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I’m winning. I invested in Tacoma five years ago amid such scrutiny for locating in Tacoma, let alone choosing to buy a home on the Eastside. Now, the home I purchased has more than doubled in value and I’m just 1.5 miles away from a downtown that’s bustling with life and options. Along
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I visited the Tacoma Art Museum again last week. Having already seen most of what’s on display, I went back to see what I’d missed and re-view shows I’ve already written about. Guess what. Mary Randlett’s Puget Sound landscape photographs are still as hauntingly beautiful as ever, and the quilts
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A big bowl of spook can be found in Auburn. "The House of Terror Haunted House at the SuperMall" runs now through Halloween. This is a house where no expense was spared to clear the bladders and the bowels of those who attend. The price for The House of Terror
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Editor\'s note: New permit laws have forced the closure of the Sanford & Son Haunted house for 2007. Anyone who drives around in Tacoma’s Theater District has probably noticed some mysterious A-board signs that have popped up along Ninth Avenue and Broadway. They read "Haunted House Here: 745 St. Helens — Oct.
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With each Radiohead album, the listener is introduced to a completely unique musical experience. From The Bends to Hail to the Thief, Radiohead shifts in an entirely different musical direction. These are not only shifts in musical style but also shifts in the emotions the music invokes in the listener.
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3:10 TO YUMA: Christian Bale plays an Easterner who lost a leg in the Civil War and has now come to the Arizona territory to try ranching. Russell Crowe plays the vicious leader of a gang feared in the territory. Almost by unlucky fate, the rancher joins a posse to
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A documentary featuring devastating testimony from men and women who had top government or military jobs, had responsibility in Iraq or Washington, implemented policy, filed reports, labored faithfully in the service of U.S. foreign policy, and then left the government. Some jumped, some were pushed. They all feel disillusioned about
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There is a steady throb emanating from deep within the belly of the student union building at University of Puget Sound. The sound comes from a dark cave-like corner of the basement that is hidden behind a door that is cloaked in band stickers and show posters. The sign on
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Sanford and Sons Middle Floor Merchants have a tight grip on what the fashion-conscious want — dresses to dressers; handmade soaps to hand massages, scarves of silk to silk satchels. Park on Broadway, waltz in to Sanford and Sons (try not to be distracted by all the great antiques, you
Outdoors
There are few ways you can enjoy everything that makes the Northwest so awesome all at once, but take a cruise to Blake Island and you can do it all, from quintessentially Northwest views to food to history. Blake Island is only accessible by boat. If you don't have your
Military Life
Although Anna Grimm grew up in Washington state, falling in love with her husband Jeremiah Madden, a master sergeant in the Air Force, has taken her around the world and back during the past seven years. "When we met, I was working in Seattle, and he was stationed in Hawaii. I
News Front
In 2013, Americans ranked cyber attacks as the top threat to the country, second in danger to the current class of terrorists. This year in a recent Pew Research Center poll, ISIS and Iran's nuclear arms program polled first while cyber attacks ranked second, placing ahead of global economic instability, infectious
Music
Karaoke can be a divisive thing: it's implicitly designed to let the singer let off a little bit of steam, to picture themselves fronting a band, to get their moment in the spotlight without anyone judging them. Karaoke is a place for amateurs to imagine being professionals, and I believe
South Sound Cinema
Going to the movies in 2016 is sort of a depressing experience. You plunk down $12-15 just to get in, then $10 or more for popcorn, soda, candy, and whatever else you like to munch on. The days of sneaking in food are long past us. Then you sit down
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I've grown up and spent 90 percent of my life in Tacoma, and like any good son of Grit City, the candy-cane-colored Frisko Freeze sign is seared into my brain forever. Frisko has always been a favorite of mine, and it's one of the first places I take Tacoma newbies.
Military Life
Once a military family receives orders to PCS, one of the very first things they discuss is housing options. Will they live on post or off post? Will they rent or buy? No matter where a military family finds themselves, there are lots of options on where to live. If
Travel
Outlet malls are well worth the time to visit. As I walked around the mall in North Bend, I marveled at the variety of products offered by such stores as Banana Republic and Lane Bryant to Kitchen Collection and Pendleton. Outlet malls feature scores of stores offering well-known consumer product brands, with
Outdoors
Ready to join the growing peloton and pedal around Pierce County? For those who like to ride their bicycles, the county has just published its seventh version of the Pierce County Bike Map. The free map focuses on the on-road bikeways, such as roads with wide lanes, paved shoulders, and designated bicycle
Attractions
Many of history's most important moments required documents of some sort. When Einstein discovered the theory of relativity, he had to write it down somewhere. If someone wrote a book or a play or an opera, there was always a first draft. Generals didn't have Microsoft Word to type out
