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Approximately 800 U.S. Army and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel kicked-off Orient Shield 14 during an opening ceremony at Camp Higashi-Chitose, Japan, Oct. 27. The ceremony took place in a rain soaked field surrounded by a display of American Stryker and Japanese fighting vehicles and an array of
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Olympia artist Pat Tassoni works on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. "My home office is a spaceship," says the artist, whose full-size command center - built completely from repurposed materials - will be on display Friday night at Matter Gallery's first Halloween celebration. And that's not even the strangest
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Most musicians first get their feet wet by aping their favorite bands for hours in front of their mirrors, so it makes perfect sense that bands would dress up as their favorite acts for Halloween. To wit, Night of the Living Tribute Bands features Olympia's musicians and
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It's been a tough month. What this rain-soaked weekend calls for most is one awesome round of head-banging, guitar-thrashing, devil-horn-signing indoor entertainment, away from all those candy-crazed toddlers. Let there be rock! Aussie ensemble AC/DC is still touring even as they crumble like arctic ice, but I can tell you
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For lack of a better term, I'm tempted to call Nathan Barnes' paintings pop surrealism, but his paintings are about 10 times better than most of what falls into that category. And yes, there really is such a thing. You can find it on Google and Wikipedia.
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For lack of a better term, I'm tempted to call Nathan Barnes' paintings pop surrealism, but his paintings are about 10 times better than most of what falls into that category. And yes, there really is such a thing. You can find it on Google and Wikipedia. Among famous artists
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Some people don't like the word locavore for a variety of reasons. Played out. Not real. Meh. I wonder if it is because they don't know what a locavore really is. It's an animal, friends. Look, like the name or not, this creature isn't the mythical Bigfoot - it is real
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This isn't just a story about Olympia restaurants: It's also a self-guided walking tour of Capitol Way, Olympia's answer to Main Street. The stretch from where the road begins at the Olympia Farmers Market south to the State Capital Museum on 21st Avenue is a great walk to take to get
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Olympia Little Theatre has harpooned a Moby-Dick of a show with Red Herring. Its production opens on Maggie, a brassy Bostonian cop. Her partner in love and heroism, Frank, is trying to convince her to marry him. She pumps the brakes, claiming eagerness to solve the case
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Olympia Little Theatre has harpooned a Moby-Dick of a show with Red Herring. Its production opens on Maggie, a brassy Bostonian cop. Her partner in love and heroism, Frank, is trying to convince her to marry him. She pumps the brakes, claiming eagerness to solve the case of a body
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Olympia doesn't roll up the sidewalks at 9 o'clock, but it sometimes seems as though the city does turn off the oven and start stacking the chairs on top of the tables. Finding a good meal late at night in Thurston County can be challenging - especially on a weekday. It
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Well, hidee, thar, younguns! This here's yer ole Pappi Copperhill. I'll swear, I was borned and brought up high in the Appalachians o' West Virginny. When I was a young'un, muh fambly an' me lived so far back up in them woods they had to pipe sunshine in to us,
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November seems to be one of those months. You have the best intentions not to spend too much money over the weekend, but then it's Saturday night and you just bought the whole bar shots - for the fifth time. Well, here's to a Sunday of cheap entertainment. The Tacoma
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Following the popularity of last winter's Poetry Above the Roar event, three Pacific Northwest artists - a poet, composer, and a singer - will again take the chill out of the season with a return performance at the University of Puget Sound. Mezzo-soprano Erin Calata will sing 10 works of
