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.