All around T-Town, the popular Farmers Markets are operating through the Summer & Fall seasons. Tacoma Farmers Market has been showcasing locally farmed, wholesome food in the City’s core for 17 years. It is located at Broadway between 9th and 10th, Thursdays, 9am-2pm By attracting patrons to the Proctor community, Farmers Market aims to support [...]
There will be a lot to see and do at the celebration of Tacoma’s working waterfront coming up Sat & Sun, Aug 29-30, 2009 Time: 10a – 6p This is definitely a family event, fun for everyone. Bring your camera, there will be plenty of photo opportunities. Pacific Northwest artists will display their maritime art, [...]
Yahoo! is leveling all communities in GeoCities. Effective October 26th, GeoCities will be no more. Yahoo! is warning everyone in any of the GeoCities communities to move their files to Yahoo! Web Hosting. GeoCities is an old, free, ad-based web-hosting service, purchased by Yahoo! a couple years back. Yahoo! began encroaching on the sites with [...]
Little Holland, home of the Mikey Burger, a triple patty sandwich with a slice of canadian bacon on top, closes officially July 25. The building will be leveled as the new Centre Square nears completion. Owners Dave and Dorothy Viskup bought the hamburger stand five years ago. Located at the southwest corner of Center & [...]
Took in the Ben Union show at Jazzbones Friday night. Union, a Gig Harbor resident, formed his band about a year ago and has been appearing at several Tacoma area venues. His music is along the lines of Jason Mraz and Coldplay. Although I can appreciate the music and enjoyed some of the songs, the [...]
As I learned of the passing of newsman Walter Cronkite tonight, I can only ponder and think back to what newscasting was and how much I miss what it should be. Growing up as a child, I knew of no other newscaster than Walter. There were other greats on NBC and ABC, but I don’t think [...]
