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Ashland, Oregon HOME Valley & State Sports Opinion/Editorial Classifieds Business Columnists Obituaries Weather Archive Revels Etcetera Backpage O-Zone Real Estate Guide Menu Guide Shakespeare Subscribe Contact Us Rate Card Place an Ad Executive Director of the Ashland Independent Film Festival , Tom Olbrich makes changes to the festival’s schedule. April 10, 2006 * updated by 5 p.m. daily 2006 Ashland Independent Film Festival Award worthy Awards ceremony highlights 2006 Ashland Independent Film Festival Once a year, Ashland has its own version of the Oscars. There are no red carpets, photographers screaming behind barricades, limousines, tuxedos or dresses that merit panic attacks from fashion show hosts the next day. There are no “until dawn” parties afterward, and the auditorium is not multiple stories. The setting is a bit more humble. Click here for the front page of the printed version of today's Tidings In the director's shoes Everyone has had the experience of sitting in a dark theater and muttering, “Now, that’s just not very plausible.” This time, the director was listening. Brammo seeks OK to expand Carmaker has designs on Jefferson Ave. facility Photo editor Orville Hector welcomes you to the O-Zone. Check it out each week and see what "O" is up to when he isn't shooting news and sports. Different sexes, different diets Paul Buck has a lot to say about nutrition. A tall man with sage blue eyes, 83-year-old Buck is a biochemist by training. He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and physiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1954 and taught first at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and then at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Mon: Essentially Ashland Begging the question Mon: Tales From The Crib Chocolate: good – and good for you Mon: From Denmark Cartoons shatter Danes’ feeling of safety Tues: Off The Vine Evaluating wine is a personal act Weds: Food & History Latvia gives proof of a small world Thurs: Sustainability Every Oregon home can support clean electricity Fri: I'll Shut Up — Right After This Why ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny Fri: Healthy Pets Royal Canin recalls some lines of pet food Fri: For Your Health Good joint pain? There’s no such thing Sat: Marketing Today Will your business model fly? Frosh paces Raiders Grochowsky wins two events at OIT Invitational Comets’ comeback sweeps away Grizzlies Opinion & Editorial — LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — EDITORIAL Bianca out, community policing in For months, the public debate about the Ashland Police Department spilled onto the streets of Ashland. As it turns out, we hardly knew what we were fighting about. ... — OPINION PAGE POLICY Updated Tuesdays: From the Right Side Mike Green Secular is insufficient By reason we can divine our own path through life, gleaning knowledge and wisdom from a variety of experiences (both good and bad) that assist in directing and bringing us ever closer to an understanding that all living creatures are deserving of dignity and respect. This concept, as espoused by many who purport to be secularists, is seemingly benevolent and benign. Unfortunately, it is insufficient as an overall model protocol, doctrine or philosophy. ... CASE IN POINT (OPED) Updated Mondays: — Case In Point : Moral imperative is heavily qualified Over the course of the last three years, we have heard the administration frame America’s mission in Iraq and throughout the world as one in which we will nurture and support the tenets of freedom and democracy. President Bush has stated unequivocally that “Freedom is not America’s gift to the world, it is the Almighty God’s gift to every man and woman in the world.” This was international policy presented as a moral imperative. But as it turns out, this lofty categorical statement is heavily qualified. And we need only look at what is taking in place in Darfur for proof. ... — There are no obituaries today — Police click here to see print version What’s the matter with turning 30 ? ’ In 1990, when Jonathan Larson was turning 30, he wrote an autobiographical musical “tick, Tick ... BOOM!” about making life choices as he approached that scary milestone. In Review | Slither More gore, less of everything else In Review | Bus Stop Playwright weaves in wonderful texture Any port in a storm, they say. And what better than Grace’s Diner in a small town about 30 miles west of Kansas City? For this is where William Inge sets his 1955 romantic comedy, “Bus Stop,” when a near-blizzard renders the roads impassable and forces a bus on its way to Topeka to unload its passengers there overnight. Movies | T.V. | Calendar Stories updated by 6 p.m. Thursday ( Back issues available ) Kids, ‘Grease,’make perfect pairing The Children’s Musical Theatre of Ashland will premier “Grease-The School Version,” Thursday, April 13 at the Historic Ashland Armory. The musical, with a cast of 29, will feature some of the Rogue Valley’s most promising young performers in this “edited for families” version of the stage and screen classic musical production. Dance instructor focuses on children As the owner and director of Ashland’s Danceworks dance studio, Aisha Wand says the compliment she hears most and that means to the most to her is that she brings a positive attitude and patience to her teaching. ‘Eyes Wide Open’ at AHS The Ashland High School library’s photography series “Eyes Wide Open” features the work of Medford photographer Geri Mathewson for the entire month of April. MORE LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT Movies: Now playing Poetry often pierces to the heart of ethics “When Nazim Hikmet, the Turkish poet who spent half his adult life in prison, speaks of Spring coming and the sun rising, you can sense that he is seeing Spring coming through a barred window.” Church Listings Ashland residents traveling nationwide and around the globe provide first-person accounts of their travels, complete with pictures to share their adventures with the Tidings' readers. * Note: The stories below are submitted by local residents traveling outside of Oregon. These submissions are not changed on a regular basis, but will be replaced as other submissions are received. Enjoy. FEMA Experience in Texas I was invited by FEMA to act as a Public Information Officer (PIO) in a volunteer capacity. Mis queridos This is my first e-mail and I write it not from Syria but from South Lebanon. New Orleans: Up Close and Personal I returned to my hometown of New Orleans on Oct. 6 to view the devastation and assist my displaced family. The impact of the Gulf Coast tragedy on Native Americans --> Copyright © 2006 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers. All Rights Reserved.