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 ...

Bob’s Java Jive is a bar — a dive bar, to be more specific — in the truest sense of the name. Shaped like a big coffee pot, and stained by decades of cheap spilled beer and long nights, the South ...

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 ...