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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Morso Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Eliza Gilkyson. 8 pm. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Mud Cat. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 6 pm. donation. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma -
Outdoors
With the rainy weeks behind us for another year, now is the perfect time to get out and explore with your favorite four-legged friends. Here are 10 places in the South Sound to walk your dog. Explore new trails while enjoying the cool temperatures of a dense forest canopy or
Travel
There's something wonderfully freeing about "can't." North Cascades Lodge is a place where you can't make or receive a phone call. You can't watch TV in your room. You can't read the newspaper. You can't check email or catch up on Facebook. It's off the grid. It's hard to believe
Outdoors
The Northwest is known for many things, among them the fabulous hiking opportunities lurking around every corner - in forests, in parks or in the nearby mountains. And while Northwest nature is tough to top, Tacoma has more to offer walkers and trekkers than beautiful forest hikes (it has those,
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Confronting obstacles leads to success. This is the theme of this year's upcoming Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Care Event. Approximately 200 Air Force Wounded Warriors and the Army's Warrior Transition Battalion (WTB) soldiers, along with caregivers, coaches, mentors and support personnel, will converge at locations across Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The event begins
Military Life
For many business owners, a personal experience motivates them to start their company, and Catherine Redinbo and her husband Chad are no exception. Catherine, CEO of New Leaf Hyperbarics & Wellness, was first introduced to the positive effects of hyperbaric therapy when her daughter, Halle, began treatment at the age
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If you like to golf and you like to help someone in the military get a meal, or help a high school cadet go to college or help put a smile on an ill child's face, then Bill Striegel wants to talk to you. He'll sign you up for the Airmen
Music
Music history is littered with talented artists that never quite broke through the noise to capture the public's attention - not quite has-beens, more should-have-beens. It can be incredibly difficult to distinguish yourself from the rabble, no matter how deserving you might be to have your voice heard. In the
Music
The saying goes that you have your entire life to write your first album (or book or movie or play or really any creative project) and only a year to write your second. It's through this somewhat unfair algorithm that the phenomenon of the "sophomore slump" emerges: yeah, you were
Nightlife It List
At a typical trivia night one sits around drinking beer, occasionally feeling really smart, and mostly feeling pretty stupid. It's like your average night of drinking, but you can blame the game instead of your social skills. Every Tuesday night, Farrelli's Wood Fire Pizza on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue draws a
Arts
Lynette Charters' paintings are unique, not just in her use of media - china marker over acrylic paint mixed with plaster - but in her way of painting. On wood panels, she creates fields of heavily textured globs of color that are almost if not completely non-objective, and then either
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In an ever-changing world and the challenges therein, the technology and equipment required must keep up. To assist the military, law enforcement, Homeland Security and other organizations dedicated to serving the country, Darley Defense exists to serve federal, state and local protectors and first responders by providing high-quality, safe and innovative
Military Life
The default shopping destination in the Tacoma area is usually the Tacoma Mall, which is a fine choice, especially on rainy days since the mall is fully enclosed. However, non-mall shopping destinations offer an alternative - something more local and often more unique. Whether you're shopping for jewelry, clothing, food,
Reviews
Announcer: You can think of La Gitana as a pizza joint, but in a closer look, it's really a stylish Italian bistro that makes great pizza pie. With two locations, funky Olympia and farmy Yelm, the designers and chefs have come together to create a place that is as pleasing
Music
Years ago, in the long-defunct Stereo Lounge (the space of which is now occupied by the Zodiac Supper Club), I saw Jeffrey Lewis perform. The tiny, intimate, boozy venue was the perfect place to see Lewis perform his offbeat anti-folk, accompanied by illustrations that he would flip through on an
Features
It rises to a height of 29,029 feet, or, as one movie put it, "the cruising altitude of a 747." Climbers who aspire to scale it must deal with climatic variations from frostbite to sunburn. Then there are the rockslides and avalanches, edema of the brain and lungs, and an
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It's not every military supporter that upon retirement is invited over to the commanding general's home for a goodbye party. But, John and Denise Dhane aren't your average military supporters. In the time that Col. (ret) John Dhane, DDS and his wife Denise have operated their orthodontic practice in DuPont, hundreds
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In the Pacific Northwest, there are 15 half-marathons in the month of September alone. Jeff Bauknecht, who co-directs the Race for a Soldier Half Marathon and 5K happening for its sixth year Sept. 25, 2016 at 8 a.m., suggests, "Race for a Soldier is different, and has been different from
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Though the sponsoring agencies have changed, the Massing of the Colors in the South Sound has been an institution since Armistice Day, 1922. The Society of the Massing of the Colors first held the event then; the Military Order of the World Wars took on the responsibility for the event
