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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Wed night Irish Session. 7:00- 930. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade Community Center JBLM-Lewis Main. Bar Bingo in Heroes Lounge. No cash prizes. 7 pm. Pints & Quarts Pub
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Members of the Olympia hip-hop community, and beyond, join together for the Hip-Hop 4 the Homeless benefit, hosted at the Olympia Ballroom in Olympia. Originally founded in Vancouver, B.C., in 2002, HH4H moved to Olympia in 2007. This year performing are Afrok, The Staxx Brothers, AKA, Free Ya Mind, The Zulu
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In 1922, Fitzgerald wrote a short story called "Winter Dreams," which formed the basis for his most celebrated novel. Other than the novel's title, however, every other detail was true. Fitzgerald did meet his Maker with every reason to believe The Great Gatsby would vanish into obscurity. What
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I'm about to tell you a story, only one detail of which will be slightly untrue. See if you can guess which it is. Between 1922 and 1925, author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a novel called Winter Dreams. It was published in April 1925, selling less than 20,000 copies and earning
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Unh, get on up! Sometimes you just got to get funky. Did you know funk hails from the classical era? The word derives from fumigare, a Latin word that means "to release smoke." It refers to anything stinky or musty, and funk artists are still putting "stank" on it today.
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Who doesn't enjoy browsing through old photographs from days gone by? In addition to the enjoyment that is inevitable when looking at vintage photos, the "Found Photographs" exhibition in the Gallery at Tacoma Community College is filled with creative expression in a variety of media from
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Who doesn't enjoy browsing through old photographs from days gone by? In addition to the enjoyment that is inevitable when looking at vintage photos, the "Found Photographs" exhibition in the Gallery at Tacoma Community College is filled with creative expression in a variety of media from photos to paintings and
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Lt. Gen. Stephen R. Lanza, commanding general of I Corps at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, believes the new Army requires new leadership, new modes of thought and new motivation. His presentation, Jan. 15 at the University of Washington in Seattle, "Building Agile and Adaptive Leaders for a Complex Environment," illustrated those
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One by one, the 22 iconic Ford F-Series trucks that will be on display at the LeMay - America's Car Museum for the next six months were rolled into place. And Scott Keller, the museum's chief curator who spent nearly a year organizing this exhibit, watched with contentment. "This is one of
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In the movie Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, the rebels try to use the young heroine Katniss as a pivot point to rally others to their cause. They put Katniss in front of cameras and give her scripted lines to read through. She's worthless at that kind of acting. The
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The building exploded in cheers and tears of happiness flowed as the curtain was raised on approximately 60 soldiers from the 17th Field Artillery Headquarters, Headquarters Battery, and 256 Signal Company, 7th Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., signifying the end of a nine-month deployment to Kuwait in support of
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One of the South Sound's greatest living artists has at long last been given some of the recognition he deserves. Ron Hinson is revered by his fellow artists but has never before been recognized as he should have been by the art establishment. Now South Puget Sound Community College and
