mine adits. are around 1500-2000mg CBD daily in environment to be part of. during that time. There are only a few cautions to The trail is considered moderate, with a few declines and inclines along the RVM: Why is Ashland/southern divided doses. RVM: What is your sales pitch to get using CBD for medicine. If you are way, gaining an overall 2,000 feet. Spring is the best time to hike the trail when Oregon a good place to row? CBD oil is most commonly taken someone into a boat? on a medication that comes with a it opens. Wildlife is everywhere and the trail isn’t as muddy as it might have been RB: Emigrant Lake is one of the best RB: Just try it. We understand that most “Grapefruit warning label” talk to orally, which is preferred, but has a in the winter. Hikers on Alltrails.com consider the trail potentially strenuous for bodies of water in the country. Many people haven’t had the opportunity to your doctor or pharmacist to see if slower onset of action than vaporizing BIGFOOT TRAP people don’t realize that even at it’s less experienced hikers, but the views are worth it. One hiker even says the trail try it as it’s not a traditional sport kids do it. Vape pens are for adult use and only BILL SULLIVAN, FROM HIS BOOK 100 HIKES/TRAVEL GUIDE: lowest levels the lake is almost 2 miles is great for children. With the surrounding nature, panoramic views, and the SOUTHERN OREGON & NORTHERN CALIFORNIA available at OLLC licensed recreational long which is plenty of water for any when they’re growing up. It provides so Bigfoot trap, Collings Mountain Trail sounds perfect for kids. cannabis stores. CBD oil may be non-motorized water activity. We get much opportunity for self-improvement The trailhead is located across the road from Hart-tish Picnic and Boat Launch purchased over the counter or online. great water conditions for rowing from to anyone of any age and any background. Area. During the summer the picnic area charges five dollars for parking. Parking The trail’s difficulty depends on the condition of the hiker. If you’re less March - November every year and are Anyone can hop on a rowing machine or I recommend using an organically alongside the road is permitted but space is limited. The Forest Service also experienced, prepare to take breaks as you hike up the steep slopes and enjoy the able to sneak out some during the winter get into a boat with us and learn a lot grown CBD product and checking the cautions hikers to keep an eye out for poison oak, ticks, and snakes. Pets are free longer hike. Regardless your experience level, feel free to take in the beautiful months once in a while too. 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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Cartographers not your feelings are reciprocated. I advise you to of Old Europe sometimes drew pictures of strange enjoy the hell out of it! REC ROOM beasts in the uncharted regions of their maps. These VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Based in GREAT THINGS THAT SHARE. were warnings to travelers that such areas might Switzerland, Nestle is the largest food company MOST GENEROUS -MATT JONES NO. 217 - TOUGH harbor unknown risks, like dangerous animals. One in the world. Yet it pays just $200 per year to SUDOKU famous map of the Indian Ocean shows an image the state of Michigan for the right to suck up of a sea monster lurking, as if waiting to prey on 400 million gallons of groundwater, which it BY ROO GROSTEIN - HOST/PRODUCER OF LOCAL SMOKE RADIO ON sailors traveling through its territory. If I were going KSKQ 89.5 FM ASHLAND & 94.1 FM MEDFORD bottles and sells at a profit. I nominate this to create a map of the frontier you’re now headed vignette to be your cautionary tale in the coming for, Pisces, I would fill it with mythic beasts of a weeks. How? 1. Make damn sure you are being more benevolent variety, like magic unicorns, good fairly compensated for your offerings. 2. Don’t The THC Fair fairies, and wise centaurs. allow huge, impersonal forces to exploit your ARIES (March 21-April 19): In December resources. 3. Be tough and discerning, not lax Four Years In 1915, the California city of San Diego was suffering and naïve, as you negotiate deals. from a draught. City officials hired a professional LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sixteenth- On the 1st day of August, 2015—exactly one month after cannabis became “moisture accelerator” named Charles Hatfield, century Italian artist Daniele da Volterra wasn’t legal in Oregon—The THC Fair (The Hemp and Cannabis Fair) held its first who promised to make it rain. Soon Hatfield very famous for his own painting and sculpture. cannabis industry expo here in Southern Oregon. There was a buzz about was shooting explosions of a secret blend of The work for which we remember him today town. Especially if you were a consumer who wanted a glimpse into the chemicals into the sky from the top of a tower. is the alterations he made to Michelangelo’s The results were quick. A deluge began in early elusive industry. giant fresco The Last Judgment, which spreads January of 1916 and persisted for weeks. Thirty For both days of that first show in 2015, the line of people to get in before across an entire wall in the Sistine Chapel. After inches of rain fell, causing floods that damaged Michelangelo died, the Catholic Church hired doors opened stretched the length of the big Expo building and rounded the the local infrastructure. The moral of the story, da Volterra to “fix” the scandalous aspects of the corner out of sight. Rumors circulated—and were confirmed—about free as far as you’re concerned, Aries: when you ask people depicted in the master’s work. He painted samples joints and cartridges. Real life cannabis companies were coming for what you want and need, specify exactly how clothes and leaves over the originals’ genitalia out and showing their faces to the public, many for the first time ever. much you want and need. Don’t make an open- and derrieres. In accordance with astrological ended request that could bring you too much of Medical dispensaries advertised their upcoming plans for recreational omens, I propose that we make da Volterra your a good thing. anti-role model for the coming weeks. Don’t be sales. A few companies with new products and technologies piqued the TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Actors Beau like him. Don’t engage in cover-ups, censorship, interest of curious consumers or those with hopes of joining the thrill of Bridges and Jeff Bridges are brothers born to or camouflage. Instead, specialize in the opposite: the “green rush”. Education was heavy on the minds of those involved. parents who were also actors. When they were revelations, unmaskings, and expositions. Making a good impression in the community was important. growing up, they already had aspirations to follow SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What is the Fast forward to February 2019. The hemp and cannabis industries here in their mom’s and dad’s footsteps. From an early quality of your access to life’s basic necessities? in Oregon have changed quite a bit. While the picture of what the “green age, they summoned a resourceful approach to How well do you fulfill your need for good attracting an audience. Now rush” looks like has drastically shifted, the THC Fair kept it fresh and, as food and drink, effective and then they would start usual, excelled at showcasing the new face of hemp and cannabis. exercise, deep sleep, thorough a pretend fight in a store’s relaxation, mental stimulation, ANSWERS AT ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM Technologies and product demonstrations expanded and were more parking lot. When a big enough soulful intimacy, a sense of advanced. Some familiar companies are indeed surviving and thriving in crowd had gathered to observe meaningfulness, nourishing Across the midst of flux. I saw community faces like Emerald Triangle Dispensary, their shenanigans, they would beauty, and rich feelings? I 1 “Downton Abbey” countess Down suddenly break off from their faux 1 Persuades Smokin’ Deals Glass, Trim Camp, Southern Oregon Bokashi and Vic’s Sticks bring these questions to your 5 PokÈmon protagonist To complete Sudoku, fill the board by entering numbers struggle, grab their guitars from attention, Scorpio, because the 2 Instrument in a Legend of Zelda title just to name a few. Part of me is nostalgic for the excitement surrounding 8 Fix, as the end of a pool cue their truck, and begin playing rest of 2019 will be an excellent OLCC regulated cannabis in Oregon that was showcased at the first Hemp 3 Win back 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3 box contains music. In the coming weeks, I time for you to fine-tune and 13 Strong cards 4 Inquire of and Cannabis Fair. But something else was commanding all the attention hope you’ll be equally ingenious expand your relationships with 14 “SmackDown!” org. every number uniquely. as you brainstorm about ways to 5 In the know this year at The Hemp and Cannabis Fair. these fundamental blessings. 15 High grade The source of all the buzz—and it reflects the shift in the industry—was expand your outreach. And now is an excellent time to 6 Began to convince 17 Johnny Carson’s predecessor around hemp. Hemp is low-THC cannabis: all varieties of the cannabis plant GEMINI (May 21-June 20): intensify your efforts. 7 She/___ pronouns 19 “Sorry Not Sorry” singer Demi For many strategies, that test below .3% THC. And not only has the ODA (Oregon Department According to Edward Barnard’s book New York SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Michael 8 Chief Wiggum’s kid City Trees, a quarter of the city is shaded by its 20 Magic, on a scoreboard hints and tips, visit of Agriculture) hemp licensing program been fully operational for a couple Jackson’s 1982 song “Beat It” climbed to number 9 Melodramatize 5.2 million trees. In other words, one of the most 21 Like toast without butter years now, but the U.S. 2018 Farm Bill officially legalized hemp nationwide. three on the record-sales charts in Australia. On SudokuWiki.org densely populated, frantically active places on the the other hand, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 1984 parody 10 Copenhagen’s ___ Gardens Now, in what is a struggling industry for some, many are finding a natural 22 So far planet has a rich collection of oxygen-generating of Jackson’s tune, “Eat It,” reached number one on 11 How short messages may be sent greenery. There’s even a virgin forest at the upper 23 “Weetzie Bat” author Francesca shift into a new sector: hemp & CBD (cannabidiol) products. the same charts. Let’s use this twist as a metaphor 12 Bring off, slangily Companies focused on the hemp & CBD side of the market were easily tip of Manhattan, as well as five botanical gardens ___ Block If you like Sudoku that’s a good fit for your life in the coming weeks. 16 Seeders the most common booth at the show. From hemp genetics and flowers and the 843-acre Central Park. Let’s use all this According to my analysis of the astrological 24 Get a sense of importance, say bounty-amidst-the-bustle as a symbol of what 18 Adobe file format you’ll really like to finished consumer products like tinctures and lip balm, it was a new omens, you may find that a stand-in or substitute 26 Children’s author Blyton you should strive to foster in the coming weeks: or imitation will be more successful than the 22 Say out loud kind of THC Fair. The vibe was great, and still reflects the excitement that refreshing lushness and grace interspersed 28 E-mail address part ‘Str8ts’ and other original. And that will be auspicious! 25 Legislative persuader surrounds cannabis. It was an opportunity to see some new faces in the throughout your busy, hustling rhythm. 29 Ancient Roman road CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Space 27 Gp. that oversees the ATF puzzles, Apps and community who feel comfortable enough to come out and check out what CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a poet 30 Indian restaurant appetizer Needle in Seattle, Washington is 605 feet high and 31 Airline based in Stockholm books. cannabis has to offer. Medically minded companies like Focus Hemp and myself, I regard good poetry as highly useful. It 138 feet wide: a tall and narrow tower. Near the 33 Hospital count 32 False front unique marketing-driven companies like Hemp is the New Gold Rush all can nudge us free of our habitual thoughts and top is a round restaurant that makes one complete 36 Places with IVs provoke us to see the world in ways we’ve never 34 Slight decrease got the chance to showcase America’s newest legal commodity. rotation every 47 minutes. Although this part of 37 “The Battle With the Slum” author It was the year of hemp for the THC Fair, and it looks as though hemp is imagined. On the other hand, it’s not useful in the the structure weighs 125 tons, for many years its 35 Knightly title Visit Str8ts.com same way that food and water and sleep are. Most and social reformer looking to be a front-runner for the foreseeable future. motion was propelled by a mere 1.5 horsepower 38 Hall’s partner people don’t get sick if they are deprived of poetry. motor. I think you will have a comparable power 40 ___ A. Bank (menswear retailer) 39 PBS’s “Science Kid” But I want to bring your attention to a poem that at your disposal in the coming weeks: an ability to 43 “Don’t move!” is serving a very practical purpose in addition to 40 Rapper in the Fyre Festival cause major movement with a compact output of 44 Super Bowl XLI halftime headliner its inspirational function. Simon Armitage’s poem energy. documentaries “In Praise of Air” is on display in an outdoor plaza 48 Actress Hathaway of “Ocean’s 8” 41 With “of,” in total agreement at Sheffield University. The material it’s printed on AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1941, the 50 1010, in binary is designed to literally remove a potent pollutant Ford automobile company created a “biological 42 Shapes up quickly car.” Among its components were “bioplastics” 52 Gloom and ___ from the atmosphere. And what does this have 45 Barely defeat to do with you? I suspect that in the coming composed of soybeans, hemp, flax, wood pulp, and 53 Figure out group emotions, maybe 46 Was unable to weeks you will have an extra capacity to generate cotton. It weighed a thousand pounds less than a 58 Replacement comparable car made of metal. This breakthrough 47 Diplomat’s building blessings that are like Armitage’s poem: useful in 59 Wrigley Field judges both practical and inspirational ways. possibility never fully matured, however. It was 49 Podcast staffer overshadowed by newly abundant plastics made 60 Boy band that sang “Girl on TV” 51 “I couldn’t find it” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1979, psychologist from petrochemicals. I suspect that you Aquarians 61 She, in Brazil Dorothy Tennov published her book Love and 54 HBO series set in New Orleans are at a phase with a resemblance to the biological 62 Surgeon for whom a mouthwash is Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. She car. Your good idea is promising but unripe. I hope 55 “Great blue” marsh bird defined her newly coined word “limerence” as named you’ll spend the coming weeks devoting practical 56 Good for something a state of adoration that may generate intense, energy to developing it. (P.S. There’s a difference 63 Some purchases for vape pens 57 Actress Gretchen of “Boardwalk Empire” euphoric, and obsessive feelings for another between you and your personal equivalent of the 65 Prefix meaning “insect” person. Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Leos 63 “___ Ho” (“Slumdog Millionaire” song) biological car: little competition.) 66 Their capacity is measured in BTUs are most likely to be visited by this disposition 64 ___ Beta Kappa throughout 2019. And you’ll be especially prone 67 Attila’s band to it in the coming weeks. Will that be a good [Editor: Here’s this week’s homework:] 68 “Quiz Show” figure Charles Van ___ thing or a disruptive thing? It all depends on how 69 1950s White House nickname ©2019 Jonesin’ Crosswords determined you are to regard it as a blessing, have Choose one area of your life where you’re ([email protected]) fun with it, and enjoy it regardless of whether or going to stop pretending. Report results to 70 ___-bitty FreeWillAstrology.com. 24 / WWW.ROGUEVALLEYMESSENGER.COM

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