I walked to the Lakewood Colonial Theatre in 1956 from our home on Maple Avenue to see the film Moby Dick. I would have been 11 or 12. I had read the CLASSICS Illustrated comic book before seeing the film and then read the Herman Melville book later. As a teenager I subscribed to a […]
How to Help St. Vinnies and Others in Your Community
People in our communities need help. St. Vinnies (St. Vincent de Paul Society) has been offering assistance to individuals for years, but there are others who help as well. It seems that every year the load gets heavier and the number of people in lines grow longer. Many people step up to help, but we […]
Your Old Car Could Be Someone’s Salvation
By donating your old car, St. Vinnies can resell or provide transportation to the doctor’s officer, the grocery store, kindergarten . . . or to work! Even decades old cars can help someone. St. Vinnies can spin your old car into gold for a desperate family in Tacoma/Pierce County. Regardless if you drove it yesterday […]
Not Out of Gas but Out for Cash
I had dropped off my wife Peg for her allergy shots at the Baker Center, visited Johnson’s Candy a few blocks south for some energy and had gone back to park outside the Baker Center on MLK Jr Way, formerly K Street where the second place we lived after marriage was an apartment at 911 […]
Gyro Bites – Delightfully Surprising
We don’t follow through and write reviews of every restaurant we visit. We know how hard it is to be successful with location, workers, menus, and service . . . and of course food worth eating and telling the world about. I first ate at Gyro Bites before COVID. My buddy Jim Harris and I […]
Homeless Neighbors – A Sad Ending
A friend wrote me this over the weekend: “Today, for a third time, I attended a memorial for homeless neighbors who died while living on our streets. A name read, a bell rung. Anonymous to most, neighbors to some, family members to others. Homeless people die about 28 years younger than those who are housed. […]
God Said This – Play Review – Dukesbay Theater
God Said This is a play about sickness, death, petty remembrances, and love. The play addresses the lives of Japanese Americans. The author herself, Leah Nanako Winkler, is a Japanese American playwright from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her play God Said This won the 2018 Yale Drama Series Prize. She is a recipient of […]
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder – Musical Review – Tacoma Musical Playhouse
“Set in London in 1907, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder centers on Monty Navarro, a penniless clerk who is informed after the death of his mother that he is ninth in line to inherit the earldom of Highhurst, controlled by the wealthy D’Ysquith banking family. After an imperious ruling from the head of […]
Edge of America – Film Review
Storyline:Based on a true story, a black educator takes a job teaching high-school English at the Three Nations Reservation, and is coaxed into coaching the girls’ basketball team. Here is the official trailer: I’m a little confused on the reservation location. Although the reservation known as Three Nations Reservation is in North Dakota, the greatest […]