Feb 22

Feb 22 Think you Know Batman? He's 83, and he was not always a gadget guy

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.

Feb 22

Feb 22 Pastime turns Tavern in Dufur: Hard Liqs out, Family Friendly in

Jerald Hernandez

Business, Entertainment, Home Page, Wasco County

Heather Phillips, the manager of Kramer’s, and now the Dufur Valley Tavern, wants to run the business differently than its predecessors. Her main goal is to keep the Tavern as a restaurant rather than a bar.

Feb 21

Feb 21 Native American Flute player will be in concert at TD's Old St. Pete's on Saturday

Columbia Community Connection

Art, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County

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.

Feb 18

Feb 18 Moving Pictures by Mo Burford: Review of Licorice Pizza

Mo Burford

Art, Columns, Entertainment, Home Page, Hood River County

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.

Feb 15

Feb 15 Center for the Houseless building Steam in TD; Effort intends to avoid Portland's situation

Tom Peterson

Entertainment, Home Page, The Dalles

There is hope on the horizon for those seeking to eke out an existence living on the streets of The Dalles while experiencing other problems such as mental health and addiction challenges. A local Agency has secured property and $2.8 million in an effort to get people off the street, build careers, and create stable homes.

Feb 14

Feb 14 This Week in Gorge Entertainment: What's Love got to do with it?

Jim Drake

Art, Columns, Entertainment, Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County, Hood River County

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.

Feb 11

Feb 11 Chocolate Crawl starts at 5 p.m. tonight, Feb. 11, in Downtown TD

Columbia Community Connection

Art, Business, Entertainment, Home Page

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.

Feb 10

Feb 10 Relive the Riotous TD Pineapple War this Saturday, Feb. 12

Karl Vercouteren

Education, Entertainment, History, The Dalles, Home Page

Rodger Nichols researched the incident that took place in 1949 when longshoremen at west coast ports honored a strike by their counterparts in Hawaii and refused to unload a shipload of pineapples. The union was not represented in The Dalles, so the ship headed up the Columbia and attempted to unload its cargo at the local port. Soon longshoremen descended on the town and a riot ensued.

Feb 8

Feb 8 This Week in Gorge Entertainment with Jim Drake - Feb. 8

Jim Drake

Art, Columns, Education, Entertainment, Home Page, Hood River County, Wasco County, The Dalles

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.

Feb 8

Feb 8 Google chips in $50,000 toward TD Murals

Tom Peterson

Art, Business, Entertainment, Home Page

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.

Feb 3

Feb 3 TD Survey Results released: High School, Affordable Housing top priority list

Columbia Community Connection

Business, Education, Entertainment, Environment, History, Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County

Locals want to see an upgraded high school in The Dalles and at the same time want to see more affordable housing, according to a City of The Dalles local survey recently completed for the 2040 visioning process. Find out what else people thought here.

Feb 2

Feb 2 TD's Kirchhofer releases first book of poetry

Columbia Community Connection

Art, Entertainment, Home Page

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.

Feb 2

Feb 2 Sense of Place Lecture Feb. 9th, A Model of Health: A History of Community Health Workers in the Gorge

Cole Goodwin

The Dalles, Home Page, Education, Entertainment

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, A Model of Health: A History of Community Health Workers in the Gorge featuring Maria Antonia “Toña” Sanchez and Joel Pelayo on February 9th, 2022, at 7 p.m.

Feb 1

Feb 1 The Pleasure of Being Booed: Local Modern Art class dives into Futurism

Sarah Cook

Art, Columns, Entertainment, Home Page

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.

Jan 31

Jan 31 This Week In Gorge Entertainment by Jim Drake - Jan. 31

Jim Drake

Art, Columns, Entertainment, Home Page

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.

Jan 26

Jan 26 Local Lessons & Adventures in Learning - School News in The Dalles

Columbia Community Connection

Education, Entertainment, Positive News

The Dalles School Teachers offer up some of the lessons and activities going on in their classrooms of late. Learn about time capsules, polar bears, cells, eyes and eagles.

Jan 25

Jan 25 This Week in Gorge Entertainment by Jim Drake - 1-25

Tom Peterson

Art, Entertainment, Columns, Education, Home Page

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.

Jan 19

Jan 19 This Week in Gorge Entertainment: The Standing and R.A.P Ferreira at River City, Gorge Winter Music Fest & More!

Jim Drake

Art, Entertainment, Columns, Home Page

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.

Jan 18

Jan 18 Hood River County History Museum Hosts Virtual Brewers Roundtable and Tasting Event

Columbia Community Connection

Entertainment, Home Page

Join The History Museum of Hood River County for a virtual brewers roundtable talk and tasting, inspired by their current museum exhibit, Cheers! From Teetotalers to Tasting Rooms, which is the third and final exhibit installment covering the fascinating history of craft brewing in Hood River County.

Jan 18

Jan 18 TDHS Sports Notes by Billy Brost, Jan. 18, 2022

Billy Brost

Education, Entertainment, Sports, Home Page

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.

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