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

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.

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 Back To The Future, John Chao, Little Music City, Cemetery Tales, Fruit Suits, Prescott Harvey, The Builders & The Butchers, Chasing Ebenezer, Clair Gilchrist, Night Farmers and War Wagon

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 Exit 84 band, MuralFest, Gun Shy, Logan Kalsch, Terry Robb, Monolith Monsters, Gorge Artist Open Studios, Al Hare, Jeff Minnick, Rob Neuberger, Wayo Hogan and more. What a week!

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 Dan Boller, Jose Maya, Trent Rose, John Donvan and a little Shakespeare to boot.

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, Resolectrics, Ben Warren Band, Far Out West, Chihuahua Desert, Megan Alder Ted Horwitz and Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’.

Our Jim Drake zoomed in an interview with Jennifer Batten, whose career as a rock guitarist is most notable for several world tours with the King of Pop, Micheal Jackson. Calling Portland home, Batten has assembled a lineup of NW musicians for her new band, Full Steam, who specialize in 80s rock covers. They’re set to play Thursday in Hood River.

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 Lloyd Jones, The Wasco Brothers, Jennifer Batten, Jess Clemens, Becky Kutz and the Richard Morrow Band.

Recent chatter about a door opening up on Mt. Adams in an area where the glacier has melted and supposed paranormal activity is occurring- a possible UFO hanger? - provide interesting timing. Our man of reviews’ Jim Drake just happened upon a film of the same subject matter. He even interviewed the directors.

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 the Night Farmers Jeff Buehner's The Loyal Order, Suckerpunch and the John Bunzow Band.

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 Gary Pryor of Mosier’s new release, Families in the Park Concert Series, an open mic, and a Pacific Coast Trail Party. Read more here. CCCNews.com Columbia Community Connection

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 the classic horror movies, stand-up comedy and some Burgin Blues. Read more 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 the Stevenson Music Fest, Canned Heat in TD Legends #2, and even a Little Music City’s Hall of Fame. Read more here.

The acoustics at the Bingen Theater enticed a couple of Pigs on the Wing to start mixing it up with bands at the site. Jason Baker and Dave Lindenbaum are operating Sasquatch? Recordings at the Theater where they can get ‘Led Zepplin’ sound. And what about that name? Sasquatch? It’s real. Don’t kid yourself.

A new CD of music from Gorge musicians Richard & Tova Tillinghast emerges from the tumultuous year of 2020. The overall vibe of “Random Perfect Plan” is strictly acoustic and most tunes harken back to the earthy, roots-folk style found on previous albums like 2008’s “Sweet by and By” and “The Door is Open,” from 2014.

In this Episode: Jim Drake goes shopping. Not for essentials like food and toilet paper, but for items that only a collector of All Things Media can appreciate. For the next few weeks, I’ll be reviewing my books, movies, CDs, even some games that have been rescued from the Shelves of Obscurity. Come along, if you dare, and let’s find out exactly how far $10.30 goes at local thrift stores.

Regular work ain’t so regular, but local drummer Jeff Minnick puts a foot to his bass drum and will brandish his guitar to fill a room. Jeff recently took the opportunity to talk to CCC News about his unique “one-man-plus-one” collaborations, his encounters with famous blues and rock personalities on the road, and the musical philosophies that were implanted in him so long ago, right here in The Dalles.

Columnist Jim Drake takes a look at local entertainment- online and off. Two drink minimum required before entering. Mark Daly, Hapa Hillbillies, Granada Theatre, Freebridge Brewing, Bargeway Pub, Mandolin Camp, Lesley Saunders