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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
THURSDAY, JAN. 24
Chris Guenther offers a solo performance starting at 6:30 p.m. at Sidelines, located at 313 NW Chehalis Ave. No cover. 21 and over.
FRIDAY, JAN. 25
KACS Radio Network (90.5 FM) is teaming up again with the Lewis County Ministry Network (LCMN) to sponsor the free, 7th Annual Mid-Winter Laugh All Night Family Comedy Concert, starting at 7 p.m. at Corbet Theater on the Centralia College Campus. This year’s comedian is Rik Roberts, heard on Laugh USA, Sirius XM, Blue Collar Radio and CMT.
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including a pop-up Prohibition bar, Roy Gardner silent film, and plenty more fascinating history during post-film property tours. In June 1921, newspapers across the nation were covering the crime spree of train robber Roy Gardner. On June 16 a local cop arrested Gardner in what is now McMenamins Olympic Club Hotel. The movie “Roy Gardner, the Smiling Bandit, plays at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Read a history handout and watch a 1930s silent film about the infamous train robber who was captured here at the Olympic Club.
SATURDAY, JAN. 26 McMenamins Olympic Club in downtown Centralia hosts its 111th birthday celebration all day. This is a free, all ages event. The Oly Club survived Prohibition and, almost 100 years later, they will celebrate with a birthday party
“Mexican Gunfight” plays at 7 p.m. A property tour will take place after each film showing. Comedian Bo Johnson will perform at Riverside Golf Club with doors opening at 6 and the show starting at 8 p.m. Johnson is a standup from Seattle and has appeared on season two of Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City on Comedy Central. Tickets are available on Brown Paper Tickets.
SUNDAY, JAN. 27
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FROM PAGE 2. . ........................... afternoons. The Sundowners play Western Swing music that is a danceable cross between country music and jazz. Sharyn Lee was the 2014 Academy of Western Artists Western Swing Female Artist of the Year. In 2017 her band The Sundowners was nominated by the Academy of Western Artists as the Best Western Swing Band. The band includes a steel guitar and fiddle in addition to guitars and a drummer. Swede Hall welcomes dancers of all ages. The Sunday Dances are from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. with an $8 donation. Snacks and beverages are available for purchase.
TUESDAY, JAN. 29
The Olympic Club History Pub at McMenamins in downtown Centralia presents “Inconceivable! Cop Captures Train Robber; Then Spends Decades Helping Him: The Story of Roy Gardner & Louie Sonney,” with doors open at 6 and the program starting at 7 p.m. Presented by historian Tim Hills, the event focuses on June 1921, when newspapers all over the nation were covering the crime spree of train robber Roy Gardner. On June 16, Louis Sonney, a Centralia cop, arrested Roy in what is now McMenamins Olympic Club Hotel. And that was just the start of a long, strange saga for the two who became unlikely friends.
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‘McFiler’s’ Takes Shot at Downtown Chehalis Bar Scene Katie Hayes
McFiler’s part owner Tim Filer shows off the new bar in Chehalis.
Like the Bar Scene? Greater Lewis County Offers More Than 30 Watering Holes
your best friends. “For years, I complained about working a dead-end job at the Hub,” said Tim Filer, one of McFiler’s three owners. “I hit 30 and was like, ‘man, I’m still doing the same thing I was doing 10 years ago.’ There was nowhere left to go. I was the manager at the Hub at the time, so I had pretty much hit the cap. I was looking down the barrel of the next 20 years.” Editor’s Note: This issue of the That’s when Eddie McNally, a longWeekender features bars from the time best friend, suggested the two Greater Lewis County area. We highlight begin putting away money to purfive bars, including the newest one on the chase their own bar. Filer, Eddie scene — McFiler’s in downtown Chehalis McNally and his brother Patrick McNally — and add a list of over 30 establishments. finally pulled the trigger last spring, and bought the building which once By Katie Hayes housed Rumors Bar & Grill. THE WEEKENDER Filer and Eddie McNally worked with their family and friends to completely McFiler’s, a new bar in downtown renovate the building over six months. Chehalis, stems from almost every bar- Patrick McNally, who lives in Texas and tender’s dream — opening a bar with works for SpaceX, designed the floor
and deck plans. “Neither one of us had been inside the building again in years,” said Filer of the first time he and Eddie McNally toured the building. “I would say it was probably three years from the last time I had actually stepped inside the building. … We came in and it was disheveled, and really dirty and it was pretty gnarly inside. It still had the carpet from the ‘70s on the floor.” Filer told Eddie McNally what he envisioned for their bar — moving the pool tables, bar and kitchen toward the back, opening up floor space in the front and building a stage. “He was like ‘okay, let’s do it,’” Filer said. Filer and Eddie McNally originally met at the Hub Bar & Grill on Filer’s 21st birthday. Filer was a few White Russians in. “I had like seven or eight of them on my 21st birthday,” Filer said. “(I) had just met Eddie and immediately clicked
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Roxy Cupp, owner of the Brown Shack Tavern in Salkum, places a cigarette into the mouth of a mounted deer.
with the guy. So we were just hanging out, and partying together, and I was like, ‘dude I think I’m going to be sick.’ … He helped carry me out to the ivy
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FROM PAGE 4........................ bushes and I proceeded to throw up in the ivy bushes outside. We have been best friends ever since then.” Less than a year later, the two started a band together. They tried two different local bands before moving onto an experimental electronica band called “Henry Rollins’ Neck.” “It wasn’t well received,” Filer said. “We played two shows,” Eddie McNally added. “People hated it.” Then, the two turned their sights toward opening their own bar. Filer said they started seriously considering the proposition about six or seven years ago. For the past four years, they have been ready for the opportunity. Eddie McNally owns a software development company in Portland and has never owned a bar. His answer was simple when asked why he wanted he became involved — “Because I like going to bars,” he said. “... Like, why not, right?” It was the first time either Filer or Eddie McNally had ever taken on a major renovation. Owning a property downtown and dealing with city per-
mits were new experiences for both of them. “We were kind of flying blind,” Filer said. “The ladies at the city planner’s office were — I mean they held our hand through all of it to an almost embarrassing extent. But they never got edgy, they never got weird about it. They were just like, ‘Okay, this is what you need to do next.’” The owners didn’t contract any of the work during the six-month renovation. “Me, my dad, my mother-in-law, Eddie — we did all of the interior demo and the rebuild all ourselves,” Filer said. The owners said the current food menu is tentative and will grow. Eddie McNally said McFiler’s mostly serves burgers and sandwiches at this time. Additionally, McFiler’s is compiling its craft cocktail list, which is set to include many prohibition-era drinks. The bar allows all ages until 11 p.m. “It’s not a pipe dream,” said Filer, when asked what he would tell other bartenders who want to start their own bar. “Get lucky and just don’t be afraid to make the leap.”
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Bo Gallardo, right, shoots pool at the Brown Shack Tavern in Salkum.
Brown Shack
After 99 Years, Brown Shack Remains a Salkum Hub
For 99 years, the Brown Shack Tavern has been a consistent gathering place for the colorful and thirsty folks of East Lewis County. Located just a stone’s throw to the north of U.S. Highway 12 in Salkum,
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Area Drinking Holes:
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Tim Campbell explains the different types of beer he brews at Jones Creek Brewery near Pe Ell.
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The absence of hard alcohol usually keeps the rabble rousers at bay though, and the regulars seem to enjoy the hassle-free atmosphere. “We actually have a pretty good day business here,” said Amanda Fry, who has tended bar at the Brown Shack for the past nine years. “Weekends are definitely busier though … we have karaoke, live music and everything.” Providing entertainment, in its many incarnations, has been a major focus for Cupp since she purchased the tavern in 2014. “I’ve just tried to liven the place up a bit,” she said. They have video bowling tournaments, and a 9-ball pool tournament as well as karaoke and live music. They recently added a full menu of food.
the Brown Shack is a hidden little gem preserved in a way that only a near century’s worth of tavern lacquer can muster. For starters, it is the only 21-andolder establishment in Lewis County that serves only beer and wine, while eschewing the temptations of hard liquor. “It’s always been a tavern since 1920,” said Roxy Cupp, owner of the Brown Shack Tavern. As the years have passed, more and more old-time taverns turned to full liquor service saloons and bars. “It’s kind of nostalgic and it keeps the riff-raff away,” said Cupp. According to Cupp, the tavern typically draws an older, and often retired, crowd, although, “We bring in a lot of younger people on the weekends,” when there is live music. SEE PAGE 7...............................
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FROM PAGE 6 . . ....................... The music is typically “old country,” with some rockabilly and bluegrass. “I love bluegrass!” said Cupp, who added that she’s also put more food options on the menu and a wider array of beers in the cooler in order to keep the masses entertained. “Owning your own bar is a lot of work. You have to prove yourself,” said Cupp. Prior to purchasing the Brown Shack, Cupp had no experience tending bar, let alone owning one. “I just kind of heard through the grapevine that it was for sale, so I bought it,” explained Cupp. She added, “I always had a great time every time I came here. I just love the people. They’re all so down to earth.” Unlike some small town watering holes though, strangers are welcomed at the Brown Shack. “I always tell my girls if you don’t know a person you better get to know them. Treat them like your regulars,” said Cupp. “That’s paid off already.” — Weekender reporter Jordan Nailon
Brooklyn Tavern
‘Snoose Creek’ Flows at the Historic Brooklyn Tavern
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Kayla DeLoe, of Olympia, uses her cellphone to take a photo of a dollar bill that she stapled to the ceiling of the Brooklyn Tavern near Cosmopolis.
Joe’s Place Judy and Robert Wall Are the Fifth Generation to Run Popular Business
One-hundred-twenty years ago, Joe’s Place became the watering hole for a one-horse town. Today, much has changed — customers talk on their cellphones in the neon-lit bar, a DJ rolls his gear in a few times each week — but more has stayed the same. Joe’s is still the Bucoda hangout; the original wooden bar remains. Judy and Robert Wall are the fifth generation to run Joe’s, which has been family owned since 1898. That family history, the timeline of Joe’s Place, hangs on the walls.
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The historic Brooklyn Tavern, a landmark of Western Washington’s backroad culture, has an owner who is committed to preserving the age-old traditions of the out-of-the-way watering hole. Larry Viguerie, Oakville, completed his purchase of the Brooklyn Tavern in 2016 and he has been busy rounding the place into shape since then. “When I took it over the grass was cow high. We just about had to get a hay harvester in here to cut it down,” said Viguerie. Viguerie retired from the lumber industry “I don’t like to golf so much. I’m tired of fishing and I don’t hunt anymore, so this is what I want to do. I enjoy keeping it up,” explained Viguerie. “I didn’t even tell my wife
I was buying it because she would have tried to talk me out of it, but I needed a real reason to get up in the morning and now I’ve got it. I’m just happier than heck.” Viguerie first came to the Brooklyn Tavern years ago when his friends told him it was a fun place to go. Right off the bat he enjoyed the crowd and thought the logging paraphernalia decor provided a unique atmosphere. That feeling didn’t budge over the years and subsequent beers, so when he heard the tavern might close he felt uniquely inclined to act. The former owners, Warren and Ciara Brough, had been in charge since 2013. “I was trying to keep the tavern from closing. I knew it was getting close to closing and the main goal was to keep it open,” said Viguerie, who lamented nearby watering holes that have closed in recent years, including “the Porter Tavern, the tavern in Oakville and The Red Barn.” He repaired the tavern’s signature feature, which is a free-flowing spitoon at the bar known affectionately as Snoose Creek. It is a unique feature the tavern shares in common with The Brick in Roslyn, of so much “Northern Exposure” fame. — Weekender reporter Jordan Nailon
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FROM PAGE 7. . ....................... The decor commemorates the bar’s founder, who died behind the bar and was laid out on a nearby couch. A prison roster chronicles the names — and crimes — of many of the original local residents. And photos memorialize the many iterations of the bar, including the current building’s wooden predecessor, which burned to the ground during a 1930 fire that destroyed the block (per regulation, the building is now concrete). Judy and Robert never were sure they wanted to step into the family tradition. But when Robert’s mother died eight years ago, she left them the bar — and they took the helm. Judy is glad they did. “There’s a lot of history here, a lot of old friends,” she said. “We just go from day to day, and we’ve managed to keep going.” Joe’s Place still has loyal customers. Most of the steam plant mine workers who used to go to Bucoda to cash their checks or get a bite have
moved away, but many come back to visit the bar. “They’re maybe from Wyoming or Montana, and they make a trip over here,” Judy said. “They have to stop to see if we’re still here.” — Weekender reporter Lisa Broadt
Jones Creek Brewery Pe Ell Brewery Offers Its Own Beers On Tap
Jones Creek Brewing owners Tim and Mirinda Moriarty opened the brewery, located just outside of Pe Ell in November 2017. Tim Moriarty said his parents bought the property in 2011, and that same year bought him a home brewing kit. “It spiraled out of control really fast,” he joked. In 2014, the Moriartys moved to Lewis County. “They said ‘we will fund the brewery if you build it,’” Tim Moriarty said.
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Judy Wall, the owner of Joe’s Place in Bucoda, stands behind the bar. Judy has worked at the tavern on Main Street in Bucoda for over 40 years.
“So we decided we are taking this guest cider. The brewery is located in the crazy adventure and will see how it Willapa Hills, 1.5 miles north of Pe Ell goes.” Jones Creek Brewing keeps eight at 173 Beam Road. — Weekender reporter Katie Hayes of its own beers on tap, as well as a
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Triggering Vinyl Nostalgia
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Inside Centralia’s own Rockstar Records
By Will Rubin
THE WEEKENDER
Olympia resident Todd Carlson has been a collector for as long as he can remember. From collecting bottle caps on camping trips as a kid to scouring estate and garage sales for anything related to the hair metal bands of the 1980s, he’s made it his life’s mission to amass a stash of memorabilia that, to him, never goes out of style. Carlson took a step towards making his hobby into his life’s work when he opened Rockstar Records in June. His outpost in the back of the Ayala Brothers building at 305 N. Tower Ave. in downtown Centralia is stacked with records ranging from a decade’s worth of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to Stan the Man’s Hit Record, featuring hitting instructions from baseball legend Stan Musial. Customers can also purchase items such as CDs, DVDs and entertainment industry collectibles within the Rockstar Records storefront. Carlson also deals in sports and beer memorabilia such as jerseys and neon signs, but nothing gets his motor spinning like a vinyl record. “The way music is right now, it’s all singles,” Carlson said. “You put a song on a playlist and it’s all you listen to. Over time, I’ve learned if I buy an album, there’s always going to be a song on there I didn’t know I’d like and I was happy I found that song. When you buy one song for 99 cents on iTunes, you don’t get that same experience.” Music has always been a component of Carlson’s daily life. He can recall his father playing records by the Beach Boys and Kenny Rogers at home and using a portable cassette player when he rode in the backseat of the family car. These days, his personal catalog consists mainly of classic rock from the 1960s through the 1980s. Bands like Def Leppard, The Scorpions and Van Halen
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Todd Carlson opened Rockstar Records inside the Ayala Brothers building at 305 N. Tower Ave. in downtown Centralia.
get a lot of play when he drops in to check on his merchandise and restock the shelves. As his collection grew and he started becoming more involved in hobbyist events and trade shows, Carlson started looking for a location to base his side hustle. “I used to come down to Centralia to walk through the shops,” he said. “Centralia has a reputation of having great antique and collection stores, and there aren’t a lot of record stores down in the South Sound area around here, so I thought I’d give it a shot.” For the time being, Carlson fits his music and memorabilia business around his day job working for Pierce County. His schedule consists of either three or four 12-hour shifts per week, giving him enough flexibility to pursue his other interests. The long-term goal is for Rockstar Records to be successful enough to support Carlson and his family once he retires from Pierce County. The timeframe for that to happen depends largely on how quickly and sustainably he can grow his business.
The interior of Rockstar Records features vinyl records.
More than the financial aspect of wheeling and dealing, Carlson says it’s the human side of the industry that gives him the most satisfaction. His oldest son has taken an interest in the business and recently helped him haul 32 boxes of records they bought out of someone’s basement into storage. Carlson’s younger children enjoy helping their dad sift through new boxes of merchandise, always in search of a dia-
mond in the rough. “You hear stories about the first album someone bought or how when they were moving and lost a collection of records that meant a lot to them,” Carlson said. “Then of course, finding those records where it’s a real gem for someone is always exciting. The experiences these people had with bands, that’s what makes it fun. It’s like triggering someone’s nostalgia.”
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Paperback Picks
Books by Dave Eggers, Ursula K. Le Guin and More Among New Half-Dozen Highlights Are a Collection of Blog Posts by a Beloved Science-Fiction Author and a ‘Page-Turning Mash-Up of Genres’ SEATTLE TIMES ARTS CRITIC
reviewer, “and I felt a closed circuit humming between the book and me as I read.”
Was one of your New Year’s resolutions to get more reading done? Here are some new paperbacks that can help you.
“The Monk of Mokha” by Dave Eggers (Knopf, $16.95).
By Moira Macdonald
“The Power” by Naomi Alderman (Little, Brown, $16.99).
Alderman, whose debut novel “Disobedience” became a film last year, won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for this feminist sciencefiction novel, in which women in the future learn that they have the power to unleash lethal electrical current. “Alderman’s prose is immersive and, well, electric,” wrote a New York Times
This nonfiction work from the author of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” tells the story of coffee entrepreneur Mokhtar Alkhanshali, who started a business to import beans from his family’s native Yemen. Seattle Times reviewer Barbara Lloyd McMichael called the book “riveting” and described it as a “page-turning mash-up of genres — coming-of-age, business how-to (and in some cases, how-not-to), and international political thriller.”
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“Everything Here Is Beautiful” by Mira Lee (Penguin, $16).
Lee’s debut novel is the story of two sisters, the daughters of a hardworking Chinese immigrant, facing mental illness in their family. Seattle Times reviewer Ellen Emry Heltzel wrote that while the book is about the bond between the sisters, “its real achievement goes beyond that relationship and depicts the way mental illness shapes family dynamics no matter how that bond is formed.”
“Macbeth” by Jo Nesbø (Penguin Random House, $16).
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Nesbø, the Scandinavian crime novelist acclaimed for his Harry Hole novels (“The Snowman,” “The Leopard” and many more), was among the modern novelists approached by the Hogarth Shakespeare project to re-create a classic play as contemporary fiction. Turns out he was, wrote The Guardian, an inspired choice: “the bloody tragedy of political ambition translates well to a corrupt police department in a lawless town, where the cops are just one more armed gang.”
“No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters” by Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $14.99).
Published just after the beloved science-fiction author’s death in January 2018, this collection — culled from blog posts — examined what was important to her, late in her life. Though LeGuin called her blogging “trivially personal,” a New York Times reviewer commented that “the trivially personal is a chief pleasure of this collection, which uses its firm footing in the concrete world to ponder an eclectic array of topics. The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them.”
“The Girls in the Picture” by Melanie Benjamin (Bantam Books, $17).
Benjamin, author of “The Aviator’s Wife” and “The Swans of Fifth Avenue,” begins her latest novel in 1914 Hollywood, where young Frances Marion — soon to become a great screenwriter — has her first encounter with young Mary Pickford. Kirkus Reviews described the book as “a smart, fond backward glance at two trailblazers from an era when being the only woman in the room was not only the norm, but revolutionary.” Moira Macdonald: mmacdonald@ seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @moiraverse.
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Reporter Among Winners of 2019 Pacific Northwest Book Awards By Moira Macdonald
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Former Seattle Times reporter Ken Armstrong is among the winners of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association’s annual awards. The PNBA, a nonprofit trade association that supports independent bookstores, literacy and free speech in the region (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia), has given out annual awards to authors residing in the region since 1965.
Here are this year’s winners, chosen by a committee of independent booksellers from more than 400 books published last year.
by Thor Hanson (Friday Harbor).
Hanson — an author, biologist and Guggenheim Fellow — takes readers back 125 million years, to when wasps first began.
“A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America“ by Ken Armstrong “Blood Water Paint” by Joy McCullough (Seattle). (Seattle) and T. Christian Miller. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning story in Pro Publica, this nonfiction book examines a case of a serial rapist and a victim who initially wasn’t believed.
McCullough’s novel is based on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, a rare female artist in 17th-century Rome.
“Rising Out of Hatred: The “Washington Black” Awakening of a Former White by Esi Edugyan (Victoria, B.C.). Nationalist” by Eli Saslow Edugyan’s third novel, (Portland). winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for best Canadian fiction, is the story of a boy who escapes an 1830s Barbados slave plantation.
“Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees”
Saslow examines the life of Derek Black, onetime heir apparent to the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan.
“Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten” by Laura Veirs (Portland).
Veirs, a musician herself, makes
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Former Seattle Times writer Ken Armstrong was among the winners of a Pacific Northwest Book Award for “A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America”, written with T. Christian Miller.
her fiction debut with this picture book (illustrated by Tatiana Fazlalizadeh) about the folk singer and guitarist, best known for “Freight Train.” Moira Macdonald: mmacdonald@ seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @ moiraverse.
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Northwest Wine
Peet, who graduated from Walla Walla Community College’s Institute for Enology and Viticulture in 2008, earned best of class for the Cellardoor Winery 2017 Riesling and Cellardoor Winery 2017 Chenin Blanc. His work also was awarded an impressive trio of unaniNorthwest Shines Again in mous double gold medals for his 2015 Nation’s Largest Judging Pinot Noir, 2017 Syrah and 2017 The Buoy Red Blend. There were five gold By Andy Purdue medals, too. And Eric Degerman Peet’s winemaking amassed 10 gold GREAT NORTHWEST WINE medals for the Maine winery, and he relied on Washington grapes for most CLOVERDALE, CALIFORNIA — The of his awards. 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Two months ago, College Cellars Competition generated more critical went back-to-back at the Tri-Cities acclaim for the Pacific Northwest, and Wine Festival, earning best of show much of it stems from College Cellars at both the 2018 and 2017 compeof Walla Walla and alumni of the comtitions in the Columbia Valley city munity college’s vaunted winemaking of Kennewick. Instructors and their program. students turned the 2016 Cockburn The judging took place two weeks Vineyard Syrah into a best-of-class winago in this town in northern Sonoma ner in Sonoma, while the 2016 Seven County. Hills Vineyard Sangiovese earned Leading the Northwest highlights at a double gold and the 2016 Merlot the largest wine competition in North picked up a gold. (That same Syrah America was Aaron Peet, winemaker for received a double gold and BOC Cellardoor Winery in Lincolnville, Maine. acclaim in Cloverdale.) The V&E program spearheaded at the two-year school by Walla Walla Vintners co-founder Myles Anderson proved its mettle throughout the fourday judging on the Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds. More than two dozen gold medals were earned by wines bottled at College Cellars or by its graduates. This year, the San Francisco Chronicle recruited 64 judges from across the country to judge 6,835
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Coco Umiker of Clearwater Canyon Cellars in the Lewis-Clark Valley has earned 12 career Platinum Awards from Wine Press Northwest magazine — more than any female winemaker in the Pacific Northwest.
entries, which included Canada and Mexico for the first time. Eyebrows were raised when the sweepstakes award for best sparkling wine led to a tie between the Goose Watch Winery Brut Rosé from New York’s Finger Lakes region and the Trump Winery 2014 Monticello Blanc de Blanc out of Virginia. While no Pacific Northwest wine received a 2019 sweepstakes award, Washington, Oregon and Idaho combined for 18 best-of-class awards, 53 double golds and 137 gold medals. A year ago, Barnard Griffin Winery in Richland, used its 2017 Rosé of Sangiovese to capture the Chronicle sweepstakes for a record sixth time. This week, a panel of judges in Sonoma County deemed Rob Griffin’s fresh 2018 vintage just as delicious, awarding it a unanimous double gold.
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Students and graduates from Walla Walla Community College’s Institute of Enology and Viticulture produce some of the top wines in the country, according to the 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, which is the largest wine judging in the nation.
It marked the 13th time in 14 years that Barnard Griffin’s pink has merited a gold medal or better at the nation’s largest wine judging. A bottle retails for $14 and is scheduled to be released at the Richland winery on Valentine’s Day. Idaho producers were paced by Coco Umiker of Clearwater Canyon Cellars in Lewiston, who earned a double gold for her 2016 Malbec and golds for her 2016 Merlot, 2016 Renaissance Red and 2016 Coco’s Reserve Blend No. 5. In total, the Gem State combined for 15 gold medals, doubling its total from the previous year as part of the Idaho Wine Commission’s Going Beyond Gold program seeded by results from the Idaho Wine Competition. Gregg Alger’s work under his Huston Vineyards brand led to best-of-class recognition for his 2017 Chicken Dinner White, a double gold for his 2017 Chicken Dinner Rosé and a gold for his 2016 Malbec from the Snake River Valley. Indian Creek near Boise, founded by the late Bill Stowe, won three gold medals – all for red wines crafted with Snake River Valley fruit by son-in-law Mike McClure. Greg Koenig of Koenig Vineyards also produced three gold medals, two with Riesling for Bitner Vineyards and a Syrah for neighboring Williamson Vineyards. Andy Perdue and Eric Degerman operate Great Northwest Wine, an award-winning media company. Learn more about wine at greatnorthwestwine.com
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Breweries Are Blending Beer and Cannabis Breweries Like Coalition Brewing and Lagunitas Are Experimenting With CDB and THC Infusions
By Joshua M. Bernstein
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Villa announced the creation of Ceria Beverages, a company in Arvada, Colorado, that will make nonalcoholic craft beers infused with small doses of THC. The first, a Belgian-style white ale called Grainwave, went on sale in Colorado dispensaries in mid-December, with 5 milligrams of THC (a standard amount for edibles like gummies) per 10-ounce bottle. “People should be able to drink our beers and experience the onset in about eight or nine minutes, which is similar to alcohol,” Villa said. The goal is enjoyment, not inebriation. “You can easily have a couple of bottles while watching the Yankees game.” Beer makers have also been wooed by cannabidiol, or CBD, the nonintoxicating cannabis byproduct that has become a darling of the wellness industry, billed as a remedy for pain, anxiety, acne and depression. An early and prominent proponent of CBD-infused beer is Coalition Brewing, of Portland, Oregon. In 2016, the brewery released the bitter, citrusy Two Flowers IPA, containing hemp juice and 4 milligrams of CBD per 12-ounce serving. (It removed the hemp juice after federal rules changed.) The company said it was eager to explore the biological similarities between hops and cannabis, and highlight their crossover aromatics and flavors. “We did not want to make a gimmick beer,” said Phil Boyle, the general manager and an owner. “We wanted to make a beer that could stand by itself, irrespective if it had CBD or not.”
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For more than two decades, SweetWater Brewing Co.’s best seller has been its floral 420 Extra Pale Ale, the numerals slyly nodding to the beer’s April 20 birth date and the brewery’s fondness for marijuana: 420 is drug-subculture slang for cannabis. “We’ve had to hide these things,” said Freddy Bensch, who helped found the Atlanta brewery in 1997. In June, SweetWater removed the cloak by releasing 420 Strain G13 IPA. It mimics the dank pungency of the G13 variety of marijuana — minus the high — by blending hops, hemp flavor and terpenes, organic compounds that are responsible for the distinctive fragrances of plant products from oranges to pine trees to, yes, cannabis. “There’s nothing better than watching a consumer pop a G13 cap, put it to his nose, take that first smell and see his eyes light up,” Bensch said. Within two months, G13 became SweetWater’s second-best-selling draft beer available year-round. As state regulations on marijuana have relaxed and recreational use has become legal in several places (most recently Michigan and Canada), breweries have been looking for ways to use cannabis or its derivatives in beverages. The players range from conglomerates like the Corona importer Constellation Brands, which has invested $4 billion in the Canadian marijuana producer Canopy Growth, to small craft brewers. “It’s not that often that you see an area that’s so wide open,” said Gerry Khermouch, editor of Beverage Business Insights. This fast-moving quest for a potential windfall is also a confusing one, because laws and enforcement can conflict and change. Federal law forbids mixtures of alcohol and THC,
marijuana’s psychoactive component; sparkling water infused with THC and brewers are trying to get around that packaged in 12-ounce bottles. by putting THC into nonalcoholic drinks, Hi-Fi Hops comes in several differand infusing alcoholic beers with other ent strengths and is sold only in marijuana dispensaries, where cannabis cannabis byproducts. Breweries say they are willing to leap drinks accounted for $58 million in over legal hurdles, in part, because nationwide sales last year, according cannabis and its associated com- to the firms Arcview Market Research pounds can deliver novel aromas, fla- and BDS Analytics. That may seem vors and experiences. This allows beers minuscule compared with overall U.S. to differentibeer sales ate them— $111 bilselves in a lion last year, crowded according to market. “It’s the Brewers like a whole Association new world — b u t of hops has Magee is opened up,” playing the Bensch said. long game. That world “There’s a is rooted in generational a familiar change haprelationship: Leah Overstreet/The New York Times pening that’s taking the M a r i j u a n a Terpene blend samples at SweetWater Brewing Company handcuffs off a n d h o p s in Atlanta, Oct. 27, 2018. marijuana,” — the flowers that impart bitterness, aroma and said Magee, who envisions a future in flavor to beer — both belong to the which beer and marijuana are sold on Cannabaceae plant family. Many vari- a level playing field. “I think THC bevereties of marijuana and hops share aro- ages will be competitors for beer.” matic signatures, from citrusy to resinThat may require transforming ous. Americans’ attitudes toward marijua“Craft brewing and marijuana have na. “Right now, there isn’t a socially always been very closely connect- acceptable way to consume cannabis ed,” said Tony Magee, founder and with friends and family,” said Keith Villa, chairman of Lagunitas Brewing Co., in who retired this year from MillerCoors, Petaluma, California. “There’s some- where, as head brewmaster, he crething about craft brewing that’s essen- ated the influential Blue Moon Belgian tially part of the counterculture.” White. Lagunitas, founded in 1993, has He hopes to change that. In March, long championed cannabis. It calls its experimental beers the One Hitter Series, referring to a small marijuana pipe. Its copper ale was renamed Censored in 2002 after the federal government banned a proposed label for Kronik, a variation on a cannabis nickname. Since California legalized recreational use of marijuana last January, Lagunitas (now owned by Heineken) has entered the cannabis marketplace with Hi-Fi Hops, a collaboration between the brewery and cannabisextract manufacturer CannaCraft. Released in July, the drink is a hopped
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movie review
‘Glass’: M. Night Shyamalan Pieces Together Effective Creepshow It’s a Doom-Soaked Enterprise Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis
are locked up together in a spooky madhouse. Result? Audience nerves are rubbed raw as Shyamalan marshals persistent, ominous music and oppressive close-ups of his players’ expressive — troubled and troubling — faces to build a mood of extreme By Soren Andersen disquiet. SPECIAL TO THE SEATTLE TIMES As is customary with this filmmaker’s movies, there’s a long, slow buildup to M. Night Shyamalan has crafted a a jolting climax that contains a tradevery effective creepshow with “Glass,” mark Shyamalan plot twist. We didn’t a shotgun marriage of his 2000 horror see that one coming, did we? Aw, hit “Unbreakable” and 2016’s “Split,” come on. It’s a Shyamalan picture. Of an even bigger blockcourse we did. buster. ★★½ “Glass,” with James The movie doesn’t It’s a doom-soaked McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. really kick into gear Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah enterprise in which until past the halfway Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark. “Unbreakable” stars mark when Jackson’s Written and directed by M. Night Samuel L. Jackson character, a physiShyamalan. 129 minutes. Rated and Bruce Willis are cally fragile (his bones PG-13 for violence including some teamed up with are brittle and highly bloody images, thematic elements, James McAvoy, the breakable) murderand language. man of 23 — no, ous criminal mastermake that 24; there’s a supernatural mind awakens from a drug-induced flesh-eating Beast in there — separate coma and incites McAvoy’s character characters. to unleash his inner Beast. With teeth A mass murderer, a cannibal monbared, muscles bulging and neck tenster and a reluctant, unlikely superhero dons looking like they’re ready to snap,
‘Eighth Grade,’ ‘The Old Man & the Gun,’ ‘Halloween’ Sequel By Sean Axmaker
SPECIAL TO THE SEATTLE TIMES
Here’s what’s new on Video on Demand, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other services.
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Elsie Fisher delivers a heartbreakingly vulnerable performance as an awkward, introverted teenage girl enduring the final week of “Eighth Grade” (2018, R) in the sensitive comic drama from comedian Bo Burham. Be warned that it’s R-rated. Now
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In “Glass,” a mass murderer (Samuel L. Jackson, left), a cannibal monster (James McAvoy, center) and an unlikely superhero (Bruce Willis) are locked up in a spooky madhouse. Sarah Paulson, playing a psychiatrist, is at right.
Mr. Beast wreaks unholy havoc while Willis’ workingman superhero (his day job is owning a store selling security devices) strains to limit the carnage. Until that point, it almost seems like Willis’ character, David Dunn, is himself in a coma, reduced to playing a marginalized blank while Shyamalan turns McAvoy loose to hog the screen. Via Jackson’s character Elijah Price, aka Mr. Glass (Get it? Breakable), a self-proclaimed comic-book expert, and Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson), the madhouse’s top psychiatrist, Shyamalan turns the picture into a disquisition on comic books and their role in society. Price argues that comic books show that people can maximize their latent inner potential and
become superheroes. Staple says she’s made it her life’s work to cure comicbook fanatics of what she views as their delusion. She’s confined Kevin, Elijah and David for the purpose of curing them whether they like it or not. Predictably, this leads to problems. Unleash the Beast! And with that unleashing comes unanticipated doom. Soren Andersen: asoren7575@yahoo. com. Soren Andersen has been writing about movies since he was in high school, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. He has written for papers in Southern California and Washington, and was the staff critic at the News Tribune in Tacoma for 25 years.
Now streaming streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Robert Redford brings his easy charm to the role of a gentleman bank robber in “The Old Man & the Gun” (2018, PG-13), a strangely sweet and affectionate low-key drama co-starring Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck. Also on DVD and at Redbox. Streaming TV: Netflix presents new seasons of “Grace and Frankie,” starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and “The Punisher” with Jon Bernthal. Amazon Prime premieres the third season of the gearhead series “The Grand Tour.” True stories: Two new documentaries explore the infamous music-festivalfiasco Fyre Festival. Netflix presents “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” (2019, not rated) and Hulu offers “Fyre Fraud” (2019, not rated).
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action thriller “Close” (2019, not rated) with Noomi Rapace; end-of-the-world sci-fi drama “IO” (2019, not rated) David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” with Anthony Mackie; and Golden (2018, R) is not a remake but a sequel Globe-nominated “Girl” (Belgium, to the original 1978 horror classic with 2018, R, with subtitles). returning star Jamie Lee Curtis. Also Streaming TV: Rapper and activon DVD and at Redbox. ist Killer Mike hosts “Trigger Warning Also new: light British drama “The with Killer Mike.” “Carmen Sandiego: Bookshop” (2018, PG), starring Emily Season 1” revives the ’90s kids show. Mortimer and Bill Nighy, and kidfriendly horror film “Goosebumps 2: Amazon Prime Video Haunted Halloween” (2018, PG). Documentary filmmaker Michael
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Mark Wahlberg is “The Fighter” (2010, R) in the based-on-a-true-story underdog boxing drama that earned Oscars for supporting actors Melissa Leo and Christian Bale. New Netflix Original movies include
Moore takes on the Trump presidency in “Fahrenheit 11/9” (2018, R).
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Streaming TV: The British drama “Butterfly: Season 1” stars Anna Friel as the mother of an 11-year-old boy who identifies as a girl.
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