Viva South Sound
Over the past week, without quite intending to do so, I spent perhaps too much time researching this article on day drinking. In short, my results: day drinking is like walking the sloppiest of tightropes, and it takes a deft hand and more than a little bit of intestinal fortitude
Food Matters
Thursday, April 8 Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday, April 9 Sip & Swirl wines and appetizers, 6 p.m., $75, El
Food Matters
SIP & SWIRL El Gaucho Tacoma hosts Sip & Swirl featuring award-winning wines and appetizers April 9 at 6 p.m. The cost is $75. Reserve your spot at 253.272.1510. LET'S GET FLAKEY Marlene's Market & Deli in Federal Way hosts a pie crust, biscuits and French pastries class Saturday, April 10 at its
Liquid
April showers bring May flowers, and by June, gardens are flourishing and ripe with the fruits of love and hard labor. And while green thumbs let out a collective sigh at the sight of their lush green plant babies, I've got one thing on the noggin': How will the lovely
Food Matters
SMOKE + CEDAR + OFFICIAL Friday, June 6, Smoke + Cedar (2013 South Cedar, Tacoma) will celebrate being in business all official like with a Tacoma Chanber ribbon cutting ceremony from 2-5 p.m. Attendees may partake in delectable appetizers and tasty refreshments as well as enter a gift card drawing. STONE
Show And Tell
We all have to make difficult decisions in life where it's not a matter of making the right choice so much as it's a matter of making the least horrible choice. Buy a new roof or repair the old one? Clean the basement or the attic? Little Caesars or DiGiorno? In
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Deep Creep is a band that unites at the populated intersection of the Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves, the Cave Singers and Cute Lepers. Deep Creep favor the stompy rock of the '70s, while also branching out into unique areas of their own devising. "Derek (Fudesco) and I were
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No Regerts, the recent (and hilariously titled) album from Chastity Belt, is a quietly brilliant and important document of feminism and sexual insight, disguised as remarkably surefooted indie rock. With lyrics that vacillate from the winking to the serious - though always trenchantly well-observed - Chastity Belt build solid, simple
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as
Style
Since 2000, Art Mindas has been living his childhood dream. He's been a barber, cutting hair and sharing stories. "This is what I've wanted to do all my life," Mindas said. "I love it. I really am living my dream." Growing up in a small town in Indiana, Mindas can still conjure up
Military Life
When someone talks about a thrift store, it can conjure up the old expression about one man's junk being another one's treasure and so on. But in reality, that is the truth. One man wandered into the JBLM-McChord Field thrift store to browse and wound up finding the spark plugs
Operation Family Support
Over the next six months, approximately 7,500 single soldiers will be returning home with the 3rd, 4th and 5th Stryker Brigades. Members of two organizations, the Air Force Sergeant's Association Auxiliary and Support America's Armed Forces, have teamed up and are preparing to welcome them home with a little something
Veterans
A retired Air Force officer has a retired Army officer to thank for his becoming politically involved. "I was sitting in a fireworks booth with retired Army Maj. Gen. John Hemphill when he told me I should run for a position on the school board," recalled Dick Muri."He said I had
Veterans
Four Air Force veterans gathered Saturday to reminisce about their careers as pilots at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. For more than an hour, they entertained an auditorium full of people. The panel discussion is one of several events that the American Fighter Aces Association hosts to preserve the
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Taking a smoke break with my co-worker in the alley behind the bar, we de-stressed from our shift and speculated the amount of tips we may have made. Just as we were about to go back in and finish our busy Olympia Arts Walk shift, we caught a sound barreling
Veterans
In recent months, Clover Park Technical College opened a Veterans Resource Center on its campus. The college decided to open the center to give veterans and their families a place to congregate, said Shawn Jennison, the director of marketing and communications at the school. "The center is a place for veterans to
Operation Family Support
"When you lose one life, you have to begin another life," said Norma Melo.For Melo, those words go a long way toward summing up how she views the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS. Melo's husband - Staff Sgt. Julian Melo - was one of six soldiers from the
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Matika Wilbur's "Project 562" is an ambitious and fascinating photographic study of Native American culture and an equally ambitious artistic project of which Tacoma Art Museum is fortunate to be able to present to the world the inaugural exhibition. Wilbur is a Native American with connections to the
Focus
With a congregation full of active and retired servicemembers every Sunday, Rev. Bonnie Chandler-Warren is no stranger to the challenges each family faces throughout a career in the armed forces. But that's not to say she can't use more avenues to better embrace and support her military parishioners. Chandler-Warren, who's been the
