Weekender Nov. 1 2018

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Your Guide to What’s Good THE COFFEE ISSUE ROASTING WITH JUSTIN PAGE BEANS AND BONGS MERGE COFFEE AND POT CONSUMPTION — Page 8

CREATING SENSUAL, ABSTRACT ART WITH COFFEE GROUNDS — Page 11

TATTOO CULTURE REMAINS UNDEAD (REAL) AT PHANTOM — Page 12

SANTA LUCIA CREATES MORE THAN YOUR AVERAGE CUP OF JOE — Page 4

WHAT TYPE OF WINE IS FOR YOU? YOUR COFFEE CHOICE REVEALS ALL — Page 7

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OF EVENTS NOV. 2-3, 4, 8-10 AND 11

tap into the scene

Centralia College Theatre Presents the play, “Antigone” by Sophocles, in the Wickstrom Studio Theatre, Washington Hall 150. Tickets: $10 adults/$8 students and seniors.

Tickets can be purchased at the door, by calling 360.623.8871, or online.

After a bloody civil war, a young woman defies the state by burying her slain brother and consequences are felt by all. This timeless Greek tragedy portrays the conflict between law and religion, establishment and rebellion, maturity and youth. Antigone strikes at the heart of what is correct — and what is right.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, FRIDAY, NOV. 2 Thorebeckes Dive-In Theater NOV. 2-3

takes place every Friday beginning at 7 p.m. Bring an inflatable floatie and a friend for a movie on the big Rogers Road, Chehalis, featuring antiques, stitchery, vintage, primitives, screen over the big pool. Free for members and fun for the whole wood crafts, soap, jewelry, handfamily. The junior pool is also open painted floorcloths, painted signs on request, yard art, birdhouses, shabby during the weekly “Dive-In Movie” event. The show this week is “The chic and candles. Info: 360-269-5575.

Brave Little Toaster,” followed by “A Directions: I-5 exit 74 south, right Bug’s Life” on Friday, Nov. 9. turn, follow LaBree Road, take right on Rogers, third house on the right.

Hickory Sticks Lil Shop in the country 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 283

SATURDAY, NOV. 3

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WEEKENDER Editor-In-Chief Michael Wagar mwagar@chronline.com/360.269.7979 Assistant Editor Eric Schwartz eschwartz@chronline.com/360.807.8217 Design Director Nicole Kiourkas nkiourkas@chronline.com Media Specialist Tyler Beairsto tbeairsto@chronline.com/360.807.8212 The Lewis County Weekender is published in conjunction with The Silver Agency and is a property of Lafromboise Communications, Inc., the parent company of The Chronicle.

Editorial and Advertising Mailing Address 321 N. Pearl St., Centralia, Washington, 98531

America live in concert at the Lucky Eagle Casino. Doors open

at 7 with the show starting at 8 p.m.

The band will play all your favorites including “A Horse With No Name” and “Sister Golden Hair.” Tickets start at $25 for club members at Players Club. Tickets also available for sale at Players Club or by phone at 800.720.1788.

Olympia Chamber Orchestra,

with conductor Nickolas Carlson, performs Berward Symphony No. 3, Singuliere; Poulenc Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani; Martinu Serenade No. 3; and Peeters Entrata

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Festiva, starting at 7:30 p.m. at Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 120 Chilvers Road, Chehalis. Info: olympiachamberorchestra.org.

So, You Have a Manuscript?

Now What Do You Do? Take

a workshop at the Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Library 2-3:30 p.m. Kyle Pratt, Amazon bestselling author of actionadventure and speculative fiction novels will introduce the new routes to publishing success which are available and growing. Indie authors use print-on-demand and eBooks, coupled with sites like Amazon, Kobo and iTunes to reach readers directly. Find out about Traditional, Self, Indie and Hybrid publishing and how you, the author, can make them work for you. This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Chehalis Library.

Synergy Networking 8:45 to

9:45 a.m. at the Chehalis Denny’s.

Come check out a casual and fun networking opportunity for professionals interested in growing friendships with nonprofits, government or socially responsible businesses. Whether you’re currently employed or job searching, come out to meet new people, build your network, and learn more about community members who are

ON THE COVER

Santa Lucia’s Justin Page as photographed

by The Weekender’s Jared Wenzelburger.

Synergizing to make things happen in Centralia/Chehalis.

TUESDAY, NOV. 6

Pub Quiz at O’Blarney’s at the Gibson House, 7-9 p.m. Trivia, Trivia, Trivia. It’s fun and it’s free every Tuesday night, your table is your team, win prizes, enjoy discounts. Come have fun with host Drew.

SATURDAY, NOV. 10

The Roxy Theater in downtown Morton presents “Command Performance — USO Show” starting at 7 p.m.

Celebrate and honor veterans with 1940’s USO-style entertainment: skits, vocalists, dancers, plenty of laughs, and dancing to the Sound of Swing Big Band. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for veterans and $7 for students/ children. Info: 360.496.0541 and mortonroxy.org.

Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts

Bazaar & Chili Feed 10 a.m. to

4 p.m. at SAFE Family Ministries, located at 3149 Jackson Highway, Chehalis. Add crafters and artisans with chili! Does it get better than that? Chili Feed tickets are $10 for adults, $7.50 for children under 6.

Door prizes, raffles, fun booths and tours. Info: safefamilyministries. com. All fees, raffles, soda pop, hot drinks and ticket sales will be considered donations to exclusively benefit SAFE Family Ministries.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 11

The Veterans Day Parade will start 3 p.m. in downtown Chehalis.

Everyone is welcome to participate in this 100-year anniversary of the end of World War One. If you wish to participate in the parade you can register at 2 p.m. at the registration tent in the parking lot across from the PUD building on the day of the event.

To get your event listed in Lewis County Weekender, send items to mwagar@chronline.com.

NFL Sunday Ticket 9 HD TV’s 4K Projector Happy Hour specials during every Hawks game Karaoke Nightly Live Music Nov. 2nd and 3rd Stir Crazy 21000 Old Hwy 99 SW Centralia, WA 360.273.7586

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Santa Lucia Coffee Roasters Brew a Passion for Coffee Obsession With the Coffee Bean Drives Justin Page Toward Perfection

By Andrew Kollar

FOR THE WEEKENDER

From an early age, Justin Page, owner of Santa Lucia Coffee in Centralia, has been obsessed with specialty coffee.

What began as a personal hobby in the basement of his home — with a coffee bean roaster made from popcorn machine parts acquired from Goodwill — quickly evolved into a lifestyle for Page.

“I came across some interesting solutions to roasting coffee that

no one else would know about because I started in my basement and I didn’t get out there to learn what everybody else was doing in the industry,” Page said. “I basically came up with my own ideas for how coffee should be roasted.”

Page quickly outgrew the personal coffee operation, leading the entrepreneur to open the Italianthemed coffee bar in the heart of downtown Centralia.

His passion for coffee stems from his time spent in Seattle with his wife, Lucy, who attended the University of Washington. They both were exposed to quality coffee shops in Seattle before specialty coffee was popular in most parts of the Pacific Northwest. That planted a seed that would later blossom into Santa Lucia Coffee.

“Justin is a visionary and he has

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Justin and Lucy Page enjoy a moment at their downtown Centralia coffee shop.

the eye for all of the art, the lights and the color and the furniture, really just the entire feel of it,” Lucy said of the coffee shop.

Located on 202 South Tower Avenue sits the cozy espresso shop with a turntable spinning records behind the front counter, canvas and metal artwork displayed on the red, brick wall, couches to lounge on and Page’s self-engineered coffee roaster which sits humbly in the back. What you will not find is a drive-thru or people rushing to

get from place to place. Instead customers are given a comfortable place to stop for a moment and enjoy craft coffee.

“You can’t build a community through a drive-thru,” Lucy said.

“You’re getting some of the best coffee in the world, you should want to at least come in and talk with your barista and take some time to enjoy it.”

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HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED The year was 2002, I think I was 27 years Editor’s Note: Justin Page posted this on Facebook a while back, but it reveals his early old. I was brainstorming on a new venture. My motivation and drive in his journey toward serving window washing-company was successful, but his customers the finest.

I wanted a way to connect with my community in fresh new ways, provide a trickle income or My earliest memories of Santa Lucia coffee perhaps create jobs for others. company include roasting coffee in my basement Having no startup money I simply began with Lenora on my back and selling coffee on my roasting coffee in my basement, in the front porch to neighbors and friends. evenings, after work.

It is strange to think back on the early I’d work into the wee hours of the morning, beginnings of something that has become such a maybe stop to sip a glass of whiskey, then staple in our everyday lives. continue to dream, all while everyone slept.

I remember planning out the conceptual ideas Soon I outgrew the small devices I was using in my journal and dreaming of one day owning my to roast, and because of lack of money, I had to own coffee shop. develop and build bigger and bigger roasting How would I accomplish it. How much money machines to keep up. would I need. Who would arrive to become What may have been simple for some, customers. Etc. etc. was difficult for me, and I struggled to get

the machines to loft and properly roast the batches. I experienced many, many failures and frustrations.

One day, a customer arrived on my porch to thank me for the coffee and he offered to help.

Gary Klein had owned a bicycle manufacturing company and was brilliant at almost everything, especially metal fabrication.

He spurred me on with enthusiasm and generosity. My brother Jared helped too.

Eventually my newfound customers and friends helped encourage me to open the doors to Santa Lucia cafe’ in downtown Centralia. It all happened on April Fool’s Day 2006.

We scrambled to get the store built out, and relied on dear friends and family to pull us through. … I just wanted to say — thanks for the memories everyone!

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travelled around the globe to build relationships directly with coffee farmers in countries including Guatemala and Colombia. He attributes those relationships to delivering the freshest possible coffee from a bean not commonly found in the immediate area.

Page said he only uses beans rated as a specialty coffee according to the standardised coffee ranking system known as the Q Grader System. Most commonly known coffee brewers buy lower ranking beans. A low quality bean forces everyday coffee shops to over-roast their beans to compensate, creating an “indistinguishable flavor,” Page explained.

The Q Grader System is based on a 100 point scale and anything above 80 is considered to be a “specialty coffee” while anything below is deemed as a “commodity.” Most coffee purchased at Santa Lucia ranks in the high to mid-80s.

Specialty coffees are known to have a distinguishable taste with Justin Page pours a simple, yet complex cup of coffee. much higher notes than the average how do we keep them farming and cup of Joe, including hints of apridoing good work.” cots and orange blossoms, accordPage has been visiting the farms ing to Page. He said farmers and of his vendors for years and recently roasters are pushing the boundaries began to push the boundaries of his of quality coffee, meaning there has business with different distribution been no better time to be a coffee strategies, bringing high quality cofconsumer. fee into the homes Justin is adamant of coffee connoisabout treating his Location: 202 S. seurs. venders as well Tower Ave., Centralia Along with the as he treats his H ours : Monday through ability for customers customers with a Thursday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. to purchase belief that a susunground beans tainable partnership Website: luciacoffee.com for home grinding between farmers and brewing at and retailers leads their shop, Page recently created a to better coffee for the consumer subscription program for his “Top and better business in the long run.

25 Customers” which is anticipated “We have to reward the good to reach about 300 customers as farmers for doing good work and the customer base grows.

The that’s where companies like ours subscription program brings the come in,” Page said. “Instead of coffee beans straight from coffee basing everything on the C Market farming hubs Page visits every year Exchange and seeing how low on an expedited trip, transported we can go and how little we can pay our farmers, we are looking at SEE PAGE 6.................................... Justin Page traveld to Colombia this past sumer to meet local farmers. what’s sustainable for farms and

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Azteca Coffee Special

There are many ways to combine caffeine with alcohol, some providing an energetic jolt with a warm blast to get through the winter months.

At Casa Ramos in Centralia, one of the more popular offerings is the Azteca Coffee Special, which is among the dozens of cocktails offered at the bar inside the Mexican restaurant chosen as the Best of Lewis County this year.

It’s described on the menu as “a special creation with Kamora Coffee Liqueur, Baileys Irish Cream and Gran Gala topped with whipped cream.”

It’s on the menu for $4.95.

Is it popular in the winter time?

“Oh yes,” says Hannah, who was serving as bartender last week.

Head to the restaurant and bar at 929 Harrison Ave. in Centralia for the original. Or, if you have the right ingredients, make one for yourself at home.

IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW THE AZTECA COFFEE SPECIAL IS MADE: www.lewiscountyweekender.com

Ingredients:

¾ shot of Kamora Coffee Liqueur ¾ shot of Baileys Irish cream ¾ shot of Gran Gala Fill with hot coffee Top with whipped cream

Come visit us!

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Harrison Ave. Centralia, WA 98531 (360) 330-2045

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Lucy and Justin Page relax in their downtown Centralia coffee shop.

some of the most die-hard coffee enthusiasts. through carry-on luggage by Justin, Although the subscription his wife, Lucy and their three kids program exists, it is only a small before being delivered to the part of the business. Page said he subscribers’ doorsteps. is more focused on pointing coffee “We just had to carry 120 enthusiast of all levels to a coffee pounds of coffee on our backs they will enjoy. wherever we went, sometimes up “Customers always ask me three or four flights of stairs and in what is the best coffee,” Page taxi cabs and then we had to get said. “What’s best for me isn’t it onto the airplane,” Page said. necessarily what’s going to be “That coffee was carried the entire best for them and that is the most way and in a way that is just not important challenge. It’s about usually done and then we ship it to helping them get what they want those 25 customers.” and that’s important because we Justin admits the program isn’t don’t want a customer to have a for every customer that walks bad experience with a good cup in. It’s a niche market, only for of coffee.”

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What Wine Goes With Your Coffee Order? his expertise based on some of the Prefer Espresso? most common coffee-shop orders.

Try a Chianti Classico or Americano Cabernet Sauvignon

Alternatively, try a pinot noir, which is “lighter and gentler for people with sensitive palates … the tannins are lighter, softer and gentler.”

By Tufayel Ahmed

Mocha

It can be overwhelming to decide which wine is for you when confronted with multiple shelves of reds, whites, rosés and sparkling varieties from all corners of the world at your local shop.

What if you could pick the perfect wine for your palate based entirely on your coffee order?

Wine expert and former wine merchant Joe Fattorini reveals the most enjoyable wines for lovers of Americanos, lattes and more. He has been using his coffee taste test for several years, once convincing a friend who said she “only drinks Sprite” to put down the soda and relish a glass of Riesling instead.

Fattorini says the link between taste in coffee and wine stems from the number of taste buds we have, and from individual tolerance to bitter flavors.

“Some of us have very few taste buds, about 2,000 of them,” says the wine connoisseur. “Some people have what we call hypersensitive taste buds — about 8,000 of them.”

Tolerant tasters, who have fewer taste buds, “need very loud drinks to excite them,” while hypersensitive tasters want “a quiet, gentle wine which, to them, feels balanced. They find big, powerful wines overwhelming because the volume is turned really high.”

So, what wines should you be drinking? I asked Fattorini, who also co-hosts U.K. channel ITV’s The Wine Show with actors Matthew Rhys (The Americans) and Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey), to share Jared Wenzelburger / jwenzelburger@chronline.com

If you like cappuccino, latte and cafe au lait, chances are you would enjoy a Pinot Gris.

Classic Americano drinkers, whether they take it black or white, enjoy the popular white wine sauvignon blanc, says Fattorini. (“It’s) midweight, mid-fruit, mid-acidity, moderately intense.”

If you’re more partial to red, merlot is the wine for you. “Merlot is midweight: It’s got a juicy, plummy fruit to it, and it’s got that tannin, dry mouthfeel like tea, but not too much.

It’s in the middle … that’s why people like it.”

Cappuccino, Latte and Cafe Au Lait

“Where people are wanting milky coffees, the milk is calming down that bitterness and softening (the flavor).

That indicates you’ve got more taste buds, so big flavors will overwhelm the palate,” says Fattorini. He suggests pinot grigio for white wine drinkers. “Pinot grigio is considered pretty boring, but it’s lighter. ... It’s softer — it has a pear-and-almond softness rather than a punchy apple character.”

For red-wine fans, Beaujolais, a French wine made from Gamay grapes, “is making a wonderful comeback,” Fattorini says, “because people are saying, ‘I don’t want to drink big, ballsy reds, I want something that’s softer and lighter.’”

If you like your coffee sweet, embrace it. “If you have a sweet palate, you’ve probably been told to aspire toward and learn to enjoy dry, firm, bigger styles of wine, and it’s a total fiction.” Fattorini says that in the 18th and 19th centuries, people generally drank dessert wines as table wines “because it was accepted (that) people have sweet palates.” Some of the most famous people of the era, like Napoleon, Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria, enjoyed sweet wines.

“People think their only respite is white zinfandel, which is actually pretty chemical. I would go for Riesling, particularly an off-dry Riesling. An off-dry muscat, too,” says Fattorini.

But there is another, less common wine Fattorini recommends: “The one to look out for is Gewürztraminer.

It’s not only slightly off-dry, it has a very low acidity — it doesn’t have a zesty tang that people find slightly revolting.”

Espresso, cortado and macchiato If you like your coffee black and intense, you also may like very fine wines. “You’ll probably enjoy the most expensive wines in the world, but the problem is you’ll probably be bankrupt very soon,” says Fattorini.

But, he adds, “you’re well catered for, because as a society we’ve created a perception these are wines to aspire to.”

Oaky wines such as cabernet sauvignon or chianti classico

are best for espresso drinkers.

For more budget wines, Fattorini suggests chardonnay “from anywhere in the world,” shiraz from Australia and malbec from Argentina.

Chai tea latte

Coffee lovers who are partial to the kick of cinnamon and cardamon are in the “hypersensitive territory,” says Fattorini. “One market that has satisfied this market is New Zealand pinot gris. There’s an elegant and more refined style than pinot grigio in Europe. You’ll find a soft, elegant, perfume-scented aroma that runs through.”

Happy drinking.

Joe Fattorini is a wine expert, resident sommelier for Celebrity Cruises ships and co-host of The Wine Show on the U.K.’s ITV.

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Pot of Coffee

710:

Similar to how “420” represents marijuana and flower, 710 is popular slang terminology for concentrates.

It’s most closely related to hash oil, due to the number looking like it spells “OIL” upside down.

Usage: “Hey man, let’s dab some 710!”

— Source: Potguide.com

Java and Joints: Cannabis-Infused Coffee a Hit at Centralia’s Beans and Bongs

By Will Rubin

THE WEEKENDER

different instead of trying to be someone else,” Thomas said. “Art, atmosphere, coffee, every bong shop has their own niche, and these are ours.”

Will Rubin Thomas and Teitzel hope to 710 Beans and Bongs located on Main Street in Centralia features an array of glassware, coffee expand their offerings in the near products and art, all locally sourced. Their house brand of coffee is flavored to resemble popular future to include sales of their strains of marijuana. bud-flavored beverage in its final glassware ranging from small of flavors on its shelves based on form — brewed hot and ready for handheld pieces to towering, what oils and flavorings they have consumption. The process has intricate bongware. available for roasting. Producing been slow, but they’re confident it Adding a partnership with a local and selling coffee with the more will come to fruition. coffee roaster seemed like another potent components of pot has The pair are in the process of good niche to add to the store, never been a serious option for obtaining the necessary permits Thomas said. They sell other bags them, because they’d be too and installing the plumbing system of coffee, mugs made by local close to Centralia College to needed for food service. It’s already artists and coffee presses alongside get the necessary licenses and clear that the interest level is high their roach-flavored roasts. permits even if it were legal to sell for what they have to supply.

People often come in to buy a marijuana within city limits.

Until then, you’ll have to brew piece of glass and wind up walking “We’re just trying to be your own java joint. out with a bag of coffee as well. A single bag retails for $20. Like the beans, the glassware, mugs, and art on the walls are all locally sourced.

The most often purchased flavor of coffee is Girl Scout Cookies.

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Coffee and marijuana wouldn’t seem at first glance like a natural pairing. After all, one is meant to perk the user up while the other is supposed to calm them down.

Remove the mood-altering THC and CBD compounds from the equation though, and you get what’s inside the metallic bags that grace the shelves inside 710 Beans and Bongs appropriately located at 710 W. Main St. in Centralia.

Coffee beans roasted by Santa Lucia Coffee Coffee Roasters are mixed with the terpenes and hemp seed oils that give retail strains of weed flavor profiles such as Pineapple Express and Girl Scout Cookies. It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “pot of coffee.”

“It tastes the same, but with that coffee flavor added,” said Jennifer Thomas, co-owner and manager of Beans and Bongs. “It smells and tastes very similar. I haven’t seen it a lot, though we’re not the first to come up with it.”

Thomas and Wyatt Teitzel opened the store nearly three years ago as a place where local art could be showcased alongside

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Pineapple Express is one of the popular strains of coffee beans at 710 Beans and Bongs.

Get Your Antique On in Downtown Centralia

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USA Today Named the Hub City as One of the 10 Best Spots for Antiquing

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Sonjia Maddox, who bought Simply Collectibles with her daughter this year, discusses having an ‘eye’ for antiques. The outlet is one of many that make downtown Centralia a cool place to hang out with old stuff.

A Christmas Gathering at Prickly Pear Primitives Come shop our great selection of handmades, holiday décor, home décor and gifts.

Enjoy a snack and some punch, and be sure to enter our raffle.

Thursday Nov. 1

Enjoy our evening shopping from 5-8pm

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The cold and rain is upon us.

Outdoor excursions are out. What to do on the weekend?

The Lewis County Weekender suggests heading down to historic downtown Centralia, purchase a steaming hot cup of java (perhaps from Santa Lucia Coffee, the main feature of this issue) from one of the many coffee joints, and then spend a Saturday or Sunday strolling

We have food, drinks, giveaways and drawings.

Fri. and Sat. Nov. 2-3

Join us from 10am-5pm for a whole day of holiday fun

Come shop our large selection of gifts & decor.

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through the antique outlets dotted along Tower Avenue, with a few just off the main drag.

A few choice restaurants and/or bars will make the excursion complete.

The Weekender reminds you that USA Today recently named Centralia one of its 10 Best spots for antiquing, rivaling places such as New Orleans and Kansas City.

Antiques might be old, but antiquing is hip, to use perhaps an out-of-date term.

• Across The Street Antiques — 113 N. Tower Ave. • Attic Door — 307 N. Tower Ave. • Ayala Brothers Antique Mall — 305 N. Tower Ave.

• Madly Eclectic — 109 N. Tower Ave.

• Centralia Square Antiques — 201 S. Pearl St. • Friends of Mason Avenue — 1101 Mason Ave. • Homestead Vintage Stove Company — 404 Lincoln Creek Road • Jewelry Boutique — 111 S. Tower Ave. • Junk ‘N Da Trunk — 830 N. Tower AVe.

• Moments In Time — 108 N. Tower Ave. • Northwest Tub Company — 113 N. Tower Ave. • Prickly Pear Primitives — 712 W. Main St.

• Simply Collectibles — 207 N. Tower Ave. • Slusher’s Rare Coins — 107 N. Tower Av.e • The Shady Lady — 216 N. Tower Ave.

• Timeless • Prim Rose Primitives — Treasures — 314 N. 109 S. Tower Ave. Tower Ave. • River’s Landing — 503 W. Main St. • Urban Farmgirl Market — • Rockstar Records — 221 S. Tower Ave. 305 N. Tower Ave.

• Landlord’s Daughter Antiques — • Black Dog Vintage — 325 N. • Salewsky’s Jewelry — • Visiting Nurses — 206/208 N. 211 N. Tower Ave. 222 S. Pearl St. Tower Ave. Tower Ave.

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Brew It. Drink It. Paint It.

Cubism: n.

A nonobjective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.

Winlock Artist Grounded in His Coffee Paintings

If You Want to Contact Ron Gaul: 360.758.3510 thecoffeeartist@gmail.com

BY THE WEEKENDER

WEEKENDER: Explain your

coffee art.

Ron Gaul: It’s really a controlled

coffee stain. I work on two mediums.

I’ve got watercolor paper here that I’ve done. … I also do canvas.

With canvas it’s like if you were to spill coffee on your shirt. This time I’m controlling that stain. I’ve got different brews here that lend themselves, they have different values. Some are a little darker, some are a little richer, so almost a black.

This is more of an umber, I have more like a sienna, you’re dealing with all these coffee tones. So I just mix it up to get different values. The more water I add of course the lighter value I get. I can use the water over the top that’s kind of a wash, then I add the coffee over the top of it to get the

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Coffee artist Ron Gaul uses some java — his choice of coloring for his paintings. Here he touches up a WSU-themed painting.

it originally was the movement of lines and the curves that you get out of steam coming out of coffee.

It reminded me of the curves of a woman and I just wanted to exaggerate those curves and make it look sensual and get that feeling that coffee is kind of a sensual drink. … I enjoy doing the form of a woman with coffee and it’s natural, the steam can naturally make those curves.

My wife is a music teacher, I’m an art teacher, we’re just really into the arts.

W: Where did you get the idea?

Ironically I went into teaching years R.G.: In my training workshops as ago because I love football, I wanted a teacher, I went to one where the gal to be a football coach. I thought W: You find Inspiration in Picasso was talking about how they used to football was everything and that’s one and cubism. use teas for dye and that you can use way to be connected.

R.G.: “I don’t want the woman tea as a medium. Budgets are always or the image that’s there to be just tight in schools, they are looking for W: What part of creating do you obvious, I want it to be kind of ways to save money. She said you enjoy most? hidden. I want them to search and could use the tea in your own kitchen.

R.G.: The fun part for me is the find it so that when you look at my (Editor’s note: The Gauls were design, how do I make the steam work you don’t say “Oh yeah, there’s building a house and decorating the from the coffee look like something, a coffee cup.” You should be able kitchen with a coffee theme. That’s look like a woman. to look and try and find something. when inspiration struck.) … I thought Sometimes it’s a little more obvious well shoot, why not try coffee, so I than others, sometimes it’s a little W: : Your paintings are sensual. did. more abstract.

R.G.: The whole premise behind really light values.

W: What are you trying to express in your art?

R.G.: My goal is to kind of hide women drinking coffee and make coffee look like its something really enjoyable to drink.

W: You drink coffee while painting with coffee.

R.G.: I always have my coffee cup. I drink coffee, I don’t know if it’s subliminal messages or what, but I’m always wanting coffee when I’m painting coffee. The nice thing is sometimes I make a mistake and dip the brush in my coffee cup, and that’s okay.

W: How central is art to your life R.G.: Art is a big part of my life.

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The Weekender visited the Winlock “studio” of coffee painter Ron Gaul.

The studio is actually his kitchen table and his colorings come from nothing more simple than coffee and water.

Gaul teaches art at Toledo High School and also coaches on the football team. He wanted to be a coach, so he got his teaching degree.

He minored in art. He never saw it as an avenue to make a living. But an opening came up for an art teaching post, which similar to the curls of steam coming out of a coffee cup, led him down a twisty road to coffee art.

His inspiration is his wife’s love of coffee, ground in with a bit of Picasso and a lot of cubism.

Gaul shared his art story while touching up a painting last week.

Of course, he was drinking a cup of coffee.

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Phantom Tattoo Embraces Old School Culture Centralia Shop Part of Country’s Longest Continuing Tattoo Shop Out of Seattle

Electric Rose tattoo shop. He was drawn south to Centralia as business started to dwindle in the state capitol. He sensed someone had moved into the Lewis County area.

“We just came down here to reclaim our business and stick the

BY THE WEEKENDER flag in another town, claim it as ours, because that’s kind of the way it used The Weekender dropped in on to be done,” he said. “Nowadays Sean Lindseth, owner of Phantom there’s no territories, there’s no Tattoo, to get the vibe on the shop boundaries — nobody really thinks located in downtown Centralia. about that so you just do what you Lindseth is a throwback to a time Jared Wenzelburger can and fly your flag.” when tattoo culture meant someSean Lindseth, owner of Phantom Tattoo in downtown Centralia, touches butterfly tattoos on As part of the old school culture thing, had its own code. He said Angela Stolz. at Phantom Tattoo, walk-ins are welPhantom Tattoo is a culture and punk rock and skateboarding, rebelcome but appointments are encourpart of a family of shops centering 106B N. Tower Ave., Centralia lious 13-year-old kid, wanting to do around P.A. Stephens’ Seattle Tattoo aged. They do not accept appoint360.388.0633 something different, piss off his parments via text, messenger or email.

Emporium, the country’s longest Phantomcult.com You must walk into the shop or call to ents, the whole teenage rebellious continually operating tattoo shop. book some time. You must be at least thing,” he said.

Phantom Tattoo is its southernmost you go bald, you got to put someStolz said her motivation in getting thing fancy up there, right?” he said. location. Stephens is Lindseth’s busi- 18. And it is just tattoos, no piercings, with plenty of edge. tatts is an extension ness partner as well. “... If I have to have a skin jicama “It’s a tattoo shop. of her personal art. for the rest of my life I might as well “It’s a tattoo Lindseth said its rare these days shop,” Lindseth “Some people to find a real, legitimate tattoo shop decorate it.”

Tattoo shops should want said. “Tattoo shops art on their that has continuous roots.

Lindseth starts to ink Stoltz. She be in the gutter. should be in the gutbody, some people The family history of tattoo shops seems to relax, with a little pain want art that has in the Great Pacific Northwest started ter. I like it that way.” thrown in. This will last for about two I like it that way. significance on their He said with C.J.”Danny” Danzl and the hours.

PHANTOM TATTOO OWNER body, mine is a comhis website Seattle Tattoo Emporium in 1938.

“As you go up the back and kind bination of both,” she of down, and maybe each person is That history continues with Phantom phantomcult.com SEAN LINDSETH reflects ties to the said. “They kind of Tattoo, which opened in 2004. different, but the top will feel actually stand for something very personal.”

Before Centralia, he was working in past. pretty nice — almost a tickling sensa“Cult is just short for culture. You She’s also a bit private. You don’t Olympia where he helped open The tion. When you start rubbing and fillknow phantom tattoo, phantom tatsee tattoos running down her neck or ing the color in and touching where too’s culture, phantom cult,” he said. filling up her arms. you’ve been outlining before, it does “If I want to show them I can, “It’s just short, it’s slang, it’s a little bit kind of sting a little bit. The skin gets of a hot rodder throwback, a little bit that’s kind of the reason why they a little bit numb. It feels a little bit are where they are. … I’m not one of raw and as then you go down lower of old school.” those that want people to know a lot it’s almost like the nerves are stronger Lindseth has been inking since he was a teenager 35 years ago. He talk- about me,” she said. there and it does smart a little bit.”

Lindseth is the opposite. He has a ed to The Weekender while he was Stoltz will have plenty of opportiger tattoo with an hourglass framed tunity for more tattoos from her touching up butterfly tattoos on the by a set of wings and his father’s birth favorite shop. Lindseth isn’t going back of his friend Angela Stolz while Jethro Tull played in the background. and death dates on his balding head. anywhere.

He calls it a traditional style tattoo.

How did he get his start?

“After doing this for 35 years I ain’t “Well, that’s what happens when “It kind of went hand-in-hand with slowing down any and the stories just keep piling up. It’s been a lot of fun.”

The Weekender promised a return visit to Phantom Tattoo to further discuss true tattoo culture and its deep It will take Sean Lindseth about two hours to www.lewiscountyweekender.com history. re-ink three butterfly tattoos.

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‘Twin Peaks: The Return’

direct and co-write the entirety of In New York City there’s a guy Showtime’s Twin Peaks experiment — whose name I don’t think is ever the 18-episode run is being called a given and his job is watching an weird, funny and basically impossible limited series.

Brew Some Dark, Strong empty glass box in the concreteto review.

Coffee and Watch This The thing that struck walled loft of a towering high Two things I was wrong about me most is how relatively rise. He initially Classic Northwest-Based Film regarding Showtime’s revival of Twin cogent it was, with a notes that his preEditor’s Note: For The Coffee Peaks: First, when the show was clear emphasis on “reladecessor saw someIssue, The Weekender reached back announced and then when David tively.” It was accessibly thing in the box, but to the summer of 2017 for the return Lynch briefly pulled out of the project, scary, disturbing and he has not. of the creepy, quirky part two of I was vocally skeptical that a man who audaciously funny as Oh and in David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” televihad directed only four movies in the many of the best parts Buckhorn, South sion series. Along with a worship past 20 years (none in the last 10) was of the original Twin Dakota, a grotesque of coffee, much of the movie was going to somehow turn around and Peaks, and nowhere murder investigation filmed in the small towns of Central direct 18 hours of television in a year; near as hallucinatory quickly focuses on the Washington, specifically Snoqualmie, and second, as the premiere neared, and subtextually local principal (excellent North Bend and Fall City. As the skies I frequently joked that audiences distilled as the prenew addition Matthew darken and the cold and wet invades, expecting the David Lynch who broke quel film Fire Walk Lillard), who professes The Weekender suggests spending television when ABC birthed Twin With Me. innocence. As we know, an hour or two or 18 (it has 18 epiPeaks in 1990 were about to have Twin Peaks is in Twin Peaks, sometimes sodes) with “Twin Peaks: The Return.” their brains broken by a rude introa sensation that people do things they duction to the David Lynch of Inland engulfs you and don’t want to do and don’t Through its first two hours, David Empire. a journey you take, remember doing.

Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” is unsettling, Apparently Lynch really did not a list of events that happen.

That’s all I would tell you With a proper spoiler warning, what about Lynch and Mark Frost’s are the basic details I can provide? narrative if this were a traditional Well, Agent Cooper (Kyle review — and I don’t think it tells you MacLachlan) is in the Black Lodge, much or spoils much. www lewiscountyweekender com that red-draped room with the zigThere’s a reason so many of the zag floors that reminds me of the original Twin Peaks cast members Hitchcock/Dali collaboration in — so many of Lynch’s favorite movie Spellbound. It’s there performers, too — that Laura Palmer were actors with Dale Cooper: (Sheryl Lee) told “Harry, I’m going to let you recognizable credits Cooper that she’d in on a little secret. Every day, from years before. see him in 25 years Lynch grooves on once a day, give yourself a when Twin Peaks present. Don’t plan it. Don’t taking the familiar ended 25 years ago. wait for it. Just let it happen. and sanding it I’m not going to tell down, eroding It could be a new shirt at the you what Cooper is it, weathering it. lect men’s store, a catnap in your Lynch also wants Re-E doing there or if it’s office chair, or two cups of voluntary. us to marvel when good, hot black coffee.”

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