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 Al Hare, Gary Pryor, St. Patrick’s Celebration, Tim Mayer CD, Rich Wilkins, Jazz series, Zumba for Y.E.S. House, NW Cherry Festival, Marty Stuart, Modern English, Billy Bob Thornton, Got Your Six, Wayo Hogan, Cici Artemisia, The Riff Ratts, Garrett Brenan, jamgrass, Matt Coughlin and Jugtime Ragband.

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.

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.

The 1949 incarnation of Batman is a good guy/bad guy crime-fighting drama, relying on old-fashioned police work to round up gangsters, and certainly not a techno-gadget-filled escapade with dozens of unstable villains.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Question of the week: How do you give back to your community? Locals are giving in a lot of ways we found out. From sharing fruits and vegetables from their gardens to providing good conversation at parties. We were amazed at how many different ways we can give back to our communities. Check out what your neighbors had to say.

The Dalles School Teachers offer up some of the lessons and activities going on in their classrooms of late. Learn about middle school wrestling, Chinese New Year, Martin Luther King, Jr., TDHS scholarships and what love looks like.

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.

The Dalles High School Athletic Director Billy Brost brings us up to date on all things Riverhawk in this weekly Column. Find out how teams did in last week’s competition and get all the times and dates for basketball, wrestling, swimming, skiing in the week to come.

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.

Question of the Week: What was your favorite toy growing up? Locals had no trouble identifying some of their most joyous moments with their toys and that undefinable time of their youth where maybe they did not control much in the adult world but were masters of their own as they took on the lives of their ships, dolls, trucks and Legos.

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 daunting and implicit expectations we sometimes have of our loved ones interfere with our ability to care for them, let alone for ourselves; I would not have the framework for attempting to embody this way of living, loving, and showing up if it were not for bell hooks.” - Sarah Cook

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.

It starts with crusty homemade sourdough bread and then it is topped with a healthy spread of cream cheese, smoked trout, salty capers, sprigs of fresh dill, with a side of arugula and a lemon wedge. It ends with OMG!

We return to school, a month or so into our Winter Sports’ season, and all of our teams are preparing for the end of the non-conference competition, and are setting their sights on IMC play.