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We've all seen the footage: President John F. Kennedy in the gleaming dark blue limousine, smiling and waving at the crowd, and then the shot rings out in Dealey Plaza, and everything in a relatively mundane presidential moment has become a piece of history. Author and journalist Dean R. Owen
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Award-winning guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tommy Castro is famed for his signature brand of tough, rocking rhythm and blues. With his eyes and ears firmly on the future, Castro, along with The Painkillers - original Tommy Castro Band bassist Randy McDonald, Bowen Brown on drums and James Pace on keyboards - has stripped
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I can hardly wait to see "Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-Life Art in New Mexico" at Tacoma Art Museum. As a matter of fact, I won't wait; I'll preview it now instead of writing my regular review column, and then I will review it for the
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I can hardly wait to see "Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-Life Art in New Mexico" at Tacoma Art Museum. As a matter of fact, I won't wait; I'll preview it now instead of writing my regular review column, and then I will review it for the March 12 Weekly
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The soldier's eye never moved as he stood at attention surrounded in a cloth sea of red, white and blue. Patriotism and a sense of sacrifice bring about that kind of reaction. Yesterday afternoon, more than 75 organizations converged on and in Tacoma's Stadium High School's gymnasium for the area's 30th annual
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Eighty-two years ago, America's short-lived flirtation with a ban on alcohol came to an end. With no Prohibition, gone was the thrill of secret passwords, false storefronts and a bit of lawlessness. But in the last year, Olympia has enjoyed a harkening back to those days of excess - Dillingers
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Seattle's acclaimed Total Experience Gospel Choir, led by the Rev. Pat Wright, has performed all over the world, has made numerous recordings, has included Sanjaya (American Idol) and Ray Dalton (Macklemore/Lewis), and has been the featured group in the annual Seattle production of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity. The Total Experience
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Pacific Lutheran University presents the Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, a unique and perpetually relevant three-day event that provides educators, students and community members a way to use the lessons of the Holocaust to empower themselves and others to challenge prejudices, violence and other forms of dehumanization. The
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Master Sgt. Scott Satterlee is really good at shooting things. He's a member of Joint Base Lewis-McChord's elite 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), where he's the noncommissioned officer in charge of JBLM's Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat Course. He's also a nationally ranked competitive shooter, winning top spots in contests around