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As a popular poet once noted, "Makin' your way / in the world today / takes everything you've got." Yes, it's back to the coal mines, tired already from late partying at the BroHo. You need something to soak up that beer, and an artist with mad
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You've been on the road for eight days of non-stop flying and the plane just broke down. Your crew is transporting wounded servicemembers from the war zone to receive medical treatment in a country nearby. Everyone is counting on you to fix the problem, your hands
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Select passenger terminals across Air Mobility Command are establishing Facebook pages to provide passengers more predictability when it comes to space-available and -required passengers. The overall goal of the AMC Space-A Facebook program is to use social media to expand knowledge about Space-A travel, while
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Still in high school when the conflict in Iraq began, two Reservists fulfilled their quest to serve their country, as that conflict ended. Senior Airmen Dylan Congrove and Marcello Yamaguchi, medical technicians with the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, just returned from serving four months in
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Confession: I typically approach physical activity with the intention of using it to kick my own butt. At the end of 2010 when I finished a month of boot camp at Elev8 Fitness, I had adopted the saying "If you don't feel like puking at the end, it wasn't a hard
Music
Nowadays Olympia rappers are a dime a dozen. Few have been here, and still remain, since the scene REALLY started popping off in the early 2000s. In the '90s we got an occasional Andre Nickatina or Digital Underground show, but when the new century came around promoters were ready to
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WAY BETTER THAN PHOTOS OF SNOW >>> It's late Friday evening - actually 1 a.m. Saturday - and Weekly Volcano photographer Steve Dunkelberger snaps shots of the 30-something crowd lined up outside the LAst Call Bar stretching down to the karate dojo in the Lakewood strip mall. Most of
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Nowadays Olympia rappers are a dime a dozen. Few have been here, and still remain, since the scene REALLY started popping off in the early 2000s. In the '90s we got an occasional Andre Nickatina or Digital Underground show, but when the new century came around promoters were
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Women's flat track roller derby in Tacoma is cruising on all cylinders as the Dockyard Derby Dames launch into their sixth season of hot roller derby action. This sport involves - roughly - a race between two teams on roller skates, during which a player scores points by
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So I was wondering what I was going to write my column about this week and was chatting with some actress friends of mine about the state of modern theater. They lamented about there not being a lot of great roles for woman that don't involve being a vixen, hooker,
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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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In cooperation with Tacoma's Downtown on the Go organization (which promotes environmentally-sound transportation alternatives that don't include you idling all alone in your Dodge Ram), Coalition for Active Transportation and the Transportation Choices Coalition, the University of Washington Tacoma will host a public health and transportation forum Friday from noon
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If the name is any indication, and we reckon it is, rain, hail, sleet or snow won't stop the No Sun Fun Run, organized by Pierce County Parks and Recreation and scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 21 in Puyallup. Yes, no matter how crappy the weather, the non-competitive 5K welcomes all
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. James Coates. 8 pm. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Rick Gonzalez Band. 7 pm. Cafe Luna Vashon. The Field Hands. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Spar Cafe Olympia. Trevor Ras. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Imperial Dragon Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. T. Bone & The Porterhouse Boys.
