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The Tacoma Dome hosts the enormously popular lowbrow diversion Monster Jam this weekend for a screeching, smashing round of vehicle-crunching monster-truck competitions featuring, among others, champion truck Gravedigger, and its amped-up mechanical opponents, among others: Northern Nightmare, Monster Mutt Dalmatian, Metal Mulisha, New Earth Authority, El Toro Loco and Captain
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The year 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Arguably one of this country's greatest presidents, there are many questions left to be answered about what happened that day in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963. Although his assassination casts a long shadow over his time on this
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When I was a kid, I used to love having a story read to me. Lolita Curious George was one of my favorites. But then, when I grew up, nobody wanted to read to me! Not my parents, not my grandparents and certainly not Santa, who found it odd I
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I did my usual rounds of checking Facebook and fliers, I asked a few friends what was going on, and yet, I still couldn't find any awesome music happening the first weekend of the year. The after-holiday slump strikes again. Then, just as I should have anticipated, The Pig Bar
Food Matters
FREE CULINARY COURSE The first Thursday of every month, Bayview School of Cooking (516 W. Fourth Ave., Olympia) hosts a free culinary course. Jan. 2 gives you two opportunities to experience Satisfying Soups with Barb Agee - once 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and again 1-3 p.m. Agee will demonstrate and
Stage
Excuse this old reviewer, but there's not much of anything showing this week that I want to review and haven't already, but there are a lot of interesting shows scheduled for early in the year 2014. The new exhibition that just opened in The Gallery at Tacoma Community College is called
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Listening to Lures' latest single, "Vacant," and noting that it was released in October, it's hard not to think that they missed the prime release date by a couple months. Lures' brand of energetic surf pop is ideal to be danced to all summer long. Relaxed vocals croon over churning
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From the '60s to their last waltz in '76, the Band was irreplaceable in formalizing a Northerners' take on Southern rock that was less about passing trends and swilling beer than it was about a reverence for the form and the tradition. These elements were already on their way to
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down
Critics' Picks
[SOUTHERN ROCK] + FRI, JAN. 3 From the '60s to their last waltz in '76, the Band was irreplaceable in formalizing a Northerners' take on Southern rock that was less about passing trends and swilling beer than it was about a reverence for the form and the tradition. These elements were
Music
If you ever find yourself doubting the vitality and reach of the Indigo Girls, there's a video I'd like to share with you. It's a clip from a music show from the late '80s called Night Music, hosted by David Sanborn and Jools Holland and predating Holland's own long-running musical
Features
Deep in the northwest corner of the city of Lakewood, between the winding streets named after rocks, underneath hundreds of giant oak trees and along the back edge of the Oakbrook neighborhood sits the RMG Club at Oakbrook. Formerly the Oakbrook Golf & Country Club, a members-only, 18-hole championship course
Stage
We're not awful people, we swear! It bums us out to deflate the work of theatrical colleagues and friends. That's why I was delighted to add the "Carvies," a roster of exceptional work in Olympia, to my review schedule in 2010 and in every December since. Now I've encouraged Joann
News Front
You may know that the Royal Canadian Air Force partners with the United States Air Force to protect continental airspace under the North American Aerospace Defense Command and that they are responsible for the National Search and Rescue Program, but did you know they also share officers with the USAF
People Rule
"At the end of the day no matter how tired you are you know you accomplished something that you can feel good about," explained local volunteer standout Donna Buck, 68. Buck, who has been a Tacoma resident since 1973, spent 43 years married to retired Army Staff Sgt. Basil W. Buck,
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Here's one successful male musician not drowning in bottles of Alize, Escalades or girls, girls, girls. Benjamin Beilman takes his craft very seriously. Virtually a child prodigy at the age of only 22, the violinist has made a name for himself, winning several major prizes, including first prize at 2010
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You're exchanging trail mix recipes with the Mountaineers Club folks when this mellow, Spanish transcendental lullaby creeps through the club's doorway and swirls around your soul. Instantly, thoughts of Madrid at midnight lighten your spirits. You drop your pen and waterproof notepad, and like a zombie saunter out the door
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Sadly, it appears that e-mail has killed the art of the postcard (Good Lord! I sound more like my grandfathers with each passing day). When my friends go on vacation, I no longer receive postcards. Instead, I receive e-mails from Hotmail and Yahoo accounts sent from far-flung Internet cafes (my
