June 2016 • vol 17 • issue 209 HIPFiSH HIPFiSH MONTHLYalternative press serving the lower columbia pacific region Annual 14th Festival — ASTORIA PRIDE — Astoria Music a new city-wide festival June 17 to July 3 is a celebration for all! A Celebration of - From B E ETHOVE N to The Harbor Compassion Plus a 5 Year Plan Have You Hugged a Troll Today? 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Hrs: Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm closed sun - mon th For private lessons, performances: 11 and Marine Drive in Astoria astoriaartsandmovement.com 1139 Commercial St. 503.325.2961 • OPEN DAILY • www.bikesandbeyond.com 503.791.5657 Astoria, OR 97103 June 16 hipfishmonthly.com 2 Opening June 11 66th Annual Register Astoria’s Inaugural Pride MADDOX DANCE STUDIO Now Dance Recitals SUMMER DANCE! A new city-wide festival is a celebration for all on-stage at the Astoria High School Begins June 28 - July 15 Auditorium. Saturday, June18, 6pm ON JUNE 9, 2016, Astoria’s inaugural PRIDE FEST Classes for all ages kicks off. As you stroll or cruise down Commercial, Sunday June 19, 3pm & 6pm Ballet • Tap • Jazz • Acrobatics you see PRIDE Flags interspersed between Astoria 389 S. Main Ave. Warrenton Music Festival flags, and various businesses dressing Teachers from New York 503-861-1971 maddoxdancers.com window storefronts in rainbow colors, as is the spirit Las Vegas and Hollywood. of tradition for city festivals in Astoria. FLOW 40 Intermediate thru Things change, morph, grow, transform. Ain’t it advanced groupings beautiful! In the mid 90’s the LGBT community on July 20 - 23 AGES 8 & UP the coast was active on many levels. Potlucks, mixers, shared space with the Clatsop County Aids Coalition at the No. 10 6th St. building (destroyed by fire) on the Astoria waterfront, a “gay films galore” movie night . one activity comes to mind—getting to- gether with folks to get the postage on the newslet- AMERICANAMERICAN HEROESHEROES ter, or mailers for various events, a social function of the past for certain. We can accomplished on state and national levels for equal- Marko Liias, openly look back ity and human rights legislation – a chain reaction gay senator from North Coast at that time, of consciousness raising and a great awareness of the mid 90s, all-inclusiveness, and how much better it works for Washington, Symphonic Band when we humanity. with Finnish- were OUT on Today, the new Lower Columbia Q Center, (soon Astoria roots, joins 7:30pm Sunday, July 3rd the COAST to establish 501c3 status) reaches way “out.” The with fond LCQC is positioned to assist the coastal community local organzers,Tessa Liberty Theater memories; at a new paradigm of understanding, healing and James Scheller and 7pm Pre-show: North Coast Jazz Ensemble our courage, exploration. We are after all, an evolving species. care and joy And, it has become apparent that people of all walks Dinah Urell as parade Soloists: Andy & Rachel Becker in building of life have discovered that celebrating who we are, marshalls. Doors open 6:45pm 1203 Commercial, Astoria FREE! donations encouraged community, rather than who we shouldn’t be, is just really a whole and gaining lot more fun. visibility. So it is with greatest joy, A HAPPY HAPPY What’s dif- INAUGURAL ASTORIA PRIDE TO ALL! ferent now? - Dinah Urell, a proud-to-be OUT on the COAST Newsletter 1999. The strides PRIDE Parade Grand Marshall. 1970 46 2016 Years IN CONJUNCTION with Inaugu- ral ASTORIA PRIDE WEEKEND, KALA proudly presents the “The Curator Mark Woolley Coast is Queer” with special Saturday The guest curator, noted Portland June 25 Gallerist Mark Woolley. The exhibit presents queer- MADNESS 9:00 AM identified artists, a celebration of LADY to of diverse art being produced in BRIGHT Oregon by queer artists. The art- 4:30 PM ists selected are and but not all necessarily exploring queerness in their art--they are just produc- ing interesting, well crafted Marco Davis Clatsop County Fairgrounds Nancy Montgomery and highly original works that Astoria, Oregon reflect their inner vision.” Artists Directed by Daric Moore FREE Admission include; Paul Soriano, Dorothy Sen Goode, Wesley Youni, Chuck E. INcavo Lower-Columbia-HorseFest Bloom, Tabor Porter and Greg Carrigan, Marne Lucas, and Sid • Vet Talk Deluca. • Nutrition Specialists Complimentary apps, and Don’t Miss This Historic No-Host Cocktail Bar continues • Multi-discipline demos through the eve and celebratory The Coast is QUEER @ KALA piece of Gay Theater, • Fun for the entire family! weekend, light dancing follows. Thursday, KALA is located at 1017 FEATURING: Marine Drive in Astoria. The Art Exhibit June 9 Mitch & JoLinn Hoover of COAST IS QUEER, open Sunday @ KALA. MJ Rising H Ranch, top NW June 12, Noon to 4pm. Sat/Sun Opens June 11 clinicians in Mountain Trail thru June Noon to 4pm. 8pm. $10 and Western Disciplines. Assistance from Shepard Road Mountain Trail. 3 June 16 hipfishmonthly.com KALA “Every day, every night,it’s BOOK LAUNCH @ KALA the fabulous Blues Brothers June and Sisters at the new Mom’s Cab. 17 Better than ever. Call us folks. Robert Michael Pyle Give us a test ride. You’ll feel Chinook & Chanterelle regal. We’ll get you there “ on time, in style. KALA welcomes naturalist writer Robert Michael Pyle, Friday June nary even as they 17, in a celebration book launch of his second full-length book of find the extraor- poetry, Chinook & Chanterelle, published by LOST HORSE PRESS. dinary in physical Doors open at 7pm, reading to begin at 7:30pm, and a compli- details that we mentary light salmon buffet follows, plus book sales and signings. too often look Admission is $8. right through. MOM’s CAB, LLC As we near the summer solstice, an evening with author Pyle Pyle is Ameri- is a perfect companion to call in the season that allows us more ca’s best-known 503.325.8210 503.325.8715 time spent with nature and lepidopterist, au- in a time of year we may thoring entomo- like to get closer to our logical texts, such own nature. American as The Audubon author Floyd Skloot says of Society Field Chinook & Chanterelle, “At Guide to North the heart of this marvelous American But- book is the saving grace of terflies, Watching close observation, the life- Washington Butterflies, and of his nine books of prose, butterfly affirming depth of feeling takes precedent—one road trip, ‘an 88,000-mile sprint to every and engagement and under- corner of America’ produced Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly standing of birds, butterflies, Big Year, ‘part road-trip tale, part travelogue, and part memoir of fish, crit¬ters, the rich flora people and species Pyle encountered along the way.’ all around us. Pyle savors LOST HORSE PRESS, independent and non-profit, based in and praises, seeing what Sandpoint, Idaho, has produced a handsome book; a ribbed joins us to our environment natural fiber cover produces an art print quality of Thea Pyle’s wood and what it can show us of cuts, the inside front and back, flanked by a luminescent gold pa- ourselves, lift¬ing his and per—this a delight that digital books cannot compete with. our spirits.” Rich in natural images, Please Join KALA Friday, June 17, 7:30pm, (doors open 7pm) stories, and indelible epi- $8, includes complimentary salmon buffet. To read Robert sodes from the whole world Michael Pyle is spirit-awakening, for his exuberance towards na- around us, Pyle’s poems also ture, his honesty and lively wit shine on, and then to hear Pyle track the territory of loss and read Pyle is just a dandy pleasure. grief—for his late wife Thea—as it rises onto the higher ground of KALA, 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria.