1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (227+ words) Piñata fun continues at a previous El Grito event. ¡Vivan los héroes que nos dieron patria y libertad! ¡Viva la Corregidora de Querétaro! ¡Viva la independencia nacional! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva México! “With this emblematic call to arms, in…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (132+ words) Columbia Gorge News The Goldendale Observatory is closed due to staffing challenges, as announced on its website, above. Recruiting, maintaining, and retaining adequate staffing is a core management function that ensures an organization has the right number of qualified people…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (745+ words) Charlie-Anne Hopkins (left) and Epiphany Couch (right), the creative duo behind “Belonging Otherwise” at CCA. Kristie Strasen points to a section of her fragmented woven tapestry, “Columbia River in VI sections.” HOOD RIVER — Two new art exhibitions, each confronting the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (208+ words) By Columbia Center for the Arts HOOD RIVER — Columbia Center for the Arts will open two exhibitions Friday, Sept. 4, that converge around identity, ecology, and the layered histories of the American West as well as the geological, cultural, and political…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (708+ words) an Arts in Education of the Gorge teaching artist, Chris Cazares visits a classroom one-on-one instruction with a teaching artist. HOOD RIVER — When we think of the arts, we think of a limitless range of human expression: bright colors, abstract…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (535+ words) Originally from Mexico, Ayla first arrived at the Gorge with her husband 17 years ago. She noticed shortly after that she had none of the connections to the local art scene the way she did before. Ayla then began selling her…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (584+ words) For Columbia Gorge News HOOD RIVER — A step into the Sparkle Bar is a step into a world of sequined jackets, roll-on glitter and twinkling hair from Lucky Locks. Here, founder and owner Sarah Collins installs her silk hair extensions…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1400+ words) Linda is 79 years old, although she prefers to tell people she is “going on 80.” She is not retired. She is not tired. And she is certainly not old. “I’ll work until I get old,” she says. “When I was young,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (930+ words) Bekah Rottenberg has made these trails her classrooms. They are where she teaches women to discover their confidence, children to become leaders, and where she helps fear slowly give way to courage. Unlike many people who spend years dreaming of…...