When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including Ukraine Food, Warrant, Winger, Outer Orbit, Bridgid’s Crossing, Chasing Ebenezer, Reddy Black Trio, Kenny O3, Albert Nicholas, Gary Pryor, Animal Planet, Pigs on The Wing, Take 3, Big Rap Show, Gorge Music Fest.

Eight members of en Taiko, a youth Japanese taiko drum ensemble from Portland, will be here to entertain and educate us on Saturday, March 19th. This program will take place at 11:00 in the John and Jean Thomas Children’s Wing.

When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including Heather Marlow, Funkship, Mardi Gras, Take 3 Trio, Amber and the Pale Ales, Swindler, Kenny O3, Reddy Black Trio, Norman Baker, Jenny Jahlee, World’s Finest and Music Fest of The Gorge.

A free concert by Native American Music Award-winning flute musician James Edmund Greeley from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs will be held on Saturday, Feb. 26th at 7 p.m. in the wonderful Old St. Peter’s Landmark.

And while the film doesn’t always make great choices around its characters, it is always making interesting choices with the camera. If there is any real romance in the film, it's between Anderson and the making of movies: his love of cinema is palpable.

TDHS Students Alex Rector and Iris Cruz recently vaulted onto the world stage at Carnegie Hall after years of singing in The Dalles. Their teacher Shawn Lutz said getting them on that stage in New York was the ultimate goal. Rector said the experience brought tears to her eyes as the girls saw how hard work led them to a great place.

When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including Owl Valentines, West Goats, Noteworthy, Bigfoot, Free Hillbillies, International dining, masquerade Crow’s Shadow, Don Bailey, Scot & Rebecca, Sunny Pache, Helping Hands, Ferment Brewing, The Granada, Serrano Margarita, Maupin Daze.

The historic downtown The Dalles is celebrating the season of love with a decadent chocolate crawl tonight, Friday, Feb. 11, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. During this event, you can visit more than twenty businesses that will be offering chocolate-themed specials.

The Wasco County Cultural Trust Coalition is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2022 grant awards.

When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including Honey Badgers, The Jazz Collective, Nancy Wesson, Mutineers, The West Goats, Al Hare, history forums, Superbowl parties, Vertigo, Yvonne Pepin-Wakefield, Rent, and Lowest Pair.

Google announced today, Feb. 8, a $50,000 grant to The Dalles Main Street to support the upcoming 2022 Northwest MuralFest during which artists from around the country will create more than a dozen new murals in The Dalles downtown district.

Mo Burford reviews The Power of the Dog. It is Jane Campion’s most recent film, and her first in ten years, The Power of the Dog is at its center a reevaluation of the myth of the old west, and with it the myth of masculinity that follows in its shadow, carving a hole in the center of each character’s life.

The Dalles Art Center has teamed up with a group of metal fabrication students at Columbia Gorge Community College to fabricate and install a sizable metal display that will greet visitors outside as they approach the Art Center, on the corner of 3rd and Washington streets.

The Dalles’ Megan Kirchhofer, a TDHS graduate of 2019, has released her first book of poetry. "If Butterflies Could Talk" comes together as a collage of interconnected reflections, anecdotes, dreams, love notes, and detours from reality.

Sarah Cook takes us back to the Futurism with Art Teacher Kerry Cobb. The 10-year art movement starting in 1901 had “an edge that borders on being almost menacing,” and Cobb mapped out the absurdity and, at times, explicit aggressiveness of the movement alongside the mounting tensions of the pre-WWI state in which it emerged.

When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including Pigs on the Wing, R.A.P. Ferreira, Lowest Pair, Swindler, Lost Ox, Slapjack Casualty, Rich Wilkins, Junebug Boys, Kenny O3, Logan Kalsch, and Chic Preston.

When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including School boi, Meatloaf, People We Know, Jackson County Kills, Al Hare, Sunny Pache, Stephanie Tama Sweet, Albert Nicholas, Sugar Daddys, Beer, Bring The Heat, Prints from Crow’s Shadow, Ham Radio.

When it comes to live music, Jim Drake can get you plugged in. Our local columnist for entertainment Gorge-wide has a good sampling of coming shows and events, including Betty White, Legato, Yak Attack, Heart & Hammer, Chasing Ebenezer, African Queen, The Reddy Black Trio, Mark Tegio, Midnight & Moonshine, Tyson Huckins, Chris Baron and Seussical.

The Northwest MuralFest committee has announced the final ten historical themes that will be used to create fifteen murals in The Dalles this coming August during the Northwest MuralFest.

Not since the movie Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo has there been so much electricity about dancing. This is like 1984’s Footloose chaos. Think playing chicken with tractors. This Week in our Very Own House of The Dalles, Dancing with the Gorge Stars will be busting out at The Dalles High School Auditorium on Friday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m.