Music
>>> Friday, Feb. 15 BLACK MARBLE As a mission statement, you couldn't find one much clearer than "Cruel Summer," the lead-off track on the latest release by Black Marble. As if the title didn't do well enough to harken back to the early '80s, from the moment that stiff drum machine meets
Liquid
Dear Lady From Shanghai, My midwest raised grandmother refused to believe it. Gilligan, Skipper, the millionaire and his wife certainly didn't give a minnow's ass about the health reports over the transistor radio. You see, Lady From Shanghai, one day Americans were told that coconut oil was the devil in liquid
Sipping Out
Ed. note: The Big Beer Festival is sold out. The brilliant minds that brought you the wildly successful Tacoma's Craft Beer Festival are going bigger. By bigger, I mean bigger beers. By bigger beers, I mean stronger beers. The first annual Big Beer Festival will consume the Foss Waterway Seaport -
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Ed. note: The Big Beer Festival is sold out. The brilliant minds that brought you the wildly successful Tacoma's Craft Beer Festival are going bigger. By bigger, I mean bigger beers. By bigger beers, I mean stronger beers. The first annual Big Beer Festival will consume the Foss Waterway Seaport -
Sipping Out
Red wine and chocolate are the stuff of which dreams are made. And they should be - they're delightful. Expansive mountain vistas and the Strait of Juan de Fuca ain't too shabby either. If the mere mention of such things lights your fire, then perhaps set aside some time this weekend
Arts
The Mid-Winter Masquerade Ball is coming soon to serve up a delicious course of glamour with a heaping side serving of fairytale magic. Don your mask, dress to the nines, and be ready to dance the night to music. The Mid-Winter Masquerade is part of Tacoma City Ballet's Soiree Series, which
Stage
There is an excellent art exhibit in the gallery at The Evergreen State College. It is called "An Abstract - Representational Continuum" and it juxtaposes abstract art with slightly surrealistic photographs culled from the college's art collection. Included are works by well-known West Coast artists and a few nationally-recognized artists.
Stage
Pizza Man, directed by and starring Pamela Arndt, has much to recommend it. Amanda Navarez's delicate house music is a welcome deviation from the usual canned stuff. The prerecorded music, when it does kick in, is apt and evocative. The show has a point of view, and its tech elements
Business News
As Department of Defense military and civilian employees begin to feel the pinch of spending cuts tied to the federal budget, personnel at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are finding ways to do more with less - less waste, that is. Nearly 4,000 tons of JBLM's organic waste are
Military Life
Even when physically apart, art has the ability to bring people together. While 296th Brigade Support Battalion Soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan the past year, art classes helped them stay connected with their Families. With their Soldiers recently returned, Family members' artwork was displayed in an exhibition
Focus
FORWARD OPERATING BASE ZANGABAD, Afghanistan - After hours of climbing over the rugged grape rows of Afghanistan in search of a weapons cache, Pfc. Franklin Sena and his platoon heard the familiar sound of small-arms fire coming at them. Since Sena could not positively identify the shooter to
Focus
As a resident in training at Madigan Army Medical Center, Ashley Urick works 60 to 80 hours a week. Despite her ambitious schedule, the JBLM Army captain makes time to run. While it's a challenge to train with a demanding work schedule, her dedication to her sport continues
Focus
During his 30-year Army career, I Corps Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell has promoted fitness for Soldiers. "Too many times in Iraq or Afghanistan I would see Soldiers breaking down because they weren't training right and they weren't fueling themselves right," he said. "If we're truly tactical athletes
Archives
Tacoma likes to believe that in the last 20 years it has grown more socially tolerant. The economic downturn has blended many communities in financial equality. The city's numerous festivals have started to resemble a certain 1971 Coco-Cola commercial. And much of the intermediate neighborhoods of the New Tacoma and
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"Numero By Northwest" is an unusual DJ showcase at The Brotherhood Lounge Sunday. And by unusual, I mean rare - but I also mean weird, which in Olympia, equates to awesome. The Numero Group's Ken Shipley, Justin Trosper from Unwound/Survival Knife and DJ Wildman James will spin soul, garage and
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Last week I was getting to the point of a nervous breakdown. The work world was relentlessly beating at my door, social endeavors were as demanding as ever, I could barely get to my volunteer activities, and on top of all of that, I had my first statistics test. Well, supportive
