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So you wonder — as I do — how the Tacoma Art Museum will trump its community celebration, Glitter, Glisten, and Gleam, held several weeks ago. First in the equation, leave the kids at home. Next, add drag diva Sylvia O’Stayformore and DJ Vodka Twist. Add the band Lushy, performing with
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Mary’s Burger Bistro has opened at 23rd and Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma. >> Primo Grill hosts The Savory Flavors of Spain cooking class Saturday, Aug. 25 at 2 p.m. The $65 fee includes recipes, instruction, lunch, wine and tax. Reserve your spot at 253.383.7000. >> Xinh Dwelley leads a
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If you were born before 1975, you most likely will remember the old Burger King jingle, “Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us, all is that we ask you let us serve it your way.” That was a simpler time, when “H.R. Pufnstuf” was on the
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At Thee Barber Shop, a guy briskly shines the shoes of the customer sitting in the chair. A seated customer nervously leafs through magazines as he waits for barber Pete Lira to squeeze him in. The barber himself, attired in his gray suit, spins a yarn about his fighting days;
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On my days off from work I head to the Tacoma Mall, and my first stop is always a little store called D.E.M.O located in front of the food court right next to Finish Line. They have all the designer brands in this store including my favorites — Apple Bottom,
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Dwell addiction I popped into Dwell, lured by the notion of a sale. Not disappointed by the sale table, I snapped up candles, lotion, a small soap dish-like thing that I think I may find better suited as a paper clip home since its sweet avian motif is well suited to
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Katy Jolley buzzes with excitement. She’s poring over books with Hollywood photos from a bygone era, enthusing over ideas for her latest purchase. She’s seeing a façade created from the pieces she purchased from the Oriental Theatre in Portland. She’s seeing a ‘30s-styled marquee calling out Tacoma events as well
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Thursday, Aug. 23: Italian Wines from California, 5:308:30 p.m., complimentary, Pour at Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Thursday, Aug. 23: Tacoma Singles Wine Tasting, 7-9 p.m., Mandolin Café, 3923 S. 12th St., Tacoma, 253.761.3482. Friday, Aug. 24: Fridays Uncorked: Taste of Washington, 5-7:30 p.m., $12, Bayview School of Cooking, 516
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Topics like universal healthcare, activism, human rights, social justice, clean environment, sustainable farms and rank choice voting in Pierce County will be peacefully discussed and celebrated at a festival in People’s Park downtown Tacoma Sunday, Aug. 26 in People’s Park on Hilltop. The whole thing will be powered by solar
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For me, summertime means lazy afternoons lying on the dock or bumming sailboat rides on Commencement Bay. So when my craving for liquid refreshment overflowed one recent evening, I gathered a few members of the League of Liberal Libations and headed to Salty’s at Redondo Beach for some waterfront atmosphere,
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It’s one of those roundup weeks in Puget Sound theater, so buckle up, sit back and enjoy the ride. The first stop on this tour is at Seattle’s Paramount Theater where “Young Frankenstein,” the performance version of the Mel Brooks movie of the same name, is fairing well. I wrote about
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“Accomplice” Harlequin Productions gets a little saucy with “Accomplice” by Rupert Holmes. The show is set in an isolated English country house on a dark and stormy night. This twisting story of murder, lies, love, and lust contains violence, partial nudity and sexual innuendoes. [State Theater, through Sept. 15, 8 p.m.
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THE T-SHIRTS Las Vegas style party Self-conscious disclaimer: I am a horndog. That, of course, puts me in league with every other Y-chromosome-carrying primate in the world. But being a horndog doesn’t mean I’m a chauvinist. I don’t consider men inherently superior intellectually or more capable physically, despite our God-given ability to
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This week I’m going set my usual flirtatiousness aside and dive into a matter that I think needs some attention —something that I’m just as guilty of as so many of you. Buying music online. Now I’m not going to dip into the controversial sides of downloading music. The point I’d like
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How shall we mark the passage from late summer into fall and early winter this year? The choices available to Washingtonians are, as ever, many. Some represent long but enduring traditions that would be a shame to miss. Others represent newcomers to the event calendar lineup. Here are a few
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Do I detect a trend, or is it mere coincidence that for two months in a row A.O.C. Gallery has featured four women artists? The last time it was a quartet of fiber artists. This time it’s printmakers. Good ones, too. The best in this show are Klara Glosova and Betsy
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About two years ago a group of friends were talking about some ideas they’d all been incubating for a number of years. These ideas for Mark, Jennifer, Pamela, and Paul, and two others who weren’t present as we met eventually coalesced into the form of anarchism. The like-thinking group of people
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This week my heart was set on one and only one destination to start off the weekend after all the buzz I’d heard around town: The Red Hot! This is the latest bar to join the Sixth Avenue family, located at 2914 Sixth Ave., Suite B; but don’t expect it to
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A gray Sunday in Tacoma was brightened by the Glass Roots Arts Festival, with live artists showing their use of a wide range of media from paint with brush and can to music to glass (natch!) Although not overwhelmed by a throng of festival-goers, the event’s intimate, family-friendly setting provided an
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Glass, all glass and nothing but glass. That seems to be the new focus of the previously misnamed Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art. Yep, MOG got smart and did away with the last part of that heavily ambitious name and simplified its mission to reflect a direction it,
