Stage
Wait Until Dark is a strange, daring choice for Lakewood Playhouse to open its 79th season -- a fairly nasty thriller that features harsh violence and some truly disquieting moments. Far from the standard crowd-pleaser that tends to open a season of theater, Wait Until Dark is a pulpy suspense piece whose entire engine
News Front
A ribbon-cutting to announce the naming of a new building in the Madigan Army Medical Center is in the offing. The Preventive Medicine Building (Bldg. 9025), located just north of the center on 5th Street across from the just opened Evergreen Elementary School, will be named in honor of Brig. Gen.
Military Life
For military servicemembers, getting ready for the work day includes putting on a recognizable uniform and lacing up boots. They wake up each day knowing exactly what they are going to wear and how to make their attire presentable according to specifically laid-out military standards. After some time, the morning
News
The body is one -- it works as a single being to heal itself and relieve pressure. You just have to know where to start. That's the motto of Rosemarie Lanchester, a certified hypnotist who believes it's her calling to give back to others by allowing them to self-heal. "Part of
Spouse magazine
To receive an email announcing the latest Spouse magazine, click here. To read the September 2017 Spouse Magazine, click HERE, In this month's issue: <<< Point Defiance <<< Quality education for JBLM families <<< Back-to-school tips to relieve stress <<< Books to get kids excited for school <<< Is private school a good fit for your
Military Life
Charlene Miseli was recently named the development executive for Boy Scouts of America, Pacific Harbors Council. Her position will include building community relationships and ensuring that quality programs are available today and for the next generation of scouts. "I am excited to be here in the PNW, and I am
Travel
A drive around the Olympic Peninsula is more than 350 miles, so this is not a trip for the faint of heart. I have done it quite a few times now when family and friends visit and don't have a lot of time. My latest version has been refined, so
Attractions
The military loves to use acronyms, and the Seattle Official Bad Art Museum of Art (OBAMA) is no different. Ironically, the acronym predates the 2008 presidential election. The OBAMA room at the Café Racer, which hosts the museum, is homage to bad art and not our former president. Café Racer owner
Online Newspapers
Maj. Gen. David Stone would have understood. "Fundamental to all that we do in life, the search for knowledge must not end with a high school diploma," said former Sergeant Major of the Army Glen Morrell. "High-performance soldiers feel the need and motivation for self-growth." The architect of Camp Lewis in 1917,
Music
The whole notion of indie or alternative music being vastly different -- in some way, from mainstream music -- has always been a little bit flawed. Yes, the further you dive into indie rock, the likelier you are to encounter music that will never find itself on the radio, through
Arts
More than 6,000 folded paper cranes by nationally known artist Clarissa Sligh hang from the ceilings and cling to the walls of Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound. Many of the cranes are made from the pages of white supremacist books, plus there are dramatic black-and-white photographs of people who
Stage
Before there were machines called computers, there were women called computers, meaning, according to Peter Shaw (Drew Doyle) in the play Silent Sky at Olympia Little Theatre, "one who computes." Women scientists who were highly overqualified and severely underpaid, were hired to do dull, routine jobs the men scientists would
Reviews
ANNOUNCER: Feeling like a little funky adventure, Dutch and Jackie head south to Olympia Hotdog Company. They could have made it real interesting and opted for a night of dancing or enjoying a drag show at the hotdog joint's homebase venue, Jakes on 4th. But instead, chose to enjoy this
Outdoors
Given all the stereotypes Olympia has been given over the years, the city does have a capability to dress up every now and again. Yes, Olympians love pajama pants and dreadlocks, but its for the soul reason that they pull it off better than any one group of people I
South Sound Cinema
It's another new month, meaning it's time for another edition of Three Easy Pieces, where I examine a particular subgenre of pop culture from its birth, through its development, and seeing where it stands today. Music is powerfully capable of reflecting the world's state of mind at any given moment.
Outdoors
The Washington State Fair, at first called simply the Valley Fair, began in June 1900 when Puyallup River-valley businessmen and farmers united to form the Valley Fair Association. Their goal was to highlight local agribusiness. When the fair opened in early October of that year, it went up west of
