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On Feb. 28, 1992 a dedication ceremony was held in the Medical Mall at Madigan Army Medical Center where more than 400 people watched congressman and generals dedicate the new, $280 million structure we now operate in known as Madigan. For the next few weeks, staff members worked
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You love television. You always have. It's part of being American, like processed cheese and alarming obesity statistics. Most of all, you love the really old TV shows you grew up on (or at the very least grew up smoking weed out of a Mountain Dew can to on Nick
Health
What if Soldiers could train themselves to control the physical reactions that often mark post-traumatic stress -- the racing heart, rapid breathing, and overtuned responses that make it difficult to focus on the task at hand? What if that physical control could make them feel
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The Augustana Symphonic Band - from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. - has some history behind it. Like, a lot of history. A history that goes all the way back to 1874, the year the Augustana Symphonic Band was born. 138 years later, the squad of highly-trained wind instrument Jedis descends
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Look, we realize there's a decent chance you've never been to a real, live Latino dance party. We're going to level with you: neither have we. We went to Cabo once on spring break, and sometimes on Friday nights we go to El Toro for giant margaritas the size of
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The Tacoma Concert Band doesn't fuck around. They win awards, tour Europe, kick ass and take names - not necessarily in that order. Music Director Robert Musser and his 60 strong Tacoma Concert Band members are known for unleashing memorable performances on Grit City, and there's a descent chance Saturday's
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Ten soldiers, all of them from 5th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, will go to Fort Sill, Okla., to compete in the 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade's Boxing Smoker, Feb. 28 - March 1. Sweat trickles down Spc. Durrell Austin's
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Has anyone ever told you you're "everyone's problem?" Has anyone ever told you you're "unsafe?" Has anyone ever told you they don't like you "because you're dangerous?" If so, the Paper Airplane Flight School Saturday at Olympic Flight Museum might be perfect for a maverick just like you. Promising "an
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The Tacoma Young Artist Orchestra will once again impress Saturday when it delves into work by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt as part of the production, From the Bohemian Countryside. Scheduled at the Urban Grace Church, there will be 100 free main floor tickets made available
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A lot of people balk when things get churchy. We can understand that. And there's no denying the organizations behind the Urban Lecture Series - including Urban Grace Church, Immanuel Presbyterian, Northwest Leadership Foundation, Pacific Lutheran University's Center for Community Engagement and Service and St. Leo Parish - are a
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Your transition from indie-scenester to minivan-dad has been nothing short of a metamorphoses. So there's a good chance you'll enjoy the University of Puget Sound's take on Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, which according to pre-production hype is "based on a series of tragic and joyous ancient Roman myths," in which characters
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Want to feel totally worthless? Stumble into the fourth annual Youth Art Show at King's Books in Tacoma Friday and behold an amazing display of artwork 10-times better than anything you could ever do, all made by mere children. This year's show features the work of students from three local
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The 253 Collective, founded by Tacoma's own Linda Danforth, has been going strong for two-plus years. Friday, with help from Tower Bar & Grill, the 253 Collective celebrates the opening of its latest group show, which according to hype (and not surprisingly) "aims to highlight and celebrate local artists and
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Tanglewood GrillWhere: 3222 56th St. NW, Gig Harbor, 253.858.5555Hours: Open daily for lunch at 11 a.m., dinner served at 4:30 p.m. and breakfast Sunday at 8 a.m.Cuisine: Pacific Northwest inspired American dishes of steak, seafood, burgers, meat-topped salads, sandwiches, appetizers and weekend breakfast.Scene: Casual dining vibe, servers on
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It's a big weekend for the finer shades of music in Tacoma, and part of that has to do with Sunday's performance by the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, which, under the direction of longtime (and soon to step down) Music Director Harvey Felder, will take on a selection of orchestral works
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Ads for Theater Artists Olympia's A Bucket of Blood pose the question, "Who is Walter Paisley?" It's unlikely you've ever seen Roger Corman's 1959 B-movie original, so I'll fill you in. Walter Paisley is a miserable busboy in a late-‘50s Beat club called the Yellow Door. He's
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BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLACK SQUIRREL >>> Friday, Feb. 24 Brotherhood of the Black Squirrel's second record, The Dust Bowl Ghosts, released last April, is described as "a trip through the dreams and nightmares of a down-on-his-luck circus comedian with a bum leg and child support payments." If that doesn't sound like a
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(Photo: Teamwork makes the dream work! The new Captain Meriwether AUSA Board Members are all smiles as they show off their AUSA Volunteers T-shirts. Shown from back left: Tina Torfin (Second Vice President), Janine Dorsey (Chapter Secretary), Sandi Lewis (Co-Director of Community Partners), John Colvin (Individual Membership), Isabella Colvin (Chapter
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Airman 1st Class Leah Young admits that her generation is filled with people with a heightened sense of entitlement. "It's a very ‘give-it-to-me' mentality," said the 21-year-old Pittsburgh, Pa., native. It's also a mentality she refuses to identify with. "I embrace responsibility," she said. That attitude and determination was acknowledged recently as Young, a
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Tuskegee Airman Capt. George Hickman loved aviation and airplanes so much growing up he often brought his small-scale airplane models with him to school. "The teachers took them away ... that broke my heart," he said with a laugh. That love of aviation at an early age helped fuel Hickman to a
