Features
Tucked in a small strip mall, Mystic Mocha in Graham has many of the same amenities as other coffee joints: a drive-thru window, coffee and drinks, pastries, light snacks and comfy couches. What sets Mystic Mocha apart is that while grabbing a beverage and a quick bite, you can have your
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Tacoma's Blue Mouse Theatre kicks the holiday season off in style Thursday with a classic, 1954's White Christmas. Director Michael Curtiz shrugs off the cynicism in his Casablanca and plunges into this unabashedly sentimental musical starring Bing Crosby. The teary finale makes the singing and dancing near worth it. Continuing
Arts
The exhibition Familiar Faces & New Voices: Surveying Northwest Art has been on display since this past spring but has not received the fanfare of blockbuster shows like Art AIDS America or Hide/Seek or 2015's Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition. But it is a solid and historically important show highlighting works by
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Place: Five Guys Burgers and Fries Location: Puyallup River Road: And Meridian Dubbed: Five Guys Calories and Fries By: Mr. DeRosa I've done a damn fine job staying away from my beloved bacon cheeseburger the last three months. It's been a challenge, but very worth it. I was doing just fine passing by Quick Pick on
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It's always fun to see local houses roll out Oliver! for the holidays, and Lakewood Playhouse's production is as fun as any - if you don't find yourself Dickens-ed out by the half-dozen versions of A Christmas Carol floating around the South Sound. Oliver! is a big show. It doesn't require
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Featuring members of Future Fossils, Radio-Flyer and Omni, the Mothership has some seriously gloomy cred. True to form, on the band's terminally grunge-leaning new LP, Ten Miles Wide, there is rarely a moment not dominated by huskily shouted vocals or an onslaught of guitars and drums having a shoving match
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The first few moments of "Is It Alright," the opening song on Mikal Cronin's debut LP, are filled with gentle, isolated vocal harmonies that immediately fill the listener with anticipation for Brian Wilson-esque pop reverie. Suddenly, in come crashing guitars, and the rest of the song begins to feel like
Stage
What really happened to make Ebenezer Scrooge change his mind about Christmas, or did he really change his mind at all? Maybe he decided it had all been a dream after all. What else could explain why many years later he could be so stingy as to refuse to give
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According to the hype, on Saturday night "The Space is going to be filled with so much fun and excitement you will be unable to contain it. You might even dance!" How's that for a promise? And there's good reason to believe it, with a bill that includes local favorites
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Why does The Jet City Fix still do a show every once in a while at Hell's Kitchen? Because Tacoma fucking loves The Jet City Fix, that's why. Perhaps it's because the band takes the town back to a simpler time - the early Bush years - when living was
Music
Have you ever seen the look on someone's face the first time he rides a roller coaster? It's a mixture of abject fear, exhilaration and satisfaction. This same convoluted look might grace your mug standing in front of Devil On a Leash Friday night at Hell's Kitchen. Bobble
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Hailing from Seattle, by way of Brooklyn, by way of Reykjavik, by way of Wisconsin, the Foghorns have clearly picked up some odd influences from desolate places. Using country and folk as a bed, the band adorns its songs with borrowed sounds from punk, new wave, zydeco and Hawaiian music,
Nightlife It List
If you're a frequent bar-goer in the South Sound, then you've surely been corralled into going to a trivia night, only to be stumped by the name of Jupiter's second moon. We all know the empty feeling of watching geekier teams chug beer after free beer after
South Sound Cinema
This is the year Olympia Film Society's annual film festival hit the big time. It was named one of the coolest festivals in the world by MovieMaker magazine, which noted, "The audiences are real movie lovers." The festival runs Friday, Nov. 9, through Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Capitol Theater. Adding
News Front
The men and women who serve this great nation are recognized every day for the amazing accomplishments they achieve and today is no different. The 627th Logistics Readiness Squadron (LRS) Airmen and the Department of the Army Civilians, jointly formed a Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) in 2011. Today the VPP was
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Effective Nov. 1, active-duty airmen selected for an extended deployment may apply to receive an advance assignment up to 16 months prior to the projected Report Not Later Than Date of the assignment. This means airmen can have permanent change of station orders in hand immediately after completing all required PCS
News Articles
When he first saw the flyers requesting coloring books for wounded warriors, Steve Russell knew he and his co-workers could help in some way. After all, Russell is an illustrator with the Technical Publications Team, Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, at Natick Soldier Systems Center. He
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Midtown Grill Bonney Lake. Wednesday Night Blues Jam. All Ages. 7-11 PM. COMEDY/GAMES Pints & Quarts Pub Westside Olympia - Westside. Bingo. Win prizes. 8:30 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Justin Stang. All Ages. 6 pm. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Lewis County. Samantha Crain. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Stonegate Pizza Tacoma
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. Repeal Day Celebration, with a showing of Pre-Prohibition movies, burlesque by TUSH, music by Greta Jane Quartet. All Ages. 7 pm. $8-$12. Harmon Tap Room Tacoma
