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The DeSales Catholic High School drama department is expanding its program this year, and is opening its four-show season with ‘A Christmas Story,’ a play based on the 1983 film of the same name.
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The DeSales Catholic High School drama department is expanding its program this year, and is opening its four-show season with ‘A Christmas Story,’ a play based on the 1983 film of the same name.
Jeremy Burnham
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The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Native American Heritage Month in November.
Parents interested in developing musical interests in their children should note a few events this month in the Walla Walla Valley.
The Walla Walla Symphony will present its popular holiday tradition “'Tis the Season” at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 in the Gesa Power House Theatre.
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In “The Comfort to Come,” a play premiering in-person for the first time at the Gesa Power House Theatre November 19-21, Whitman College alum Lisa Battle writes of a mother and daughter who suffer one after the other from Alzheimer’s disease, but who enter into a surreal world of poetry and magic.
The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Native American Heritage Month in November.
United Way of the Blue Mountains presents Campbell Davis in a Sing Reunited concert at Gesa Power House Theatre at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26. Doors open at 5:15 p.m.
Pendleton Center for the Arts will open its Art of the Gift exhibit Thursday, Nov. 18, with a reception from 5:30-7 p.m.
The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Native American Heritage Month in November.
Former Milton-Freewater resident Nancy Elizabeth Anderson recently released her first novel, “Unfortunate Compromise,” which delves into Civil War history.
The Pendleton Center for the Arts, 214 N. Main St., has a variety of exhibits featured for public viewing.
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Tickets are on sale for WWUdrama's fall musical, "A Year With Frog and Toad," by brothers Robert Reale and Willie Reale, based on the books written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.
The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Disability Awareness Month in October.
A joint photography show by Walla Wallans Douglas Carlsen and Kathy McConnell is on display until Nov. 30 at the Walla Walla Roastery, 290 A St.
A photo contest sponsored by United Way of the Blue Mountains celebrates its work across the region and the nonprofit's move into a new Walla Walla office.
There's no business like show business, and the Walla Walla Valley's back in business — more or less
COLUMN: The Walla Walla Valley’s music scene is stirring back into business. Not yet the full-time swing of previous seasons, but more and more venues are opening up, even if only partway, with limited seating and fewer events.
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Gesa Power House Theatre will present the world premiere live production of "The Comfort to Come" next month. Performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, and Saturday, Nov. 20; and a 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21.
The Walla Walla Choral Society Board of Directors has postponed the "Our Songs of Joy" concerts set for Nov. 28-29.
The Stormy Weather Arts Festival festival Nov. 5-7 in Cannon Beach, Oregon, offers musical performances and gallery events, the opportunity to meet renowned artists, see their latest works or watch them demonstrate their techniques.
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Walla Wallan Michael Simon, 42, made a hard pivot in his approach to his culminating experience at Berklee College of Music in Boston because of the isolation COVID-19 induced.
A cross-section of artists, styles, backgrounds, mediums and subject matter has coalesced into a gallery show at CAVU Cellars, 175 Aeronca Ave. "A Taste of Walla Walla Artistry" will be featured in November with an opening reception from 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.
COVID-19 has interfered with so many aspects of daily life, but things are now opening up and the curtain is soon to rise again at The Little Theatre of Walla Walla, 1130 E. Sumach St. Volunteer ushers are need and a new training program is required.
A Nov. 7 concert by the Oregon East Symphony will be the first performance of the symphony led by conductor and artistic director Beau Benson at the Vert Auditorium in Pendleton.
Umatilla County Historical Society secured $15,000 towards maintaining its Heritage Station Museum at 108 SW Frazer in Pendleton, Oregon.
Storyteller Katie Anne Mitchell explores themes of isolation, femininity and finding one's place in the world while conducting a séance, her one-woman story and song show called Songs of the Nearly Forgotten. Yes, a séance. It will be 5 p.m. Oct. 24, outdoors, weather permitting, at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave. Admission is free.
A performance by comedian Andrew Sleighter on Thursday, Oct. 21, at The Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center, 6 W. Rose St., sponsored by Wine Valley Comedy, has been canceled.
Walla Walla native Steve Daily has written about the co-founder of the church he once attended, Ellen G. White of the Seventh-Day Adventist church. In "Ellen G. White, A Psychobiography," Daily cites information painting White in an unfavorable light.
A screening of the Little Watts Movie "Coraline" will be from 3-5 p.m. Oct. 31 at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave. A costume contest begins at 2:15 p.m. Prizes will be awarded in different age categories.
After having meeting plans foiled for many months during the COVID-19 pandemic, Archaeological Institute of America-Walla Walla Society President Sarah Davies says the group is planning six events for the 2021-22 academic year that are open to the community.
Get Haunted with Dark Tales for a Chilly Night at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at Bontzu Cellars, 127 E Main St. Storyteller Rebecca Hom will be doing her first local live storytelling evening.
The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Disability Awareness Month in October.
COLUMN: The outdoors is calm, quiet and peaceful — three inducements to thinking and reflection. For fine art painters, getting outside is a means of capturing the moment so when people see the artwork, though they are stuck in an office on a rainy day, they can escape to a place worth being in.
Ever wonder how the Douglas fir got its name? The distinctive Pacific Northwest evergreen gained its name from Scottish botanist and explorer David Douglas. Gary Lentz will talk about Douglas' travels when he arrived in the Northwest by ship from England in 1825. The free Museum After Hours presentation, Trifles will not stop me — the story of David Douglas, will be at 5 p.m. Oct. 28 at Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 NE Myra Road. Masks are required on museum grounds.
The Walla Walla County Rural Library District's annual Halloween party will be from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, in the College Place Lions Clubhouse at Lions Park, Southeast Larch Avenue.
Resident field biologist and birder Mike Denny will give a Bird Migration through Walla Walla County presentation fto the Blue Mountain Audubon Society at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Olin Hall, Room 129, on the Whitman College campus.
SPOKANE — The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and ACMI, the museum of screen culture in Melbourne, Australia, announced last week that Spokane will be the first-ever U.S. destination to present "DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition Journey from Sketch to Screen." The show will run from March 19-Sept. 5, 2022.
Walla Walla resident Dale Hom will sign copies of his new graphic novel, “WALK TALL Y’ALL: Feeling Grumpy in Transmogrified Seattle,” from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 16, at Book & Game Co., 38 E. Main St.
Living History member Susan Monahan will portray early fundraiser and suffragist Grace Isaacs. The presentation will be at 2 p.m. Oct. 17 at Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 NE Myra Road.
Wine Valley Comedy is bringing comedian Andrew Sleighter to Walla Walla for a show at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at The Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center, 6 W. Rose St.
Traditional Irish music performing group The High Kings will give a concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave.
Tickets are on sale now for Don Reed's solo show Semi-Famous at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at Gesa Power House Theatre, 111 N. Sixth Ave.
The American Association of University Women collectible books pop-up sale will feature a large selection of Northwest history titles from Washington, Oregon and other Pacific states. Proceeds go to AAUW programs for women and girls.
The Walla Walla Public Library is highlighting Disability Awareness Month in October.
Walla Walla Guitar Fest is Thursday, Oct. 14, through this weekend at downtown venues
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On a radio dial occupied by genre-bound stations, each one playing a certain kind of country, or a certain kind of rock, Whitman College’s student-run radio station — KWCW — is a radical, 50-year-old experiment in something different.
The Eagle Cap Excursion Train fall schedule will include trips on Saturday, Oct. 16; Wednesday, Oct. 20; Saturday, Oct. 23; Saturday, Oct. 30, with a little Halloween fun; and Saturday, Nov. 6.
Photographs by aerially delivered wildland firefighters will be featured in the Initial Attack exhibit at Pendleton Center for the Arts' East Oregonian Gallery Oct. 7-31.
Former Milton-Freewater resident Rusty Bradshaw has made his third book available for purchase. “Gorge Justice,” Page Publishing, is in paperback and ebook at Barnes & Noble and will soon be available on amazon.com.
Gesa Power House Theatre is holding several concerts in October.
