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We have hit the apex of the holiday season, and like Freeway said, “The stomach’s rumble.” Hip-Hoppas and community members in the 25360 are standing up and being counted this Saturday, Dec. 6, at The China Clipper in Olympia for the third annual Hip-Hop for The Homeless Benefit. I have
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We have hit the apex of the holiday season, and like Freeway said, “The stomach’s rumble.” Hip-Hoppas and community members in the 25360 are standing up and being counted this Saturday, Dec. 6, at The China Clipper in Olympia for the third annual Hip-Hop for The Homeless Benefit. I have
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Looking cute doesn't have to cost a fortune. I’m thankful for that; otherwise I'd be one electric/heat bill away from making a garbage sack my raincoat. It all comes down to having a keen eye for basic reusable pieces and, most importantly, knowing where to get great deals at a
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Looking cute doesn't have to cost a fortune. I’m thankful for that; otherwise I'd be one electric/heat bill away from making a garbage sack my raincoat. It all comes down to having a keen eye for basic reusable pieces and, most importantly, knowing where to get great deals at a
Music
It looks like organizers of the annual Olympia Independent Music Festival are really beginning to hit their stride. This year, creators Jabe Jabberwock and Wylie Van Wenger - along with countless supporters from the community- have turned the volume on this festival to 11. In past years, the event was held
Stage
Having never seen Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, I was not fully prepared for the experience at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. Webber's second musical started as a 15-minute cantata and, over time, expanded to the current hour and a half production (including intermission). Set in a museum,
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You’ll get sick of Christmas. So much to do and it’s all basically the same stuff. This is why we love the Festival of Trees. It does it all and better than anybody else. There’s the massive gift shop, all sorts of Christmas stuff (namely, 70 trees, all decorated to
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You’ll get sick of Christmas. So much to do and it’s all basically the same stuff. This is why we love the Festival of Trees. It does it all and better than anybody else. There’s the massive gift shop, all sorts of Christmas stuff (namely, 70 trees, all decorated to
Military Life
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - The families of Soldiers from 1st Battalion, (Air Assault) 377th Field Artillery Regiment, got a taste of the field artillery world during a family shoot day July 7 on Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The day of show-and-tell gave family members a chance to see the firing of
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Along with the big shows at Tacoma Art Museum — Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire and Don Fels: What is a Trade? — there are a couple of smaller but interesting shows from the permanent collection: The Surrealist Impulse and Speaking Parts (I eliminated the wordy subtitles from
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Along with the big shows at Tacoma Art Museum — Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire and Don Fels: What is a Trade? — there are a couple of smaller but interesting shows from the permanent collection: The Surrealist Impulse and Speaking Parts (I eliminated the wordy subtitles from
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The deals available to consumers this holiday season may, if expert predictions prove right, stagger the mind. But more importantly, they’ll leave a little extra for lunch or dinner. Forget the extra sweater, a good meal means more holiday cheer than cotton and gabardine. To assist the merry mall shopper, I
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The deals available to consumers this holiday season may, if expert predictions prove right, stagger the mind. But more importantly, they’ll leave a little extra for lunch or dinner. Forget the extra sweater, a good meal means more holiday cheer than cotton and gabardine. To assist the merry mall
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From the size of the stumps still in the ground, the large oak trees that came down near Grandstaff Library on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Lewis Main two weeks ago were very old. But as Joint Base Lewis-McChord expands its roads to meet the needs of the growing
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Bruce Nicholson, owner of Nicholson’s Men’s Clothiers in Gig Harbor, has been in business for 25 years. That’s pure braggin’ rights in the privately owned clothing store world. How has Nicholson done it? He stays up on fashion trends, pays attention to what people are wearing locally and talks to
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Bruce Nicholson, owner of Nicholson’s Men’s Clothiers in Gig Harbor, has been in business for 25 years. That’s pure braggin’ rights in the privately owned clothing store world. How has Nicholson done it? He stays up on fashion trends, pays attention to what people are wearing locally and talks to
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Loot Conquers All I always tell my wife I love her and buy her gifts I can't afford. I know she loves me. She works so hard at school, and works to pay her tuition, and still washes my clothes, cooks, and cleans. And I never ask her to. When
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Loot Conquers All I always tell my wife I love her and buy her gifts I can't afford. I know she loves me. She works so hard at school, and works to pay her tuition, and still washes my clothes, cooks, and cleans. And I never ask her to. When I
Kids
When you ask Mariah Smiley what she does for fun, her pause is a little long for a 17-year-old girl. It's not that she's boring. During the school year she goes to Woodinville High School where she'll be a senior next year. She takes college classes a few
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Life can take unexpected turns, even for men of the cloth. When Chaplain (Col.) Gary Studniewski returned from Iraq in 2009 at the end of a deployment with 555th Engineer Brigade, he was prepared to move on from Fort Lewis. Instead he made the promotion list to colonel
