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The Sad Story of a Girl Named ‘Amy’
Amy Winehouse Documentary Hits Theaters July 9 by Marjorie Skinner – @MJSkinner800 From a distance, it’s hard to tell how much celebrity suffering is theater. Asif Kapadia’s shattering documentary Amy certainly qualifies as theater in its own right, piecing together great amounts of archival, never-before-seen video footage of late musician
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY: Week of July 9
ARIES (March 21-April 19): How can you fulfill your potential as an Aries? What strategies will help you become the best Aries you can possibly be? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these riddles. One of my Aries readers, Mickki Langston, has some stellar tips to inspire you:
Gray Areas of Marijuana Legalization to Pay Special Attention To
The Straight Dope By Eli Stillman – @EliMent13 Along with marijuana legalization comes conflicts with existing laws outside of the usual spectrum. Home growers and recreational smokers are largely in the clear now, but students and drivers may be scratching their heads about how toking up can affect their daily
LETTERS: Issue of July 9
Re: Your response to “Sterling,” who responded to “Bugsy” In your response to “Sterling,” who wrote to you re: Harvest According to “Bugsy,” you wrote this: “We welcome all letters, no matter how venomless or foundationless.” (And now, a side-thought: did you really mean “venomless” or did you mean “venomous”?
The Messenger’s Top Fourth of July Picnic Spots
Red, White and Effectively Paired Cheese Sure, July 4th is thick with parades and patriotic hollering. But that can be a bit overwhelming, and you can America just as hard in a more subdued way: a picnic. It gets you outside into those purple mountains majesty and does it with
PLAY THE HITS!
by Jeff Hill Smash Mouth bassist Paul De Lisle is calling to check in from the beach in Hawaii, where he is enjoying a day off. It is a safe bet that he is seeing better waves than the ones in Brookings on the Oregon coast, where he visited and
I Was a Teenage Homebrewer!
by Ace Montana, Certified Professional Hellion Nowadays, you ain’t Rogue Valley unless you strap on your banjo and walk your goat down to the homebrew supply store to talk robust porter. But back in the ’90s, “before it was cool,” I was a goat-walking banjo-plucking teen ruffian with a taste
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY: Week of June 11
by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To look at a thing hard and straight and seriously — to fix it.” Aries author Henry James said he wanted to do that on a regular basis. He didn’t want to be “arbitrary” or “mechanical” in his efforts. I invite you to
Beer Cheers and Jeers
There are consumer trends in flavors of beer, just like anything else. Some are past their prime and others ready for their primacy. The Messenger staff voted to find four beers that we need a whole lot more of, and four that it’s time to send to the woodshed. Cheers
Captain P.B. Arr’s Can’t Miss Events for Medford Beer Week
Listen up mateys. Medford Beer Week is so full of grog and treasure that it’s hard to take it all in. That’s why the crew here at The Messenger dug through the loot and found the pearls. Here’s the not-to-miss events for Medford Beer Week. Fri., June 12 Medford Beer
