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Congratulations to the following Airmen who graduated Julius A. Kolb Airman Leadership School March 22 at McChord Field. The class included Senior Airman Cole Bertolozzi, Senior Airman Richard Borgen, Staff Sgt. Joshua Boylan, Senior Airman Derek Burzloff, Senior Airman Alexander Carbon, Staff Sgt. Orial Christopher, Staff Sgt. Allison Cismowski, Senior Airman Stephen Cooper,
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A majority of those working and living on McChord Field don't know exactly what the Retire Activities Office's mission is. Dayle Pieper, the RAO's Volunteer of the Year, wants desperately to help change that. After retiring as a major from the Air Force two years ago, Pieper moved back to her native
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Staff Sgt. Michelle Fedrick wasn't sure what to think when her best friend sent her a text message congratulating her on winning an Air Force award. "I didn't even believe it was real," Fedrick said with a laugh. She saw a post on Facebook confirming the news, but she still wasn't sold.
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Wracked by injuries midway through the regular season, it was a huge achievement for the 627th Logistics Readiness Squadron's intramural basketball team to even get to the postseason. A stellar run to the McChord Field intramural championship was the icing on the cake. The long list of benchmarks softened the blow a
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Campy, sarcastic, and sleazy, the Supersuckers offer a mix of rockabilly flavored garage rock. With sex, drugs and Satan as its mantras, the band's lyrics are an uproarious celebration of all of the wickedness habitually associated with rock ‘n' roll - namely sex, drugs and Satan. Motorhead's Lemmy once said, "If
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If you think sidewalk chalk is only good for hopscotch, you've got another think coming. Tomorrow, thousands of South Sound artists will descend upon Frost Park in downtown Tacoma at noon, turning its concrete into canvas for the opening of Frost Park Chalk Off Challenge Season 5ive at Ninth and
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You might think swinging and flipping over high bars and prancing on two-inch-wide beams are skills only Olympic athletes like Mary Lou Retton can pull off with any degree of grace. But the performers of the Jordan World Circus have mastered those gymnastic feats, and much more.
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Hip-hop is such a unique culture. The music, the street, the sound, the feel … The people. The people are remarkable, and I had the tremendous opportunity of meeting one of the giants in hip-hop and really an iconic hero whom I admire. Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries visited
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Hip-hop is such a unique culture. The music, the street, the sound, the feel … The people. The people are remarkable, and I had the tremendous opportunity of meeting one of the giants in hip-hop and really an iconic hero whom I admire. Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries visited
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Had the British Establishment injected the female hormone oestrogen into London-born mathematician Alan Turing during World War II, the brilliant man wouldn't have broke the German military's secret codes, the British Navy wouldn't have won the Battle of the Atlantic and Hitler might have kept the upper hand. Instead, Turing
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As esteemed musician/composer/social critic Frank Zappa noted in the late '60s, "Every town must have a place where phony hippies meet," and Tacoma is no exception. A diaspora of hippies - young and old, phony or otherwise - tell stories of days gone by at the North End Tavern. The
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Club hopping can be overrated, especially when the weather is a snarling blast of rain and wind that makes one think twice about even leaving the couch. Some nights we like to stake out a place at a club and hang out for a while, maybe have a meal, a
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Squeeze down the narrow dining room past and around the corner, and then run for a touchdown inside the massive bar. The sprawling lounge interior offers TVs for sports, plus two pool tables, ATM, a jukebox and country music when the juke idles. Blue-collar worker bees - some with the
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude. 8 pm. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All Ages. 9 pm. $5. City Hall Saloon
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You should go support your local budding artists. The students of Hilltop Artists have created glass objects based on the archaeological relics of a lost tribe of their own creation. We're curious if the Tempest Haggarty tribe will be represented. Wait. According to hype, "Each tribe has chosen its unique spirit animal and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Triangle District. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm. C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. James Coates. 7 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Justin Jude, Naomi Hooley. All Ages. 6 pm. Misner & Smith. All Ages. 8 pm. Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon.
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"I started to get really depressed and lacked the desire to do anything but sit around and play online to 'escape' the real world," he said. "I was having dreams of planes crashing, the smell of burnt flesh and rotting bodies. I still tried to push
