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Songstress Storm Large Finnish Brotherhood ofers Laksloda Luncheon
ASTORIA —It’s that time of
Laksloda Luncheon, a tradi-
Thursday, Oct. 13 at Suomi
and butter, and apple or ber-
to perform in Astoria
year: The fall salmon run is
tional Finnish meal, at Suomi Hall, 244 W. Marine Drive.
ry crisp with whip cream.
ASTORIA — On the tour
de force program “Stormy
Love,” classic songs get a
twist of what The New York
Times called the “person-
ality plus” of irrepressible
vocalist Storm Large, whose
singular career has traversed
the West Coast club scene,
reality television, symphony
engagements and interna-
tional concert halls with
beloved retro-chic band Pink
Martini. Large comes to the
Liberty Presents Concert Se-
ries to dazzle audiences with
her powerful, sultry voice at
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8 at
the Liberty Theater, located
at 1203 Commercial St.
Tickets are $25 to $45; visit
ticketswest.com to purchase,
or call 503-325-5922 for
more information.
On “Le Bonheur,” Large’s
irst release on Pink Mar-
tini’s label Heinz Records
and named after her band,
American songbook classics
like Cole Porter’s “I’ve Got
You Under My Skin” and
Richard Rodgers’ “The Lady
is a Tramp” shimmy up next
to Black Sabbath’s “N.I.B.”
and Lou Reed’s “Satellite of
Love,” each reimagined in
sparkling arrangements. She
over, and the cannery workers
are ready for a lunch break
— well, at least that’s the
way it used to be. In the past,
hundreds of Astoria cannery
workers, ishermen, dock
workers and the local Finns
would line up for the annual
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Storm Large will perform
with her band Le Bonheur on
Oct. 8 in Astoria.
shifts seamlessly between
French and English during
Jacques Brel’s famous heart-
breaker “Ne me quitte pas”
and adds honeyed harmonies
while digging into the emo-
tional core of “Unchained
Melody,” then unleashes a
brassy rendition of Porter’s
“It’s All Right With Me,” in
which Weimar meets iddle
funk. Two original tunes
penned by Large — “A
Woman’s Heart” and “Stand
up for Me” — suspend her
smoky tones in expansive
gospel choruses.
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The event will celebrate As-
toria’s Finnish heritage, and
the public is welcome.
This years’ “all-you-
can-eat” $12 meal includes:
laksloda (scalloped potatoes
and salmon), fresh green
beans, pickled beets, bread
There will also be a bake
sale of homemade pulla (car-
damon bread), bread, prune
tarts, and korvapusti (cinna-
mon rolls). The sale usually
sells out, so arrive early.
Proceeds will go to the
restoration of Suomi Hall.
Local author Tim Hurd releases book of short stories
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the meal was served at lunch
time during the work week.
The tradition continues
with the United Finnish
Kaleva Brothers & Sisters
offering a Laksloda Lun-
cheon 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Book reading to be
held Oct. 8 at the
Lovell Showroom
ASTORIA — Fort George
Brewery will hold a book
release party for local author
Tim Hurd and his book “Of
Dust and the River” in the
Fort George Lovell Show-
room at 5 p.m. Saturday,
Oct. 8. The event is free and
open to the public; compli-
mentary coffee and snacks
will be served. Adult re-
freshment will be available.
Other local artists will be
present to add complexity to
the readings. Jacob Hurd will
perform on guitar. Actors
Bob Slabinsky, Daric Moore
and Sheila Shaffer will pres-
ent one of Hurd’s stories in a
reader’s theater format
“Of Dust and the River”
is Hurd’s irst book of short
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Tim Hurd will read from his
new book Oct. 8 in Astoria.
stories. The book includes 20
individual stories that play
out on the local landscape.
Hurd has been previous-
ly published in Clatsop
Community College’s RAIN
Magazine and in interna-
tional publication Glimmer
Train Magazine. He is the
playwright of “The Sweet
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“Of Dust and the River” is a
collection of 20 short stories.
Scent of Apples.” Hurd start-
ed Uniontown’s Columbia
River Coffee Roaster back
in 1992 and was co-founder
of The River Theater.
Reviewers have spoken
favorably of his work. “Hurd
provides moments of pathos
and snapshots of humanity
reminiscent of Raymond
Carver,” says profession-
al writer Holly Lorincz.
Another reviewer from the
University of California,
Davis sums up Hurd’s work
in this way: “With the crisp
and telling detail and met-
aphor of writers like Annie
Proulx and Pam Houston,
Hurd holds us with his sharp
revelations about the com-
plex bonds that hold family,
home, and place.”
Hurd is a fourth genera-
tion Clatsop County resident
whose family still lives on
the original family home-
stead near Seaside. As stated
on the back cover of Hurd’s
book: Most know him as a
coffee roaster who writes, but
the truth is that it’s always
been the other way around.
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