EVENTS
LITERARY: Poetry of the Pandemic, local poets share their work from this time of upheaval, 6 p.m. today, online via Zoom through Jackson County Library Services; free; 541-774-6996, jcls.org.
FILM: "Coded Bias," documentary on dangers of artifical intelligence, Friday through Jan. 21, online at ashlandfilm.org; $10. See more in this section.
REMEMBRANCE: Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, with music, speakers, panel discussion, 6 p.m. Monday, online via Zoom, get link at tinyurl.com/MLK2021. Free.
FILM: Classic Movie Drive-up Theater, showings of the original "Ghostbusters," 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Monday, Wild River Brewing parking lot, 595 N.E. E St. $20 per vehicle, advance reservations; 541-471-7487.
ALBUMS
Dropping Friday:
ACCEPT: "Too Mean to Die"
MIDNIGHT SISTER: "Painting the Roses"
SHAME: "Drunk Tank Pink"
WHY DON'T WE: "The Good Times and the Bad Ones"
BOOKS
Released this week:
ILONA ANDREWS: "Blood Heir"
ACE ATKINS: "Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me"
GABRIEL BYRNE: "Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir"
PATRICIA CORNWELL: "Spin"
FAYE KELLERMAN: "The Lost Boys"
NICK PETRIE: "The Breaker"
DOUGLAS PRESTON, LINCOLN CHILD: "The Scorpion's Tail"
GEORGE SAUNDERS: "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain"
JILL SHALVIS: "The Forever Girl"
VIDEO
Released Tuesday on DVD, Blu-ray and many streaming services:
"AMMONITE": Saoirse Ronan plays 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning and Kate Winslet a woman sent to convalesce by the sea in this love story. R
"AMERICAN DREAM": Young businessmen get tangled with a Russian mobster as they seek funds to finish a construction project, then must fight him off before he takes over their business. Not rated.
"JUNGLELAND": Two brothers try to escape their circumstances by traveling to a no-holds-barred boxing match to fight for their lives. With Charlie Hunnam, Jack O'Connell. R
"SPELL": After a man crashes his plane in Appalachia, he awakens in the attic of a Hoodoo practitioner and has to escape to save his family in this horror thriller. R
TV SERIES: "Legacies: The Complete Second Season," "Manifest: The Second Season"