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These guys evoke memories of sitting in front of the console stereo spinning 45s when I was just a wee lad. Yes, I was a music geek as early as age 5. You might know songs like “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” and “Crimson and Clover” as ’80s
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Friday, Aug. 3 JAZZ KVH I love it when truly gifted musicians join forces to form a band. All gifted and respected players in their own right, Northwest keyboard extraordinaire Wayne Horvitz, New York saxophonist Briggan Krauss and Vancouver, B.C., percussionist Dylan Van der Schyff have done just that for a project
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This week’s column I believe will really hit home for those of us in the hospitality industry. Strange things happen on a day-to-day basis that defy common sense and it never ceases to amaze me how clueless some people can be. I don’t mean this in a general sense because
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Last "Beauty" It\'s the last weekend for South Sound audiences to see “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast" at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. The show runs 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; Narrows Theatre, 7116 Sixth Ave., Tacoma; $16-$23; 253-565-6867, www.tmp.org. "Twelfth Night" Works by William Shakespeare are in full steam these
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The evening of July 28, smack dab in between summer and fall, brought a bevy of beauties, cuties, and booties to the artists’ live/workspace known as the warehouse. And the Midsummer Soiree, thrown by many of the female masterminds who brought Tacoma Eyefull last winter and the reason behind the assemblage
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One of two things invariably happens to you after your stylist gets hold of you. Either you walk away from the chair sticky and funky, with a coif so sky-high that your hands itch to wash it and kill the evidence of the bad style, or you walk out of
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RobKat shows his sentimental artist style with pieces that have a comfortable cool aesthetic. The shirt he’s wearing is a vintage seventies synthetic-fiber (my guess? Polyester) button-up featuring bike racing (my guess? Greg Lemond is the dude on the bike). His distinctive trousers — definitely NOT Hammer pants — came from a
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Words can in no way express how delighted I am to be the first to alert you on the following piece of nightlife development in Tacoma. Harry’s Place, located at 3529 McKinley Ave., has closed, and new ownership of the building and the business has taken over. The new proprietor? It’s none
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This is were all of my journalistic integrity goes out the window and is replaced by a father\\\'s pride. My daughter is making her theater debut this week. It\\\'s a bit part with no lines of her own, but she has a lot of background stage time so that makes excited.
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Thursday, Aug. 2: Wine 100: Basics of Enjoying Wine, 7:30 p.m., $89 pre-register, Water to Wine, 9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor, 253.851.2424. Thursday, Aug. 2: Tacoma Singles Wine Tasting, 7-9 p.m., Winfield’s, 503 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.238.1030. Friday, Aug. 3-Saturday, Aug. 4: Smorgasbord wine tasting, 6 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. Saturday, $5,
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“Mining Glass” at the Museum of Glass features installations by eight contemporary glass artists. Some are great, some are interesting but unexciting, and some are just boring. The big disappointment is Maya Lin, one of the most exciting and intelligent artists working in America today. Lin is the creator of the
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THE BOOKS Page Ahead I could make jokes about how you never read anymore. But that’s just not true. You do. TV Guide doesn’t read itself, you know. Plus you have to figure out that little graph thingy with the channels and times — not to mention the plot summaries. However, I
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When summer hits I undergo a visible transformation into a festival-frolicking female. The rest of my weekends this summer are booked with them, but there’s one in particular that changes me more than the rest. Hotrod-a-rama. As a matter of fact, this annual powerhouse festivity does a little something to everyone, and it
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The Indonesian word Poekoelan, roughly translated, means returning blows with hands and feet and is at the center of a form of martial art brought to America via Asia by Mas Goeroe Agoeng Willy Wetzel in the 1950s. Justine Kreher, who has been training and teaching this martial art for
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The other night several members of the Institute of Liberal Libations went to Kyoto Japanese Restaurant to drown our sorrow from the lack of sports on television with large planks of sushi and lots of beer. The first time I tried raw fish I may as well have been offered
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The women that brought us last winter’s Eye Full are back at it, bringing another art party to the scene July 28, starting at 7 p.m. This party, called the Midsummer Soiree, will place focus firmly on the girl power of the Tacoma art scene, with photography, 2- and 3-D art,
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When he was a child during World War II, Dieter Dengler had an attic room on a German hillside overlooking a valley. One day an American fighter plane roared past “only feet away,” he recalled. The plane’s canopy was down, he made eye contact with the pilot for a moment,
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The Simpsons are fairly surprised to find themselves in a movie; they can’t believe “anyone would pay to see what we did on TV for free.” But I suspect a lot of people will. Here is a feature-length version of what Time magazine, no less, called “the 20th century’s best
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I Know Who Killed Me Tough to know if star Lindsay Lohan’s recent DUI and coke bust will help or hinder this week’s serial killer/torture movie opening of the week. My guess is she will be pointing to herself in the mirror by Monday saying, “I know who killed my career.”
