by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. It’s not about grand innovation, it’s about a lot of little innovations: every day, every…
Notes from the Publisher – Pamela Hulse Andrews
Are You Kidding Me?
People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That’s how life works, but it’s not bugging me anymore. Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it and it was all over eight years…
Making Sense of Our Cultural Influence
by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher Over the past two decades I have tried to position this magazine as a cultural wake up call to our community as to the importance and significance of the beauty of our region captured in diverse artwork from painting, pottery and sculptures to murals and wearable art,…
In a Surprise Move Nature of Words Folds
by PAMELA HULSE ANDREWS Cascade A&E Publisher The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950 Irish playwright, a co-founder London School of Economics) In a letter dated May 23 emailed to a select group of supporters of the Nature of Words (NOW),…
Living in a Music Festival — Together
I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.Pete Seeger (1919 – January 27, 2014 at 94!) American folk singer and activist. Imagine the Les Schwab Amphitheater, tripling the audience to about…
Salute to Arts Groups
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.Steven Spielberg (American film director, screenwriter, producer…
Looking for Cultural Icons
Creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, ‘I’m stupid, isn’t it cute?’ makes me want to throw daggers. I want to say to them, ‘My grandma did not fight for what she fought for just so you can start telling women it’s fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls,…
Happy Valentine’s from Frank Sinatra & Rickie Lee Jones
Alone or surrounded in love on Valentine’s Day it’s essential (well, at least appealing) to make a list of your all time favorite love songs. They might just inspire your inner romantic. L-O-V-E is still the most popular subject title for songs and lyrics, so it’s fairly easy to pick out a handful of tunes…
Deck the Halls & Start the Music
Somehow, not only for Christmas,But all the long year through,The joy that you give to others,Is the joy that comes back to you.And the more you spend in blessing,The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart’s possessing,Returns to you glad. -John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet (1807 – 1892) A friend said…
Clinching the Art of the Festival
How we celebrate says a lot about our culture and our willingness to embrace the new, the different and the talented. Central Oregon is abundant in doing just that by embracing numerous festivals from music, film and literary throughout the year. These forms of celebration and acknowledgement of creative forms are spiritual in their nature. …