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Earlier this month, at the 30th annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado, two local beers stood head and shoulders above the competition. Located in Olympia, Fish Brewing Company's American style wheat beer with yeast, Leavenworth Boulder Bend Dunkelweizen, took the Bronze as the third best beer in that
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When asked, individuals who are thinking of joining the military will provide a number of reasons — economics, they need a job; to build a better future by having the military pay for college, so they can get a job; tradition…their family members may have served. When you
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Drink in a little art with your coffee at Amocat Cafe, where throughout the month of May you can view paintings by Angela Wales Rockett. Rockett's paintings are richly colored and expressively textured but very subdued abstractions inspired by landscape minus any overt references to land or water - with
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Drink in a little art with your coffee at Amocat Cafe, where throughout the month of May you can view paintings by Angela Wales Rockett. Rockett's paintings are richly colored and expressively textured but very subdued abstractions inspired by landscape minus any overt references to land or water - with the
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Like the legendary Bigfoot, the Western Air Defense Sector is rarely seen or heard. But WADS is, however, legendary. "You are at the tip of the spear; you are an awesome force," said Col. Robert Hehemann, the Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA) to the North American Aerospace Defense Command Director of Operations. On this
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There is a very interesting show at the gallery at The Evergreen State College. It's called Culture / Subculture. The theme is precisely what the title implies - artists' interpretations of the way we are, our many cultures and subcultures as depicted and/or symbolized in photography, prints, drawings and sculpture
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There is a very interesting show at the gallery at the Evergreen State College. It's called Culture / Subculture. The theme is precisely what the title implies - artists' interpretations of the way we are, our many cultures and subcultures as depicted and/or symbolized in photography, prints, drawings and sculpture
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Established theater companies aren't always interested in taking risks when it comes to selecting plays to produce. Thankfully, playhouses in the South Sound have been taking steps over the past few years to change this, to step out of their comfort zones and put new and exciting works on their
Arts
The "Colored Pencil Society of America's 24 International Exhibition" at American Art Company is surprising on many levels. For starters, the 119 works of art that crowd the gallery walls are really paintings, not drawings, by almost any criteria, despite being done with pencils. Second, the detailed technical expertise and
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Regular readers of this column know I do my best to avoid Arts Walk. I can't stand the crowds, and you're subjected to a dozen bad works of art for every good work of art. Still, for those who are willing to put up with that, there is some great
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From the hundreds of shows to choose from at Olympia's Arts Walk this weekend, I decided to write about just one. It sounds fascinating and appropriate to Earth Day, which coincides with the opening day of Arts Walk. It's the globes project at Tom Anderson's studio at 117 Washington St.
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Confronting obstacles leads to success. This is the theme of this year's upcoming Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Care Event. Approximately 200 Air Force Wounded Warriors and the Army's Warrior Transition Battalion (WTB) soldiers, along with caregivers, coaches, mentors and support personnel, will converge at locations across Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The event begins
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The third time is always a charm. The Eastside Subchapter of the Captain Meriwether Lewis Chapter (CMLC) of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) hosted its Annual Salute to the Troops, Eastside's Military Family Appreciation Day June 24 in Spanaway. The AUSA is a private, nonprofit organization that acts primarily
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I hate it when people say "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." Invariably that statement is followed by some really stupid put-down of art the speaker hasn't even attempted to understand.But when trying to evaluate Native American art, I find myself at least tempted
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I hate it when people say "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." Invariably that statement is followed by some really stupid put-down of art the speaker hasn't even attempted to understand. But when trying to evaluate Native American art, I find myself at least tempted
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The War Experience Project is the brainchild (and heart child) of artist and Iraq War veteran Rick Lawson. Lawson says that after returning home from combat duty in Balad, Iraq in 2004-2005 he had a hard time answering questions from friends about what the experience had been like. He
Music
As odd as it seems now, I somehow got through most of my formative years without having really heard the music of Prince. I suppose I knew from places like Saturday Night Live and other cultural pockets about his "Artist Formerly Known As" period, and from Chappelle's Show that he
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Transitions in life and in art can be momentous. A historic building comes tumbling down and precious memories fall along with the rubble, yet in its place something grander may arise. There's an accident. Perhaps someone is disfigured, and his life is changed forever. For better or for worse? In
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Transitions in life and in art can be momentous. A historic building comes tumbling down and precious memories fall along with the rubble, yet in its place something grander may arise. There's an accident. Perhaps someone is disfigured, and his life is changed forever. For better or for worse? In
