Tom Madden and Chuck Garrett had just returned from Hawaii and were looking work as musicians in the Boston area when they got a call offering them a job. They were drinking coffee at the time, and ...

The patron called Snake gestures toward the blue-felt pool table in the coffeepot-shaped bar in Tacoma. “I call it the ‘pool ghost.’ Not everyone has seen it,” Snake told The News Tribune on a Monday ...

Bring a blanket or chairs, a picnic if you like, and come enjoy music under the stars* on Tuesday July 7, at 7 PM as the Norton Public Library starts its summer concert series with the Java Jive Band.

Up-and-coming rock stars once came and went from Bob’s Java Jive. Go-go dancers performed on a greased wooden stage, and macaque monkeys lived in the backroom. The monkeys have left, and the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — “I'm going to be brutally honest with you right now and this is hard for me to say: As we sit now the Jive is broke. If we don't meet our goal we will not be able to open our doors ...