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Your Weekend Reader for Jan. 1-2
Happy New Year! Here's hoping that 2022 brings you nothing but good news -- and, now, let me set about breaking that particular resolution. (I promise this edition gets happier as it goes along --...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 25-26
Merry Christmas! I promise that I'll finally finish the last batch of Christmas cards this weekend and get them out in the mail pronto. (Who am I kidding: What I mean to say is, I'll get started on...
Songs of terror, violence earn Holiday Hall of Fame honors
A rollicking version of a song about life in an authoritarian surveillance state. And a jazzy, fun cover of a song about a horrible accident and mankind's indifference to the cries of others in...
Your holiday music questions, answered
Due to my status as the executive director of the (completely fictional) Holiday Music Hall of Fame, people routinely turn to me for answers to their burning questions about their favorite Christmas...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 18-19
My Day-Timer tells me that this was the weekend I had set aside to do all my Christmas errands, which means -- they're not all going to get done again this year. Well, live and learn, they always...
Repertory Singers return to the stage with “Candlelight and Carols”
After nearly two years away from live performances, the Corvallis Repertory Singers return to the stage this weekend for “Candlelight and Carols,” the ensemble’s traditional holiday concert. And, to...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 11-12
Happy holidays. Let me ruin your weekend by calling your attention to a blockbuster Atlantic story by Barton Gellman (he's the reporter who wrote the story outlining the strategy by then-President...
Help choose this year’s Holiday Music Hall of Fame classics
At this writing, about two weeks remain before Christmas, which means that you've been listening to old and new holiday music now for -- what? -- two weeks now? Three weeks? Or maybe ... you never...