I have watched a lot of college hockey through the years. A lot.
Most seasons of the last two decades, I have seen over 40 games in person each year. I once saw over 60.
One season, I saw U. Denver play live six times. I should point out that I live thousands of miles from Denver, in Boston, and Denver never played my favorite team that year. I saw my least favorite team play a (baker’s) dozen that same season, which is probably more than most of the...
Call for entries for the 2013 ashland independent film festival are now open! For more information on submitting click here.
Deadlines:
Early- October 26, 2012
Regular- November 16, 2012
Late- December 7, 2012
WAB extended- December 14, 2012
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A pre-dawn dusting of snow fell on southern Oregon, wrapping Ashland like a gift. Morning’s bright sun melted white back to green to reveal the start of the 10th Ashland Independent Film Festival.
By midday, the endless crisp, blue sky instead hung low, grey, and ominous. A freakish snow squall swirled around the queue in front of the Varsity waiting for the first slate of films, then the clouds lifted and the world shone bright again.
Those changes - from cheery to dreary and b...
No, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has not moved from live stage to film - but this festival is sponsored by another local institution dedicated to the arts on a year-round basis: the Bad Film Society.
The festival? The Bad Film Society Presents ... The Annual Ashland Co-Dependent Film Festival.
While the OSF is well known throughout the state, country, even the world, the Bad Film Society is known to a relative few. Sequestered away in the basement of the Ashland Elks Lodge, the grou...
People love Ashland.
Ashland, Oregon appears, at first glance, to be a quintessential small American town. It has a population of about twenty thousand and a compact, walkable downtown where the closest thing to a skyscraper is the Ashland Springs Hotel - once the tallest building between, depending on who you ask, either Sacramento and Eugene or San Francisco and Portland - which towers over the Main Street “skyline” but never reaches double-digit storeys. Within a few blocks from...
