I could have purchased a bright and shiny Homelite 13 inch weedwacker for $79.00 plus tax. What I found on my neighbor’s parking strip was the same product, but dirty. There was no tax and no fee. It used to be that weedwackers were designed to have their weedwacking plastic lines replaceable only by their […]
Root Beer. Ginger Beer, and Bundaberg . . .
As a teenager living in Ponders Corner I delivered the Tacoma News Tribune on Saturdays for a friend who attended church on Saturday. My parents owned the LaCasa Motel in Ponders Corner. I delivered the newspapers from Ponders Corner to Bridgeport Way and onto McChord Field. I rewarded myself with a nickle Coke from a […]
Significant Other at Tacoma Little Theatre – Review
The first thing I do when I hear about a production we’ll be reviewing, is to get a feeling for the production by checking out other reviews, which is what I did with Significant Other by Joshua Harmon. I found reviews from the original Broadway run. The reviews made the play sound hilarious; it was […]
Titanic The Musical – Tacoma Musical Playhouse Review
Review by Don and Peg Doman, and Lavinia Hart. For nearly the whole week before going to Tacoma Musical Playhouse to watch Titanic The Musical, I found myself singing. I knew no old songs nor original songs from the Broadway show, but the folk and children’s song “The Titanic” kept popping up in my brain. […]
Far Away Places – Mastodons in Sequim
I have fond memories of Sequim, Washington. In our younger days, Peg and I were members of the Jaycees (Junior Chamber of Commerce). Tacoma was in Region III which ran from the Maple Valley through Federal Way, Puyallup, Tacoma and Lakewood area and then onto the peninsula out to Sequim and Port Angeles. Sequim is […]
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye – Excellent Storyline and Fun – Review
I had gone to bed early, wanting to get some sleep. Sleep didn’t come early, but as the clock approached ten, I was almost ready to get up and go back to my computer where I had work to do. I gave it one more chance and flipped through the channels and choices until one […]
Building Madness – Professional World Premiere in Olympia
We were wowed before the comedy even began. One look at the set told us we were in for a great experience. The set looked like an authentic office from the 1930s. The long-time ticket holder I sat next to pointed out that the mechanical device on the secretary’s desk was an ancient Dictaphone from […]
Center Stage Presents El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom
“Comic book artist Alex combats writer’s block by secretly dressing up as his creation, El Coqui Espectacular. Alex’s brother Joe struggles to fit in at New York City. Together, they fight supervillains while hatching a plan to prove themselves to the world at the Puerto Rican Day Parade! El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of […]
Meet Trista Duval – Artistic Director of Centerstage Theatre
Written by Peg Doman. When I first talked over the phone with Trista, I realized she was one of the most energic and vivacious person I’ve ever met. She talks quickly; after all, she has so much information to share. I asked her how she got into theatre arts: grade school plays, high school or […]