Elleda Wilson

The Astoria Column's Centennial Celebration is coming up, and maritime writer Peter Marsh and his bicycle take the column's decade anniversaries seriously.

Remember when: The old rock song “ Louie Louie ,” released in was an enormous hit that took on a life of its own that went far beyond the young men who sang it.

The centennial celebration of the Astoria Column is on Saturday, but John Chitwood ‘s connection to Coxcomb Hill , where the column stands, precedes the monument.

Morsels from the The Daily Morning Astorian, July 16, 1887: • Few salmon in the river; too blamed cold. • These are the kind of mornings that the flies cling […]

A tidbit for Goonies fans: A behind-the-scenes tussle between Cyndi Lauper and Steven Spielberg recently came to light when she appeared on Julia Louis-Dreyfus' podcast, “ Wiser Than Me ,” while talking about the filming of the video for “ The Goonies ‘R' Good Enough ” in 1985. The incident was reported in People Magazine

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the

Check your drawers rerun: Got some lottery tickets tucked away somewhere you forgot to check? You'd better take a look at them before it's too late.

If the face looks familiar, that's probably because Daniel Valdez (aka

Astorian Heidi Brown , who is sailing in the year-long 10-vessel with

In the July 21, 1888 edition of The Daily Morning Astorian, the following letter appeared: “There has been so much said about the (sidewheeler) T.J. Potter and the (sternwheeler) Telephone […]