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COLUMBIA BAR
The Alder
By RYAN HUME
FOR COAST WEEKEND
I
recently stopped by
Charlie’s Chop House,
the new venture be-
tween Charlie Holboke
and chef Chris Dunn, to
see what they were tossing
together behind the bar.
Located next to two
of Holboke’s other busi-
nesses, the Tiki Bar and
Charlie’s Chowder House,
one gets the sense that this
block of Marine Drive will
soon be known as Holbo-
ke’s Row.
This new incarnation
of an old-school steak-
Th e
Illahee
Apartments
house features blood-red
walls accented with black
trim, and the dark color
combination helps provide
a speakeasy-like vibe.
The old wooden bar from
Hazel’s has been saved
and adorned with enough
shelves to house plenty of
local and top-tier spirits.
Running the bar that day
was Alison Mück, who has
followed Dunn from the
Merry Time Bar and Grill
to the Chop House. Mück
is responsible for devel-
oping (or updating) many
of the signature cocktails
on the Chop House’s list,
which are all named after
different types of trees.
The cocktail list focuses on
laid-back, old-school cool,
utilizing fresh-squeezed
juice whenever possible.
Mück tries to steer clear of
syrups.
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“I’m getting too
old to just go out and
do shots all night,”
she told me. “I need
to start thinking about
my hangover the night
before.” Working in
fresh-squeezed juice is
at least a nod to doing
good when you are
doing bad.
The Alder is a gin-
based cocktail perfect
for a summer afternoon
or evening. With the
tartness of the grape-
fruit juice it shares
some of the same DNA
as a Salty Dog, but
is much more floral
forward with the gin
base and the addition of
St.-Germain, an elder-
flower liqueur. Follow-
ing Mück’s lead, might
as well stock up on Vi-
tamin C while spending
a night on the town.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Arvie Smith, juror for the 2018 “Au Naturel” exhibit, stands before his 2002 oil painting “Luciana
Dancing with Angels.”
CALL TO ARTISTS: ‘AU NATUREL’
EXHIBITION AT CLATSOP
The Alder
1 1/2 ounces Bombay
Sapphire Gin
1/2 ounce St.-Germain
liqueur
1/2 fresh-squeezed grapefruit
Soda water
Ice
ASTORIA — Clatsop Com-
munity College invites artists
to submit to the 2018 interna-
tional juried exhibition “Au
Naturel: The Nude in the 21st
Century.”
The 2018 exhibit will
be open for viewing at the
college’s Royal Nebeker Art
Gallery from Thursday, Jan.
25, through Thursday, March
15, 2018, with a special
community reception 6 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 22.
The “Au Naturel” com-
petition is open to all artists
from around the globe work-
ing in two-dimensional draw-
ing, painting or printmaking
media, with a focus on the
nude human fi gure as subject
Juice one half of a grapefruit.
Shake all the liquids except the
soda water with ice in a cocktail
shaker until cold. Pour contents
into a pint glass. Top off the last
inch or so with the soda water.
—Recipe courtesy of Alison
Mück, bar manager at Charlie’s
Chop House
Charlie’s Chop House is locat-
ed at 1313 Marine Drive and open
from 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday CW
20
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matter in any form from rep-
resentational to abstract, and
in which the handmade mark
is employed as the primary
means of image-making.
Entrants must be 18 or
older. Submitted artwork
must have been executed
in the last three years and
available for the duration of
the exhibit. Visit the exhibit
website to view artwork from
previous “Au Naturel” ex-
hibitions and for further
information about the show
at aunaturelart.com/
Applications are now
being accepted online via
the CaFÉ™ website at call-
forentry.org/
Applications must be
received on CaFÉ™ by
midnight (11:59:59 p.m.)
Mountain Time on Tuesday,
Nov. 7, 2017. There is no ad-
ditional fee to use the CaFÉ™
online application system.
Enter and register a username
and password. Navigate to
Apply to Calls, and search
the list for “Au Naturel: The
Nude in the 21st Century.”
The site also provides detailed
instructions for use.
There is a $40 fee for the
submission of up to three
images, and $5 for each addi-
tional image submitted.
Exhibit awards will
include $1,000 in cash prizes
and up to $2,000 in purchase
awards. A select number of
Visiting Artist Workshop
awards will also be granted.
In addition, one artist will
be chosen to be featured a
solo show for the following
exhibition season (2018 to
2019) at the Royal Nebeker
Art Gallery.
For a prospectus, down-
load the document from the
“Au Naturel” website at
aunaturelart.com or send a
SASE to Au Naturel Interna-
tional Juried Exhibition, care
of Kristin Shauck, Clatsop
Community College, 1651
Lexington Ave., Astoria,
Ore., 97103.
Serving as juror for the
2018 exhibit is Arvie Smith, a
man known nationally for his
large format socially provoca-
tive fi gurative paintings.
For more informa-
tion about the exhibition,
contact Kristin Shauck at
503-338-2472 or kshauck@
clatsopcc.edu