Tacoma Week In Review
Hundreds attend and demonstrate at Tacoma School Board meeting Last night hundreds of educators, parents and community members packed into the Tacoma School Board meeting to urge district leaders to reach a contract agreement and avoid a strike. Dozens more demonstrated outside the building before and throughout the meeting. While the board
Music
Sometime last year, I had the opportunity to see and review a production of The Buddy Holly Story at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. While I have always enjoyed the music of Buddy Holly, and I knew the basic outline of his life -- boy from Texas makes it big in the music business,
Arts
There are two large exhibitions at Museum of Glass that seem to have been chosen as companion shows which contrast and complement one another interestingly. Albert Paley's glass and steel sculptures, reviewed last week in this column, are visually impressive, while Michael E. Taylor's "Artificial Intelligence Codes/Rosetta Stone" appeals more
Stage
There's a lot to like in American Idiot, the Tony-winning adaptation of Green Day's mega-hit concept album of the same name, even for people (like myself) who might charitably describe themselves as indifferent to the band. Still, this is a musical that succeeds only inasmuch as the songs and the performances
South Sound Cinema
Get your mind out of the Jedi, people! It's 2018, which means it's time to take a look at 18 for ‘18 -- the list of films I'm most keenly anticipating.The 15:17 to Paris (Feb. 9) Clint Eastwood's newest film is about the 2015 terrorist attack on a Thalys train
Travel
Imagine waking up in your warm, pillowy sleeping bag, then unzipping your tent to look out at the stunning scenery of the Alaska coastline as it drifts by. Fog rises off the water surrounding you, and you remember you're not on land. You're onboard the Alaska Ferry, a ferry system
Operation Family Support
WASHINGTON (AFNS) - About a year ago, Maj. Nicholas Sabula received word of an upcoming assignment following his deployment in Afghanistan. He became concerned, however, when he learned that his new duty station and the local area didn't have adequate services for his son, who was diagnosed with autism in 2006. But shortly
News
Retired Master Sgt. Edmund Cox did not know any of the 64 individuals whose names were published in a Nov. 16, 2017, Stars and Stripes article entitled "Remembering The Edison 64." Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the corner of Lehigh Ave. and Eighth St., Thomas Alva Edison High School has the
Operation Family Support
The military has a plethora of programs aimed at building resilience in service members and their families, but needs a better system in place to measure their success, a study has revealed. Commissioned by officials from the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, the Rand Corp.
Operation Family Support
For women, pregnancy can mean packing on extra pounds and cutting out exercise for a few months. This wasn't the case for Miriam Howard, executive officer for the 62nd Maintenance Group commander, who gave birth to her son, Jalen, 16 months ago and used the qualities of the Comprehensive Airmen Fitness
Veterans
Even though it had been nearly 66 years since World War II veteran Bob Comstock had sat in the gun turret seat on the B-29 Superfortress, as soon as he settled in, it all came rushing back to him. The 89-year-old veteran from Mill Creek visited the Museum of Flight a
Focus
The Military Family Day event in Lacey started small in 2003. It began as a march attended by about 500 people. The celebration now boasts more than 3,000. And nobody is happier about the growth than event director Andrew Oczkewicz, who has experienced it from the very beginning. Oczkewicz calls the success of
Focus
The Museum of Flight will host a talk by Fallen Heroes Project founder Michael Reagan at 2 p.m. on Aug. 20. The Edmonds-based artist has created more 2,200 custom, hand-drawn portraits of service men and women killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Each drawing was done free of charge for the family
Focus
FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. (AFNS) - A student attending the Survival Evasion Resistance Escape training course in the Colville National Forest was rescued Aug. 10 after he went into anaphylactic shock following a bee sting. The student, 1st Lt. Andrew Metzger, was practicing evasion techniques when he was stung. Three Airmen responded to the call
Focus
There's been a lot of talk about the recent Department of Defense proposal to change the long-standing military retirement system, which entitled only Servicemembers who ended their service after 20 years to receive full retirement benefits. The new plan, which was presented by the Defense Business Board in late July, would
Concert Alert
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Focus
Working at the Washington Army National Guard's armory in downtown Tacoma, Maj. Brian Nelson never has to go far to enjoy one of his favorite spots to go for a run. Stadium High School's iconic Stadium Bowl is right down the street. "I've been running the stairs there for the last couple
Focus
Col. Scott Lofreddo, who has been the commander of the 593rd Sustainment Brigade for just over a year, cannot stop talking about what his Soldiers are up to and how his brigade is using better education and training to help them adapt on the battlefield. "The Sustainers University was designed to
