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Just because it's not even Thanksgiving yet doesn't mean you can't get your holiday dance on, right? That's what we're saying - and Dance Theatre Northwest is on board. This Saturday the regional performing company will bust out classical ballet and holiday musical theater favorites, along with a nice chunk
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I have always thought Dale Chihuly's drawings were more impressive than his glass creations, but I have never seen enough of his drawings to say so until now. "Chihuly Drawings" at Museum of Glass makes the case quite emphatically. One hundred and eighty-six drawings fill the
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Every year the Barefoot Collective helps put on Footfalls, which is a chance for area dance companies to jointly show their chops under the umbrella of one awesome show. This year, the Barefoot Collective, MLK Ballet and BQDanza will be a part of the Friday and Saturday action going down
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In true underground tradition, Broken Water is a band that deliberately smears the boundaries between various genres - garage, punk, shoegaze, s***gaze - and in doing so, generates something wholly unique, exciting and loud as hell. Their recent West Coast tour was an ambitious undertaking, including stops in Montana, Arizona,
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Friday Tacoma's nonprofit Safe Streets campaign will hold two rallies in T-Town, allowing members of the community a chance to get together, construct signs with "anti-crime slogans" and demonstrate their vigilance in two neighborhoods: Orchard Plaza at 56th and Orchard and the Shell station at Center Street and Tyler. If
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Experts agree the only thing better than drinking discounted Alaskan beer at Tacoma's Varsity Grill is drinking discounted beer at Tacoma's Varsity Grill while simultaneously taking part in a bowling competition using frozen turkeys instead of bowling balls. It's true. Google it. Or, even better, test the experts' opinion yourself
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Just when you thought the farmers market season had faded to an end, the Tacoma Farmers Market and Multicare Health System come to the rescue with an official Pre-Thanksgiving Farmers Market this Thursday from noon to 5 p.m. at South Fourth and I Street in Tacoma. According to hype, 15
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I have always thought Dale Chihuly's drawings were more impressive than his glass creations, but I have never seen enough of his drawings to say so until now. "Chihuly Drawings" at Museum of Glass makes the case quite emphatically. One hundred and eighty-six drawings fill the main gallery at MOG,
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The demise of the Black Water Café undeniably left a hole in the hip downtown coffee scene. For a long time, one could count on finding some of the cooler people around town hanging out in the sequestered comfort of Black Water, laptops or sketchbooks open. Once
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The demise of the Black Water Café undeniably left a hole in the hip downtown coffee scene. For a long time, one could count on finding some of the cooler people around town hanging out in the sequestered comfort of Black Water, laptops or sketchbooks open. Once it left ...
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Few beer events are more heart warming and exclusive than the annual tapping of Bob’s Brown Ale from Georgetown Brewing Company. Once the brew is gone, it’s gone; never will it be sipped again — until the following year’s event. Mark your calendars Monday, May 14, at these finer beer-sipping venues.
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Mazatlan is a Mexican-style restaurant operating a salsa club every Saturday night. The dancing happens inside the bar and, if crowded, overflows into the rear of the restaurant in a large, unassuming room better suited for conference luncheons. The area's best dancers move and shake to a unique mix of Latin-infused
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The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, all through the town. ... Whether you find that song a childhood travel mantra or an invasive earworm, there's one thing that rings true: There is an actual bus, of the most wonderful kind, that has been winding its way around the
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Brewfest The dream event of every red-blooded South Sound beer-swiller is back: The McMenamins Olympic Club Brewfest returns Saturday with a 20-variety array of suds from 14 breweries, large and small. Though the fest features plenty of sideshows, from Jackstraw and Slow Roller bands, open-pit barbecue and Olympic Club tours, the
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My last visit to New Orleans was at once exhilarating and disappointing. Exhilarating because I was lucky enough to experience exquisite meals at Bayona, Mike’s on the Avenue and the G&E Courtyard Grill. But disappointing because, while dining out at these innovative upscale restaurants, I was missing out on the
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Built to Spill are kind of indie rock royalty. Making a name for themselves in the mid-to-late '90s, the band distinguished itself by performing high atop a rigid foundation of complex chord structures and no a small amount of jamming (hoping now that I am not
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"I had been into Built to Spill for a little while," says Casey Deligeannis, as we speak over the phone. "I went to one of their shows - I mean, it's been about a year ago. The last time they played at the Showbox. And you always see (guitarist) Doug
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The perfect show for winter, Glimmering Gone is the new three-part exhibition by Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman at the Museum of Glass. The three parts are Landscape, Mementos and Artifacts. Upon entering the gallery viewers browse, as if window-shopping at exclusive gift shops or jewelry stores, a series of
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You spend hours wandering around consignment stores, yard sales, and nothing. Break the cycle. Rethink your thought process. Antiques - The older they are the better. And, unlike the average retail giant's merchandise, you can sometimes get a deal. So come check out the Women's League Annual Flea Market and
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SWEETKISS MOMMA >>> Friday, Nov. 19 The last time I saw SweetKiss Momma frontman Jeff Hamel I told him he needed a championship belt - something to signify his band's current standing as the reigning champs of Puyallup. He was modest, naturally, brushing the suggestion off, but I stand firm. SweetKiss Momma
