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Tacoma's newest gallery is called Iota. Nice name for a gallery specializing in small art. It means a jot, a whit, something tiny. Their first show opened in March and will run through April. The featured artist is Susan Cowan, a Portland artist who also has a studio in Tacoma. Her
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Spring is here. Ah, yes, spring. Spring in Pierce County can mean only one thing. Parade Season! Yeah! In the middle of April you can't drive a mile without hitting a marching band (and really, you should go for it; they're tough) and a fire truck hurling candy at children. Saturday,
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Each April brings a shower of poetry to the South Puget Sound. Inaugurated as National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, the entire month is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating poets, poetry, libraries, bookstores, and the literary arts community across the nation. The South Sound has its
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No just universe would reserve the pleasures of candy for children, but if your taste buds have grown up, you may no longer want to scarf waxen candy corn. The civilized adult can get sugar and chocolate fixes at blind chocolate tasting and talk Saturday at the Olympia Timberline Library
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QUESTION: In your answer to "Dismayed," the 32-year-old woman with a Ph.D. who was unimpressed by the men she was meeting, I was struck by how cold and calculating it all sounds: Women evolved to marry money and power; men look for eye candy to parade around on their arms.
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So you're a writer, right? Right. OK, write. Go on. Don't worry about being right. Just write. Right? Right. Buy yourself a black beret and head right on down to your local friendly coffee shop for some existential inspiration. Wrong - if you want to get published. José Ignacio Valenzuela claims you
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Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes at a performance dance company? No Stayin' Alive doesn't count. The Tacoma City Ballet has set out to answer that question with a free talk and preview of its Spring Dance Extravaganza. An hour in length, the Choreographers' Talk - hosted by TCB Artistic
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Beneath Tacoma's thick outer skin of gritty beautiful people covered in tattoos and vintage tops are a group of creative, clever women who know there's more to turning people on than jiggling butt floss. The Gritty City Sirens are into its second year of reviving the art of
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The Magic Lantern Society are not intergalactic peacekeepers led by a six-pack sportin' pretty boy with a lisp, but rather a group of Victorian-era lantern enthusiasts who will converge on Tacoma in June to project imagines on walls through hand-painted glass slides powered by candle or oil lamp powered lanterns.
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Place: Johnny's in Fife Place: Johnny's Dock Place: Johnny's on the Mall Place: Crawford's Sea Grill Person: John E. Meaker The: Grandfather of them all Because it's sacrilege to utter the word "Seattle" while in the presence of most Tacoma audiences, I'll skip over the part of John E. Meaker's butcher shop and restaurant history that
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I know I'll probably come off as naïve when I say this, but I am consistently blown away whenever I see a musician build a song with a looping pedal. The first time I saw this live, it was at an Andrew Bird concert, and I'm sure my jaw was
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Sea Grill is an airy room with floor to ceiling windows all around and a clear view straight into the kitchen. The inviting look of the restaurant is mirrored by the staff. “Are we celebrating anything this evening?” general manager Mike Neumann warmly asks of a couple he’s just seated.
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Sea Grill is an airy room with floor to ceiling windows all around and a clear view straight into the kitchen. The inviting look of the restaurant is mirrored by the staff. “Are we celebrating anything this evening?” general manager Mike Neumann warmly asks of a couple he’s just seated.
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Lance Kagey is fascinated with our society’s obsession with numbers and statistics, stating that (and I paraphrase) if we cannot quantify it statistically, it doesn’t exist. In an artist’s statement written for his new show, The distance between the calculated and the random at Fulcrum Gallery, Kagey says: “I present the
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Lance Kagey is fascinated with our society’s obsession with numbers and statistics, stating that (and I paraphrase) if we cannot quantify it statistically, it doesn’t exist. In an artist’s statement written for his new show, The distance between the calculated and the random at Fulcrum Gallery, Kagey says: “I present the
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Everyone has experienced it: You wash and dry a favorite article of clothing, and it gets damaged or it shrinks. Frustrating and costly, right? Well, it could be worse. What if the same thing happened to your body armor garments? Finding a safe, effective way to clean Improved
