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Hollywood's summer box office is glowing, but the numbers come with startling caveats

Theaters have had something for everyone this summer, and fans are paying top dollar for premium formats like IMAX. There are also fewer moviegoers, fewer movies and fewer screens than there were pre-COVID.

fata morgana is multi-instrumentalist and composer Taja Cheek's fourth album as L'Rain.

An art-rock illusionist rewrites pop in her own image

Taja Cheek's psychedelic project L'Rain has always been tagged as experimental. On fata morgana, she asks what separates music like hers from the mainstream.

A person holds a sign reading "Save Our Social Security" during a rally in support of fair taxation near the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025.

The Social Security trust fund is running out, and yet it's not a top campaign issue

Limited public discussion of the trust fund's shortfall has experts worried that most Americans don't fully understand the problems Social Security faces — let alone be able to weigh in on solutions.

Painter Marc Padeu, from Cameroon, takes themes from Renaissance masterworks and re-invents them with his African perspective.

This rising painter reimagines Renaissance art in a cocoa plantation in Cameroon

A new gallery show in London features the paintings of Marc Padeu, playing with themes from Renaissance art and bringing them to his homeland of Cameroon.

Dozens of vehicles are parked at a drive-in movie screening at Mount Ashland Ski Area at dusk, with the ski area sign in the foreground and forested mountain slopes in the background.

Ride a chairlift to a concert and more unique Southern Oregon arts experiences

From a mountaintop music festival to poetry, theater and free concerts, JPR shares arts events happening across Southern Oregon this summer.

Jacksonville, Oregon resident Thomas Withenbury is a retired journalist and educator who recently released his debut novel, "The Color of Indigo."

Jacksonville author waited a lifetime to publish his first novel

Jacksonville author Thomas Withenbury discusses his debut novel, The Color of Indigo, and how family history inspired its story.

Natasha Cloud of the Chicago Sky looks on prior to the game against the Indiana Fever at Wintrust Arena on Aug. 23 in Chicago.

Why is one WNBA team calling in national security experts?

The WNBA's popularity has risen in recent years, but so have threats and abuse directed at its players. One team is taking a novel approach to this, by partnering with national security specialists.

North Bend Public Library in North Bend, Oregon.

North Bend newspaper digitization effort gains momentum with new donations

A North Bend project aims to digitize more than 80 years of local newspapers before fragile paper copies and microfilm deteriorate. Fundraising has surpassed the halfway mark toward its goal.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveils new U.S. economic sanctions to isolate Iran

The Trump administration calls this an "economic D-Day" on Iran. Iran vows to respond to fresh sanctions in a "seismic manner."

Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaks during a commemoration ceremony for late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the Imam Hassan Mosque in Karbala, Iraq, on Aug. 20.

Top Iran official says U.S. focus on economic warfare shows it has failed militarily

The Iranian regime has dismissed President Trump's threats to crush Iran economically, saying that years of U.S. sanctions have failed.

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