Sipping Out
Thursday, April 28 Half-price bottle wine night for wines less than $100, Maxwell's Speakeasy, 454 St. Helens, Tacoma, 253.683.4115. Half-price wine, all night, Harmon Tap Room, 204 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.212.2725. $3 Thursdays: $3 beer, $3 wells, $3 for two hot dogs, 4 p.m. to close, Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave., Tacoma,
Food Matters
DINING OUT FOR LIFE Dine out and make a difference during the 17th annual Dining Out for Life event in the South Sound. When you dine out on Thursday, April 28, you join in the fight against AIDS. Eat at more than 70 local restaurants that will donate 25 percent of
Arts
On Tacoma's eastside, Swan Creek Park is a somewhat hidden and undiscovered-to-some 373-acre oasis with an active salmon stream, a vast network of pedestrian trails and a 50-acre mountain bike trail system. It's also home to a food forest, which is a one-acre plot permaculture garden utilizing the natural processes
Military Life
In 2009, Katelyn Davis, who at the time was newly married to Army Sgt. Jeff Davis, started a blog in order to keep her and her husband's faraway families and friends up to date. The two had been high school sweethearts and grew up in a very small town in
Focus
Soldiers from Battle Company, Second Platoon of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT), 2nd Infantry Division from Joint Base Lewis-McChord will always remember March 14, 2007. March 14 was the day Cpl. Brian "Chevy" Chevalier was killed by a roadside bomb. The day the Soldiers
Schools
In the Steilacoom Historical School District, close to 50 percent of the student body comes from a military family. So it should come as no surprise that the Military Child Education Coalition extended an invitation to Steilacoom High School (SHS) to implement the Student 2 Student (S2S) program. S2S, which
Military Life
While working for a military contractor managing recreational facilities at various overseas locations throughout Iraq, Qatar and Afghanistan, Travis Luethe was right where he wanted to be. Although he worked 12-hour days seven days a week in an environment where a mortar or rocket attack on the installation wasn't out of
Stage
New Muses Theatre Company is among a handful of lesser-known companies that produces excellent theater for mostly sparse audiences. By my count, there were only 10 people in the audience opening night of Luigi Pirandello's absurdist play Six Characters in Search of an Author. The actors outnumbered the audience by
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In no way do I mean this as a slight, but it doesn't take long before Everyman starts to feel just a bit silly. That's a good thing. I find silliness extremely underrated in modern art critique. Indisputably the most famous English morality play of the late 15th century, Everyman relates
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Sloth, a world premiere play produced by Gold From Straw a quarter century after its writing, is at its best a compelling commentary on grief, and at its worst a somewhat confused jumble of casting decisions and script weaknesses. There's this voice that young people use when they play old people.
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There is a very interesting show at the gallery at the Evergreen State College. It's called Culture / Subculture. The theme is precisely what the title implies - artists' interpretations of the way we are, our many cultures and subcultures as depicted and/or symbolized in photography, prints, drawings and sculpture
Food Matters
Big changes in business structure are nothing new. Kathie Novasky can attest to that. Since launching her own Dinners Done Right (a meal preparation service) in Tacoma four years ago, Novasky says clientele has shifted from mostly dual parent households to include singles, single-parent families and older couples. Lemon zest and
Nightlife It List
Whoa whoa whoa. You want me to go dancing sober? Sober? You mean without intoxicants? How will I stand in long drink lines? Who will I drunkenly battle for the last roll of toilet paper? When that hottie from across the bar sees me staring, how can they know it's
Nightlife It List
Two factors separate The Viking Lounge from other dive bars of the area. First, the Viking has nightly karaoke. Second, the Viking is packed on the weekends. By 11 o'clock on most Fridays, you can hardly elbow your way to the bar. Cheap beer, country people and country songs. Not
Scene It
I bring a date to Vanity nightclub. I know, I know. Bringing a date kind of defeats the purpose of reporting on the hookup scene, right? But I've seen enough of these clubs alone. Every once in a while, papa's got to get some sugar. Plus, I tell her it's my
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On Tuesday Olympia's legendary K Records released its first hip-hop album in over a decade. Saturday, April 30, Olympians will get the chance to check out Eprhyme, the hip-hop artist Calvin Johnson and K decided would be a good fit for their popular indie record label. Eprhyme, now living in New
News Front
In 2014, construction began on what would become the all new Beachwood Elementary School on Joint Base Lewis-McChord. With the school's completion in September 2015, it marked the completion of five of the six schools on JBLM. Evergreen Elementary is slated to open its doors in January 2017. Extensive thought
News Front
Ready to go to the 2016 JBLM Airshow & Warrior Expo Saturday, Aug. 27 and Sunday, Aug. 28? The weather should be fine; the visitors' count for the event may approach 300,000; and the static displays and aerial demonstrations will amaze. "After a four-year hiatus, we're pleased to bring this event back
Arts
Kittredge Hall at the University of Puget Sound (UPS), home to the Art Department and Kittredge Art Gallery, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. From 1943 to 1944, long before it was home to the Art Department, Kittredge housed the Army Specialized Training Unit. Two hundred and thirty-eight young soldiers
Military Life
Rochelle Riley, D.D.S., M.S. of Northwest Dental Medicine in Puyallup, was destined to follow in her father's footsteps of being a dentist. Her father practiced in Tucson, Arizona, and it is where Riley would eventually attend college. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in
