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Warthog Barbeque Pit Where: 4921 20th St. E., Fife, 253.896.5091 Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday Cuisine: Finger lickin' barbecue, specialty burgers, salads, slow smoked barbecue sandwiches, homemade desserts Scene: Log cabin filled with taxidermy animals and barbecue kitsch - casual and family friendly Drinkies: Beer, wine, soft drinks, sweet iced
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The field has been set, the competitors narrowed. Sixty-four of the greater Tacoma area's best tacos are set to do battle in the Weekly Volcano's Tournament of Tacos. It's like March Madness, only with more indigestion. Every day through April 1 visit this blog and cast your
Music
The Seattle Center Coliseum, as I've said, was where I saw almost all of the rock shows in my teens and early 20s. I am thankful I got into the habit of going to see concerts when I did and quite bummed I didn't start earlier. I missed some great
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The word on the street is to watch the fuck out for Womberang - a surly troupe of SOTA-bred punk metal badasses. And I would never use the word "badasses" lightly. Trust me. A little like Scratch Acid with acne, Womberang has been kicking around many of the same haunts
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Ah, boys and girls. Something mysterious and beguiling happens when their voices come together in pairs. The boy's voice is anxious and searching, the salty to the girl's sweet; the girl's voice is simple, a warm embrace, the sweet to the boy's sour. With Catcher, the boy/girl dynamic is well
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Ask any true-blue Tacoman what's likely to be birthed when Dave Takata, Shawn Lanksbury, Sean Horst, Chris Roxx and Michah Hammer get together and the answer will be blatant: fucking rock. And lots of it. Formed from members of the late Brian Redman's Dirty Knockers and members of low-fi punks
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After pounding out more than 2600 words last week on Post Stardom Depression I'm not sure I've go much left to add. I think my two cents are already firmly on record. Do I think Post Stardom Depression is a rock band in the truest sense of the term? Yes
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Here we have a monster of a show. Calvin Johnson, godfather of Olympia music, will be bringing his Hive Dwellers to the Den. Joining him will be local favorites Basemint and Friskey. I don't feel like I need to tell you any more about this show, because the quality is
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BASEMINT >>> Thursday, March 18 Here we have a monster of a show. Calvin Johnson, godfather of Olympia music, will be bringing his Hive Dwellers to the Den. Joining him will be local favorites Basemint and Friskey. I don't feel like I need to tell you any more about this show, because
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Pacific Lutheran University's production of the bizarre Irish play The Cripple of Inishmaan begins with promise. From line one, Clare Edgerton and Anne Olsen are thoroughly amusing as a pair of tut-tutting shop owners, Eileen and Kate. Travis Tingvall is instantly irksome as the local crier of consistently boring news
Education
For generations there were only two approaches for educating children. The two choices were traditional classroom or homeschooling. While there were multiple traditional school environments to choose from such as private, public, magnet, etc., the idea was that the student would go to a brick and mortar building and sit
Focus
Throughout his deployment to Iraq, Joint Base Lewis-McChord Staff Sgt. Christian Hamilton was constantly tossing around ideas about ways to help his wounded comrades. One finally came to him while playing a game of poker, and the inaugural "Hold'em for Heroes" poker tournament was born. "He's a big poker player, and that's
Health
Cancer prevention comes in many forms; a healthy lifestyle, vaccines and routine screenings. All involve your ability to make healthy choices, but TRICARE makes those choices even easier by covering a vaccine that protects against cervical cancer, as well as routine screenings for early detection. According to the American Cancer Society,
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Tune-Yards, aka Merrill Garbus, is a true original, and an apparent master of her medium: tape music. She's one of those people, like Hendrix was with the guitar, who can take her tool and bend it, stretch it, distort it, and reform it anew. Listening to her debut full-length, Bird-Brains,
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It seems to me that, this far along in the history of music, the only boundary left to be broken is listenability. With people destructing nearly every sound and mashing them up, all you can really do to distinguish yourself is make your product unpalatable. Believe me, plenty of bands
Health
Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the United States, and it is one of the leading causes of cancer death among men of all races. In 2005 (the most recent year for which numbers are available) 185,895 men developed prostate cancer, and 28,905 men died from
Music
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. Yeah, sure, Bobble Tiki is a little jealous. Volcano editor Matt Driscoll is down in Austin this week, sucking up free beer at
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Whatever your viewpoint on Green Apple Quick Step, one fact is undeniable: The band struck a chord, and is still remembered. Aside from a handful of songs at a Caffé Vita employee party at the Showbox in December, Green Apple Quick Step - in any form - hasn't taken the
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Green Apple Quick Step. What does the name bring to mind? Some remember the band fondly. Green Apple Quick Step harkens back to a simpler time in local music - not pre-grunge simple, but still a time when it was easy to know what was cool and what was exciting, and
Focus
The movie "21 And A Wakeup" honors the work of doctors and nurses who served in Vietnam. The film takes place during a four-day period in the 24th Evacuation Hospital, the last hospital during the final days of America's involvement in Vietnam. Director, writer and producer Chris McIntyre produced the work
