Angry Housewives: It was a cold and damp Sunday evening, and still a good-size crowd came. It wasn’t a sellout, but then I think Tacoma Musical Playhouse can seat more than 300 guests, which is a huge venue for a short run musical. People were chatting, waving to their friends and shaking hands in the […]
Westside Story – Is Common Sense Dead?
Anne, who has become one of my faithful national Westside Story readers from New York got me to thinking after she sent a piece published in the London Times dealing with common sense or the lack thereof. When I was growing up, my parents drilled the concept of common sense into my developing personality. Common […]
New WWI Espionage Novel by Kate Breslin
If you are into historical novel that are exceedingly well researched, combined with quite some action, twists and turns, and a generous dash of romance, Washington bestselling author Kate Breslin’s latest novel, launched only yesterday, will be just your cup of tea! “Far Side of the Sea” takes you on a harrowing quest through Western […]
Buck Benny Rides Again…
I was in Notre Dame, Indiana, an unincorporated community in the Michiana area of Northern Indiana, north of South Bend and four miles from the Michigan state line. I was there to watch a football game. I was comfortable and sitting on the hotel bed watching Buck Benny Rides Again, an old BW musical comedy […]
Instrumental Solo/Ensemble Flute Experience
One of our granddaughters participated in an Instrumental Solo/Ensemble Contest at Ferrucci Junior High in Puyallup on a recent Saturday. I’m not sure how much of a contest it was, but Peg and I enjoyed the performances of ten young students. We sat in a classroom. There was a piano for the accompanist if required […]
Alita Battle Angel: Film Review
Alita: Battle Angel is a fascinating beast to dissect, especially concerning its production hell history. The manga that the film was based on was introduced to James Cameron by Guillermo Del Toro in 2000. Cameron became enamored with it and tried to get the motor running on adapting it into a movie. But thanks to […]
choose Chas, choose change
Charles Ames has announced his candidacy for Lakewood City Council for ONE term. Who is Charles Ames? Commandant of the local Marine Corps League before I earned my 5-year pin 2-term Chair of the City of Lakewood’s Public Safety Advisory Committee Single dad and was a member of Harrison Prep’s PTO for 6 years and […]
Snopes – Tell-all Testimony and Giant Snakes
The Rotary Club of Tacoma got more than they had bargained for by booking David Mikkelson, Founder/Executive Editor of Snopes.com as the program for the 28th of February meeting at the Tacoma Yacht Club. When it looked like Mikkelson would not make the meeting, Doreen Marchionni the Managing Editor at Snopes.com stepped in as the […]
Across the Fence: Snowshoeing the Trail of the Shadows
Have you ever been snowshoeing? I haven’t before I came to Western Washington, and I don’t know how much of a pastime it is in Germany, if so at all. We still don’t have snowshoes of our own, but as we go only once or twice a year, we find it good enough to rent […]