Outdoors
Boat lovers of all ages will be thrilled with the 42nd Annual Olympia Harbor Days taking place over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 4-6. This free, three-day festival aims to celebrate the history of tugboats in the South Sound. Guests of the festival can come down to Olympia's Percival Landing Park
Outdoors
I've lived in Washington for seven short years now, but yes, I have made the pilgrimage to Puyallup to attend the state fair. It's a rite of local citizenship. My wife, an immigrant from that far-off land called Wichita, impressed upon me an obligation to sample Fisher scones with raspberry
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Ronald Raymond isn't expecting Arnold Schwarzenegger to show up flexing and posing. But Raymond is hoping some facsimiles arrive, or at least some want-to-be look alikes step up on the stage Saturday, Sept. 5 at the body building championship at Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Nelson Recreation Center. It's all about incentive. "That's right,"
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There is a connection between the 2005 devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and this year's massive forest fires in eastern Washington. Denise Dhane is that connection to Operation Firestorm. The vice president of the DuPont Sub-Chapter of the Association of the United States Army, Dhane and Don Ham, the commander
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Sixteen servicemembers reported Aug. 23 to the military's first training camp for women's rugby, including a soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Armed Forces Sports has been working for about a decade to set up a female rugby program, said Steven Dinote, who directs the sports program for The Department of Defense. "It's
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The first time I heard Devo was on KISW in 1979 with a cover of the Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” and I thought, “What the fuck is this noise?” But the more I heard it, the more it grew on me. Even though I never became obsessed with
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I had goose bumps this morning. This perturbed me, especially as I was wearing a fleece shirt, long pants, and socks. Wool socks. I rarely wear socks. Consider it a sign that the seasons are really, undeniably changing. Short of bundling up in layers or curling up in the fetal position in front of the
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There’s a new shopping district in town. Sure, the Stadium District has boasted Rankos Pharmacy, Tiki Lounge, the (now defunct) Space and the well established King’s Books, along with Franco the Tailor, several salons, Enoteca and Tacoma Wine Merchants, several restaurants, and Stadium Thriftway, but now, with the official opening of
Outdoors
The yellow lines on his map that marked the routes Gino Moroni has ridden his motorcycle across the state, told the story. Perched on his bike, he's been there, seen that. "I've done all this yellow stuff," Moroni said with a grin, pointing to his map highlighted with yellow lines. There's a lot
Reviews
Established just after the end of prohibition in 1934, The Beach at Titlow in Tacoma has flourished for over 80 years in part because of the Narrows Bridge view, but also because of the home-style food it serves up daily. Like many of the taverns across town, The Beach serves
Travel
The towering natural sandbox that is the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is the only place in the world where you can marvel at dunes that thrust as high as 500 feet into the sky, an ocean at their feet, festooned with coastal forests and tree islands. But they're not
Attractions
The Northwest is a wild kind of place, at least outside of the cities. Mere miles outside of Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and other major Northwest cities, you'll find forests and bodies of water and the Northwest as it was before humans took over. You'll also find plenty of places to
News
They are a rapidly vanishing national treasure, those valiant young men, those members of the Greatest Generation who were willing to sacrifice everything in order to, truly, save the world. At the rate of nearly 500 a day, every day, they leave us, and with them their memories, their unique
Military Life
Despite being a whimsical woodland sprite bringing the gift of smiles and pretty fingernails to kids at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center, "Nail Fairy" Martina Ngo is pretty down-to-earth in her approach to romance. She describes the courtship and subsequent engagement and marriage to the Marine she calls
Military Life
Staff Sgt. Carlos Delgado gave Patrick Bowman an occasional helping hand and loads of words of encouragement as Bowman wheeled his blue Top End racing wheelchair over a 100-yard course. "I'm just here to help," Delgado, a combat medic assigned to 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, told me as Bowman crossed
Music
It's no secret that music can play a vital role in improving a child's education. Research has shown that learning to play a musical instrument improves academic performance, teaches discipline, and develops physical skills such as rhythm and coordination. Studies have also shown that children who study music demonstrate increased
Military Life
There's a certain confidence and positivity that Kimberly Benoit oozes, the same way the white foamy product comes out of the can onto her client's hair. She deftly multitasks, telling the story of her life as a military spouse and giving insights to life lessons she has learned while her
Arts
It's been a long time since I've seen art by Marty Fehl, and his new show, Psycho-Moto-Psycho, at Brick & Mortar Gallery is quite a departure from the paintings I saw years ago - a good and exciting departure. Fehl's new work consists of paintings and installations based on motorcycles and
Stage
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is universally acclaimed as one of the best American novels of the 20th century, and the Oscar-winning film version of her book, released in 1962, was one of America's best and most popular films. Atticus Finch, as portrayed by Gregory Peck,
Music
I've spoken before about the archetype in music known as the manic preacher. These are the wild people who command an audience with an avalanche of words and wide-eyed ideas. Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Jim Carroll, Isaac Brock, Patrick Stickles - these are people linked not quite by ideology or
