In this time of the Covid pandemic, theatres in the Pacific Northwest have their patrons’ best interests at heart. Some ticket holders may become a little irritated with the shuffling of productions and their performance dates, but most people understand that the theatres’ boards of directors are trying to accommodate patrons at the same time […]
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The Diner
I was headed back home to the wet side, the west side of the Washington Cascades to Tacoma Town. The day started out driving to Wenatchee in eastern Washington to meet up with a fella to talk business. It’d been a good day. Hunger pestered me on the long drive back, so after I went […]
Umoja
Pierce County Executive, Bruce Dammeier announcement. I learned a new word – from a different culture – reflecting an important value that is critically needed in our community, country and world. Everywhere I go, I talk with people who are tired, frustrated and, frankly, cranky. Two years of COVID and the associated loss, uncertainty and […]
Kid Life; Young Adult Life, mid 20’s. The Carpenter Apprentice
It was the upper/mid 1970’s, I’d been working at a local Big Boy Restaurant for the past few years; Kebo’s Big Boy. Went from bein’ a dishwasher to a cook to a night manager since graduation from high school in 1972/Lakes, back then. Married a beautiful young gal a year or so younger than I […]
Silent Sky – Tacoma Little Threatre – Henrietta Leavitt Gave Us the Tools to Measure Distances in the Universe
“Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “computer”, tasked with examining photographic plates in order to measure and catalog the brightness of stars. This work led her to discover the relation between the luminosity […]
Disenchanted is coming to Tacoma Musical Playhouse . . . Get Your Tickets NOW!
From Snow White to Rapunzel and the Princess Who Kissed the Frog and every little princess in-between . . . As the saying goes, “If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” The fairy tail princesses ain’t happy, so forget happily ever after . . . I’ve been waiting for this production ever since writing an […]
Across the Fence: Good Intentions
Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions for 2022? Have you managed to keep them for the past week? Because that’s almost exactly how old the New Year is. Yes? No? If you have already broken with your intentions, what went wrong? Statistics have it that around 80 percent of all New Year’s resolutions will […]
The Haunting of Hill House – Lakewood Playhouse Presentation
“The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. A finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century, it has been made into two feature films and a play, and is the basis of a Netflix […]
Go for Broke! Film Review about History and Racial Issues
I found Go for Broke! on Prime. You could probably find it on imdb as well. I saw Go for Broke! as a teenager in the 1950s and assumed the film was from the 1940s, since the action and the message was aimed at working together and fighting for America; but I was wrong, the […]