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Between World War I and World War II, Camp Lewis became Fort Lewis, which in turn took on a pronounced sense of permanence. Many of the pre-WWI buildings were removed and replaced by Neo-Georgian brick buildings with brick facades, sash windows and door cases with fanlights. With the parade ground (now Watkins
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A shameful moment in U.S. history comes to life on Bainbridge Island. The Eagledale Ferry Dock marks the spot where the first Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes during World War II and incarcerated in concentration camps. Two locations on the island highlight this history, and once you
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The Sequalitchew Creek Trail is nearby and a day's travel into a chapter of the city of DuPont's history. While the area was home to Native Americans more than 5,000 years ago, and in more recent times specifically to the Nisqually and Sequalitchew Indians, it entered American history when the United
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I've written before about the relative positives and negatives that come along with honesty in songwriting. In general, I'm in favor of bearing as much of yourself in your art as you feel comfortable doing. Whether or not these admissions help or hurt your work is an entirely other matter.
Arts
I went to Tacoma Community College to look at my old friend Alec Clayton's paintings, along with my friend Becky Knold, another painter living and working in Olympia. Clayton has reviewed Becky's work and my own in this publication. In our years as friends, I'd come to believe I already knew
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Tacoma Musical Playhouse's staging of Disney's The Little Mermaid is sweet and sentimental, colorful, and filled with lively music and dancing. Typical of Jon Douglas Rake directed musicals, there is a surfeit of lavish production numbers featuring the entire cast, and some big-time tap dancing, most notably featuring the lightning-fast
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Olympia is ready to get laid back and party with a purpose next weekend. When you think of Washington's capital city, chances are your first thoughts are not of beaches and boat drinks and tropical music. But Olympia is preparing to host Laid Back Attack, a three day gathering and music
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There is a lot to love about the music industry. You might have a favorite band or singer that you can listen to over and over again and not be bored. One thing that is really great about the music industry in the South Sound is that it is widely
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Ben Harper is one of our more enduring pop-musical talents, beloved by critics and record buyers alike. It's surprising, then, to find he's never had what Billboard would call a bona-fide, top-10 radio hit. The closest he's come thus far was "Steal My Kisses," a sweet little number that reached
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Libraries are quiet places where books - those special strings of words between covers - can be checked out, read and contemplated. The first library at Camp Lewis opened Nov. 28, 1917. Named the Liberty Library, it was the first military library constructed by the American Library Association. Popular with the
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South Sound craft breweries are becoming a destination and gaining recognition throughout the world. In Olympia, The Fish Brewing Company is home to Beyond the Pale Ale, named the 2015 World's Best Beer by the World's Best Beer Awards. If you want to learn more about these great local brews,
Music
Oh sure, the cyber age has shifted the way we find love. You can download the latest app and slide your way through hundreds of local singles looking to hookup from the comfort of your couch. Let's face it, though, there's nothing quite like getting all dolled up and dapper
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Music makes the world go ‘round, and here in the Pacific Northwest it’s a vital part of the summer festivities. Whether you enjoy tapping your toes, clapping your hands, busting a move or singing along, summer music festivals in the Puget Sound area offer opportunities to enjoy a
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The Bloedel Reserve is one of the most distinctive public gardens in the United States. Founders Prentice and Virginia Bloedel created this beautiful landscape in the early 1950s and continued to make improvements during the years they lived there. "Nature is but another word for health," wrote Henry David Thoreau, and
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The opening of Camp Lewis in the middle of World War I Sept. 5, 1917, continued the role of the infantry in American history. In short order, the 91st Division - the Wild West Division - arrived and trained. Soldiers learned close drill, military traditions, bayonet and hand-to-hand combat; they spent
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Certain musicians thrive on stepping out of their comfort zone, of embracing a genre that the audience might expect to be out of reach for that artist. Joe Jackson left behind the frenzied punk and New Wave of his earlier albums to explore ‘40s swing with Jumpin' Jive, before eventually landing
Arts
There is a small but interesting show of Northwest Native American art now on display at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. The 12th annual "In the Spirit: Contemporary Native Art" juried exhibition includes 22 works by artists from Alaska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Washington and Canada, displayed in two
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A hallmark of New Muses Theatre is adapting old plays for modern stages. The company's founder, Niclas Olson, writes the adaptations and usually both directs and stars in the shows - a heavy load for anyone to carry, but one he shoulders well. Written in 1753 by the Italian playwright Carlo
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ANNOUNCER: Restaurants have come and gone in Tacoma's Old Town, but relative newcomer Montamara Café has a fair chance at staying in the game with its quality ingredients and close proximity to the water. JAKE: Open for breakfast and lunch only, Montamara surprisingly offers adult beverages that includes mimosas and bloody
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Welcome, once again, to Three Easy Pieces, the monthly column in which I guide you through three distinctive, defining and demonstrative periods, people and products of a certain topic. This month, we're talking break-up albums, taken here to not mean albums that help to soothe the aftermath of a relationship,