Reviews
ANNOUNCER: Dutch and Jackie were talking shop, as they often do, when Dutch said something about bacon-wrapped burritos. The obvious next stop in their grub adventure was gas station dining gem, Taco Rico, in Edgewood. Because, bacon. JACKIE: I plugged the address into my Waze app and let my smartphone
South Sound Cinema
Hey! You! You're reading Three Easy Pieces, where I break down a pop culture trope from its birth to how it looks today. This month, you'll be boning up on breaking the fourth wall; what started as a theatrical term has come to be defined, in film, as tearing down
Travel
The Armed Forces Vacation Club (AFVC) offers space-available vacations to members of the U.S. military in time-shares around the world for a fixed price of just $349 per week. That works out to less than $50 a night. These units are much bigger than hotel rooms and often have a
Music
There's an unusual phenomenon that can sometimes happen when it comes to compiling and distributing music. The act of putting a collection of unrelated songs on one release has the ability to retroactively link the songs forever, and in the process, create a new subgenre. While this is a rare
Arts
An exhibition of art about food is a delightful concept -- lighthearted and lightweight. Most of the art in the "Food in Art" exhibition at Tacoma Community College consists of pop-style paintings of food, many of which are clever and funny, such as Diane Fairbanks' "Deception Pass Doughnut," a painting
Features
Shake Shake Shake's sister store, Fish Fish Fish has been one of the most highly anticipated South Sound restaurant openings for some time now. Luckily, for those salivating in excitement as they zip by the 6th Ave. locale, the establishment is expected to open in just a few weeks, seriously.
Stage
The Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright is a strange and mesmerizing play based on the true-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite and LGBTQ activist who survived the Nazis, lived through the East German Communist regime, and founded and ran not
Stage
It's become a cliché to say this, but Georges Bizet's Carmen is an opera custom-made for people who say they don't like opera. It's an opéra comique -- a form in which choruses and arias are separated by spoken dialogue, ancestral to American-style musical theater -- based on a short
Attractions
Winters in the Pacific Northwest might not be as harsh as those of neighboring states (you can keep all that snow to yourself, Idaho and Montana), but they're still long and brisk enough to keep many of us indoors, staring wistfully out the window. Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Family & Morale,
News
When one experiences life as a soldier, airman, sailor or Marine, he or she doesn't experience it alone. Friends, family members and sometimes even the community experiences the effects of military life along with the servicemember. Those parallel, collateral experiences are most often unacknowledged ... until now, that is. The
Military Life
The 2018 Fort Lewis Military Family Member Scholarship application window is now open. Application packets are available online and the deadline is March 23. The Fort Lewis Military Family Member Scholarship Fund goal is to support soldiers by providing college education grants to their spouses and children. The scholarship program relies
Military Life
It seems like every time you turn around there is a new type of yoga. Recent versions are goat yoga and stand-up paddleboard yoga. One of the latest to hit this area is yoga trapeze. Lori Capra, owner of Gravity Yoga, LLC, brought the practice to Olympia and is among
Military Life
Lakewood's Crunch Fitness gym offers members of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord community a great opportunity to stay fit and have fun. Crunch Fitness opened in July of last year in the Lakewood Towne Center. It has been a hit with servicemembers and their families. "(More than) 33 percent of our membership is
News Front
The Joint Base Lewis-McChord commander served as the keynote speaker Jan. 25 at the weekly Public Affairs Forum held by the Gig Harbor Chamber of Commerce at the Cottesmore of Life Care facility in Gig Harbor. Col. Nicole M. Lucas spoke to chamber members about the joint military base -- the
Military Life
Military spouses from JBLM and other military family members from around the South Sound have been knitting and crocheting up a storm this year. Next month, neonatal units in the Seattle area will be the recipients of their labors of love as part of the American Heart Association's (AHA) national
News Front
The Intrepid Spirit Center is a reality at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Representing the next evolution of treatment for soldiers with serious head injuries, the $11 million facility aims to advance care by offering special, personalized treatment in a comprehensive program partly supported by private donations. Helping to put the finishing touches on
News Front
Green Berets assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), conducted a joint training exercise with Indian Special Operation Forces, Jan. 14-29, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Exercise Vajra Prahar is an annual two-week exercise, which highlights bilateral training that improves the ability to react efficiently to any number of contingencies.
News Front
The commander of Air Mobility Command visited McChord Field, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Jan. 25, and witnessed full-spectrum readiness in action. According to Gen. Carlton Everhart, II, full-spectrum readiness describes the way the Air Force maintains the skills and knowledge required to deploy quickly and operate effectively in a full range of
News Front
An Air National Guardsman was the second ever to graduate from the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), Dec. 15, 2017, at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. Capt. Jason Allenton, a member of the 225th Air Defense Squadron of the Western Air Defense Sector at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, graduated from the
Features
Oh sure, between deadlines and jam-packed schedules you might be tempted to hit the drive-thru window and get all jacked on quad shot espressos, but sometimes the best thing to do is slow your roll. Call up some company, put down your smartphone and wind down with afternoon tea. Not
