Guides
I'd never set foot in Lacey's Tofu Hut until you selected it Best Restaurant of the Year. I'll be honest: it was the name. I've never been a huge fan of tofu, and I don't expect killer cuisine from a hut. Even numerous recommendations from colleagues, in print and in
Attractions
Maybe you're the kind of person who spends half of Thanksgiving Day watching animal videos on YouTube. Perhaps your family needs additions to its regimen of well-loved but timeworn holiday activities. Either way, there's an animal park nearby to spice up your holiday fun with something wild. Cougar Mountain Zoo Our first
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It's not completely accurate to call Parallel Lives, formerly known as The Kathy (Najimy) and Mo (Gaffney) Show, a sketch comedy, as it isn't very funny for long stretches of time - often intentionally. It's more like an evening of two-person scenes, several of which are comic,
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It's not completely accurate to call Parallel Lives, formerly known as The Kathy (Najimy) and Mo (Gaffney) Show, a sketch comedy, as it isn't very funny for long stretches of time - often intentionally. It's more like an evening of two-person scenes, several of which are comic, most of which
Stage
In a startling turn of events, Tacoma Little Theatre announced Sunday that its managing artistic director, Scott Campbell, has resigned from that company, effective immediately. Campbell held the same post at Lakewood Playhouse before moving to TLT about two years ago. At the time Campbell accepted the job at TLT, it was widely known that
Military Life
Wanting to do something she felt was significant, Lindsey Kibler joined the Army. Wanting to do something she was good at, she wrote for public affairs offices for the Army for nearly nine years. She told the Army story. And she told it well. Kibler was named the Army's Paul D. Savanuck
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When Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rolls into Olympia on Presidents Day to give a lecture on "The True Cost of War," he will arrive with antiwar bona fides unmatched in any recent Congress. Last March, he put a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives
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When Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rolls into Olympia on Presidents Day to give a lecture on "The True Cost of War," he will arrive with antiwar bona fides unmatched in any recent Congress. Last March, he put a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives that would've required
News Front
The newest addition to the submarine community is currently under construction across the country in Newport News, Virginia, but she already has strong ties to the Pacific Northwest. PCU Washington (SSN 787), named after the state of Washington, will be the next of the Virginia-class submarines to be commissioned and
Arts
Photojournalist and documentarian Melanie Burford was a member of The Dallas Morning News photo team that won a Pulitzer for its 2006 coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She returned to Louisiana and the Gulf Coast last spring to document the human cost of the BP disaster, and next week she's taking
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Photojournalist and documentarian Melanie Burford was a member of The Dallas Morning News photo team that won a Pulitzer for its 2006 coverage of Hurricane Katrina. She returned last spring to document the human cost of the BP disaster, and next week she's taking a break from her teaching
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In Deborah Lynn Frockt's adaptation as produced by Olympia Family Theater, Alice passes through the frame of her own portrait; which is, to be fair, no more nor less plausible than falling down a rabbit hole into a room of space-time portals. Frockt's retelling follows Carroll's
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where -" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. -Lewis
Reviews
Stink Cheese and Meat, with its signature sandwiches, has been satisfying the lunch crowds in downtown Tacoma since it opened its doors in 2011. Since that time, Stink has added an attached wine bar to ensure success with the after-work crowds as well. El Tufo, Spanish for stink, is of
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The Schwartz siblings have gathered in late winter in the Catskills to commemorate their father's yahrzeit, the one-year anniversary of his death. We come to learn Manny Schwartz was a proud Jew but a difficult man. His DNA recurs most strongly in daughter Norma (Ann Flannigan),
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I'll be honest: ordinarily there are few subjects I'm less excited about covering than job fairs. I've been to a few bloated, résumé-tossing cattle calls in my time, and I find them utterly soul-crushing. But the Olympia Volunteer Center sent the cluttered, taco-scented Weekly Volcano head office a pitch that
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Linda Whitney, director of the Harlequin production of The Last Schwartz, references Tolstoy in her director's notes: "Happy families are all the same; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Yet it's the work of another Russian writer that is stamped most indelibly here.The Schwartz siblings have gathered
Outdoors
Who says you have to travel to the northeastern United States to see the turning of the autumn leaves? The South Puget Sound region has its own riot of fall color right here. There are some terrific urban and regional walks that depict nature's colorful glory in the autumn months. So
Arts
It's not every day I'm treated to a guided tour of an alien world. About 2,600 years ago, a temple priest by the name of Ankh-Wennefer died near the age of 60, probably from internal bleeding from a broken pelvis. His name, of course, meant "Jennifer's obnoxious hieroglyphic tattoo." (Just kidding.
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What's unusual about The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, aside from its lack of an intermission (the show clocked in at two hours less a minute), is that some of its lines and even structure are ad-libbed. Four audience members (were some of them plants? I
