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For some, running can be an excruciating experience. To many others, it's what they live for. But however you feel about running, there's no doubt the experience can be improved by the donning of a ghoulish costume or vampire teeth and a cape. Enter the Black Cat Fun Run, a
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When the hamburger revolution happened in the 1950s, it wasn't all about the taste or affordability of burgers, it was about place. Burger joints were a place to eat, sure, but they were more a place to just be, to be seen. Alfred's Café and Bubble Room serves several tasty
Stage
The Northwest Playwrights Alliance has once again teamed with Prodigal Sun Productions to present short new plays in the Midnight Sun, An Improbable Peck of Plays II. I'm a fan of zero-budgeted evenings like this. They're easy to produce and digest, plus a much-needed venue for writers both fledgling and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Old Town Music Society Tacoma - Old Town. Old Town Music Society Presents Stephanie Anne Johnson. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Puget Sound Music For Youth Association Performance. All Ages. 2 pm. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside.
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The Tacoma Cult Movie Club hosts another Sunday night screening at Tacoma's Acme Grub Cage. Appropriately, this month's theme is vampires. While Rev. Colin doesn't release the titles of the gems he'll screen, if we know Rev. Colin, he'll bust out the British Vampyres, the story of a lesbian pair
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Uke-Olympians. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Dean Reichert. 8 pm. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm. NC.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Steve & Kristi Nebel. All Ages. 7 pm. donations accepted. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan
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Picture if you can sculpted figures with the strength and sensuality of a Rodin, but not idealized in any way - realistic sculptures of people who may be a little overweight or less than movie-star beautiful, in natural but perhaps awkward poses with faces that register pain. Now imagine they
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In your desperation to design your Walter and Jesse Halloween costumes, you might overlook Dia de los Muertos. The Day of the Dead, Nov. 3, is seen by many as Mexico's most important holiday, a time to honor family members, friends and mentors who have passed on in a loving,
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The Weekly Volcano will join all those who worship Thor, Odin and other Norse gods Sunday at the Sons of Norway's annual Lutefisk Dinner hits Normanna Hall. While loaded with vendors selling clogs, sweaters, Sigvat jewelry, Viking ships in bottles, ABBA records, pewter Norse gods and Kongetinn wine goblets, we attend
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Dean Reichert's soulful voice carries in it the history of American popular music: There's the down-home rhythm and testifying punch of gospel-based R&B, the snarl of the blues, the mournful rumination of honky-tonk, sultry jazz and the up-front sexuality of funk. Oh, and he's a talent guitar player, too. Reichert's
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You have one chance to see The Acting Company's production of Hamlet so err not. The national touring company presents the tale of a young man who finds his father has been murdered and must avenge the horrid deed. Power politics, a haunting, a love story, murder, revenge and great
Military Resources
Joint Base Lewis-McChord is one of the largest military installations in the United States, covering close to 415,000 acres of land (including the Yakima Training Center) and employing more than 55,000 military and civilian personnel. It is the largest employer in Pierce County and the third largest employer in all
People Rule
Maj. Gen. Keith Ware would have respected Staff Sgt. Lindsey Kibler. The Noncommissioned Officer in Charge of the Public Affairs Office for Joint Base Lewis-McChord's 7th Infantry Division, Kibler is a consummate teller of the Army's story. "We have the best job in the Army," Kibler said recently as we sat outside
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Imagine a book club. Then imagine a nerd wearing a cape, a non-weird, non-hippie vegan and a teen girl dressed as Katniss. Now imagine them smashed together like chocolate and peanut butter. The result: The Capes and Cowls Book Club, Vegan Book Club and Young Adult Fiction Book Club meeting
Jobs & Education
Tacoma's own Bates Technical College was named to the 2014 Victory Media Military Friendly Schools List. The list, which includes 1,868 institutions, honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide that provide exceptional resources and assistance for military students and their families. "We started in 1940, as
Style
Making people look and feel beautiful is an important job. For many, it's not only a passion, but also can be a fulfilling and rewarding career. Here in the South Sound, those who are interested in a career in the beauty industry are in luck. There's a local academy that makes
Style
Delicately nestled among Stadium District and Antique Row in Tacoma is the Triangle District. This district only spans a few blocks, beginning at Sixth and Tacoma Avenue and ending at Ninth and Broadway. And though small in size, it is teeming with Tacoma culture highlighting more public art per city
Rocket Science
"When it comes to shooting, there are right ways to do it and wrong ways," explained veteran sharpshooter and former Army Ranger Jim Seley. "You're not born with the ability, you have to be coached and you have to practice." Seley, who serves on the board of the Pointe du Hoc
