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& Out about weekend coast March 5, 2014 arts & entertainment 4 8 10 15 COASTAL LIFE Behind the printing of Our Coast Flummoxing fog A routine evening clamming trip runs into a snag Pouring at the Coast Taste beers from 40 breweries at this annual Seaside beer festival THE ARTS Grabbed by printmaking Astoria artist Kirsten Horning practices her art at CCC DINING Steak Au Poivre Master the art of deglazing a pan with this simple pan sauce STEPPING OUT........ .............................................................. 5, 6, 7 POURING AT THE COAST PROGRAM..... ............................ .11 TO 14 CROSSWORD.......... .....................................................................17 CW MARKETPLACE........ ....................................................... 18, 19 GRAB BAG ...... .......................................................................... . 23 Find it all online and more! COASTWEEKEND.COM www.coastweekend.com features full calendar listings, keyword searches and easy sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. coastweekend.com | facebook.com/coastweekend | twitter.com/coastweekend on the cover Seaside Brewing Co. co-owner and brewer Vince Berg holds a pint of the brewery’s local beer. The brewery and the Seaside Chamber of Commerce will present Pouring at the Coast, a craft beer festival, this week- end at the Seaside Convention Center. Photo by Joshua Bessex ADVERTISING MANAGER: BETTY SMITH CONTRIBUTORS: ANDREW TONRY DAVID CAMPICHE DWIGHT CASWELL RYAN HUME To advertise in Coast Weekend, call 503-325-3211 or contact your local sales representative. © 2014 COAST WEEKEND is 45 years old. The compa- ny’s newest saddle stitcher, the SP2200, is just one year old. “Here’s our forest,” Dey said, as we neared a large room on the edge of the warehouse. It housed huge cylinders of paper — $3 million worth. Each role is 5 miles long, and one press can run through a roll in 14 PLQXWHV6XI¿FHLWWRVD\WKH\ go through a lot of paper. But that’s not to say they aren’t environmentally con- scious. On the contrary, Dey said Journal Graphics strives to minimize its environmental LPSDFW 1HZHU WHFKQRORJLHV allow for more accuracy and less paper waste; and all scraps are compressed and hauled to the nearby recycler. I left my tour with an armful of magazines and a great appre- ciation for all the moving parts that put together Our Coast. Coast Weekend welcomes comments and contributions from readers. New items for publication consideration must be submit- ted by 10 a.m. Tuesday, one week and two days before publication. To submit an item, contact Rebecca Sedlak See story on Page 8 COAST WEEKEND PHOTOS: JOSHUA BESSEX brochures and many magazines, including Hawaiian Luxury, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Mon- tana Bride, and the closer-to- Along with my weekly home Portland Monthly, Seattle Coast Weekend duties, I’m Monthly and Eugene Magazine. also in charge of Our Coast, Ron Dey, vice president of the annual regional travel sales, was my tour guide. He magazine published by The showed me the customer ser- Daily Astorian and Chinook vice and prepress departments. Observer. Then we entered the press- If you’re a regular reader, room. Journal Graphics owns you’ll have noticed the mag- three presses. Each is a heatset azine was inserted in both press, which means the ink papers last week. If not, you on the page dries quickly un- FDQ¿QGDFRS\DWORFDOKRWHOV der a heater, in comparison to restaurants, visitor centers, and at www.discoverourcoast.com We print our coastal newspa- pers on the press in our Astoria building. But we have Our Coast magazine printed in Portland by a company called Journal Graphics. Recently, I got the chance to tour Journal Graphics. When I studied journalism at the Uni- versity of Oregon, my emphasis was in magazines — so seeing LQVLGH D OHDGLQJ 3DFL¿F 1RUWK- west commercial printer was fascinating. Journal Graphics got its start as the Daily Journal of Com- merce newspaper in 1925. In 1937, the company entered com- mercial printing. Today it prints a wide range of publications: maps, By Rebecca Sedlak COAST WEEKEND EDITOR rsedlak@dailyastorian.com FEATURE COAST WEEKEND EDITOR: REBECCA SEDLAK NOTES FROM THE EDITOR coldset, where the ink dries through ordinary evaporation and absorption into the paper. Ink drying so rapidly has the advantage of providing extra crisp lines and bright colors. Each of the presses was working during my tour. Paper traveled 30 mph through the Sunday 2000 press. We moved on to the bind- ery department, which oper- ates on a 24/7 schedule. There are generally two ways to bind a magazine. Our Coast has a perfect binding: Adhesive is applied to gathered pages, ZKLFK UHVXOWV LQ D ÀDW UHFW- angular spine. The other kind of binding is called the sad- dle-stitch: Folded pages are gathered together and wire staples secure them together, UHVXOWLQJLQDÀDWIROGHGVSLQH Journal Graphics has two perfect binder machines; one Phone: 503.325.3211 Ext. 217 or 800.781.3211 Fax: 503.325.6573 E-mail: rsedlak@dailyastorian.com Address: P.O.Box 210 • 949 Exchange St. Astoria, OR 97103 Coast Weekend is published every Thursday by the EO Media Group, all rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced with- out consent of the publisher. 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