Music
Sorry I've been AWOL for the last few weeks, but between my email being hacked and throwing my old punk self into the OccupyTacoma.org movement I've been hella busy. In the early-to-mid '80s I was exposed to a ton of music, but the stuff that really got to me was the
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The string of words that make up the name Death By Stars sounds at once full of portent and utterly frivolous. This dichotomy seems to seep into and help define the band's music as well. Combining the biggest, most direct qualities of punk, electronica and psych-rock, the band has cooked
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America's First Corps bid farewell to the first female I Corps command chaplain during a Change of Stole ceremony June 29 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. "The passing of the stole is a tangible representation that the responsibility for spiritual leadership and pastoral care has passed from one chaplain to another," said
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Thing: Edible bakery oddities Made by: Kim Alexander Business began: Just this year Already: Balls to the wall busy Can't say I'm not: A little creeped out By: Her creations That: You're supposed to eat And: Her giddy attitude At: Something so wrong I mean, really: Ogre Toes? And: Witch's Digits? Tasting like: Almond or maple? She's: nuts. What creeped me out the
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Spc. Arshia Gill is breaking the mold and has become one of the many new female soldiers stepping into a combat military occupational specialties. But, for Gill, she's become more than just a trail blazer, she's an engineer, a student and a soldier all wrapped up into one. Gill is a
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I want your show to be good. I think that gets lost in the hurt and high dudgeon that follows a negative review. In the days leading up to a performance, I fret over every bad omen. I hate writing pans. I don't want to be the bearer of
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I want your show to be good. I think that gets lost in the hurt and high dudgeon that follows a negative review. In the days leading up to a performance, I fret over every bad omen. I hate writing pans. I don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings.
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For the uninitiated, there are apparently three main components of flamenco: cante (voice), toque (guitar) and baile (dance). From what we understand it takes all three to make flamenco magic, and that's just what 3 Glorias Flamenco en Vivo should offer up Saturday at the Broadway Center in Tacoma. Bringing
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Your routine come fall is fairly predictable. The flannel shirts come out. Your motivation level slows to that of a nearly-hibernating American black bear. And your consumption of beer goes WAY up. That's why Friday's annual Fall Brew Fest at Varsity Grill in downtown Tacoma is so perfect for you.
Travel
Walla Walla is a beautiful town in Eastern Washington. It's internationally renown for its more than 140 wineries. The downtown area is charming and there is such a family feel about the area. "It feels like what it was like when I was a child, riding your bike to school and
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Back for its fourth season, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts' Comedy in the Box series opens this year's schedule Thursday with comedian Eddie Ifft. Known around the world - thanks in large part to tireless touring - Ifft has achieved a comedy career of moderate success through many
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Julia Jones may have found Tacoma's Halloween Pulse. She's the mind behind Le Noir Bizarre, a three-floor, dark holiday extravaganza happening Sunday at Sanford and Son Antiques. Jones has a couple dozen craftspeople, performers and assorted weirdoes lined up for this romanced/goth/steampunk celebration, and promises there will be plenty of
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At Bates Technical College you can learn a lot of things. Welding. Commercial truck driving. Sheet metal technology. Early childhood education. Even how to be a barber. And on Thursday, Bates will diversify the educational opportunities it offers even more, hosting a "Hoptoberfest" event - designed to educate the masses
Military Life
New United States Military Academy (USMA), Cadet Candidate Rachel Forbes, began her Plebe summer, July 2, after graduating from Steilacoom High School. She is the fifth member of her immediate family to consider the Army as a career and will be the fourth to attend the academy. Her father, Col.(R)
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Regional Health Command-Pacific and Madigan Army Medical Center celebrated the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps' 101st anniversary June 29 with a cake-cutting ceremony at the Madigan pond. Brig. Gen. Dennis LeMaster, commanding general, RHC-P, and an MSC officer, provided brief remarks before cutting a cake alongside the youngest MSC officers in
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The string of words that make up the name Death by Stars sounds at once full of portent and utterly frivolous. This dichotomy seems to seep into and help define the band's music as well. Combining the biggest, most direct qualities of punk, electronica and psych-rock, the band has cooked
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Could the biggest MC from Tacoma be someone ya never heard about? I think it could, and his name is Clemm Rishad. Rishad has been the Boy Wonder of Tacoma rap ever since his days at Foss High School, circa the early-to-mid 2000's. He's been respected by other MCs in the
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Hailing from Mexico City, Mexico, Los Headaches makes crisp and catchy garage pop that nominally vacillates between the notions of love and lust - with regards to girls. Sometimes these feelings are expressed with a kind of blushing, bashful naivete; other times - as in "Never Again," which finds Los
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There's a marshal beat that overtakes Peter Wolf Crier, filling the insides and edges of the band's songs with a stuttering, clanging rhythm. These are break beats that fizzle and surge beneath the kind of tuneful indie rock that has come to be expected from the Jagjaguwar label. The juxtaposition
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There's a reason Tacoma's C.F.A. (Cody Foster Army) is a T-Town music scene staple, and it's only partly due to the band's breakneck thrashing or topnotch facial hair. These dudes (guitarist Dave Takata, drummer Reno Dave Marseillan and Foster) have been there, done that in Tacoma, and they've got the
