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.
Sean Avery
THE GORGE — The Columbia River Gorge is rich in vegetation, home to more than 800 species of plants, including 15 wildflowers that exist nowhere else on the planet. But as wildfires become more frequent and unpredictable, some plants in the region are best avoided, particularly when it comes to landscaping around your property.
LYLE — A consequence of warming temperatures clashing with human negligence, the frequency and severity of Gorge wildfires have intensified in the 21st century, sparking the inevitable question for wineries and homeowners alike year after year: whose turn is it next?
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.
THE DALLES — Owners, employees and patrons of the Bargeway Pub & Catering packed The Dalles City Council meeting on April 27, addressing business impacts tied to the ongoing closure of Webber Street, which has significantly halted traffic in the port area.
HOOD RIVER — On April 30, students from Hood River Valley High School’s (HRVHS) Business Club went on a field trip to Hindustani — many of whom were trying Indian cuisine for the first time — for an on-the-ground lens into local entrepreneurship and hospitality.
BINGEN — After Big Britches Productions (BBP) co-owners April and Joe Garoutte saw Sharr White’s “The Other Place” at the Portland Playhouse, they drove home in silence, processing the show’s crushing subject matter.
Years later, eager to deviate from their usual, light-hearted output and expose Gorge audiences to the engrossing drama, which studies the profound toll of dementia, the Garouttes are taking their own stab at it. BBP’s “The Other Place” debuted at The Bingen Theater on May 1 and will run for three weekends
HOOD RIVER — For the first time in Mayor Paul Blackburn’s tenure, the Hood River City Council met as a quorum at the Hood River Middle School auditorium, hearing questions and concerns on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from a passionate, but sparsely populated audience on April 23.