Ashland Blog

I found the greatest website recently. It's called Anna Eats Ashland and it's really cool. Anna has categorized all of the restaurants in Ashland in a variety of helpful ways, and also tagged all of them by their approximate price range. She also has interviews with chefs(!), and promises a wide range of reviews as time goes by. She also keeps up with the various foodie-related events in town, such as the recently concluded Taste of Ashland. Anna also seems to have a great energy and wit to her writing to boot! I can't recommend her site enough - check her out!

Kind of a mix between Ashland Blog and Developer Blog, but what the hey. I'd really like to hear from anyone in Ashland who'd like to review ... well, practically anything. Theater, restaurants, hotel/motel/b&bs, even straight up retail shops (not chains, the local boutiques in Ashland naturally). The way the site is set up, once I publish a review anybody can respond with their own review. That said, I'm not going to get around to EVERYTHING any time soon. Anyway, I'd love to get (in particular) all of the Oregon Cabaret shows reviewed, and getting a lot of lodging reviews will only ever happen with help. Contact me at john (at) ashlandlink (dot) com if you're interested!

The next round of commissions for the American History cycle was announced at a press conference in the lobby of the Bowmer Theatre, details of which can be found here. More details will be posted later tonight.

Apparently, during the June 11th performance of Servant of Two Masters at OSF, Eileen DeSandre fell so ill with food poisoning during the production that she was unable to go back on after intermission. Other shows might pull in an emergency understudy but, with improvisation already a key part of the show, the rest of the cast decided to work it out as they went along. According to the accounts I heard, the audience was none the wiser. Wow.

The Music Man