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Let there be light! Although many spots around the South Sound have holiday light shows, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium's Zoolights outshines the rest. The 27th edition will dazzle visitors as more than 550,000 brilliant LEDs bring zoo animals and landmarks to life in a not-to-be-missed kaleidoscope of color and
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Watching Late Nite Catechism is a lot like looking up at a Fourth of July spectacle. You don't have to be an arsonist to be awed by a fireworks display, after all. And you don't have to be Catholic or a recovering Catholic to be wowed by the colorful and
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Suave Bing Crosby and fleet-of-foot Danny Kaye star as workaholic Bob Wallace and playboy Phil Davis, successful 1950s vaudevillians who discover the lovely Haynes sisters, then accompany them to their holiday gig at an inn in Vermont that turns out to be (a) run by the guys' adored old World
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Living in these parts, we simply cannot ignore our physical surroundings. Summer's high pressure anticyclone system in the Pacific brings a predictably dry season, Mount Rainier's brooding-beauty, and the waterways with a deep basin connected by shallower sills dotted with islands make all of us adventurers of sorts. Our physical
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Detroit kid Nathan Watts started on trumpet and switched to electric bass in high school, at the urging of childhood pals Ollie Brown and Ray Parker, Jr. Inspired by the Funk Brothers - who he watched through the basement window at Motown's Hitsville Studios - as well as the rock
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As all the fellas know, the Puyallup Fair and Events Center will be turned into a Christmas lover's wonderland for five days as part of the Victorian Country Christmas festival. Wives and girlfriends have been texting reminders all week. Holiday music will fill the air as live musicians stroll through
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I have a confession to make. Yes, I am a cynical, skeptical agnostic who doesn't believe in any abdominally-insulated arctic elf. That's not my confession. The confession is I adore Christmas music. It isn't a holiday season without Handel's Messiah or Nat King Cole's rendition, the only proper rendition, of
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After a year of construction at a cost of $15.5 million, the 16,000-square-foot expansion adds 32 percent new space to the museum's 50,000-square-foot facility. This state-of-the-art project includes four gracious new galleries, a sculpture hallway and an enlarged light-filled lobby. A hands-on art-making area for all
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Everybody knows not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Tacoma Art Museum certainly does. In this case, the gift horse is a bucking bronco, or lots of them - the 295 works of Western art from the Haub Family Collection donated to TAM, plus more than $15 million
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Emergencies don't always happen in convenient spots and with the far-flung locations that the Army sometimes trains in, it is important that medical evacuations can happen quickly and safely. To support this, medics with 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, trained in advanced medical evacuation techniques using
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For the third year in a row, the Weekly Volcano will host live bands every Saturday night at the Franciscan Polar Plaza ice rink. In conjunction with the Tacoma Art Museum's new Haub wing and "Art of the American West" exhibit, editor Pappi Swarner has booked seven Saturdays of bluegrass,
