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 photos with Santa, Al Hare CGOA Brass, Untethered Soul, Cruise the Gorge, Voci Choir, Cascade Singers, Comedy of Andrew Sleighter, Organ Crawl, Christmas Train, Groove Project, CGCC Online Auction.

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, Debris Flows from Mount Adams and Mount Hood featuring Richard Iverson, on November 10th, 2021, at 7 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.) at Columbia Center for the Arts in downtown Hood River*.

The History Museum of Hood River County is thrilled to invite the community once again to its free annual Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 4, 1-3pm.

The Cascade Singers’ 2021 Christmas Concert will be presented at four different venues in The Dalles. Check out the dates and locations here.

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 Polyrhythmics funk, Chihuahua slide guitar, Al & Nolan Hare, Casey Wykes soulful Americana, Robert Henry Country, Erisy Watt Indie Folk, Legend of Johnny Cash and tributes to Patsy Cline

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 Collision of Rhythm, Jose Maya, Willy & Nelson, Brigid’s Crossing, P.K. Hoffman, Schwag, Southern Sons, Jamie’s Rock and Roll Legends, Tassie Mack, Peggy Ohlson, Jen Smith and Jennifer Takahashi

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 Smock Dogs, Damn Yankees, Sasquatch Portrait, Honey Badgers, Tim Ortlieb, Ronnie Ontiveros, The Green Room and Tony Furtado.

I dipped my rolls into creamy peanut sauce with a bit of the provided chili oil on top for some heat. This makes for the most wonderful bit. The peanut butter provides fat to the dish that compliments the vegetables in the roll. The Thai basil has the most wonderful aromatic smell. It makes you wonder where Montira’s garden is located in the restaurant.

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 Kenny Olsen, drive-up movies, Scot Bergeron, Circus Luminescence, Jeff Carrell, Speak Easy, Collision of Rhythm, Working Hands Beer and Collaboration.

Join the Gorge Sinfonietta, with guest narrators and performers Tom Burns, Peter Tappert, Jennifer Miller Harty, Marcos Galvez and Kathleen Morrow for concerts fun for everyone, including the northwest premiere of "The Frog Prince" by Steven Winteregg and the world premiere of "A Sasquatch Portrait!" Friday, Nov. 5 at 7 PM, Discovery Center in The Dalles; Sunday, Nov 7 at 2 PM, River of Life Church, Hood River.

Columbia Community Connection is Thrilled to present the 2021 Halloween Event Roundup! Think of it as a One Stop Trick or Treat for All Things Halloween, whether you’re a Ghost, Ghoul, or Goblin.

On October 23rd, Chelan Harkin will have her first-ever in-person poetry reading and book signing event to celebrate the release of her second mystic poetry book “Let Us Dance! The Stumble and Whirl With the Beloved”.

If you put your ear to the floor of The Dalles Civic Auditorium, maybe you can hear those footsteps. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions. So, it brought Steve Lawrence great joy this week to show off the place. He and hundreds of others are realizing the completion of its renovation that started 30 plus years ago.

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 Katie Pearlman, Cornhole, Chicken $#it Gamblers, Al Hare, Dead Lee, Night Harvest, Sasquatch, Thunder Island, Discovery Center

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 CGOA Jazz Collective, Threshold Singers, JoAnna Lee, Shane Brown, Megan Alder, Eugenia Riot, Wil Kinky, Rent, Halloween Karaoke, Talent Show, Reindeer, Legato Gusto, Mark Daly CG Sinfonietta and Nightlife

The Dalles Main Street announced that they were bringing back their popular Downtown Trick or Treat event this year on October 29th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

It turns out that the climate near Maupin is perfect for pumpkins and Farmer Bob Kruger has some of the largest, most perfect, pumpkins he's ever grown. He’s also got a little harvest fest going this weekend. Read here to check out the lineup of musicians.

Michael Beug will give a lecture on the ‘fungus among us’ in the Cascade region. Beug started mushrooming in 1969 and has discovered more than 50 new mushroom species in the Pacific Northwest.

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 Quiet Riot, Acosta-Meyers, Fever Dream, Constellations, Birds & Brews, Festival of Lights, Europatopia, Little Music City, Gorge Happiness Month, Open Mic, Thunder Island, Stephanie Sweet, Honey Badgers and Fried Green Tomatoes

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 Greenneck Daredevils, Megan Alder, Al Hare, Navid Eliot Jenny Jahlee, The Rock Doctors, Bret Lucich, Quiet Riot, Purple Herons, Ted Horowitz, Charles Crossman, Tapwater, Bayleats and a comedy night at Route 30.