COTTAGE GROVE – Many longtime rock ’n’ roll fans – particularly here in the Pacific Northwest – would rank the Beatles and Nirvana as two of the greatest – if not the greatest – bands of all time. They certainly represent two extremely diverse musical styles and two completely different[Read More…]
Scene and Heard
Difficult to top
COTTAGE GROVE – David Jones and Blaze Birge, a married couple who founded the Flynn Creek Circus 20 years ago in Anderson Valley, Calif., had their own international trapeze act, but recently put that aside for something less dangerous – they throw knives at each other, and Blaze even throws[Read More…]
Thibodeaux gets yuks at Oktoberfest
COTTAGE GROVE – The German beer was flowing, people were mingling and dancing, and everybody was chuckling as Kelly Thibodeaux played “Ain’t No Crocodile” during Saturday’s annual Oktoberfest celebration co-hosted by the Axe & Fiddle and the Brewstation. “A lot of people come up and ask, ‘Do you really have[Read More…]
Art from the heart
“Bob Cats” by Karen Pidgeon at the City Hall Gallery. When a viewer looks at art, it is often the subject matter, colors, or ability to capture a flower or landscape realistically that fill one with wonder and awe. We find this art beautiful, and we hang it on[Read More…]
Everybody’s gone surfin’, Surfin’ USA.
RON HARTMAN / THE CHRONICLELast week marked the final performance of the Cottage Grove Concerts in the park series hosted by the Cottage Grove Chamber of Commerce, above. The headliners, The “Men from S.U.R.F.” brought the groovy tunes of the Beach Boys to Bohemia Park. COTTAGE GROVE – It was[Read More…]
Creative, chaotic and ‘Little bit of this and that’
Last weekend, Creative Chaos debuted their latest production “A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That.” The program brings actors with disabilities into the limelight. “It gives me great pleasure to help my athlete/actors’ dreams come true,” said Carmen Dowell, founder of Creative Chaos. “I have come[Read More…]
Localizing Titanic history, brewmasters, historians fundraise for Grove museum
Marion Wright wore this heavy, wool coat on her voyage to marry Grove fruit farmer Arthur Woolcot. After she survived the titanic’s famous collision course, this coat was known among friends and family as “The Lucky Coat.” COTTAGE GROVE – It’s easy to wonder, rummaging through your great-grandmother’s closet, where[Read More…]
Column: ‘Shaking it with style,’ class at Springfield Art Walk
PHOENIX BRIGHT/ PHOTO- Bellydancers Natalia Hayes (bottom) and Sara Reid (top) pose in dance troupe, Fusion Fascination, at the Emerald Art Center Springfield Art Walk on July 8. One of the fun and festive performances during the July Springfield Second Friday Art Walk was belly dancing at the Emerald Art[Read More…]
Skynyrd Memorial brings back memories
Lynyrd Skynyrd memorial The legendary crossroads. Robert Johnson grave with some gifts. March 23 OK, we’re off and running on Day 2 heading up to the Mississippi Delta. Well, we woke up that morning and we didn’t want to wait in a line again like the previous day at Mother’s,[Read More…]
A mountain of goodwill helps restore faith in fellow humans
Michael Dunne, on Mt. Hood’s summit. Michael Dunne in Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland after his fall down Mt. Hood. There’s an adage in mountaineering which states that after you reach the summit, the hard part really begins. On May 24th, at around 7 a.m., I fulfilled[Read More…]