John Ladenburg and his merry Pierce County bunch give out all kinds of awards. The Daisy Stallworth Achievement Award. The Aaron Pointer Sportsmanship Award. The list goes on.
But here’s a curious one. On Jan. 18, mark your calendars for the first presentation of the Pierce County Executive’s Awards for Excellence in Hip Hop.
A Seattle-based urban music promoter says, and a county spokeswoman confirms, that Ladenburg will give props to “innovative performances, community service and entrepreneurial achievement by locally based members of the hip hop community.” Executive Ron Sims is doing likewise in King County.
For nominations and other information, go to musicaentertainment.com. (The Web site was down Thursday.)
And all this time we assumed J-Lad couldn’t tell a DJ from an MC. If you said “beatbox,” he’d hear “tee box.”
His worship of Bob Dylan is legendary. Who knew he had Flavor Flav loaded on his iPod, too?
Everybody bungles words and spellings now and again.
So maybe former Tacoma schools commandante Charlie Milligan should be given a mulligan for something we recently sniffed out in a document.
On second thought, he was giving instructions about the high school WASL at the time – the reading and writing sections, no less.
Milligan asked administrators to make sure things were running smoothly on campuses, with few distractions.
“We need to make sure we are in sink with the testing schedule,” he wrote in an e-mail.
As the proud owner of a Ph.D, it’s possible Charlie knew he was using a homophone. Or could be he was just jumping ahead a few months, dreaming how he would bail out with a $418,000 payday.
Nearly everything but the kitchen synch.
“In sink?” A surprising misspelling, for sure. Everyone knows it’s Milligan’s favorite boy band.
A Mount Rainier ornament hangs from a fir bough in the Blue Room of the White House, reflecting this year’s theme, “Holiday in the National Parks.”
Glad somebody will enjoy our mountain this Christmas. At the real thing, we get unfinished inn and visitor center construction, parking limits and leftover damage from the ’06 lahar.
This golden globe ornament by Eatonville artist Dale Thompson sounds delightful, with its Paradise meadows and Muir snowfield scene.
By now we’ve gotten over the first lady’s snub of the macaroni-and-glue ornament we sent in. It shows the toilet at Sunshine Point campground washing downhill to Elbe.
Three reasons to drive north for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, B.C.: Miga, Quatchi and Sumi.
You might have seen the mascot trio on Page E4 in Thursday’s paper.
If the Rev. Jerry Falwell were still alive, he might pronounce them gay. Or maybe just Canadian.
Overtime pay for jailers at the Pierce County pokey this year is going through the roof, according to a News Tribune investigation published last week.
Got us wondering how much OT Sara Camarillo, the jailhouse bride, was logging before she got caught.
Our database shows Camarillo worked 27.5 OT hours in the first quarter, 13.5 hours in the second quarter and then – voila! – 81.5 hours in the third quarter after Jimi James Hamilton, aka Mr. Right, got locked up.
Look on the bright side: The couple eschewed society’s quickie hook-up culture and invested quality time in their relationship.
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