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MAY 17, 2018 // 7 PHOTOS COURTESY LEWIS AND CLARK NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK Alex Falcone headlines the Cheap Whiskey and Dirty Jokes comedy show at Labor Temple. Labor Temple brings more cheap whiskey, dirty jokes ASTORIA — Stand-up comedy comes to the Labor Temple Bar with another night of Cheap Whiskey and Dirty Jokes 8 p.m. Friday, May 18. There is a $5 cover for this show. Only people 21 and older may attend. A monthly event with rotating hosts, May’s event promises to be one of the best yet. Host Gideon For-Mukwai has assem- bled an all-star lineup with headliner Alex Falcone and featuring Anthony Lopez, Mohaned Elshieky and Katie Nguyen. Lopez is a Portland staple. He was last year’s runner up in Portland’s Funniest Person and is a regular at Helium Comedy Club. Elshieky is a comedian from Portland who grew up in Benghazi, Libya. He was named one of the Portland Mercury’s Undisputable Geniuses of Comedy and has appeared on the Lovett or Leave It podcast. Nguyen has appeared at numerous festivals including Bridgetown, Sketchfest and 10K Laughs. She was named of one the original Undispu- table Geniuses of Portland Comedy by the Portland Mercury. Falcone is a comedian and writer living in Portland. He has appeared on the IFC show “Portlandia” a handful of times, at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and was named one of Portland’s Funniest Five by Willamette Week. He also wrote a young adult romance novel called “Unwrap My Heart” about a girl who falls in love with a sexy mummy. Publisher’s Weekly called it “unfortu- nate.” And one time, Salt & Straw even named an ice cream flavor after Falcone (“Chocolate and Falcognac”), and it was delicious. Despite these accom- plishments, the comic has somehow remained totally down-to-earth and approach- able. Blues Band show benefits Astoria Visual Arts ASTORIA — Astoria Visual Arts, a nonprofit arts orga- nization, is having a benefit 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday, May 17, at the Labor Temple Bar, 935 Duane St., in Astoria, featuring the North Coast Blues Band with Clint Carter, Richard Tomlinson and others. Sliding scale do- nations and specialty drinks will be offered. Astoria Visual Arts has been working for artists in the community since 1989 by placing arts and culture at the center of a changing rural economy. COURTESY ASTORIA VISUAL ARTS A sketch of a sword fern leaf by Meriwether Lewis Ethnobotany near the mouth of the Columbia FORT CLATSOP — and tell her the plant Lewis and Clark names and stories of National Historical the Native Americans Park, Fort Clat- who lived there. sop is pleased to For decades, she announce the next has been collecting In Their Footsteps and sharing informa- tion about American free speaker series Indian uses of this event. “Ethnobotany area’s native plants Near the Mouth of and studying the the Columbia River” Lewis and Clark with Judith Lampi Expedition journals. will take place 1 p.m. Judith Lampi Lampi taught ethno- Sunday, May 20. botany as a science Humans have elective at the Health Sciences always depended on plants for food, Biotechnology Magnet School in medicine and textiles. Ethnobotany is Portland and later became a national the study of how people of a partic- ular culture and region make use of park ranger at Fort Clatsop. She has indigenous (native) plants. This forum guided many ethnobotany walks and will take its participants on an ethno- lectured around the country. botanical tour of the Lewis and Clark In Their Footsteps is a monthly Expedition journals and share how Sunday forum sponsored by the the indigenous people of the Lower Lewis and Clark National Park Columbia River used the plants that Association and the park. These Capt. Meriwether Lewis described programs are held in the Netul River during the winter of 1805-06. Room of Fort Clatsop’s visitor cen- ter and are free of charge. Lampi attributes her passion for For more information, call the native plants and how the Chinook park at 503-861-2471, or check out and Clatsop people used them to her nps.gov/lewi, or Lewis and Clark grandfather, a retired logger who National Historical Park on Face- would walk with her as a child in the forest and along the shores of the river book.
