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january 2016 • vol 17 • issue 204 HIPFiSH MONTHLYalternative press pressserving the serving lower columbia the lower pacific region columbia • july 2015 pacific • vol 16 •region issue 198 2 0 6 1 THE NORBLAD HOTEL AND HOSTEL hipper budget lodging for the savvy traveler p. 12 The150-Ft Elephant in the Waiting at the PAC FOR Park p4 GODOT p3 Albatross & Co: Style + Story The Great Oregon Army Cape Falcon Marine Reserve behind an Expansion p11 Amasses p10 Kick-off p5 Reclaim your Health Vitality & Wellness Naturally! Restorative Spinal Care: offering gentle specific neurological work restoring function to the body and its ability to heal. - affordable plans & also billable to insurance as Chiropractic care - Re-Organizational Healing: our specialty & premium service - serving our community & humanity at the juncture of healthcare & personal development! 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Tickets $15, at the door CCC PAC, 16th and Franklin in Astoria. FRAMED TWO MEN WAIT by the side of a road for another man, whose identity isn’t entirely clear. Test Drive For director, Karen Bain, it’s a long-awaited pleasure. In May 2015, she was part of the Directors Lab West, a gather- the new ing of international theater directors invited to attend a 10-day intensive lab exploring aspects of stage directing. Samuel Beckett’s play was first performed in Paris in 1953. His light work was the focus for the lab that Bain attended in Los Angeles. “I studied the script deeply and fell in love with the text,” frame Bain said. “I was drawn to the humanity in the absurdity and the comedy in the rhythms. As a director, it’s a huge challenge. It was detroit exciting to find a script that had no easy answers. I knew I had to put this play on the stage to understand it.” Bain’s directing career has been varied. bike “I try to bring a range of work to the community,” she said. “I’ve directed Shakespeare, Shepard, Aristophanes, Rand and themes of 11th and Marine Drive in Astoria dysfunctional families, murder, the intellectually challenged, social 503.325.2961 • OPEN DAILY • www.bikesandbeyond.com philosophies, Iraqi women and war.” The Astoria production features William Ham and Slab Slabinski as the two men waiting, Vladimir and Estragon, with Bill Honl as their mysterious visitor, Pozzo; Parker Fergus appears as a boy messenger. The backstage crew includes stage manager Sue Mey- MERRY TIME BAR ers and costume designer Susi Brown. Ham invites people to attend a performance and make up their and own minds as to what it is all about. Grill “Samuel Beckett gives the audience what it needs and trusts it to fill in the blanks and reconcile the ambiguities by applying their FREE LECTURE: own experiences,” the actor said. “He does not put everything on Home of the Merry Monster! a plate — there are no easy resolutions or revelations. The more Existentialism and Waiting for Godot you bring to it, the more you get out of it.” with Seth Tichenor Bain, the director, describes “Waiting for Godot” as a classic piece of theater. It was voted the most significant English-lan- In conjunction with the Astoria production of “Waiting for guage play of the 20th Century in a poll of 800 playwrights, actors, Godot,” Seth Tichenor, the philosophy instructor at Clatsop Com- directors and journalists conducted by the Royal National Theatre munity College, will give a free lecture on existentialism, Friday, in London. Jan. 22, 7pm, at the CCC Performing Arts Center at 16th Street “It’s from the ‘theater of the absurd’ tradition, which is rarely and Franklin Avenue. produced here,” she added. “I am looking forward to sharing this Admission is free, but donations may be made to support Part- remarkable, historically important play with my community.” ners for the PAC, the group staging the production whose mem- ber organizations are working to keep the building functioning as a year-round performance arts space. North Coast drama students and their advisers are especially invited to attend. Godot Party “Waiting for Godot” was written by Irish author Samuel Beckett January 30 and first performed in Paris in 1953. It spawned the “theater of The Merriest the absurd” movement, while opening up new lines of intellectual Join cast and crew following the thought about the meaning of human existence. Happy Hour January 30 performance of Tichenor has pursued advanced degrees in philosophy from the in town! University of Hawaii-Manoa and in theology from Boston Univer- 7 days a week 4-7pm Waiting for Godot sity. He has been teaching for 19 years, including the University Featuring $3 well drinks, of Hawaii, Oregon State University, Concordia University, Linfield all draft beer and @ KALA. College, and a number of community colleges including Clatsop. Cocktails and Bites. His areas of specialty include the Philosophy of Religion, Clas- a buck off bar snacks. sical South Asian Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy and the “Breakfast served daily until 3pm” All are welcome. Philosophy of Education. He is a co-founder of Philosofarian, a project that aims to make philosophical life relevant to everyone 1017 Marine Drive • Astoria everywhere. 503.468.0852 21 and over only 995 Marine Drive Astoria • www.merrytimebar.com 3 Jan 16 hipfishmonthly.com The 150-Ft Elephant in the Park by Bob Goldberg EMEMBER THE STADIUM DEAL? How about the excess Rcity property sales debacle? Well, here comes another finn wolf of a deal in sheep’s clothing – a new, 150-ft. cell tower to be placed in Astoria’s oldest, historic-landmark park, Shively Park. ware Like Astoria High School’s new sports complex down Wil- liamsport Road from Shively Park, negotiations were held out of the public’s (and the city council’s) eye for a series of deals that would modernize Astoria’s cell phone and emergency Annual January communications equipment, relocate the current tower from near the Astoria Column, and allow the Friends of the Col- Progressive Sale! umn to expand the Column developed area – the same kind crystal & pottery of win-win-win that a smiling Willis Van Dusen declared when dinnerware the stadium deal was announced. ANNUAL JANUARY SALE But the new CMH Stadium, paid for by Astoria’s larg- cooking products est employer, Columbia Memorial Hospital, in exchange home decor Almost the entire store will be: for school district property used for football for decades, was built on a closed landfill site, with the only neighbors Cell tower simulation at 150 ft./Source: Centerline Solutions Annual January Progressive Sale (not sweet treats 20% off January 2-11 being the Recology transfer station. The monopole cell positive that title sounds the best?) jewelry tower proposed by Verizon for construction in Shively Park master plan. The result is the proposed 150-foot tower in Shively 25% off January 12-21 has for one of its potential neighbors Ron Zilli, who is not sure the Park (for coverage on the south side of Astoria and beyond), a pro- Almost the entire store will be: sweaters and t-shirts proposed site is proper, or even legal, for a 150-foot-tall structure. posed new emergency communications complex on Pipeline Road, books & travel Since being notified of the project in September of last year, Zilli and cell equipment mounted on the Astor Hotel (for coverage on 20% off January 2-11 30% off January 22-30 has submitted reams of comments, done his homework, read all the the north side of Astoria).