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Evan Purcell’s new CD, Attachments, was scheduled to be released last month at Shakabrah Java, but alas, it was not meant to be. Tacoma’s longtime favorite acoustic music venue decided to be a little less shaka and a little more java and cancelled all of its music performances. But Sixth
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Usually, when I write about house parties, I’m not talking about music and there’s a member of Top Heavy Crush involved. Usually, when I write about house parties, it’s something about who diddled who in the hot tub, who showed up with herbal jazz cigarettes, and who drank so much
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Usually, when I write about house parties, I’m not talking about music and there’s a member of Top Heavy Crush involved. Usually, when I write about house parties, it’s something about who diddled who in the hot tub, who showed up with herbal jazz cigarettes, and who drank so much
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blackberry bushes In Olympia, girls like to do things their way. Since the early ’90s punk rock girls and Washington’s state capital have walked hand in hand down the independent music highway. But the self-reliant female energy from punk music radiated into other things. In 2004, three friends noted that in
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blackberry bushes In Olympia, girls like to do things their way. Since the early ’90s punk rock girls and Washington’s state capital have walked hand in hand down the independent music highway. But the self-reliant female energy from punk music radiated into other things. In 2004, three friends noted that in
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His mother was supposedly rushed out of a James Brown concert to give birth to him. That could be why, in one of his poems, Saul Williams says, “At that concert he sang, ‘Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud,’ and that shit came out in my bloodstream.” On
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His mother was supposedly rushed out of a James Brown concert to give birth to him. That could be why, in one of his poems, Saul Williams says, “At that concert he sang, ‘Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud,’ and that shit came out in my bloodstream.” On
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If the lines at the mall, heightened traffic, and irritating jingles aren’t driving you up a wall, well then, with patience like yours, you should consider teaching in a public school. But if, like the rest of the world, you’re starting to feel the holiday season taking its toll, treat
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If the lines at the mall, heightened traffic, and irritating jingles aren’t driving you up a wall, well then, with patience like yours, you should consider teaching in a public school. But if, like the rest of the world, you’re starting to feel the holiday season taking its toll, treat
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Ahhh, books. So calming. Even when there are thousands of them. So get mellow today during King’s Books Holiday Book Party & Fund Raiser. Actually, don’t be mellow. Party! With eats, holiday games, some kind of drinkies, reading, and holiday catalog books slashed 20 percent off (catalogs, ya dig?), the
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Ahhh, books. So calming. Even when there are thousands of them. So get mellow today during King’s Books Holiday Book Party & Fund Raiser. Actually, don’t be mellow. Party! With eats, holiday games, some kind of drinkies, reading, and holiday catalog books slashed 20 percent off (catalogs, ya dig?), the
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Fire sets a mood. Back in the ’70s, that mood was all about lying on a bearskin rug with Courvoisier in a brandy snifter, listening to Peaches and Herb, although there were the other hip individuals who had avocado green freestanding fireplaces that screamed out for Lancers wine, shag carpeting
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ANNOUNCER: For most of us, Korean cuisine can be difficult to like. First of all, it is the cuisine that gave the world kimchi — the notoriously stinky, fermented cabbage that is an essential part of any Korean meal and an acquired taste at best. Then there is the fact
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ANNOUNCER: For most of us, Korean cuisine can be difficult to like. First of all, it is the cuisine that gave the world kimchi — the notoriously stinky, fermented cabbage that is an essential part of any Korean meal and an acquired taste at best. Then there is the fact
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In our post-Ziggy Stardust age, when chicks sport racing stripes and dudes don kilts, when even real men know from microdermabrasion and real women from drill bits, cocktails are one of the last clear markers of gender in America. Guys still balk at the coy fruit gals still gravitate toward
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In our post-Ziggy Stardust age, when chicks sport racing stripes and dudes don kilts, when even real men know from microdermabrasion and real women from drill bits, cocktails are one of the last clear markers of gender in America. Guys still balk at the coy fruit gals still gravitate toward
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One recent blustery night, suffering from my second cold of the season but feeling like I was coughing up bird feathers and had become the first North American victim of the bird flu pandemic, I grabbed GQ Tony and Head For Numbers to test out this new proverb: “Drink a
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One recent blustery night, suffering from my second cold of the season but feeling like I was coughing up bird feathers and had become the first North American victim of the bird flu pandemic, I grabbed GQ Tony and Head For Numbers to test out this new proverb: “Drink a
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Masa first peek After Monday night’s grand opening, I can say one thing for sure: Masa es mi casa. This traditional Mexican restaurant, the second venture for the proprietors of Asado, served up muy especial mojitos and margaritas. The nachordinary starter came with a delectable bean puree. The potato and chorizo tacos
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Masa first peek After Monday night’s grand opening, I can say one thing for sure: Masa es mi casa. This traditional Mexican restaurant, the second venture for the proprietors of Asado, served up muy especial mojitos and margaritas. The nachordinary starter came with a delectable bean puree. The potato and chorizo
