The Mountain News – WA- 2nd Annual Mother Earth News Fair coming to area May 26, 2012
- Author with ties to PNW pens book describing her marriage to a man with a secret life as a bank robber May 21, 2012
- Friends of Stan and Joan Cross Park hold 2nd Annual Spaghetti Feed fundraiser May 19, 2012
- The Hunt for DB Cooper – looking for the Amboy chute May 14, 2012
- Anatomy of a heart attack – feeling the love May 6, 2012
- Beavers and Mother Nature force closure of Orting-Kapowsin Highway May 5, 2012
- Anatomy of a Heart Attack – Survival and Recovery May 3, 2012
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Category Archives: Entertainment
Spring, motorcycles and Arlo Guthrie
by Bruce A. Smith Today’s temperatures in the 60s, our first warm day of the year, brought out the motorcycles and as I rode home from Tacoma in my current mode of transport - as a passenger in a comfy Ford Taurus … Continue reading
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Stories from Backstage – the Dixie Chicks
by Bruce A. Smith Seattle’s Key Arena, Summer, 2003 - and the Tacoma Dome, November 2006 Seattle: Chicks Rule! Yup, best concert I’ve ever seen, and I’m not alone in that assessment – the 12,000 screaming, mostly women in the Key … Continue reading
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Stories from backstage – Neil Diamond
Note: From 1999 until 2006 I was a theatrical stagehand in Nashville and Seattle. I also went on a few brief tours with Cavalia, the Cirque Du Soleil spin-off that is currently performing in Marymoor Park. Key Arena, Seattle – 2006 … Continue reading
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Countdown to the Oscars includes unusual move to nominate an over-looked actor
by Bruce A. Smith The 84th Academy Awards will be awarded on February 26, and there is a surprising campaign surging within the film industry to nominate an actor that has been overlooked heretofore. The circumstances surrounding this omission are … Continue reading
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Chocolate Stroll a huge success in Orting
by Bruce A. Smith Carrying goodie bags filled with chocolate candies, dozens of parents and kids – and a goodly gaggle of middle-aged women out for a lark – flooded the downtown core of Orting on Saturday afternoon for the … Continue reading
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Big crowd enjoys Sprinker ice rink’s opening day
Special to the Mountain News More than 400 skaters of all ages and abilities tried out Sprinker Recreation Center’s new-and-improved ice rink on Jan. 28, which opened to the public after an eight-month renovation.
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Calling all Chocoholics! – Orting to host 1st annual “Chocolate Stroll”
by Bruce A. Smith Orting will certainly be the place to satisfy your chocolate cravings at the first annual Orting Chocolate Stroll, scheduled for Saturday, February 11, from noon until 3 pm, and from all accounts it sounds like it … Continue reading
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Entrance fee waived this weekend at Mount Rainier National Park
by Bruce A. Smith As part of a nationwide program of periodically waiving entrance fees at national parks, Mount Rainier National Park will be free to all this weekend, the three days of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
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Getting By – Low-cost transportation and entertainment
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a series the Mountain News is developing on methods of coping with little or no money due to illness, retirement or unemployment. The series is called, “Getting By,” and it will … Continue reading
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