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You poor, tragic thing. Your friends have all but deserted you for a fabulous holiday weekend camping in the mountains, and you are stranded, Banarama-style, here in the South Sound. The only way to exact revenge is to have a better time than those so-called friends. This calls for some
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If little red Porsches are for emasculated middle-aged men and monster trucks are for tattooed mullet-heads in muscle shirts, what rides do cool guys roll in? The answer idles among the motorcycles in the third annual Vintage Motorcycles Festival Aug. 23. That's right, see how they made them when they
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Dug out one of my old Soundgarden records this week. Not the obvious Superunknown. Not the purist Louder Than Love. Nah, I went for the big, bloated granddaddy of all grungedaddies Soundgarden album, Badmotorfinger - the masterwork that rates up there with Nevermind as one of the defining, sludgy, glorious
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Saturday Aug. 16, the Celebrating Military Service parade filled the streets of downtown Tacoma with military personnel and hardware. Hosted by the Daffodil Festival and the city of Tacoma, the parade was started to honor to service members in the area. This is the parade's second year. 2nd Lt. Sean Andrascik,
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One of the best things about the South Sound is the summer. So many festivals, so little time - and nobody wants to stay inside for anything. There's a good seven months out of the year when the weather stays locked inside a bad mood, so when the heat comes
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During the Napoleonic war in 1814, Denmark lost control over Norway, a territory it had held for more than 300 years. Unable to cope, Danes hit the Copenhagen bars, a force that still has a hold on them, often times until 5 a.m. Sunday morning. Norwegian leaders quickly came together
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Nate Jackson's Super Funny Comedy Show has returned to downtown Tacoma. The Lacey comedian organized a super funny collection of super comedians weekly at the Varsity Grill. Jackson's show disappeared when the Varsity converted to country bar Steel Creek. It was a super sad day. Jackson is a super funny
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Weekly Volcano scribe Jackie Fender has created Creative Colloquy aiming to share Tacoma's rich literary talents and foster relationships built upon mutual admiration of the written word. Held the last Monday at B Sharp Coffee House, the spoken word night has been so successful a print publication is in the
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The all-African-American Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry served in America's wars from 1866 through the end of World War III. They participated in cross-country cattle drives, escorted wagon trains and stagecoaches through often-volatile territories of the Wild West and fought in the Spanish-American War and both
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For the first time since 2006, all four of the 62nd Airlift Wing's airlift squadrons are home. The squadrons are back home as result of a new deployment rotation schedule which will allow them to rotate deployments with Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. "This rotation allows for a greater period of time
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