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Soldiers assigned to the 570th Sapper Company conducted a five-day training exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Sept. 16-20 that provided leadership with evaluations in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan next year. During the weeklong training, soldiers received hands on refresher training on equipment standard in their field. They worked with the
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With The Evens, Amy Farina barrels on the drums, sometimes sounding as easy as morning fog rolling over settled water, other times sounding as sharp and heated as a first piercing. When she sings, she saturates with feminine power. Together with Ian MacKaye's sometimes plucking, often
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[CHAMBER POP] + SAT, SEPT. 28 The trio of You Are Plural make music for the kind of people that need a little more propulsion in their chamber pop. Made up of cello, Wurlitzer organ and drums, You Are Plural construct perfectly lovely tunes that benefit greatly from the sort of
Music
On opposite corners of the U.S., Ian MacKaye and I recently chatted on the phone. He was busy - in the middle of digitally archiving 900 Fugazi shows onto his Dischord Records website while simultaneously preparing for a west coast tour, including a stop in Olympia with his current band,
Music
A couple weeks ago, I threw a five-day music festival called Squeak and Squawk. One of the things that irked me most about the whole affair was how the crowds in Tacoma tend to react. Of course, all of the crowds were respectful and everyone had a fine old time,
Arts
There's a maze in a whirlwind in front of the Hands On Children's Museum in Olympia. Children love it. And so do art lovers, because it is a large-scale work of art by internationally renowned sculptor Patrick Daugherty. South Sound art lovers will recall Daugherty's delightful and amazing "Call of the
Food Matters
I love tasting menus, much the same way that I'm a proponent of communal tables and hanging my butt at the bar, which is where I prefer to eat. And if I can get a tasting menu at the bar, even better. Yes, I like extended, evening-long meals, and, frankly,
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At a time when the most common forms of entertainment come divided into discrete images, packaged in bursts of electrons, and squeezed between commercials, there is something very comforting about listening to a live human being, such as Elizabeth Lord. Her words can elicit the loudest laughter and swell an
Features
With the passing of the autumnal equinox marking the close of summer, many folks are daydreaming of pumpkin-flavored everything, baked goods and hot cocoa. But true Northwesterners and seaside dwellers have one thing on their minds ... oyster season. While many bundle up, snag their buckets and shovels and race
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on sale now Gilberto Santa Rosa Seattle. Aug. 16 8 pm. $40 (The Showbox, TM). MF Doom Seattle. Aug. 17 8 pm. $15 (The Showbox, TM). DJ AM Seattle. Aug. 18 10 pm. $20 (The Showbox, TM). Winard Harper Sextet Seattle. Aug. 21-22 7:30 pm. $23.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). Hot August Metal Fest Day 1
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ART AND WINE WALK Close your eyes and imagine strolling through charming shops and restaurants, eyeing art from local artists all the while sipping on vino. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Saturday, Oct. 5 tour a variety of downtown Puyallup establishments during the annual Art and Wine Walk. For $25 presale or
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Good music still exists - if you believe in voting and crowd opinion at live shows. If you believe in those two factors, at least, then you will believe that good music exists when AKA and The Heart Hurt Goods take the stage. The band is a hodge-podge of instrumental
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The trio of You Are Plural make music for the kind of people that need a little more propulsion in their chamber pop. Made up of cello, Wurlitzer organ and drums, You Are Plural construct perfectly lovely tunes that benefit greatly from the sort of nervous percussion provided by not
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I guess we should've seen it coming, ever since lo-fi recording became its own modest movement, that some people would take that ethic to its natural ending point. And so, we must say, the genre dubiously dubbed "shitgaze" was an inevitability. Testing the limits of tolerable listening conditions, bands like
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Their latest album, Green Light Go, is a nonstop exercise in full-on dance-rock combustion. The Redwood Plan is not fond of giving you a moment to breathe. From the first track, "Panic On," the album just does not rest. The style of dance-rock perpetuated by the Redwood Plan tends to defer
Show And Tell
When it comes to the truly great horror films of Irish cinema, everyone knows the classics: Leprechaun, Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun 5: In the Hood. ... What you may not know, is that there are scary movies hailing from the Emerald Isle that don't feature Warwick Davis as a
