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Freedom Fair along the Ruston Way waterfront is a yearly tradition for many South Sound families. It's been running strong for over three decades now. This year, in addition to the usual festivities on the Fourth, the gusto behind Freedom Fair helps celebrate the Centennial of Naval Aviation by expanding
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Tacoma has seen plenty of proms lately. And we're not even talking about the standard high school affairs. It seems like not long ago the "'80s Prom" was drawing folks by the half dozen to Hell's Kitchen, and that's just the start of the prom-themed events Tacoma has seen in
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The written word - especially in ink and paper physical form - just doesn't draw like it once did. Facts are facts. Instead of hiding its head in the sand and pretending this isn't the case, the Tacoma Public Library has been taking matters into its own hands - scheduling
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Comedian Craig Gass is no stranger to the Northwest, so it's not terribly surprising to see him scheduled to throw down the laughs Thursday at The Royal Lounge in Olympia. Well-known from Stern and countless TV appearances, not to mention an incredible knack for impersonations, Gass was raised by deaf
Features
Lunch time comes quickly for most servicemembers on Naval Base Kitsap (NBK), especially when their day starts at 6 a.m. Regardless of whether you're on NBK Bangor, NBK Bremerton, or NBK Keyport, it's worth noting that most servicemembers get released for lunch around 11 a.m., and nothing fills a restaurant
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It's O' dark thirty. Excitement is in the air. Anticpation is on the ground. One by one they arrive at the main gate until a crowd has formed. The 446th Airlift Wing hosted a two day civic leader tour June 23-24. The tour began at McChord
Travel
On a recent Saturday morning, I traveled to Vashon Island with the family. Within five minutes, we had met a woman who ventured down the Yukon River with her husband and a gaggle of dachshunds. We also experienced our first "Black Lives Matter" protest. That is just the kind of
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The green pen dangling from the clipboard in Sgt. 1st Class Michael Bailey's left hand would be used to determine if 2nd Lt. Limwell Mangrubang would earn his Expert Infantry Badge (EIB). Every so often, Bailey took the pen in hand and wrote something down. Most of the time, however, the
Food Matters
Still in an age where the word "vegan" is generally thought to be synonymous with skinny, pasty-faced PETA sign toters, a fully vegan café celebrating a one-year anniversary in a city the size of Tacoma is a big deal. One might say the owners of Caffe Dei are living the
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Though their brutal, improvised maelstroms don't have much in the way of sonic equivalents' in the Seattle underground scene, WaMü could nonetheless be lumped in with a handful of other Emerald City noisemakers like Stickers and MOUNTAINSS (to say nothing of Olympia's own Malaikat dan Singa) who treat the saxophone
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After taking a break for a couple years, Tacoma's nerdiest native sons, the Cutwinkles, have returned to the stage. Having formed as students at SOTA, the Cutwinkles quickly bonded over an intense love of punk-rock and video games. The resulting amalgam is one of the most ridiculous and fun bands
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Over the past decade, there has been an increased focus in indie rock on catharsis - of not shying away from emotion, of not acting cool about the weight of the world. Slam Dunk continue that celebration of emotion. At their best, their songs have a jubilant, giant sound that
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Billed as "twang infused Recession Rock," heavy on the banjo, strum guitar and snare drum (and don't you forget it), Pato Milo (San Francisco's Big Chicken Dinner) and Allan Canumay (Seattle's Jettison) of Dead Cat Hat will drop into The New Frontier in Tacoma on Sunday. Dead Cat Hat isn't
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I saw Night Beats throwing bones in a shot bar in Austin, Texas. I saw Night Beats drinking fresh-pressed apple juice in the backyard of a mobile home on Tacoma's South Side on the Fourth of July, just after finishing my first interview as a music writer for the Weekly
Arts
Tacoma's own Bruce Bickford, the legendary animator famous for his work on the Frank Zappa movie Baby Snakes, has his first Tacoma art exhibit at Spaceworks Gallery, and it's a doozie. The show includes two animated videos, still frames from many of his animated films, sculptures of clay and of
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There has been plenty of speculation about when Massimo Italian Bar and Grill will open in University Place. You know, Massimo Italian Bar and Grill ... that place that used to be Captain Nemo's. Recently, I dropped by the restaurant - still in full remodel mode - and chatted with
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The name of the show is Under Pink Skies, but the skies above the lush and colorful foliage in the Nina Weiss landscapes at Mavi Contemporary Art are orange and lavender and a steely blue-gray - not just pink. The colors and the sure and deliberate brushstrokes in these landscapes are
Stage
Longtime and much celebrated Tacoma theatrical director David Domkoski directs his last show in Tacoma before moving to the East Coast. The play is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. This modern classic set in the Wild West in 1890 is based on a short story by Dorothy M. Johnson.
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Here's an unsolicited testimonial from someone who knows: "Tacoma (Comedy) Club is so cool," Christopher Titus declared. "(It's like) what I imagine the '60s vibe was, when comedy was this perfect, precious thing ... when Carlin was coming up ... Tacoma's got this smart vibe to it that I really
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The third annual Olympia Independent Music Festival goes down Saturday and Sunday, July 2 and 3, in Sylvester Park. Thirteen bands, two days and immeasurable amounts of good indie music are in store. The Hard Way, Romanteek, Glass Elevator, One Nation Undereducated and Hollywood Kill Krew are just a few
