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Wouldn’t it be great if there was a car that could totally relieve us of foreign oil dependence? How about a car that would rid us of any petroleum dependence at all? Yeah, I know what you are thinking electric cars are already the answer. Well, who wants to plug…

Maria DiMagio is the manager of the Lithia Artisans Market and the owner of Greensprings Body Works — an organic body-care product company established here in Ashland, Oregon. As if that doesn’t keep her busy enough, she and her partner, Roy, are jointly working on a new business called “Higher…

Anna Podhaski, a local author and artist in Ashland, will be reading excerpts from her new novel White Jade, at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland on Friday, March 25th at 7pm. Anna has written articles for various Southern Oregon publications; White Jade is her first novel. Always fascinated with myth, history,…

Issue: May 2011 Publisher: LocalsGuide Editor: Shields Bialasik Contributors:

Brothers, brothers, brothers, the world is full of famous ones. There were the Marx brothers who made “talkies” all the rage. There were the Kennedy brothers whose lives were all but unfulfilled. Our very own town of Ashland has an eatery named after the male kindred. I never had the…

Heidi Carlson is the creative force behind Hempress Arise, a small, hand-crafted, natural clothing business. Heidi is dedicated to using only the finest materials to carefully craft each piece of clothing. We caught up with Heidi to ask her a bit about here work and experiences of running her own…

As one of Lisa’s adult students, I recently had the pleasure of watching her work with two children who had never touched a piano. I was amazed to see each of them happily playing a song they had already learned by the end of their first lesson with Lisa. And…

Golden Ghost and Mother McKenzie are two touring acts out of Endicott, NY and Las Vegas, NV, respectively. They play a mixture of folk, country, and psychedelia sure to please the most discriminating of tastes. “Rhapsodic in structure, [Golden Ghost’s] music often has dramatic stress and meter fluctuations, unpredictable key…

Using Film to Understand the Nine Character Types with Carl Marsak, M.A. When: Sun. March 27th, 2011 from 10-6 pm. Where: Ashland Public Library, 410 Siskiyou Blvd, in the Gresham Room. Cost: $25.00-45.00 sliding scale (lunch not included). Note: Pre-registration is required (see below). With the Ashland Independent Film Festival…

Ashland Zen Center offers an informal day of practice on January 29 to introduce beginners to Zen practice. This introductory day will include seated and walking meditation, silent lunch and a dharma talk and discussion about practice led by transmitted Zen teachers Jintei Harold Little and Etsudo Patty Krahl. There…

Pegi Smith lives in the mountains outside of Ashland, Oregon. She is an abstract artist who works with a rich palette of colors. Her pieces reach deep into the psyche of the viewer. As a fellow artist and art connoisseur, I can tell you that I am moved at a…

Tell us about yourself. What is there to say, I was born and raised in Chicago, moved to Southern California, lived there for 6 years, missed the four seasons and found Ashland almost 20 years ago. I have lived in Ashland proper for 12 years. My husband and I originally…