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Person: Johnny Andrews Age: 50 something Olympia's: Charitable celebrity Who serves: Thanksgiving dinner To: 400 Olympia citizens Cooks all the food: Himself Payed for: By himself Even delivers: To those who don't show up for dinner Why can't I celebrate Thanksgiving in April? People like to celebrate Christmas in July, so what's the difference? More than celebrating the actual
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Luke Temple has just released/engineered/produced an album under the moniker Here We Go Magic, a new project that far surpasses Temple's earlier indie folk rock efforts. After releasing "Snowbeast" in 2007, Temple caught the attention of Ben Gibbard and Sufjan Stevens, which perhaps inspired him to do something a little
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Luke Temple has just released/engineered/produced an album under the moniker Here We Go Magic, a new project that far surpasses Temple's earlier indie folk rock efforts. After releasing "Snowbeast" in 2007, Temple caught the attention of Ben Gibbard and Sufjan Stevens, which perhaps inspired him to do something a little
Stage
Tacoma Musical Playhouse sets sail with an all-male cast in a musical based on Kipling's Captains Courageous and the classic 1937 film of the same name. Music by Frederick Freyer; book and lyrics by Patrick Cook. Under the heading of Tacoma Children's Musical Theater, TMP produces a play suitable for
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Every month A-Hyp hosts the Hip-Hop is Alive showcases stacked with some of the best and most exclusive hip-hop in this beloved area code inside the new Harmon Tap Room Underground. Saturday - if your weed-hangover allows it- check out his second version featuring Leezy Soprano, The Sandlot, last month's
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It all goes back to history. Everything. Everything goes back to history. There is nothing but history. These words are becoming history as you read them. Even you, some day, will be history. Perhaps you will be a blip; perhaps you will be a chapter. Perhaps your name will become
News Articles
TRANSIT CENTER AT MANAS, Kyrgyzstan - C-17 Globemaster III crews begin their day not knowing where they'll be traveling or how long they'll be gone. It's a demanding job, but for 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron Detachment 1 Airmen, it's just another day at the office. In the past year, the 817th
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As someone who has been a member of the 446th Airlift Wing for 16 years, new vice commander Col. Richard Grayson knows exactly the kind of people who make up the wing. "It takes a special person (to be a Reservist)," he said. "It's a special wing, special people." Reservists must balance
Military Life
As part of a high school writing project, Senior Airman Daniel Henderson was asked to step into the role of a Civil War Soldier and write a letter to his wife back home describing the war effort and what he was going through on the front lines. Henderson - still a
Business News
Anxious to start a business venture in the growing micro brewing industry, head brewer Ken Thoburn didn't have to look far for inspiration for his brand. With a grandfather who painted various nose art designs on a variety of World War II airplanes, Thoburn fell in love with the 1930-40s era
Music
To paraphrase Paul Simon: If you took all the mosh pits you played to in tiny rock clubs and brought them all together for one night ... Title Fight is a band that's finding out just how that would feel. "We started when we were 12 years old," says Title Fight bassist
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Fulcrum Gallery has joined other area galleries in celebration of the 46th annual NCECA ceramic conference by presenting the show Creatures of Habit: Contemporary Ceramics - On the Edge with ceramic artists Heather Cornelius and Spencer Ebbinga. Each artist explores human and animal consciousness through the creation of anthropomorphized animals (or, in the
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I loved this play! Distracted at Olympia Little Theatre is one of those productions where, halfway through, I was thinking, "Please don't screw up the ending, ‘cause Act 1 was terrific." Then I was sorry it ended at all. It's that good. I don't mean it's without imperfections. Opening night, actors lost
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Mother. Daughter. Killer. Lover. Angel. Demon. Bette Midler. Assemblage Theater's debut presentation pulls away the walls that separate these disparate images, leaving behind the revelation that is Terminus. Mark O'Rowe knows there is darkness in the best of us, and profound decency in the worst. In his Terminus we bear witness
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Riding a wave of positive vibes, the Third Thursday ArtWalk ART BUS is back this month with more art venue stops. The April bus is partnering with the local poetry community to celebrate National Poetry Month. Its celebrity guest tour guides are poet laureates - Bus #1 tour guide is
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In every issue of this fine rag the Weekly Volcano's hack team of wannabe journalists tackles some of the most laughable criminal acts that have recently happened in our area. Then - if we're doing our job - we write about those crimes in a way that makes you chuckle,
