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Matt Driscoll's mom always regretted not taking him to see the Grateful Dead on the band's last tour stop in Seattle before Jerry died. What she wasn't banking on is Driscoll already dug American Beauty, and that was as far as any Dead preoccupation was going to take him. Sunday,
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What more do you really want out of a Saturday - and an excuse to drink? Not only is Tacoma's Doyle's, celebrating its fourth anniversary, but the 17th also marks another "St. Practice Day" - when alcoholics looking for a good excuse drink in excess in "preparation" for the coming
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Sgt. 1st Class Eric Richardson had a simple request for his family members back home who wanted to send him a Christmas gift last year: Do something good for Iraqi elementary school students instead. Richardson, a platoon sergeant from the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, asked his parents and family members
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Ever feel like walking into a room and watching people sing and dance? No? OK, how about walking into a room and watching people have sex? Better? What if you could walk into a dimly lit room and sit in a seat, watching love and hate and music and sex
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The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) offers students and soldiers the opportunity to serve in the Army. "Everyone's path is unique," said Capt. Travis Delker, the scholarship and enrollment officer for the ROTC program at the university. "There is a way to become an officer; you
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Sitting on a couch watching television and drinking coffee isn't how 86-year-old Ella Young wants to spend the final years of her life. She'd much rather spend her time making people smile. Young is able to do just that as a volunteer at the United Service Organization's McChord Center, where she's been
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The state's Emergency Management Division, (EMD), which is located on Camp Murray, is built to withstand earthquakes and other physical threats. The futuristic structure was built using the Friction Pendulum Seismic Isolation system, most notably used for the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, and allows the EMD building
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Thousands upon thousands of soldiers return to the South Puget Sound area beginning in May, and while many of them will be greeted by loved ones in gyms and units across the Joint Base, many, upward of 7,500 won't have family to welcome them home. Primarily single soldiers, these warriors come
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Oliver Doriss' Fulcrum Gallery has already distinctly set itself apart from other galleries in the Tac/Oly corridor. It has done so by doing what good art galleries do - take chances. Too many "art galleries" seem to be a front for Northwest landscape watercolor copycats whose only risk-taking involves staying
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Tonight Dark Time Sunshine (Onry Ozzborn and Zavala) celebrate the release of the group's highly anticipated sophomore album, Vessel, on Sake Four Records. The show will be your first chance to cop Vessel, featuring Aesop Rock, JFK, XP and more, as the record drops officially on April 20. Ozzborn (of
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Tacoma and Olympia have raised a healthy crop of hip-hop/entertainment artists - from Criminal Nation and Wojack to High Performance, Black Anger, Black Caesar, DJ Hawkskee, Donald Glaude, DJ Dan, Slo Poke aka SP, Jay Barz and too many more to name in this humble column. Adding to the relatively long
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There are two major grocery stores near my house, Top Food & Drug and Fred Meyer. Friends, neighbors and even I have very strong feelings about which store we prefer. I find this interesting. Not interesting enough to do any major funded studies, but enough to write about it. As you
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Fulcrum Gallery continues to mount shows that make old codgers like me realize how out of touch they are. Ed Matlock's new paintings at Fulcrum are from a series based on the Mexican game Loteria, sometimes referred to as Mexican bingo. I never heard of it. And I'm only
