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Friday, Aug. 17 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. each Friday at the Shady Cove library, 22477 Highway 62. Look for new or gently used books, DVDs and CDs. Proceeds help fund programs, activities and library collections. Call 541-878-2270 or see jcls.org. Artists’ Workshop Annual Show: This
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Friday, Aug. 17 Savanna: Guitarist Liz Jones, percussionist Anna Christensen and upright bass payer Bob Rawlings will perform originals penned by Jones, along with classic country and western, ‘60s and ‘70s folk-rock, soul, reggae and blues from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at DANCIN Vineyards, 4477 S. Stage Road, Medford. Admission is free. Call 541-245-1133 or dancinvineyards.com. Blowin’ Smoke: Modern country band Blowin’ Smoke, featuring singer Beth Henderson, guitarists Michael Sidon
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Unhealthy air has prompted exasperated residents to search for relief from the smoke that is expected to hang in the valley for at least a month longer. Many are staying indoors, while others are buying indoor filtration systems, wearing masks and sometimes leaving the area to get a break from the smoke. “We can’t really do much outside, and stuff sneaks into your house, and it’s hard to get a filter that’s fine enough for your home,” said David Donnelly. The 65-year-old Eagle Point resident was
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No homes were lost amid increased fire activity Friday and Saturday on the Miles fire burning north of Lost Creek Lake, as 41 different fire agencies provided structure protection, according to a report from the Oregon Department of Forestry. Increased winds boosted the fire by 2,300 acres over the Friday report, pushing it to 29,397 acres. That was a relatively small amount of growth compared to the Klondike fire burning northwest of Selma in Josephine County. The Klondike was listed at 47,030
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Karma Rinpoche, a prominent Buddhist lama from Bhutan, will visit Ashland for a week starting July 30 to perform ceremonies, blessings and storytelling at the invitation of the Rev. Norma Nakai Burton of Unity in Ashland. Rinpoche visited Ashland last year and is searching for “like-minded communities” that share the values of Bhutan. Ashland is considered one of them, said Burton. He will bless and consecrate several sites here, including the Circle of Trust (formerly Circle
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Jacksonville Friends of the Library book sales, started in 1995, have come to an end because the group is unable to find a good way to recycle the leftover volumes. “We can’t donate them anymore, and they are not as easy to recycle,” said Joann Avery of the Friends of the Library. Help to run the sales also has declined. The group had been boxing and shipping unsold books to Better World Books, which would sell them online. But Better World now requires that books be scanned
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A woman was sentenced Monday for sexually abusing boys at a Talent trailer park. Shawna Marie Nerby, 25, of Lower Lake, Calif., was sentenced to five years' probation after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree sodomy, attempted first-degree rape and attempted second-degree rape. She is a former resident of the trailer park. She previously had been indicted on two counts of first-degree sodomy, second-degree sodomy, first-degree rape and second-degree rape. Nerby pleaded guilty to the lesser
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Going all the way back to Ronald Reagan, the assumption has been that movie stars are vain creatures incapable of cognizant thought. But those folks never met Hedy Lamarr. She was the Dolph Lundgren of her day; seemingly vapid in front of the camera and the second-coming of Einstein behind it. I say this as I write a review aided by the Wi-Fi she helped invent — way back during World War II. Don’t believe me? Look it up. Better yet, check out the fascinating documentary, “Bo
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#MINDBLOWN. That’s how you’ll feel watching the audacious “Avengers: Infinity War,” as the masterminds at Marvel culminate 10 years and 19 films of narrative foreplay into a single over-stuffed superhero orgy. Simply put, this “Avengers” is in full-on beast mode, with the filmmakers refusing to back off the gas for 156 thrill-packed minutes. Once you pick your jaw up from the floor, there’s much to process. Except, the vow of secrecy we critics mu
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It’s been almost a decade since writer-director Wes Anderson took time off from making quirky, thoughtful, whimsical live action films (“Rushmore,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”) and turned out the quirky, thoughtful, whimsical stop-motion animated film “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” That furry story had a stellar voice cast that was topped by George Clooney and Meryl Streep. Now, with a couple more live films un
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Lots of young readers have been waiting for a film version of the Madeleine L’Engle book “A Wrinkle in Time.” There might be even more adults, those who have read it as kids since its publication in 1962. Actually, this is the second time Disney has made the film; the first was a TV production shot in 2003, but not shown till 2004, then buried on the ABC schedule, and not seen by a wide audience. This version, with a cast of newcomer youngsters and established adult actors,
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ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. Written and directed by Dan Gilroy With Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Amanda Warren, Carmen Ejogo Rated PG-13 Denzel Washington hits another one out of the park. Why should that surprise anyone anymore? Yet if word wasn’t out that he plays the title role in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” and if his name wasn’t seen in the opening credits, there’s no doubt that there would be at least a few viewers watching it not realizing it was Denzel. That’s partly because of his awful hai
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If, while watching this new Amy Schumer comedy, you get the feeling that you’ve seen something like it before, you won’t be alone. Once the premise got going, other films that came to mind included body-switching titles like “Freaky Friday” and “13 Going on 30.” This one even quoted from another film with a different but still-related plot device: “Big,” and the business of a young boy putting a coin in an arcade machine and saying, “
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“The Greatest Showman” — a musical about 19th century circus pioneer P.T. Barnum — is a hot mess. First-time feature director Michael Gracey taps into his visual effects background to create a feast of style, spectacle, song and sexiness, the latter brought to us by a pair of dashing leading men in Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. While the movie is grand in scale, the script by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon sticks to the early days of the Phineas Taylor Barnum (a.k.a. the m
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Who says fairy tales are just for kids? Oscar-winning producer, director and screenwriter Guillermo del Toro proves they are anything but with “The Shape of Water.” The plot — a “princess without voice” falling for an amphibious man held captive in a Cold War-era government lab — admittedly sounds a bit cuckoo. But as del Toro proved with “Pan’s Labyrinth,” he is a master at making heartfelt gothic tales involving monsters and broken
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In “The Commuter,” another late-career actioner, Liam Neeson takes his save-the-day shenanigans aboard the 6:25 train to Cold Spring, a bumpy ride on which he must root out bad guys or it’s the end of the line for his family. The movie marks the fourth collaboration between Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra, and no shock, it pretty much follows the formula of the other three, “Non-stop,” “Run All Night” and “Unknown.” The only e
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DOWNSIZING Written by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor; directed by Alexander Payne With Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau Rated R Movies are the most popular form of mass entertainment in the world, but they’re constantly being accused of sidestepping originality, of telling the same stories over and over. That won’t be the case with “Downsizing” which, though it would fit comfortably in the category of science fiction, also gets into areas of social
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Her parents met on the set of “Some Kind of Wonderful,” but Zoey Deutch is about as far from the world of John Hughes as you can get in playing a morally corrupt teen in the weed-infested “Flower.” Her Erica, a high school senior with a lucrative scheme of extorting everyone from the pizza-delivery guy to her shantytown’s sheriff by freely offering a sexual act followed by blackmail, knows no bounds. There’s nothing she won’t say or do to get her
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What do moviegoers look for in their favorite actors? One thing is the recognizability factor, the idea that there’ll be some comfort in kind of knowing, being familiar with, the person up on the screen, even though said actor is playing someone else. But what happens when that doesn’t happen, like when Charlize Theron played serial killer Aileen Wuernos in “Monster,” or Tom Cruise played fictional Hollywood producer Les Grossman in “Tropic Thunder?” Wha
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You can’t be serious: Shia LaBeouf playing tennis great John McEnroe? Yes, in the middling bio-pic “Borg vs. McEnroe,” he does just that. And he’s not the least bit believable as the enfant terrible of the gentleman sport. That doesn’t mean he’s not very good. To the contrary, he’s actually pretty amazing — in a meta sort of way. But he’s no John McEnroe — not in looks or stature. Aw, but in personality, he’s every bit