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The call that is every parent's nightmare came for Minnesota residents Charlie and Barb Thompson on a warm summer evening while away in Florida. Their son, Sgt. Jacob Thompson, had died in Iraq. Charlie's fishing buddy was gone, Barb's baby boy was no more and the Tomahawks of Bravo Company,
Military Life
The world of the military spouse has long been decidedly female. Though about half of the women serving in the Army are married, a predominantly male force means more than 93 percent of military spouses are still women. So it makes sense that military spouse paraphernalia would be pink, and
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I'm not Catholic, but my dad was. Or at least he grew up Catholic. From what I understand it involved a lot of guilt. And nuns. At any rate, one year, back in the day, he and my mom went to see some version of Late Night Catechism in Tacoma -
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As he sits in my office, I see it. Before long, he brings it up.“I’ve developed a twitch,” says Cody Foster, a longtime member of Tacoma’s music scene, alum of countless T-Town rock outfits, and the main catalyst behind Music and Art in Wright Park 2009, which will engulf its
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The Broadway Center in Tacoma concludes its three-part Audrey Hepburn film-focus with Sunday's screening of the classic My Fair Lady, in which, as film lovers and old people will recall, Hepburn portrays Eliza Doolittle. The Broadway Center's Hepburn film focus series kicked off in 2011 with a screening of Roman Holiday
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Holy nerd alert, Batman! It's the fourth Monday of the month - which means the super hero-centric Capes & Cowls Book Club - billed as a "... book club adapted to mutants, aliens, technogeeks and puny humans who like to read superhero comics" - holds its monthly meeting at King's
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Most parents these days know the joy of balancing family and a career. It's become a survival necessity, whether we like it or not. What does this have to do with photographing white-bearded wildebeest on the Serengeti? You would think very little, until stumbling upon the work and career of National Geographic
Downrange Journal
Last month, the last remnants of the U.S. military left Iraq. It appears that military activity in Afghanistan will see a similar decline in the next few years. That means there will be a new surge, that of young military personnel coming home to wind down their enlistments and landing
Health
Saving the lives of combat wounded is one of the main objectives at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Research on prehospital care devices like the tourniquet has proven to save lives in the battlefield wounds to the arms or legs, which was once
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Listening to Desolation Wilderness is like hearing bubblegum pop blasting from an underwater phonograph — layers of guitar and keyboard swimming in a sea of reverb, sounding at once familiar and completely foreign, like finding a radio station lost in the static of night — if I may strain another
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It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki’s South Sound music notes column. Let’s get rolling…As you’ve probably picked up on by now, Post Stardom Depression will be getting the band back together for this Saturday’s Music and Art in Wright Park 2009
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My wife would verify this fact: When I watch TV, it’s usually crappy TV. No, I’m talking about the crappy TV you’re probably thinking of — reality garbage, So You Think You Can Juggle, or anything featuring Bret Michaels — I’m talking about a different breed of questionable programming. When
Military Life
McChord Field spouse Tiffany Swaggart had seen what kind of home-based businesses some of her friends and acquaintances were getting involved with. Tupperware. Sentsy candles. "The market was flooded with those (kinds of) consultants," said Swaggart, whose husband is a staff sergeant in the 627th Security Forces Squadron. But selling tea? That was
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Roger Ebert’s review of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard ran in the print version of the Weekly Volcano. Ebert’s peeps will now allow us to run the review online. To read his review online, visit Ebert’s Web site The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard Score: Three out of four stars Stars: Jeremy
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BANDSLAM: A geeky kid (Gaelan Connell) gets chosen to manage a popular girl’s (Aly Michalka) high school band for a big tri-state competition. He recruits a quiet loner (Vanessa Hudgens of High School Musical) to join the band, romantic complications develop, and all is settled at the Bandslam. Charming, and
