Music
When editor Bill White assigned this article, he added, "Try not to cry when describing some of the music." He was cracking wise, of course, but he was closer to the truth than he knew. Return with us now to those totally tubular days of yesteryear, specifically the early 1980s. It
Outdoors
You don't have to travel all the way to Paris or Prague to declare your love with a padlock. Pierce County has its very own love locks bridge at Chambers Creek Regional Park in University Place. Built in 2010, the pedestrian bridge curves over the railroad tracks providing safe passage to
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In honor of Black History Month, the Tacoma Buffalo Soldiers Museum proudly presents the film Held in Trust, the dramatic story of Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The film will be shown Feb. 10 and 17 at 1 p.m. and is free
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The mission of the Washington Youth Academy (WYA) is to provide a highly disciplined, safe and professional learning environment that empowers at-risk youth to improve their educational levels and employment potential and become responsible and productive citizens of the state of Washington. The academy, a division of the National Guard
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Dean had twice experienced homelessness, and he was well down the highway to hopelessness. In December 2016, however, he moved into the Multi-Service Center's new William J. Wood Veterans House (WJW House), and he began to turn his life around. "The homeless thing sucks," the Air Force veteran wrote in an email.
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Madigan Army Medical Center conducted a memorialization ceremony at Madigan's Letterman Auditorium on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Friday, Feb. 2. The purpose of the ceremony was to name the Preventive Medicine Building (Bldg. 9025) in honor of the late Brig. Gen. Guthrie L. Turner, Jr., who commanded Madigan from June 1980 to
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U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Heather Moran doesn't have room for negativity. Positivity fills every fiber of her being. "Anything you believe and can see yourself doing, well then that's half the battle, and at that point you can achieve your goal," Moran said. With half the battle already won, Moran is
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The line of students listened attentively to their instructions and waited to hear the command allowing them to begin. Fire! Shots rang out into the crisp air as each airman took aim and fired at their targets. The final shell casing clinked to the ground and instructors ensured the range was safe
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Members of the 62nd Airlift Wing command staff traveled to Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, to tour Basic Military Training Jan. 11-12. The visit gave Col. Rebecca Sonkiss, 62nd AW commander, Chief Master Sgt. Jeffery Sandusky, 62nd AW command chief, and commanders from maintenance, aircraft maintenance, operations group, operations support, medical,
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While the New England Patriots were taking on the Philadelphia Eagles during Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Feb. 4, the Western Air Defense Sector was guarding the airspace around U.S. Bank Stadium. The Super Bowl is considered a National Special Security Event which brings together dozens of federal, state, county
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Kevin Hines, suicide survivor and author of Cracked, Not Broken, shared his story of survival and living with severe mental illness at North Lewis Chapel on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Feb. 1. Soldiers from throughout I Corps, to include the 201st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, were in attendance at Lewis North Chapel
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February has arrived. That means that March is right around the corner, and with the arrival of the windy month, all thoughts turn to ... basketball, of course! There's March Madness, there's the WIAA High School Championships and there's Hoops 4 Heroes. Put on by the DuPont/Steilacoom Subchapter of the Captain
Reviews
ANNOUNCER: Dutch and Jackie were talking shop, as they often do, when Dutch said something about bacon-wrapped burritos. The obvious next stop in their grub adventure was gas station dining gem, Taco Rico, in Edgewood. Because, bacon. JACKIE: I plugged the address into my Waze app and let my smartphone
South Sound Cinema
Hey! You! You're reading Three Easy Pieces, where I break down a pop culture trope from its birth to how it looks today. This month, you'll be boning up on breaking the fourth wall; what started as a theatrical term has come to be defined, in film, as tearing down
Travel
The Armed Forces Vacation Club (AFVC) offers space-available vacations to members of the U.S. military in time-shares around the world for a fixed price of just $349 per week. That works out to less than $50 a night. These units are much bigger than hotel rooms and often have a
Music
There's an unusual phenomenon that can sometimes happen when it comes to compiling and distributing music. The act of putting a collection of unrelated songs on one release has the ability to retroactively link the songs forever, and in the process, create a new subgenre. While this is a rare
Arts
An exhibition of art about food is a delightful concept -- lighthearted and lightweight. Most of the art in the "Food in Art" exhibition at Tacoma Community College consists of pop-style paintings of food, many of which are clever and funny, such as Diane Fairbanks' "Deception Pass Doughnut," a painting
Features
Shake Shake Shake's sister store, Fish Fish Fish has been one of the most highly anticipated South Sound restaurant openings for some time now. Luckily, for those salivating in excitement as they zip by the 6th Ave. locale, the establishment is expected to open in just a few weeks, seriously.
Stage
The Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright is a strange and mesmerizing play based on the true-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite and LGBTQ activist who survived the Nazis, lived through the East German Communist regime, and founded and ran not
Stage
It's become a cliché to say this, but Georges Bizet's Carmen is an opera custom-made for people who say they don't like opera. It's an opéra comique -- a form in which choruses and arias are separated by spoken dialogue, ancestral to American-style musical theater -- based on a short
