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If it wasn’t Walter Cronkite, it was David Brinkley: for a couple of decades, Americans tended to share news sources. The mainstream media, derided today…
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In light of the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, the Ashland Independent Film Festival, scheduled for April 16-20, will not be taking place as planned. For more…
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“Snow in Midsummer?” said the lady at the box office as she handed me my tickets, adding “I wish!” And there was a certain irony in the fact that the…
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Recordings seem to offer us a double promise: they can bring us closer to the music we love, and music can be caught and made as durable and solid as any…
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The attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month using a pair of drones armed with explosives made international headlines…
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During the past several weeks, the JPR news department has been at work covering one of the most active and destructive fire seasons in Southern Oregon…
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My sister and I fought nearly every day for the first twenty years of our lives. She is thirteen months older than I and could land both a physical and…
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The year 1903 may be best known as the year that the elephant Topsy was filmed while being electrocuted on Coney Island, or as the year that Ford Motor…
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I’m not a great fan of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s adaptations of English novels. It is difficult to encompass the narrative scope of a novel in two…
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Over the past several years, I’ve written extensively in this space about collaborations that have been developing among public radio stations and NPR…
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Richard Herskowitz is excited.The Artistic and Executive Director of the Ashland Independent Film Festival talks with energy and enthusiasm about the…
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Either you are early for the theatre performance or you have time during the intermission, and decide not to switch on your cell phone for those…
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As we get our feet under the new year here at JPR, we’re looking ahead to a number of service improvements for listeners.While projects change from year…