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A book titled “Grandpa's Journey” sounds like a grandpa's memoirs, but this book isn't written by a grandpa and it isn't a memoir. The strange subtitle about “Lessons From the Kitchen in the Art of Living... more...
02/04/2010 11:51am
Who would think a simple trip to the veterinarian would lead to drug lords, kidnapping, murder and still have a happy ending? Probably only the quick mind of mystery writer Blaize Clement and her unique pet sitter detective, Dixie Hemingway, could...
  01/29/2010 8:16am
The reader of this book might think the subtitle of a biography — about one of Douglas County's timber giants and the company he built — a bit odd. That is true until you read the book “Milt Herbert: Can't Never Could Do...
  01/22/2010 9:02am
Emma Willey, who is legally blind at 89, has published three books; the latest includes poetry, essays and short stories
  01/14/2010 12:03pm
This book really began in Trinity County, Calif., in the 1980s. It started when Nina Foran Gee was a schoolteacher and her classroom became part of the Adopt-a-Watershed Program, in which her students were involved in a fish project. The fish raised in...
  12/30/2009 1:03pm
I could say this review is to disprove a reader who told the editor of The News-Review that I only reviewed books that interest me. (An old, salty Marine reviewing a romantic comedy chick book?) But I'd be lying.
  12/23/2009 10:46am
It is said that the writer Jack London's books and stories garnered rejection slips piled 5 feet high. Yet London was so passionate about his craft, he wrote 15 hours a day, until finally, in 1903, a publisher accepted “The Call of the...
  12/16/2009 12:19pm
Not every play will appeal to every taste, and that is true of offerings by the Umpqua Community College theater program as well. However, under the capable and creative hands of Dean Remick, theater director, Centerstage Theatre has led us to expect...
  12/11/2009 11:01am
I have often decried the lack of big-time musicals in small towns, musicals like the ones you can only see on Broadway. But as the saying goes, “If you can't take theatergoers to Broadway, you can bring Broadway to theatergoers.”...
  11/20/2009 12:38pm
"A Bad Year For Tomatoes" proves to be a good time for Roseburg resident Gail Gaston
  09/29/2009 4:50pm
Perhaps the most ambitious cultural event in the history of Douglas County kicked off Thursday evening on the Umpqua Community College campus. It's the second annual Oregon Musical Theatre Festival, bringing to our community 23 performances of...
  07/24/2009 11:44am
Clarence Darrow was one of America's most famous lawyers in the early twentieth century, best known for his defense at the Scopes “Monkey Trial” (he lost) and his later defense of the young thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb (he lost, but...
  07/17/2009 10:11am
We see them occasionally in the neighborhood, or in the store, or in the park, often in a small group. Rarely do we have to interact with them. In Umpqua Actors Community Theatre's new stage production, “The Boys Next Door,” which...
  06/08/2009 10:15am
Even if you went to a Catholic school as a kid, you never knew any nuns like the Little Sisters of Hoboken. That’s a shame. But you can make up for it by attending their fun “fundraiser” onstage at UCC’s Centerstage Theatre, which opened Thursday evening.
  05/15/2009 3:25pm
“Once On This Island,” which opened last night, is an experience not to be missed.
  04/17/2009 2:43pm
Local theater critic reviews newest UCC play
  03/13/2009 10:51am
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