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It used to be that roller derby events were few and far between - whenever one popped up it was to be savored like a rare commodity. These days, in a major improvement, it seems South Sound derby fans have roller-skate-clad fun to get behind almost every weekend. Saturday, Tacoma
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You're goddamn ridiculous. Just admit it. For this reason, the Metro Parks annual Outdoor Challenge is right down your alley. Starting at 11 a.m. Saturday morning at Owen Beach at Point Defiance Park, teams of two adults and family teams of four will battle for supremacy in a bevy of
Military Life
If you're looking for some exercise or fun and competition, then there's a swishing good time waiting for you on Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM). Beginning in the middle of January, intramural basketball for both men and women begins on JBLM. But if rebounds and free throws aren't your thing, then check
Operation Family Support
For those looking for an easy way to help military families, throughout the month of May the Madigan Foundation is hosting a diaper drive. People can drop off factory wrapped and sealed packages of diapers at Pierce College's Fort Steilacoom and Puyallup campuses. The U.S. Army Fire Department on Joint Base
Veterans
Disabled American Veterans department service officer Mark Melton helps nearly 200 veterans with their benefits claims and paperwork each month out of his office at the American Lake VA. Every once in a while, Vietnam and Korean War veterans will meet with Melton and try to file a claim, despite the
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Nate Jackson organizes a super funny collection of super comedians weekly, which is super. He's a super funny comic himself, so much so that he reigned supreme at the same Bay Area Black Comedy Competition won previously by Mark Curry and Jamie Foxx. Super! He promises
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In Evergreen's rendition of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, the star-crossed couple consists of two women - and that's just the beginning of the production's gender play. The show also features cross-dressing and drag performances. Different as that may sound to some, the free production's locations are even more so. Romeo
Ragnet
In every issue of this fine rag my hack team of wannabe journalists and I tackle some of the most laughable criminal acts that have recently happened in our area. Then - if we're doing our job - we write about those crimes in a way that makes you chuckle,
News Articles
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Wendy Allison doesn't know the details of how her husband was killed and she will likely never know. One thing she does know is the knowledge and experience gained from dangerous Special Operations missions and training exercises - that have taken so many lives - helped contribute
Music
As the years of music's existence drag on, different eras and time periods are increasingly cannibalized and morphed into new, unsteady amalgams. Profoundly specific subgenres spring up with the rapacious frequency of weeds through cracks in the sidewalk. Musical ground-breakers are summoned up and recontextualized in the manner of Fred
Music
SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR >>> Friday, May 27 Some performers, like Jarvis Cocker or Prince, are able to make their music purely, simply, uncomfortably about sex without it being embarrassing or seeming insincere. Their songs are chicken fights, bold stare-downs, at the end of which we always blink. There's always going to be
Music
"I started rapping when I decided I wanted to make a rap album for my cat," Hollywood Kill Krew (HKK) frontman Doc Hollywood tells me. "I didn't know anybody that rapped, so I would just do it by myself for my cat, Mr. Cool." Although Hollywood says he didn't know anybody
Music
For all the writing we do about indie rock acts and folky, sad-bastard music in this fine rag, there's a fairly vibrant jazz, funk, blues and big band scene that has remained strong in these parts for years. Saturday is a day to take a dip in those brassy waters
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Forging through the brush and forest near Lake Merwin, Washington, 3rd Armor Cavalry Regiment soldiers from Fort Lewis returned to the base at the start of the 1970's without finding the famed hijacker D.B. Cooper. F.B.I. agents requested assistance from the Army to search the area where Cooper was believed to
Music
It can't be understated the enormous role nostalgia plays in how we ingest all matter of art, but especially music. Much in the same way that smells have an uncanny way of triggering astonishingly vivid memories, music has the ability to transport you back to a specific moment in time,
Reviews
ANNOUNCER: It is hard not to like any place that holds beer meetings and gatherings around here, especially calling them Lodge Meetings at Base Camp - that's a great salute to the area. And it is only one of the many things we like about Peaks and Pints. Now, for
Arts
There are something like 360 art works by approximately 120 artists in the annual postcard show at South Puget Sound Community College. But who's counting. Actually, I am. I counted 118 names on the announcement card, but sort of lost my place while counting, and I multiplied that by three
Stage
Geoffrey Chaucer, a poet and raconteur who plied his trade in the politically fraught London of the late 14th century, is now regarded by scholars as the father of English literature. His unfinished work The Canterbury Tales is a dreaded but frequent college assignment six centuries later - yet the
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Mal De Mar make absurdly catchy indie pop, which, on Saturday, will be served along with the considerably more caustic Pioneers West and the experimental hard rock of Musuji. It’ll be a strange grouping, to be sure, but a bill so intriguing in its strangeness that one should hardly be
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When the Volcano’s resident Dungeons and Dragons expert, Joe Izenman, says something, I tend to listen. (Especially when he’s talking about beards or mustaches, but that’s beside the point ... or is it?) So, when Izenman said on SPEW a few months back, “I first saw Travis Barker leading blues
