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As part of the Weekly Volcano's new Nosh League, you can meet up with like-minded foodies at locally owned restaurants and businesses and take advantage of special discounts, win restaurant gift certificates, and learn tips from chefs and food producers. Nosh League events will take place on a regular basis
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When I am dead and gone, I hope to be incinerated and have my ashes scattered in a greenside bunker on whatever my favorite golf course is at the time. Then, whenever someone's ball lands in the bunker and he or she has to blast out of it, it's possible
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Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto literature shelves winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his masterful graphic novel, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - one of the hardest hitting graphic novels ever written. Spiegelman wrote Maus as a
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Backing a fully loaded military truck and trailer up a ramp and into the hold of an air force transport aircraft is much like pushing a rope uphill. Add the contrast of a glairing, cloudless day against a dark cavernous pit and even the most experienced driver would start to
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Does it make me kind of a prig if I need lyrics in my songs? I mean, I can understand, intellectually, that a song usually has no more or less meaning as a result of the words it contains, but come on. Give me the illusion of a story. Maybe
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While Tacoma is my homey, Gig Harbor will always have a place in my heart. If I didn't live in T-town, I'm pretty sure I would live across the bridge somewhere. I did occupy The Harbor once upon a time, and worked in Tacoma. There was something very special about
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Pound for pound, 2nd Lt. Giovanna Camacho, a female boxer stationed with the 2-3 Infantry Patriots, 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, is not just intelligent but also a petite, pocket, powerhouse in the ring. So much fury packed into her 106 pounds is difficult to
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Before he puts on his Air Force uniform, every morning from about 5:30 to 7 Tech. Sgt. Llewyn McFarlane makes some time for himself. No shoptalk or socializing, just him, the weight bench and the barbells. "It's my drug," he said of his time at the base gym. "If I don't get
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Some people might think that merging two installations that house two different branches of the military, might be like an American citizen being told to speak Spanish without instruction. When the base transition process began, members of the transition team thought that the differences in terminology would be a huge mountain
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"Can a fish swim in space?" is the question that started 1st Lt. Eleanor "Ellie" Morgan on the path to becoming a pilot. As a third-grader, in 1993, her class held a contest that would allow the person who came up with the best question to speak to shuttle commander Ken
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[SAMPLEDELIA] + FRI, AUG. 8 The duo of Francisco y Madero is comprised of two dudes who met through MySpace and collaborated from hundreds of miles apart - Jesse Sylvester in San Francisco and Carlos Pesina in Guadalajara, Mexico. Despite the piecemeal approach they had to forming their band, their music
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(62nd AW PA) - Seven C-17 Globemaster III aircraft flew a local area flight formation May 12. The flight was part of a joint requirement to execute Army forcible entry operations by airdropping an entire brigade on short notice. "Basically, the mission today is to qualify the loadmasters so they would be
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"I think, for military, finding child care is always a little bit harder. We are frequently in a new place with no family or friends nearby and often facing a deployment. It becomes more challenging," explained Tahara Norton, a military spouse from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. It is Norton's own experience
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One of the fastest growing sports in the world, Ultimate Frisbee is played in more than 42 countries by hundreds of thousands of people, according to the Ultimate Player's Association. To play, seven players line up at the end zones at either end of a rectangular field. Next, one team throws
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Greg Reger turned on a computer, put on some headphones, and then sat on a chair on a wooden platform. The computer screen in front of him showed an Army Humvee driving through a small town. Explosives blew up all around him as the vehicle crawled through the streets. Suddenly an
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In The Last Waltz, the Band describes how they landed on their nondescript name. After trying out on-the-nose names such as the Honkies, and being in the middle of a typhoon of bands named things like Strawberry Alarm Clock, the Electric Prunes, and the Chocolate Watchband, Robbie Robertson and company
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The concept: Ask a question and have it answered by a randomly chosen song, like a musical tarot card. Andras Jones created Radio8Ball in 1998 on KAOS in Olympia. Now, he is producing it as a local TV series (for the web, for now) with Olympia Film Collective. The episodes are
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OK, word association: What are the first images and sounds that come to your mind when you hear the word "metal" in reference, of course, to music. Give yourself a little time. OK, now let's do it again with the term "Puget Sound metal." I'd be willing to bet dollars
