Military Life
In 1990, through input from Pauline Trost, wife of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Carlisle Trost, Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher became aware of the need for safe, comfortable places for families to stay while they visited and waited for their loved ones undergoing treatment at military medical facilities across the
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Straw Hat String Band. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. Open Shape Note Singing Group. All Ages. 5 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 21+. 8 pm. Tides Tavern Gig Harbor. Breakfast Jam, with
Arts
The Roger Shimomura painting exhibition at Tacoma Art Museum mines the tradition of pop art and the history of Japanese-American relations to skewer prejudice and stereotype with painfully satirical paintings. Shimomura, an American artist living in Seattle, was born to a Japanese family shortly before the outbreak of World War II.
Music
An unfortunate thing that music fans in the South Sound have come to expect is for fun, new venues to bite the dust. Noise ordinances, safe-guards (damn those necessary sprinklers!), and generally obscene costs of upkeep tend to get the majority of new venues to bite the dust. This is
Features
Not satisfied with the sub-par Chicago dog offerings in the Puget Sound, Debby Graham decided that with her close proximity to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, she most likely wasn't alone in her frustration. And rather than settle for less, she did something about it. She started her own business - Hometown
Music
It is hot as hell in the Pacific Northwest, right about now. Still, something that always sits right with hot weather is music, and summer tends to burst with concerts and events to take your mind off the encroaching sun and its dastardly ways. In addition to the many events
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Charleston Bremerton. Free Acoustic Show, featuring Blues Bellied Dante. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Jenne Sluder. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. The Den at urbanXchange Tacoma - Downtown. Pleasure Coma, OhMe! OhMy!, Thank You Darling. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Russ Salton & Friends.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Blues Redemption. All Ages. 8:30 pm. $5. O'Callahan's Pub & Grill Key Peninsula. Junkyard Jane. 21+. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Clinton Jackson. 21+. 8 pm & 10
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Jenne Sluder. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude.
News Articles
A C-17 Globemaster III recently surpassed 2 million flying hours during an airdrop mission over Afghanistan on Dec. 10. The aircraft was part of the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron operating out of Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The milestone mission was a low-cost, low-altitude assignment to deliver 70,000 pounds of fuel to a
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Alexis Feredinos was raised in a household that held great respect for the qualities a career in the military teaches. His father was born in Greece and served in the military there before coming to the United States. But that fact alone didn't immediately pave a path for Feredinos to enlist in
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FORT BELVOIR, Va. - Army Master Sgt. Crystal Fleming, a member of DLA Disposition Services' reserve element at Joint Base Lewis-McChord was named the Defense Logistics Agency 2010 senior noncommissioned officer of the year. Fleming received her award Dec. 14 in a ceremony at the McNamara Headquarters Complex. Fleming has served in
Nightlife It List
It's no secret that a typical Meat Market outing isn't for everybody. Let‘s face it, unless you enjoy tequila shots, club tracks and booty shorts, appropriate Meat Market recommendations can seem a tad ... sparse. But dammit, let it never again be uttered that the Meat Market let down those
News Front
A curious visitor dropped in on his local church to hear a Sunday sermon. Later, a friend asked him how it had gone. The visitor's reply: "A preacher is a mild-mannered man, standing up in front of mild-mannered men, telling them they gotta be more mild-mannered." A preacher like that
Veterans
The Washington State Chapter of the Retired Sergeants Major and Chiefs Association makes it a priority to meet on a professional and social level to inform its members about the latest military, legislative, health and Veterans Affairs news. But at the very core the group is about something so much more. "Ninety-five
News Front
In every issue of this fine rag my hack team of wannabe journalists and I tackle 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,
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What better to do with an evening out than see an oft-banned musical? Spring Awakening follows a group of German students as they come of age and explore their sexuality - providing an afternoon or evening of entertainment for you. The content is explicit as it chronicles
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As you know if you've seen the erstwhile Opie's 2008 movie version, Frost/Nixon is Peter Morgan's dramatic distillation of David Frost's historic 1977 TV interviews with Tricky Dick, in which our 37th president finally admitted to being a nefarious crapsack. As good as Michael Sheen and the Oscar-nominated Skeletor
