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As we mentioned Monday, Tacoma Beer Week is on, and ends Saturday with hoopla at the Parkway Tavern. Have you tried the special Tacoma Brewers Collaboration Neo Noir Belgian Black IPA? I found one at The Red Hot and another at Narrows Brewing. Four hops varieties produced a fruitiness that melds
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Tacoma Beer Week begins its run today. Well, check that. It technically began yesterday when The Red Hot tapped the Neo Noir IPA, the Black Belgian IPA brewed earlier this year during a group hug by brewers from "Narrows Brewing Company, Engine House No. 9, Pacific Brewing and Malting Co., Harmon
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There are a couple things to know right off the bat about Gordon Naccarato's new Smoke + Cedar restaurant, which opens tonight. First, for the next week, it's dinner only by reservation. Chef/owner Naccarato, Executive Chef John Louderback, Sous Chef Kristen Lyon and the staff take deep pride in their
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It's 3:21 a.m. and you're awake. You've already, unwillingly so, opened your eyes at 12:48 a.m. and 2:34 a.m. As it is, you had a hard time falling asleep because you couldn't get your mind to stop racing, moving through to-do lists things to remember for the next day. When you
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Those who keep a flow chart on their refrigerators know this year has seen many a change in the command structure at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. If you have been keeping your ceremony invitations, you could construct an exhibit that would rival any holiday card display. Yesterday, as we were frantically trying
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UPDATE: According to its mission statement, "17th Fires Brigade trains and prepares for combat; on order deploys to any area of operations to plan, synchronize, and execute combined, and joint fires and effects; integrate attached ground and
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It's a Saturday night in Lacey, Wash., and the JBLM Bettie Brigade are taking on the Grunge City Rollers' Sisters of Saint Anne on a rainy night. AC/DC and Nirvana are blasting on the loudspeaker. And the Betties have their hands full, trailing 101 to 108 at halftime. The night
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The Lakewood Playhouse's 75th Anniversary Season party continues with a stage production of 12 Angry Men. In the stage adaptation, and subsequent Sidney Lumet film, a dozen men debate whether a teenage boy with a rap sheet is guilty of murdering his father at knifepoint. The defendant's race is never
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Stories and photos of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division's recent training exercises at the National Training Center has been popping up on the Internets more than photos of heart shaped food. And why not, the 3-2 SBCT out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord were involved in severasl
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Happy 50th birthday G.I. Joe! Sure enough, I found my 1972 G.I. Joe in the attic. It's still in good condition considering there's a bit of vampire blood on him that my brother and I used to cover him after he battled Big Jim on the backyard slide. Good times.
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While Atkins, South Beach, and other high-protein diets proved to be a bacon-scented flash in the pan, the vegetarian diet has existed for - well, for as long as we humans have been capable of putting food in our mouths. (Granted, some of us are still getting the hang of
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Just the other day Team Walkie Talkie was discussing the lack of veteran-related apps. We came up with several ideas, then went back to our day job of writing snarky preview blurbs. When, what to our wondering eyes should appear, but a new veteran app originating across the Cascade mountain range.
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The folks at ABQ Mastermind Productions have dreamed up a fascinating documentary, and with just nine days to go, they're 25 percent of the way to fulfilling their $2,000 Kickstarter campaign. A little bit about the project, from the Kickstarter page: Imagine putting your life on the line for your country, and
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The 3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, is on a month-long exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Each morning, the 3-2 SBCT soldiers awake to temperature that mark the high of the day at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. This morning, the 2-2 Stryker Brigade Combat
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Some biographers and experts have claimed Charles Dickens was the first pop-culture celebrity. Film critic Richard Roeper agrees. His review of The Invisible Woman in tomorrow's print version of the Weekly Volcano reaffirms his belief. Roeper writes: Here's a cool thing about Dickens: He was a 19th-century rock star, and that
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Holy hoo-ah - Saturday's JBLM Bettie Brigade's Bare Bones bout against Tumwater's M.I.A. Derby Girls was intense. The Lacey Derby Center was packed to watch the two teams battle it out on the flat track. The elbows were flying, derby girls were checked into the crowd and the announcer was
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It only took moments to lose a sense of context. Less than five minutes into Steve Stefanowicz's set last night at The Hub in Gig Harbor, any normal sense of time and place had already started to melt away. No, it wasn't because of too much Harmon beer - that
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Weekly Volcano art critic Alec Clayton's review of Carla Paine's portraits and still-lifes has sparked a debate on Facebook. Clayton praises her talent, and recommends readers see the show at Olyphant Art Supply in Olympia. That said, Clayton questions why the paintings were created. The paintings are impressive, but they make me
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If you're going to bill your dining event as a farm-to-table experience, then you'd better make damn sure you're following in the footsteps of Chef Kyle Wnuk and co-owner Jaime Kay Jones, whose enlightening Marrow Kitchen and Bar walks the walk and talks the talk. Tonight, the duo and their staff
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IT'S ON >>> The Broncoes are playing the Chargers, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord is hosting a gathering to watch the game. The leadership at JBLM has arranged for the Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE) Real Warriors Campaign and the four former NFL players mentioned above to hang out at Nelsen Rec