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It’s funny how things can sometimes look so different depending on where you stand. Take the music scenes in Olympia and Tacoma, for example. The history of Olympia’s music scene is legendary — so much so that I really don’t even need to go into detail. It’s well known that both
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If you attend this show, bring your earplugs as Mothers Anger might cause hearing loss for a few days after their gig if you don’t. The Michael Davis (MC5 bass player) -endorsed Israel duo are pretty hardcore as they mix punk, garage and classic rock for a bombastic timbre that
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If you attend this show, bring your earplugs as Mothers Anger might cause hearing loss for a few days after their gig if you don’t. The Michael Davis (MC5 bass player) -endorsed Israel duo are pretty hardcore as they mix punk, garage and classic rock for a bombastic timbre that
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Since opening this past December, Fulcrum Gallery has been known for cutting-edge art with an emphasis on sculptural work and installations. But its current show features traditional modernist paintings by Julia Ricketts. These are abstract paintings in acrylic on canvas plus one oil painting and a small group of etchings
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Since opening this past December, Fulcrum Gallery has been known for cutting-edge art with an emphasis on sculptural work and installations. But its current show features traditional modernist paintings by Julia Ricketts. These are abstract paintings in acrylic on canvas plus one oil painting and a small group of etchings
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Lakewood Playhouse gets a bit dark with its staging of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a theatrical adaptation by Dale Wasserman of the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. The novel isn’t all roses and mountaintop, and neither is the movie by the same name starring Jack Nicholson in the iconic
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Lakewood Playhouse gets a bit dark with its staging of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a theatrical adaptation by Dale Wasserman of the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey. The novel isn’t all roses and mountaintop, and neither is the movie by the same name starring Jack Nicholson in the iconic
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Nicki Saluba and Kelsey Smith are putting zines in check. Literally. Both women are library employees with a bit of an indie twist. These admitted zinesters made it their personal mission this year to uproot underground publications and bring them to light by starting a cataloged zine collection at the
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Nicki Saluba and Kelsey Smith are putting zines in check. Literally. Both women are library employees with a bit of an indie twist. These admitted zinesters made it their personal mission this year to uproot underground publications and bring them to light by starting a cataloged zine collection at the
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The sub-street known fondly as “Crack Alley” is strewn with a couple of dozen people by 6 p.m. Most are there to get in line for an overnight stay at the Martin Luther King Center, a so-called house of last resort for more than 100 regulars. You can read about
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The sub-street known fondly as “Crack Alley” is strewn with a couple of dozen people by 6 p.m. Most are there to get in line for an overnight stay at the Martin Luther King Center, a so-called house of last resort for more than 100 regulars. You can read about
Military Resources
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AFNS) -- The Defense Department website for military children has added new features to help parents and educators explain difficult topics of the military lifestyle to children. Since its launch in January 2012, MilitaryKidsConnect.org has served more than 125,000 visitors and won five
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Editors note: This report begins a series of monthly articles about the historical sites of Joint Base Lewis-McChord. We begin with the Army Museum, but will incorporate McChord Field in future reports. In 2006, the only living things occupying the third floor of the then-Fort Lewis Military Museum
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"I never, ever expected to get a phone call. I thought you were invincible," Cheryl Leonard said to her husband, recalling his last deployment. But her phone did ring in March 2010, just a few months after 1st Sgt. Mike Leonard went to Afghanistan. As a
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The Warrior Zone turns 1 Sunday. The popular high-tech, state of the art recreation center on JBLM Lewis North next to Wilson Sports and Fitness Center saw more than 150,000 patrons pass through the door in its first year. The Warrior Zone will celebrate its birthday with a
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Everyone likes a good joke and being in on the joke is certainly better than BEING the joke. Well, usually. Certainly, people that take themselves too seriously are a drag and theater people who take themselves too seriously are often insufferable. Thankfully, Tacoma Musical Playhouse not only likes a good
