Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-10
Friday, Aug. 10 Jacksonville Carvers: The club meets from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays for carving and coffee at The Woodcarving Place, 255 E. D St., Jacksonville. Admission is free. Call 541-899-5571. Book Nook Sale: A book sale is held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday at the Shady Cove library, 22477 Highway 62. Look for new or gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Call 541-878-2270 or see jcls.org. Artists’ Workshop Annual Show: This group of accomplished artists’ 34th annual show and sale will ru
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-10
Friday, Aug. 10 West Coast Country Music Festival: Sean Watkins and The Bee Eaters, Miss Lonely Hearts, Charley Crockett, The Bowties and Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams join the all-new lineup of modern roots musicians and bands performing Friday and Saturday, Aug. 10-11, at the West Coast Country Music Festival at the Green Springs Inn, 11470 Highway 66, Ashland. Music starts at 5 p.m. Friday, noon on Saturday. Tickets are $30 in advance and can be purchased at eventbrite.com. Tickets will be $4
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-10
OCEAN OUTLOOK COASTWIDE: Forecasts call for a calm ocean with 5-knot winds and 2-foot wind waves today, followed Saturday with winds to 10 knots and 2-foot seas. Sunday calls for winds up to 30 knots and wind waves to 8 feet. The marine aggregate rockfish daily limit for bottomfishers has dropped from five fish to four for the remainder of 2018. The cabezon limit is one per day, and that counts against the four-fish aggregate limit. Rockfish angling is open only inside the 30-fathom line. A desc
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-11
CENTRAL POINT — Nate Bittle isn’t a track star but he’s definitely been hard to catch up with this whirlwind of a summer. After making his mark as a freshman this past high school season at Crater High as a key figure in the boys basketball team’s best season in recent history, the 6-foot-10 Bittle has taken to the postseason circuit and emerged as one of the front runners in Oregon basketball recruits for the Class of 2021. In the past two months, the lanky sharp-shooter with a shot-blocking kn
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-11
Lifting off above the Klondike fire, a specially designed drone that sounds like a mosquito on steroids disappears quickly into the dense haze. Its mission: to drop ping-pong-sized balls from the air into rugged, inaccessible areas. The balls, filled with potassium permanganate, are injected with antifreeze prior to being released, and they ignite when they hit the ground, setting off back burns to create a defensive line on the eastern flank of the 38,382-acre fire, which is only 15 percent con
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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A dry cold front with strong western winds is expected to move into Southern Oregon Friday evening, which could be problematic for firefighters battling wildfires in the region. According to National Weather Service meteorologist Brad Schaaf, the cold front is expected to move in from the Pacific Ocean late Friday, creating a change in weather patterns. Schaaf said the cold front will break through the high pressure that’s remained over the region for “quite some time,” bringing in “less hot tem
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-10
Felony arrests Weapon — Lonnie Bryan Dees, 41, of Kearns, Utah. On Thursday, Dees made his initial appearance in Jackson County Circuit Court on a felony charge of felon in possession of a firearm and a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of intoxicants in a case that originated in 1996. He was booked in the Jackson County Jail and released Thursday on his own recognizance. Coercion — Gary Lee Perkins II, 25, no known address. Medford police arrested Perkins Thursday on felony warr
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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ASHLAND — Sabrina Vladu sees a fluffy little buzzer land, and for a minute she thinks it’s possible that little bumblebee is the reason two dozen people armed with bug nets are here stalking Mount Ashland’s wildflower meadows. The bee has a black back but is without a yellow face. Could it be a Franklin’s bumblebee, which hasn’t been seen in these parts since 2006? Vladu quickly nets the bee and channels her two days of bee-wrangling experience to get the little bugger into a plastic canister. “
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-10
Medford City Councilor Kevin Stine has jumped into the Democratic primary race against U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. “Some of Wyden’s votes run against Democratic values,” the 29-year-old said. Referring to himself as a progressive Democrat, Stine sent in his papers to the federal government Wednesday and expected them to arrive sometime Friday. When he was elected to City Council in 2014, Stine had no political experience. Born in Medford, Stine moved at an early age to Oklahoma,
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
When a film begins with a driver’s view from a car hurtling down a long stretch of road under a cloud- and lightning-filled sky — the logo that’s opened every Jerry Bruckheimer production for the past two decades — you know that you’re in for, well, a ride. Bruckheimer’s Hollywood career actually began more than 40 years ago, with his first producer credit on “Farewell, My Lovely.” It’s since graced an astonishing array of films (and
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
Woody Allen has been here before. Not just with certain plot ideas and themes, like the ups and downs of love and marriage. He had a previous film set in the same location. The title here refers to the big Ferris wheel on Coney Island, which can be seen slowly turning outside the windows of the home where Humpty (Jim Belushi), a ride operator, and his wife Ginny (Kate Winslet), a waitress, live. During a flashback in “Annie Hall,” Alvy Singer’s family is living under the rol
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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If you don’t know anything about the controversial events surrounding the figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in early 1994, and you intend to see this movie, you’re in for a flabbergasting story. But even if you are aware of what went down on that cold Detroit night (it involved someone being struck with a blunt object), you’ll still be flabbergasted by what’s told in the film. “I, Tonya” isn’t exactly a proper biography of Tonya Hard
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
Give Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro 20 minutes to talk about movies, and he’ll give you an hour’s worth of stories. The jovial writer-director, who has a résumé including “Hellboy,” “Pan’s Labyrinth,” and “Pacific Rim,” and just added the adult fable “The Shape of Water” to that list, can easily start answering a question about what movies he saw as a kid, then shift the same answer into the technical as
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
There are actors and there are stars, and Chile’s Daniela Vega is a lot of both in the Oscar-nominated “A Fantastic Woman.” It’s a stunning performance of pulsating power. But more than a personal triumph, Vega establishes a milestone in the push for equality playing a transgender woman determined to properly grieve for her recently deceased lover. In what should be easy and just, her Marina, a 27-year-old aspiring opera singer, is cruelly and continually thwarted by
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
The Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth is always going to be remembered for bulking up, donning a blond wig, and playing the hammer-wielding Thor. We know that; he knows that. But he’s been in the business, first on TV in Australia, then in American movies, for a decade and a half, taking on all sorts of roles. In his newest film, “12 Strong,” he’s the real-life army captain who leads his group of Green Berets on a top-secret mission in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11. Sitti
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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Though he’s been acting on TV and in film for close to three decades, his name — Walton Goggins — doesn’t immediately conjure up a face. But once that one-of-a-kind face is seen, he’s quickly recognized. TV viewers know him as the shifty Boyd Crowder on “Justified” and, more recently, as the nasty Lee Russell on “Vice Principals.” On the big screen, some of his choice roles have been in “Django Unchained,” “Linco
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
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In the 20-plus years that writer-director Alexander Payne has been putting out decidedly offbeat films, many of them starring A-list actors, he’s often shown a tendency to lean toward the comic side of things, even when dealing with serious subjects. “About Schmidt,” with Jack Nicholson, was as funny as it was sobering; “Sideways” featured Paul Giamatti as a man overflowing with self-doubt, yet had plentiful comic relief from Thomas Haden Church; “Nebras
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-09
It’s safe to say that when we conjure a picture of Hugh Grant in our minds, we see someone on the order of Mr. Nice Guy. We think of the pleasant, appealing roles he’s played in “Four Weddings and a Funeral, ”Notting Hill,” and “It’s a Boy.” Sure, he’s done some less-than-nice characters in, for instance “Cloud Atlas,” but in general, we know what we’re going to get from a Grant performance. So, it’s a bit
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-08
ASHLAND — Oregon Wine Experience makes a point of rotating judges for its competition to level the playing field from year to year. When a judge returns, however, it provides an opportunity to measure both the competition and the local wine industry’s progress. Tim Hanni, a master of wine, didn’t expect to be on the six-member panel when it reviewed 349 entries made from 38 varietals by 98 wineries during the competition at Ashland Hills Inn & Suites this past weekend. Although the preponderance
Mail Tribune (Medford, OR — Wayback)
· snapshot 2018-08-07
Wildfire smoke isn’t necessarily canceling fun in Southern Oregon, but it is forcing organizations that are dependent on tourist dollars to scramble for other options. About 100,000 acres in Josephine and Jackson counties have already burned in an early fire season, filling much of the Rogue Valley with smoke. Medford’s and surrounding towns’ air quality continues to range from “unhealthy for sensitive groups” to “hazardous” levels. Sunday night, the air quality in both Medford and Ashland moved