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...
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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...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 4-5
I know: Christmas is just three weeks away. I know some of you are just about ready to wrap up your holiday preparations. I am not among you -- everything on my holiday checklist remains, um,...
Another side of the “Thanksgiving” story
Native writer Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play” takes the stage this weekend at the Majestic.
Orchestra tunes up for Tuesday return
It’s been nearly two years since the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra last performed in front of a live audience – “two years in purgatory" is how Marlan Carlson, the orchestra’s conductor and...
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 20-21
Thanksgiving is Thursday, and so I vowed to stuff this edition of Your Weekend Reader with stories that evoked some sense of gratitude -- and that vow lasted until Monday morning, when I read this...