We’ve got a guest host on this week!  Marianna Cruz takes the mic to tell us all about what she’s most excited about around Clark County this July & August.

🎉 Here are some of the festivals and events we’re most excited about this summer!
- Saturday Pride in the Park July 11
- Scooped Ice Cream Festival July 18 & 19
- Washougal Art & Music Festival Aug. 1
- Vancouver Arts and Music Festival Aug. 7 - 9
- Camas Vintage & Art Faire Aug. 29
- Art in the Park various dates and locations
- Waterfront Concerts & Movie Nights various dates and locations

🗺️  Find out more on our events page and on our interactive map.

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Here's another local podcast I think you'll love! Northwest Book Talk, hosted by Patty Grasher, introduces us to local authors, illustrators, poets, and book experts from all over the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy this episode with poet and professor Jesse Morse.

📚 Learn more about Northwest Book Talk and Poet Jesse Morse.

📚 Don't miss the Northwest Book Fair & Media Fest: June 27, 10am-3pm, Clark College.

🎧 Other episodes you might like:
- Poetry as Radical Resistance: Ghost Town Poetry
- A Novelist, an Artist, and a Musician Walk Into a Bar: Pour Choices Reinvents a Local Pub for Creatives

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Local, independent journalism is struggling. (And that’s not news at all…) But here in SW Washington, the history of our community can't be separated from the history of our local newspaper. Owned and operated by people who actually live here. We're deep-diving into the history of how the newspaper came to be, how the Campbell family became its stewards in 1921, and how generation after generation of brothers keep figuring out how to run the paper together and still like each other.

🎉 Pictures and more

🗺️ Columbian.com

🎧 Other episodes you might like:
The Story of Us: Clark County Then & Now | Clark County Historical Museum
The Stories Beneath Our Streets | Two Rivers Heritage Museum

⭐️ This episode is sponsored by Johnson Bixby.

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Alert! One of the best restaurants in Vancouver is currently hiding behind a mound of construction and we need to make sure it survives. Elements Restaurant is a local treasure, and its chef, Miguel Sosa is working his butt off to make sure we all have approachable world-class food and service right on Main Street.

At Elements, Chef Miguel celebrates immigrant heritage, supports local farmers and artists, and proves that beautiful, sustainable food can be affordable. We talk about how Chef Sosa transforms comfort classics through global influences, why his menu changes with the seasons, and how he's created a space where regulars ask "What's new, Chef?" and let him lead their way through dinner.

🗺️ Visit them at: elementsvancouver.com | Instagram | Facebook

👀 For pictures and more, visit the episode page.

🎉  This episode also celebrates:
- Society of WA Artists
- Flat Tack Farm
- Julia Bakery
- Bleu Door Bakery

🎧 Other episodes you might like:
- Flat Tack Farm’s Soil to Table Movement (7.8.25)
- Vancouver Farmers Market: A Makers' Community (6.17.25)
- McClaskey Institute Crafts Clark's Top Chefs (8.12.25)

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On a corner of Main Street Ridgefield, something remarkable is happening. A professional art gallery, exhibiting a new show every single month, has opened up in the old hardware store. It’s bringing life and beauty to a relatively sleepy downtown, and it’s changing Ridgefield’s whole vibe.

👀 For pictures, video, and more, visit the episode page.

🗺️ Visit them at:
- Ridgefield Art Gallery
- Ridgefield Art Association
- Eva Kelley

🎉 This episode also celebrates:
- Ridgefield Wine Bar
- Ridgefield Mercantile
- Little Conejo
- The Neighborhood Refuge 

🎧 You might also like:
- Beyond ‘Ghost': From Kiln to Canvas with Ann Fleming (9.30.25)
- When Art Sparks Action | Meaningful Movies (2.10.26)

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We’re celebrating our one year anniversary! Adriana shares the craziest question someone recently asked her about arts & culture in Clark County, and spills the beans with an exciting announcement. And you’ll get your monthly list of some of our top event picks for the month of June! This quick episode is full of the good stuff.

👀 For links to everything we talked about, visit the episode page.

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We've got something a little different: another podcast about arts and culture! We’re introducing you to Board of Directors, where host Adam Marple sits down with theater directors from all over the world and talks to them about their craft, what got them to where they are today, and the projects they're developing for the future.

Our host Adriana Baer is behind the mic spilling the beans on a whole bunch of stuff she never talks about on I’m Into This Place. Why she quit her Artistic Directing job, what she REALLY thinks about the American theater, and more. You don’t want to miss this!

👀 Find Board of Directors here.
👀 See Adriana's directing portfolio here.
👀 For more, visit the episode page.

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You called in with YOUR favorite places & people and things to do, see & eat. This special episode shouts out some of the best of Clark County. 

🎉  Want a list of everywhere that's mentioned on this episode?  👉  Click here.

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Sam Robinson, Vice Chair of the Chinook Nation, shares about the 12,000 years of Chinook history in SW Washington and NW Oregon. His stories take us to the Cathlapotle Plankhouse in Ridgefield, up the coast on a canoe journey, and through millennia of visual art that's deeply connected to the land and this place we call home. Listen in to learn about the Chinook’s past, present, and their 175-year fight for federal recognition. 

🗺️ Visit them at chinooknation.org or chinookjustice.org.

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🎉 This episode also celebrates art by Greg Robinson.

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Here's what not to miss in arts & culture in May, 2026!

🗺️ Find the events we talked about here:

• ​Celebration of Sculpture​ 
• Washougal Studio Artist Tour 
• The Columbia Writers Series
• Documentary filmmaker Beth Harrington shows Our Mr. Matsura at History on Tap
• Pomeroy Living History Farm’s Summer Gardening Workshop For Beginners
• Vancouver Symphony’s Season Finale Concert

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