Colorful, creative work from Mt. Hood art instructors is on display in the Visual Arts Gallery through Oct. 17. To help kick off the faculty exhibit, a reception on Sept. 26 was held for the nine participants in the faculty exhibit, each of them using different mediums in their art. It was a chance to enjoy these instructors’ artistic skills and hear how they enjoy expressing themselves. Artwork by Georganne Watters on display in the center of the Visual Arts Gallery. | Photo

On campus, there are many amazing and useful resources available to you as students that the Advocate works to bring to your attention. And one of those is MHCC’s very own planetarium. A few Fridays ago, the Planetarium Sky Theater hosted a beautiful show here. Walking into the theater, inside Room 1304 on the lower level of the Main Mall, you immediately notice the ceiling, shaped like a dome, the ceiling showing myriad constellations on it, from Capricornus, to Hercules, an

Web Graphic Fall is such a relaxing time of the year: The leaves are changing color, there’s a slight nip in the air, and many bands and artists are going on tour. I don’t know about you guys, but I am really excited for these amazing up-and-coming artist tours, so let’s get down to business! Starting off the list is Logic, with his “The Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” tour at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 at the Moda Center in Portland. Robert Bryson Hall, better known by his stage n

Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in northern Ukraine. A new HBO television documentary aired during this summer brought the tragedy into greater perspective, and served to highlight unpleasant truths. Chernobyl HBO poster | Web Image Seconds after the stunning event, a conspiracy to cover up the plant’s failure was already underway. In the aftermath of the explosion, dozens of firefighters rushed to the

Everyone’s favorite clown is back in action this September, eating children and terrorizing the quaint little town of Derry, Maine. Web Graphic Directed by Andrés Muschietti, “IT Chapter Two” takes place 27 years after the infamous Loser’s Club banished Pennywise to back from whence he came, sparing the town of his murderous predilections for that cycle. But now that cycle is over, and IT is once again on the prowl, looking for delicious, fear-ridden children to satisfy hi

Answer key to our first puzzle in Issue 1 of the Advocate. No cheating! 🙂

Storytelling has been at the center of culture for centuries. Through stories, we learn things like family secrets, local history, or life lessons. It turns out being the storyteller can be just as satisfying as being the listener. Just ask Miya Sukune, the artist behind “Get Together,” the exhibit currently on display in the MHCC Fireplace Gallery. Sukune identifies the challenge of telling a story with a still portrait as being a big motivation in her work. Aside from the c

For MHCC’s Jazz Band, this year’s goal was to build a larger repertoire of music and include additional public performances beyond the usual end-of-term concerts. The band went above and beyond its target this year, according to Dan Davey, MHCC jazz band director. Among its expanded repertoire of music this year, Davey’s favorite piece was an arrangement he wrote of Chick Corea’s tune “Morning Sprite” from the “Acoustic Band” album. As for the second goal, the jazz band mo

Graphic by Eli Rankin / the Advocate CONTINUOUS Gresham Saturday Market All Summer through Sept. 28, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Gresham Farmers’ Market Through Oct. 26, 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Arts Plaza, NE Third Street and NE Hood Avenue, Gresham Twilight Market at Gresham Station 2019 Every Wednesday through Aug. 28, 4 – 8:30 p.m. Gresham Station, 649 NW 12th St. Third Thursdays (Downtown Gresham) Every third Thursday of the month through August, 5 – 8 p.m. Summer Kids in the Park Ju

Graphic by Eli Rankin / the Advocate Following the Eagle Creek wildfire of September 2017, many of the major hiking and recreational sites in the Columbia River Gorge have been closed, some indefinitely. Before summer begins, we’d like to equip you with a list of those trails in Oregon and Washington that ARE open. Check the link below for updates! Washington Hiking Areas Augspurger Mountain Balfour-Klickitat Loop Cape Horn Loop (seasonal partial closure through July 15) Dog

It’s getting to the last week of the term: On top of all of the homework you’re currently doing, you need to study for that final test that’s an accumulation of the past two-and-a-half months. In the worst-case scenario that you’ve completely procrastinated using any of the study materials for a class, you’re actually not alone, believe it or not. It’s easy to lose hope when you think about how the general number of hours (or days) left are outweighed by the amount of time y

If you have ever seen “Star Wars” or even “Space Balls,” you have probably imagined what it would be like to pilot through space. Mt. Hood graduates Mike Curtis and Tim Ramaekers are offering listeners an opportunity to do so without leaving the ground. The duo describes their podcast, “The Adventures of the Awkward Screw,” as an immersive experience. The podcast is intended to pull listeners so deeply in to the story that they forget they’re still on Earth while listening.

Yet another live action adaptation of one of Disney’s classic animated films has hit theaters and it’s getting hard not to feel a little jaded. The majority of Disney’s previous live action adaptations have been a roll of the dice in terms of overall quality, with some strumming the heartstrings just as their original animated release did, and others turning out rather mediocre. At a certain point it begins to feel more like Disney is just cashing in on its most nostalgic pro

It’s 2019 and barely five months in, pop culture history is already being made. Web photo Two of the biggest cinematic icons of the last decade have met their finales in theaters and on TV. With “Avengers: Endgame” making way for the start of a multi-year sabbatical for Disney’s box office juggernaut, and “Game of Thrones” reaching its series finale this month, these cultural cornerstones mark the end of an era for this chapter in media history. It’s just a shame David Beniof

“Pokémon: Detective Pikachu” is good – quite good actually! Graphic by Angeles Ramirez / the Advocate Shoutout to writer/director Robert Letterman and screenwriters Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Derek Connolly, and Marvel Studios alumnus Nicole Perlman. These ambitious few have crafted a movie which not just works fairly well as a standalone movie, but also as a potential introduction to a new movie franchise. This film sets up two quality characters: our titular Detective Pika

Mt. Hood is currently hosting a juried Student Exhibit in its Visual Arts Gallery. Wishing to promote the college’s up-and-coming artists, the Advocate took this chance to look at some of the mesmerizing work on display. While in the Gallery, we met with three of the student-artists, each with their own story and artwork to share. Claire Curtiss posing with her work, “Simmer.” (Photo by Megan Phelps / the Advocate) Due to her grandmother’s death a few years ago, Claire Curt

The third annual OMEA Oregon State Jazz Championships were held on the Mt. Hood campus last Saturday, May 18, and thanks to efforts from the Dan Davey, director of jazz studies, and the rest of the college’s music department, it was a resounding success. Attendance has tripled since MHCC’s first year hosting the jazz festival, with more high schools playing for the championships than in either of the previous years. Adjudicators from universities around the country, as far aw

An MHCC student exhibit is being held in the Visual Arts Gallery currently, through Thursday, June 6. An artists’ reception was held on Thursday. In the showcase, students taking painting, sculpture, metalsmithing, drawing, ceramics, printmaking and photoshop-digital art courses at Mt. Hood have contributed to bring this exhibit to life. Photo by Bethany Fallgren / the Advocate Photo by Bethany Fallgren / the Advocate In the Fireplace Gallery, there is currently a showcase of

Stephen O’Donnell and his wife, Gigi Little, were the hosts for the Mouths of Others speaker event on May 8 at MHCC, titled “The Untold Gaze.” The husband-wife team began working on this 160-page book of the same name about five years ago. In it, they turn 33 paintings over to various writers, who produced original, creative narratives inspired by the pieces. O’Donnell told the audience in the Visual Arts Theatre that the goal in creating this work was to “take visual art and