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Funny how taste can trigger memories. A sip of Bordeaux and you’re shopping Saint Germain; a pint of Guinness and your semester abroad comes flooding back; just a drop of tequila and . . . well, that was your 21st birthday, and you haven’t touched the stuff since. When I
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Where there is food, there are relationships. Many of us eat at our local café or restaurant and have stronger relationships with our favorite server than we do with our own sibling(s). I know I do (this is a test for my sister Kim to see if she reads my
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The owners of the defunct Blue Olive are behind Bella Vita. They were stylish down on Dock Street and haven’t lost a step here. Smooth sounds of old-timey jazz crooners greet you as walk in the door. To the right, a wooden dance floor (covered with tables on a Sunday
People Rule
When running in a race with more than 19,000 in Washington, D.C., finishing in the top 30 would usually be a great accomplishment. Captain Nicole Solana, flight surgeon with the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, was disappointed in her time of 3:13:58 — good for the 30th
News Articles
Service members and family members are learning to do medical charting, conduct dental exams and help with fillings and sealants thanks to a dental assistant training program here. Ten students are studying to be dental assistants in the second class of the American Red Cross Dental Assistant
Travel
Joint Base Lewis-McChord Leisure Travel Services staff members want to help you plan your escape during winter block leave with tips and discounts available on places around the state, country and the world. The travel service has two locations on JBLM and provides service members and their
Reviews
Announcer: Dining in the Northwest you are exposed to a plethora of international flavors, but those are mostly from the Pacific Rim. We don't get a lot of European and Caribbean foods. In Olympia, however, is a tiny eatery serving Eastern European dumplings ... and darn they are good.Jason: The
Music
The Beatles were fond of saying that their favorite contemporary American musician was Harry Nilsson, and it's not hard to see why. With the voice of an angel, capable of operatic bravado ("Without You"), surging rock wails ("Jump Into the Fire"), and impish character work ("Coconut"), Nilsson was an almost
Arts
Art House Designs owner Susie Engelstad challenged three other artists and herself to come up with four paintings measuring four feet by four feet for a show to be called, naturally, "Four by Four". Three of the women, Rose Nicholas, Susan Ujcid and Engelstad herself, rose to the challenge. The
Stage
Since seeing Dukesbay Theater's production of A Piece of My Heart, I've struggled with sorting my feelings about what, I would argue, is a play with its roots firmly entrenched in emotional manipulation. From a purely objective standpoint, an emotionally manipulative piece of art isn't fundamentally a bad thing, depending
Features
Ron Swarner was one of the cofounders of the Weekly Volcano back in 2001. He moved on from this paper in April 2015, but his Tacoma-loving, hipster-booster soul is in every drop of ink. When he retired from print journalism, he said he was interested in opening a little bar
Music
In late-15th-century Austria, the use of boys' choirs in Catholic mass was already a longstanding tradition. In 1498, Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I moved his entire court, musicians included, to Vienna. Thus was born the Vienna Chapel Imperial. Maximillian decreed that a choir of two adult bass singers and six
News
The National Endowment for the Arts has selected Madigan Army Hospital, located on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, to be one of five new Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network sites across the country. This selection means that Madigan will receive NEA funding to support art, music and creative writing therapies
News Front
Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Sergeants Major Association of the Northwest (SMANW) is reaching out to active-duty servicemembers to continue to build on the 42-year history of the organization. With more than 125 current members, the SMANW partners with local businesses and organizations, such as the USO, to provide financial support for
Military Life
Being a parent is tough. Parenting in the military is tougher yet. Now imagine what it must be like to be a parent of twins, triplets, quadruplets - or more - all while serving your country in the U.S. military. For a few remarkable families in the South Sound, that
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"Ambassador" is one of those honorifics that sounds a bit antiquated, like it's from the same bygone era as "Viceroy" or "Archduke", but it's still in use today. In fact, the Army Reserve has been using it ever since ye olden times of 1998. Army Reserve Ambassadors act as liaisons between
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The thwack of the three-wood announced the launch of a golf ball over the green of the fairway and toward the distant firs. "This is the tenth time I've been out here," commented Andrew Oczkewicz, the United Service Organization's (USO's) director of operations at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, said before teeing off. "Part
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When it comes to military readiness, there is no number two. "Readiness is our number one priority, and there is no other number one," Gen. Mark Milley, Army Chief of Staff, wrote in an earlier press release. This attitude resides at the heart of the Associated Unit Program Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)
