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www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 ENTERTAINMENT A3 Art Center showcases ‘Best Of The Gorge’ U pdate JD Kindle & The Eastern Oregon Playboys The Columbia Center for the Arts (CCA) will host a two-month art show celebrating the best artwork produced by Mid-Columbia River Gorge residents. The 2015 Best of the Gorge exhibition has become an annual event that brings visitors from around the world to experience some of the finest art in the region. The show runs June 5 through Au- gust 2 at the Columbia Center for that Arts, 215 Cascade Street, Hood River. “We created Best of the Gorge to showcase the quality and diversity of artists who live and work in the Columbia Gorge. We hope to make it a tradition,” said Christine Knowles, co-curator with artist Bill Sturman. “CCA’s Best of the Gorge show is the premiere show featuring the fine art work created by resi- dents of our mid- Columbia area — paintings, drawings, ceramics, glass, sculpture, fiber, photography, mixed media, and more,” said Stur- man. The Columbia River Gorge is known as a thriving art scene and is home to a vast array of well-known and emerging artists. Works in both 2D and 3D will be on display, in a va- riety of media, including drawing, painting, photography, glass, ceram- ics, sculpture, and mixed media. CCA has engaged Jennifer Zika, Curator of the Portland Art Museum Sales and Rental Gallery as the juror for the 2015 show for this premier ex- hibition. Zika is well-versed in nu- merous media, both 2D and 3D, and is highly qualified to evaluate the cre- ativity and technique expressed therein and has juried numerous re- gional art exhibitions. She will be se- lecting individual works to be includ- ed in the show and also selecting the prize winners. This show is g under- written by Celilo Restaurant & Bar, Copper West Properties, and the Gorge Magazine. The opening of the show will be cele- brated at an evening reception on June 5, the month’s First Friday, from 6-8 pm. Singer/songwriter Kay Floria will be accompanying herself on the piano, with Randy Bell on bass. Juror Jen- nifer Zika will be in attendance and will share what she saw in the prize- winning pieces that made them stand out. The exhibition artists will be in at- tendance as well. This event is open to the public. ‘Playboys’ at CEBU June 5 This week at CEBU Lounge: Friday, June 5, JD Kindle & The Eastern Oregon Playboys, 9:30 p.m. This expertly produced, dance- able honky-tonk band steps back in time to the days of western dancehall with a sleek, polished sound. Saturday, June 6, Tony Smiley. The one-man loop ninja returns for a Hood River show. Music starts at 9:30 p.m. Best Western Plus Hood River Inn, 1108 E. Mari- na Way; 541-386-2200. Emporium, June 5, 5-8 and Saturday 11-4 , Butler Bank, 310 Oak St. Steady Riot plays Trillium Cafe The band Steady Riot brings its reggae and roots Ska to Trillium Café June 5 for at 9:30 p.m. As the band posts on Facebook, “Keep Calm and Blaze It Up.” The Moth Lounge grand opening June 5 The Moth Lounge, 105 Fourth St., picks up where Pint Shack left off. Owner Jules Burton has changed the name but kept the same eclectic beer and cider list, and installed new furniture along with a new set of entertainments including Tues- day night talent shows. Moth Lounge holds its grand opening June 5 with the “Derby dunk tank” on the Third Street side- walk, and music from DJ Elive, 9 p.m. to midnight. Also enjoy all day happy hour, and free popcorn, MacMillan at Naked Winery Jim MacMillan, guitar and vocals, Jerry Keith, bass and tuba and Randy Bell, cajon and hand per- cussion, will be taking a few new tunes out on the town on Saturday, June 6, at the Naked Winery from 7-10 p.m. Expect all original music. Naked Winery, 102 Second St., Hood River; 800-666-9303. G ORGE W INDS IN C ONCERT J UNE 14 The Gorge Winds Concert Band will hold a combined concert with the Tualatin Valley Community Band on June 14, beginning at 3 p.m. in the Wy’east Middle School Performing Arts Center. The Gorge Winds Concert Band, founded in 2000, is a volunteer organization comprised of over 50 men and women in the Mid- Columbia Gorge area and performs in many venues throughout the Gorge, including Hood River, The Dalles, Trout Lake and Gold- endale. The concert band meets every Thursday at The Dalles Middle School, 1100 E. 12th Street, The Dalles, from 7-9 p.m. For more information, contact Sam Grotte, Music Director, at 509-493-1082. Pulitzer Prize author Megan Marshall at Klindts June 6 Entertainment listings can be e-mailed to jdrake@hoodrivernews.com No secret: Salsa for all Secret Salsa Society (secretsal- sasociety.weebly.com) presents Sarah Riddle from Viscount Dance Studio (danceviscount.com) teach- ing ChaChaCha! on June 12, 7:30 to 10 p.m. Lesson starts at 7:30 p.m. fol- lowed by social dancing. Come to Mt. View Grange. 1085 N Main St, White Salmon. Admission is $10 — no experi- ence or partner needed. Submitted photo Sarah Riddle Klindt’s Booksellers and Stationers, Oregon’s oldest bookstore, will host author Megan Marshall June 6, for an evening featuring her Pulitzer Prize winning biog- raphy, “Margaret Fuller; A New American Life.” Mar- shall will offer a reading and informal question-and-an- swer session followed by book signing. The Pines win- ery will be on site pouring wine by the glass and Klindt’s will provide refresh- ments. The event is free and open to the public. Klindt’s is lo- cated at 315 East Second St., The Dalles. In “Margaret Fuller; A New American Life,” Mar- shall illuminates the life of an amazing American figure. Fuller was an editor of Thoreau, a friend to Emer- son, and America’s first fe- male war correspondent. She lived a life of independence and complete originality in a time when women belonged, in the eye of the law, to their husbands. Marshall teaches nonfic- tion writing and archival re- search in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Emer- son College. A member of the Ameri- can Heritage Dictionary’s Usage Panel, Marshall has published numerous essays and reviews in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate Online, The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, The Boston Re- v i ew, a n d e l s ewh e re. Her b i o g r ap hy, “The Peabody Sisters,” won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and mem- oir in 2006. A recipient of fel- lowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Founda- tion, the National Endow- ment for the Humanities, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cull- man Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Pub- lic Library, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Mar- shall also received the first Outstanding Teacher Award presented by the Emerson College Graduate Student Association in 2012. For more info call 541-296- 3355 or visit www.klindts- books.com. Congrats Graduates — May your L e t ’ s C e l e b r a t e Vision D a d s & G r a d s Dates to Remember: H R V H S G r a d u a t i o n - J u n e 5 H o r i z o n G r a d u a t i o n - J u n e 6 F a t h e r ’ s D a y - J u n e 2 1 of a bright future come true. Delaney Barbour Michael Lane 2015 HRVHS Chris Barbour, OD / B. Jeffrey Pulk, OD / John D. Willer, DO Board Certified Ophthalmologist The Dalles, 541-296-1101 / Hood River, 541-386-2402 www.Cascade Eye.com ® Alex and Ani the Hottest Bracelet in the USA! 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