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All eyes were focused on the center of the hot shop at the Museum of Glass last week, though the action wasn’t the typical glass-blowing creation of art. Instead, the evening centered on the Nordstrom Hot Shop Runway spring fashion show, presented jointly by the Tacoma Art Museum and the
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ANNOUNCER: The boys have made the Brotherhood Tavern their satellite office ever since they were old enough to pay their own tab (though they seldom do). The shuffleboard, the funky lights, the velvet U.S. presidents, the hipsters — heaven. But when they have had their fill of cash-only booze, they
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Get Twisted Winfield’s Twisted Cue Club has opened at 539 Broadway in the mansion that was formerly David’s on Broadway. The proprietors have renovated this antique space and, something that’s important to me, a 1,100 square foot deck. I might have to make reservations now for the 4th of July fireworks
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Ah, upstart college bands. You provide much-needed collegiate water-cooler talk about campus. (I presume, having never been to college, there are a lot of water-coolers in college.) You dream so big; you love so deep. You fill those (roughly) four college years with boundless quantities of mirth and youthful oat-sowing. I
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It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling. For at least the last two weeks, Bobble Tiki has spent the bulk of his column ranting and raving about the Weekly Volcano's
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"Western doom" is how Pioneers West describe their sound, and it's easy to see why. It's a kind of music that's born out of Modest Mouse's experiments with paranoia in the Pacific Northwest - that kind of feeling of everything closing in around you, being acutely aware of your tiny
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Loaded for Bear are brimming with theatricality, presenting themselves like a shadowy back-alley band at a slurred, drunken carnival of ill intent. Their songs are moody pieces of work, propelled by haunted piano lines and stuttering drum beats. The vocals call forth from the hazy din, gruff and tired, occasionally
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People move on. As cold as it seems, it's only natural. For many, the tragic slaying of five Pierce County police officers in the line of duty has already faded into the back of their clogged memories, having been replaced by a more recent tragedy (perhaps Haiti), or a more
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Don't make the mistake. Just don't. Whatever you call Freeze and Fur Coat, a band I consider kind of like the poster-band for the Dear Records movement, just don't call them sad. Or melancholy. Or probably even, "the poster-band for the Dear Records movement." Aside from that last part, which
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FREEZE AND FUR COAT >>> Thursday, Feb. 4 Don't make the mistake. Just don't. Whatever you call Freeze and Fur Coat, a band I consider kind of like the poster-band for the Dear Records movement, just don't call them sad. Or melancholy. Or probably even, "the poster-band for the Dear Records movement."
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Preston Singletary's big show at MOG is mind-boggling. Perhaps it's the lighting and the size and variety of the show that is so impressive. The walls are dark and each artwork is individually and dramatically spotlighted. The overall impact is powerful and magical, and most if not all of the
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Preston Singletary's mid career retrospective exhibition at Museum of Glass blows the lid off many of my theories about glass and contemporary Native American art. There is much to admire about traditional Native art - the symbolism, the reverence for heritage, the mystery and power of the imagery. But I am
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Having recently authored a novel about the Apocalypse as predicted in the last few pages of the Good Book, I can tell you quite a bit about what people in this area think about the End of the World: almost nothing. Even most churchgoing Christians view the Rapture as a
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Having recently authored a novel about the Apocalypse as predicted in the last few pages of the Good Book, I can tell you quite a bit about what people in this area think about the End of the World: almost nothing. Even most churchgoing Christians view the Rapture as a
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On one Valentine's Day a couple years back, when I was considerably less cynical, I sent four old men to my girlfriend's work. They were my present: four octogenarian men in white tuxedos, brandishing roses and barber shop serenades. It cost $40, and it was absolutely perfect - as nearly
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My Valentine's Day list of demands (I mean wishes) are really quite simple: a gourmet meal, a full body massage, and maybe a night on the town. Then there's my friend, Becky. She muses about diamond jewelry and a trip to the ocean as the perfect romantic V-Day. No matter the
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Olympia MC, Afrok dominated the much scrutinized and criticized nominee list for the 2nd Annual 25360 Awards. Not only was he nominated for the most awards (three), but he won each category as voted on by the public. Afrok won in the categories of Best Come Up, awarded to the
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Remember when we waited, we crossed our fingers, we gave our zip codes freely in hope that someday Trader Joe's would come to Tacoma? We would give anything to put an end to the crippling journey to Federal Way. Thank goodness that changed. Even driving to University Place from my
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There's beauty in simplicity - the Presidents of the U.S.A. proved it. Think "Peaches," and "Lump." These days, among other things, Chris Ballew of the Presidents spends his time going by Caspar Babypants - dishing out goofy kids' music. Next Thursday he'll hit the Wheelock Library - the first
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To me, the Smothers Brothers always seemed awfully square and dopey. But what the fuck do I know? I was born in 1980. To an older generation out there, from a time of Vietnam and John & Yoko bed-ins, the Smothers Brothers are not only funny folksters, but downright
