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Simon Moon It’s 2 a.m., and the bars are spitting patrons out onto the street. On any other night, on the corner of 25th Street and Tacoma Avenue, hookers, drug dealers and other unseemly types would be milling about, slinging ass and addictions. But on the eve of a recent art
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The Rev. Timothy Smith will share his views on United States immigration policy this Sunday in an uncommon forum — he’s going to give a sermon about it. As one of Tacoma’s most active opponents of a private prison for immigrants on the Tacoma Tideflats, Smith is concerned that the
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OK everybody, it’s time to talk about lube. Not the kind you put in your car. The kind you put …well, you know where to put it. We hope. Personal lubricants have become a booming market in recent years, with aging, sexually active baby boomers — nearly 40 million of
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Can I be honest? I’m tired of hearing about the economy. The relentless drone of facts and figures, projections and dissections, and the endless stream of macro-economic analysis are simply mind-numbing. We are bombarded daily with speculation, tales of new, tragic developments, another report, another tiny step toward legislation, or away,
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It’s hard to be thankful, even with an awesome new president, a historic shift in socio-political dynamic, the recent, symbolic exorcism of several political demons, and a holiday or two right around the corner. Seasonal displays of reindeer finger puppets, Christmas lights and green and red M&Ms aren’t cheering me
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Blame gas prices. As per-gallon rates hit $4 during the summer, cars started to look like less of a convenience and more of a burden. To avoid mounting costs, some people explored rail commuting and jumped on the Sounder or Link Light Rail. Some people hopped on the bus. Some
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There’s good news and bad news for the residents of Country Aire Manor Park in Puyallup. Scratch that. For the nearly 93-year-old woman who has already moved into an apartment where the bathroom and bedroom are far apart and where she shattered her ankle trying to get to the toilet, there’s
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If there’s one thing everyone involved in protecting wetlands agrees on, it’s that we’ve failed. Ask Pierce County officials in charge of protecting them and enforcing laws designed to preserve them and what you hear is likely to be alarming. Ask officials from the state Department of Ecology about efforts
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A whole mess of people are on a mission to make you stop driving to work so much. I’m one of them. Stop driving to work. Seriously. Wait … I guess they just want you to try other ways of getting to work. You know, other than driving by yourself.
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Many of us don’t really like our bodies. Whether it’s endless hours of work, body-bashing religious traditions, glorification of airbrushed Hollywood perfection, growing legions of people being absorbed into the relatively senseless numisphere of the Internet, or just plain old ignorance about how the thing works, our bodies are getting
