Story & Photos – Joseph Boyle On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. I attended another of Barista Edra Zook’s Art Nights at the Starbucks Community Art Wall. Edra’s guest artist was Ms. Gail Janes. You can view some of her art pieces on the Starbucks Community Art Wall at the Towne Center Starbucks […]
Letter: Celebrities You’ll Likely Never Find in the Gutter
By David Anderson If you want to ensure your gutters will work this coming season of inclement weather you should, before it rains (circle one): A. Find your ladder, gloves, poking stick, broom, silicon, and clean ‘em and caulk ‘em. B. Rain? C. Never mind.
Meet and Greet – Miss University Place Ashley Jackson
Tuesday, August 13, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. community members and businesses are invited to attend a very special reception, a “Meet and Greet” event at Bridgeport Place to support our reigning royalty Ashley Jackson, Miss University Place. Meet Ashley and her mother Roxanne, who are residents of UP. University Place City Council Member Javier Figueroa has […]
Letter: What Does It Matter?
A wet t-shirt contest in a bar in your neighborhood – should you care? After all, it’s for a worthy cause: breast cancer. A bikini-barista stand in your city, part of a chain judged by Maxim Magazine as among the “sexiest things in America” – so? Sex sells coffee.
Westside Story – Pierce County Fair
Story – Photo – Video – Joseph Boyle Do you like family fairs? The Pierce County Fair, located at 21606 Meridian Av E, Graham, Washington 98338, (Information phone: 253-843-1173), is going on right now through Sunday, August 11, 2013. If you have time, head out to the fair. It is inexpensive to park and enter.
Letter: Wet T-shirt Contest
I thought I would help advertise an upcoming exhibitionist event in one of our city’s watering holes since my protestations are likely to help draw the kind of clientele, contestants, cash prizes, and contributions for the cause the sponsors are allegedly promoting: breast cancer.
Letter: Don’t Fence ‘em In
By David Anderson In government today we need more free-ranging goats. The headline read, “Goats to Rid Historic Congressional Cemetery of Weeds.” Cathy Burke, Newsmax, reports that as of August 7 more than 100 goats “will graze 24 hours a day for six days, eliminating vines, poison ivy, ground cover and even fallen debris all the […]
Letter: Our Collapsing Sandcastles
Cresting across our country, a moral tsunami In a rowing race from Ballard to Bainbridge Island and back the first I noticed the oncoming ocean-going freighter was the distant smoke from its stack, after which I gave it no mind since it was so far away.
Letter: A Bikini Barista Business It’s Not
The Oakbrook area Black Star Coffee stand in Lakewood won’t be a bikini barista business after all – as was once rumored – since that possibility was prevented by the recent purchase of what is now the new Primo Espresso by John Simpson, candidate for Lakewood City Council. “I can’t solve every problem the city faces, but […]