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Sometimes when I write about a comedian and include a sampling of jokes, copied faithfully from online video sources, I feel a little bit guilty. I wonder if the performer will have to edit the show or, worse yet, fail to edit and have audience members already in
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Sometimes when I write about a comedian and include a sampling of jokes, copied faithfully from online video sources, I feel a little bit guilty. I wonder if the performer will have to edit the show or, worse yet, fail to edit and have audience members already in on the joke. However,
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This week ... Place: Warthog Barbeque Pit Established: 1999 Location: Fife Founder: Gary Kurashima Closed for deep cleaning: Christmastime Curtains: Black ruffles with chili peppers Stuffed dead animals: 30 Sweet tea: Yes Built: Inside the Kingdome Previously: Log cabin model home Seating: Indoor and outdoor Capacity: 50-100 guests Catering: Yes Music: Country Number of Thin Mints I ate while writing this: 8 Upon entering this log
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Fortitude is defined as courage in the face of pain or adversity. In light of America's history, Native Americans can correctly point to the fact that they fought with fortitude in order to preserve their way of life. In fighting to first protect what they believed to be theirs, and then later
Military Life
Wanting to do something she felt was significant, Lindsey Kibler joined the Army. Wanting to do something she was good at, she wrote for public affairs offices for the Army for nearly nine years. She told the Army story. And she told it well. Kibler was named the Army's Paul D. Savanuck
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When Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rolls into Olympia on Presidents Day to give a lecture on "The True Cost of War," he will arrive with antiwar bona fides unmatched in any recent Congress. Last March, he put a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives
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When Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rolls into Olympia on Presidents Day to give a lecture on "The True Cost of War," he will arrive with antiwar bona fides unmatched in any recent Congress. Last March, he put a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives that would've required
South Sound Cinema
The creepiest, nerdiest actor in all of filmdom is coming to Olympia as featured artist at the 32nd annual Olympia Film Festival. We're talking Crispin Glover, a.k.a, George McFly in Back to the Future and Layne in River's Edge. "We are delighted to be presenting both of (Glover's) completed films, two
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Sixty years ago an unknown actor Hal Holbrook created a one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight!, which he performed at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania in 1954 and in a small Greenwich Village nightclub. He was 29 years old. The much revered actor - known for playing Abraham Lincoln
Outdoors
There are countless adventures to be had this winter season, and the Northwest Adventure Center's second annual Winter Kick-Off Expo is where one can find the inspiration to step outside and enjoy all that the Northwest has to offer. Attendees can learn more about the center's outdoorsy offerings during the expo,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Maurice The Fish Records Showcase. 7 pm. NC. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. Washington Center for the Performing Arts Olympia - Downtown. The Chieftains. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $30-$67. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino Rockin' Blues Jam, with David Dickerson, Glenn Hummel. 8:30 pm. NC. Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Yenney Music Olympia - Westside. Kate Power and Steve Einhorn Uke & Song. All Ages. 7-8 pm ukuleles and instrument playalong 8-9 pm singalong. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Uke & Singalong, featuring Steve Einhorn, Kate Power. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown.
Military Life
From the very first day of boot camp, sailors are told where to be, when to be there, what to wear and how to wear it, and that doesn't change much when they transfer to a school or to their first command. Sailors have a constant resource, a brother and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Evergreen State College Olympia - Westside. 4th Annual Sean-nos Northwest Festival, with dance, song & workshops by Emma O'Sullivan, Maldon Meehan, Alicia Guinn, Celia Ni Fhatharta, Sean Williams, David Ingerson, Mikey Beglan, Nancy Conescu. All Ages. 10:30 am. Ballyhoo Irish Pub Tumwater. Sean-nos Festival Afterparty Irish Session. 6 pm. NC. Cafe Luna
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Evergreen State College Olympia - Westside. 4th Annual Sean-nos Northwest Festival, with dance, song & workshops by Emma O'Sullivan, Maldon Meehan, Alicia Guinn, Celia Ni Fhatharta, Sean Williams, David Ingerson, Mikey Beglan, Nancy Conescu. All Ages. 1 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Annie Henry. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Swamp House - Olympia. Acoustic Show, featuring Baker London, Kimya Dawson. All Ages. 7 pm. Washington Center for the Performing Arts Olympia - Downtown. Anders Osborne, Marcia Ball, The Voice Of The Wetlands All-Stars. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $18-$45. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Jim Macolm. All
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Dublin On Doyle's Last St. Practice Day Party, featuring Ockham's Razor. 8 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. An Evening Of Keys, with Naomi Korchonnoff, Raymond Hayden & Doug
