Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959, in an airplane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa along with Ritchie Valens and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. Tacoma Musical Playhouse (TMP) just opened their rendition of the play, The Buddy Holly Story. It is a musical bursting with the songs many of us grew up with […]
To Ponder
Letter: “Might as well finish”
The 20-foot pontoon boat was sinking and not only was it sinking it rolled over in the process. And then it went to the bottom. It was work day at the boathouse and a large crew of enthusiastic boat lovers – kayak and canoe lovers of boats – had gathered for the first time ever […]
Letter: Trade you three pot shops (MJ) for one Rental Inspection Program (RIP)
The Tacoma News Tribune Editorial Board is throwing its weight around again with the opinion expressed the last day of January that the City of Lakewood needs to get off the marijuana (MJ) fence. It’s not the first time the TNT has opted for profits over principles on the MJ issue.
Letter: A mystery shrouded in Mist, Oregon
His black tie; a rotting package of $5,800 in $20 bills that matched the serial numbers of the $200,000 in ransom money; pieces of parachute debris – these were the only physical evidence that suggested the possible landing site of the skyjacker who – on the dark night of November 24, 1971 – bailed out […]
Letter: Rental Inspection, a campaign issue
Four Lakewood City Council seats are up for election this year and with the deadline for candidates to file still over three months away already one incumbent “look(s) forward to continuing to serve Lakewood’s citizens.” But there’s a difference between serving and controlling, between asking and telling.
Letter: Forests – gateways to imagination
Is there anything so magical as the woods? They’re the settings for adventure, where trees are metamorphized from friend to foe, fantastical creatures they become, their long, spindly, skeletal fingers clutching at the unwary traveler, spookily, eerily suggestive that that tug on the back of the jacket was not just happenstance.
Poem: Home! Sweet Home! revised
With apologies to American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne (1823), and Englishman Sir Henry Bishop (melody composition):
Westside Story – New Forza Cup
For anyone who is a longtime espresso hound like me, the death of Starbucks 3rd Place was a serious lifestyle tragedy. If you yearn for that old Starbucks’ 3rd place friendly feeling and atmosphere, the privately owned Forza located at 4828 Suite D, Bridgeport Way W in University Place is where you want to be. […]
Letter: Government does what government wants to do
Following an opinion piece that was published here in The Suburban Times January 17, Tacoma News Tribune’s Melissa Santos, January 18, writes that Lakewood is in affect ground zero targeted by State Rep. David Sawyer, D-Parkland for “ignoring the will of the voters,” given city leader’s fence-sitting on marijuana.