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Having to enter a building not knowing what kind of enemy is waiting on the other side is a frightening and dangerous prospect for soldiers. To better hone these skills, soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, spent two days at a shoot house on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Feb. 10-11 where
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Seattle quartet Specters are romanticizers of the '90s, as they say. Specifically, they bring the sort of slacker vibe to their music that bands like Pavement mastered. Unlike the weirdo energy that recent slacker rockers like Mac Demarco carry, there is a gentle power pop grandeur to the Specters that
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Hungry Skinny perfect a kind of dirtbag glam befitting their Northern California roots. What initially sounds like the same sort of garage pop that comes from Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin eventually reveals itself to be impeccably assembled rock that draws from the sloppy blues-rock of '60s mods like the
Viva South Sound
I found it. There is at least one place in the South Sound that plays materialistic, no-holds-barred rap: TacLanta Part 2! If you are looking for the crunk, trapped out, hustle-music haven check out Champions every Sunday night. DJ Qualifi keeps the beats bangin' - deep bass, booty music, trap music,
Food Matters
CHINESE NEW YEAR Thursday, Feb. 19 is the Chinese New Year. The Social Bar and Grill (1715 Dock St., Tacoma) celebrates with a sake pairing dinner party. Enjoy delectable Asian style cuisine concocted by Chef Tram and team paired with a delightful variety of sakes. Tickets are $75 per couple or
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Seattle's prestigious Cornish College of the Arts stole jazz guitarist Michael Powers from the San Francisco Bay area, where he emerged in 1982 graduating Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor of fine arts in Composition and Performance. While at Cornish, Powers was molded by composers Gil Evans and Sam Rivers,
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Did your girlfriend show you 1,342 animated Adam Sandler GIFs over Valentine's Weekend? Boyfriend won't stop Instagramming in lieu of pillow talk? Spouse habitually checking Twitter and Facebook instead of tenderly caressing your fair and scintillating flesh? Hashtag them on the side of the skull and feed their souls Friday
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Strangely Alright is more than all right - the band is awesome. Its music is fun, timeless and real. The band can laugh, cry and flip people off all in one album, backed up by talent and experience. Fronted by longtime Tacoma musician Regan Lane (Baby Knockors, Strypes, Groovy Times
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And ... Sunday is the day. Oscar day. The day all those little-golden-statue-grubbers have been losing sleep over. You want to watch, you know you do. But. You are cool. You are hip. You are in. And, in your crowd, you do not watch the Oscars. It is not done.
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Thanks to The Grand Cinema in Tacoma and Olympia Film Society in Olympia, you can not only stroll the red carpet in your Sunday finest, you might also win one of several fabulous prizes. Show up to Theatre on the Square in a movie costume (Death to
Archives
James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of pointless violence. The Western in its glory days was often a morality play, a story about humanist values penetrating the lawless anarchy of the frontier. It still follows that tradition in
Family
Keona Ames studied the green LEGO before putting it on top of a yellow LEGO. "This is a great activity," commented Spc. Robert Ames as he watched his daughter. "We've been to these events before, but this is by far the largest variety and activities." In its tradition of support Joint Base
