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Liberty Theatre in Astoria celebrates 100 years
On April 4, 1925, Astoria was emerging from a cloud of ash. Two and a half years earlier, ...
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Our Coast Magazine looks at relationships with the land
In Astoria, 1,200 miles of the Columbia River spill into the vast Pacific. From above, silver tributaries branch ...
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Alive in the Columbia River
“I believe everything has a soul,” the poet Mary Oliver writes in “Staying Alive,” an essay from the ...
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Making botanical art with seaweed
Seaweed, dried and pressed into lifelike shapes and muted green and yellow hues, covered a table at the ...
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An update on the Readers’ Choice Awards
As of this week, the readers will have chosen. The winners of Coast Weekend’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards ...
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Gyotaku fish printing with Duncan Berry
The octopus was a little thing, no bigger than the palm of my hand, as it lay on ...
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Keeping watch on Axial Seamount
Three hundred miles off the Oregon Coast, an underwater volcano is stirring. Scientists are predicting Axial Seamount, located ...
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An uncertain future for Oregon kelp forests
When Alanna Kieffer talks about seaweed, it’s with a sense of stewardship, a deep care for the Oregon ...
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Vote for the Readers’ Choice Awards in February
Over the past few weeks, Coast Weekend readers have sent in thousands of nominations for the best of ...
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Sunrise, sunset, ship in the river
The annual Coast Weekend Photo Contest issue is here, and with it what I called on the cover ...