Billboard Magazine once crowned him “Instrumentalist of the Year”, internationally he is known as one of the world’s best harmonica players, a founding member of the band “WAR”, an incredibly versatile fusion jazz composer, and the producer of a top-notch line of harmonicas: Lee Oskar. Fewer people might know him also as the gifted painter […]
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Home from Home: Hiking
When I was a kid in Germany, my family went off hiking to the Black Forest or to the Swabian Alb, low mountain ranges close to my hometown, Stuttgart, on a regular basis. Either a newspaper clip or a hiking book was placed in my mother’s shoulder bag, and usually they were day trips. I […]
FAB Fest Features Dia Calhoun
Are you an avid reader? Then you have probably been shaped into that by some wonderful children’s books that you received during your very early years, maybe even before you were able to read yourself. One author of some wonderfully captivating and unusual children’s books will be present at the 6th Annual Lakewood Film, Arts, […]
Letter: The eagle hadn't landed – what you think about has so much to do with what you'll be
A 9/11 day-after reflection about my dad, and our country. It’s an old scraggly, stark-naked tree, not a leaf on any of its many – and most decidedly – dead branches. Like the twisted, gnarly and bony fingers of what remains of a skeletal hand thrusting claws up through the soil which my mom was […]
FAB Fest Features Dealing with Doom
Sci-Fi fan alert – what-ifs and goosebumps reach new levels in Western Washington! You will have the opportunity to grab some really interesting reads at the 6th Annual Lakewood Film, Arts, and Book Festival. So, please, check them out! Lakewood-based author Brett Lawrence has published a captivating novel with his book “Shadow Guardians”. An alien […]
Westside Story – Junior Criminal
The other day, two of us were breaking in the new street and sidewalk improvements being constructed on Gravelly Lake Drive SW. While the improvements are not yet finished, we could not wait to try them out. During our walk, we spotted a wayward youth committing the crimes of theft and malicious mischief. Suspect Description: […]
Westside Story – Power & Influence
On September 6, 2018, I published an article in The Suburban Times titled, Westside Story – The Twilight Zone – Almost Dead in Deadhorse, Alaska – Part IV. After reading my story, one of my readers, Mr. Ron Irwin, submitted the comment quoted below. Joe, that was a great story and if you can convince […]
Westside Story – Oakbrook Group Home Perfect For Stomper
A recent article in The Suburban Times reprinted from The Tacoma News Tribune titled, Western State Hospital patient stomps woman 8 times got me to thinking. After reviewing a nightmarish incident involving a 260 pound male knocking a Western State Hospital staff member to the floor and then stomping her eight times, it was easy for […]
Westside Story – Cell Phone Etiquette
The photo below depicts two young people proving a child can grow all the way into their 20s and not yet learn any courtesy or social intelligence when it comes to cell phone etiquette. Any parent claiming either of these two young ladies as their daughters should ask themselves, “Where did I go wrong”? Yes, […]