THE DALLES — On their sixth album, “Mythomania,” Susurrus Station confronts our compulsion to tell stories, how it fuels our tendency to fabricate or sensitize known realities, blurring the lines between myth and memory.

WHITE SALMON — White Salmon Valley Community Library is hosting author Rob Kugler for a book reading on Friday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Kugler will discuss his book “A Dog Named Beautiful,” an uplifting and unforgettable story of a U.S. Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a lifetime.

LYLE — On “Mythomania,” their sixth album, Lyle-based duo Susurrus Station explores our almost obsessive impulse to spin yarns, searching for meaning in myth and memory.

HOOD RIVER — Dublin, Missouri, is a typical American town with typical American residents, tight-knit but stuck in their ways, dominated by a lucrative cheese plant and domineered by the Catholic Church. Everyone knows everyone, but nobody knows the truth — or maybe they're hiding from it.

WHITE SALMON — On May 14, a trio of Columbia High School juniors will travel to San Francisco to pitch their months-long, user-centered engineering project, which converts color into sound.

HOOD RIVER — Columbia Center for the Arts presents “Book of Days,” the award-winning play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, running May 8 through May 23.

STEVENSON — Artists from across the region united at the Columbia Gorge Museum (CGM) in Stevenson on April 17, where a diverse assortment of locally resonant works — oil paintings, sculptures and beyond — graced the Encircle Technology Community Gallery.

BINGEN — Sense of Place presents a special pop-up event: “Jerry Franklin: Rethinking Forests: Then and Now,” taking place Friday, April 24, 2026, at the Bingen Theater.

HOOD RIVER — Sense of Place concludes its 16th official season on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, with “Crag Rats Turn 100: A Century of Service with the Oldest Mountain Search & Rescue Team in America.”

HOOD RIVER — Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, will lead two special events — a morning writing workshop and an evening poetry reading — at Hood River Library on Saturday, April 4. Both are free and open to the public.