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After this one course of events happened to me over last weekend, I’m ready to talk some serious trash. Here’s what happened: I decided to dedicate my last Sunday to a task I’ve been putting off for far too long: cleaning out my garage. Unfortunately, the people who owned the house before me
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It was a Wednesday morning at the YMCA, and I was sweating at the elliptical machine in rare form, reveling at the shuffle iGods who placed Blur’s "Common People" after The Killers’ "Somebody Told Me." Such sublime pleasure couldn’t last, of course. There, in the midst of my revelry came the
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So where were you when you heard the big explosion at the Atlas Foundry in Tacoma’s Nalley Valley? I was sitting here at my computer when my back door practically shook off its hinges and I fell off my chair. I was also witness to the big fireball because the
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I missed the Tacoma Greek Festival last weekend. And I still had Greek on the brain. With visions of traditional Greek white wine Retsina dancing in my head, a drive down Sixth Avenue to give Opa! Greek Cuisine a try was in order. At 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the brightly lit
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Childhood’s End Gallery in Olympia is featuring two artists and one husband and wife collaborative team this month: Marilyn Frasca, Betty Moynahan, and John and Robin Gamaelius. Moynahan, a Native American and member of the Cowlitz Tribe, is showing a series of pastel portraits all of the same woman. The
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Cans has been teasing me with an announcement they made recently that has my fancy boots stompin’. This location at 100 S. Ninth St. will now be home to an incredible Thursday night that was made for the girls and all of the guys who admire them. Cans will be slingin’ 50-cent
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I can’t wait to peek inside Tacoma’s swank condominiums during this weekend’s Tour of Urban Living, a self-guided tour set to take place Oct. 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In last year’s tour, I remember having a light bulb “Aha!” moment watching the occupants of the top
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Highlights of the last three months include Leipzig, Germany; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Lima, Peru; Chicago, Illinois; Istanbul, Turkey; Tacoma, Washington; England. Like a rock star, the traveler has a musical sensibility and great hair. Like a supermodel, the traveler has the ability to emote to millions, and great hair. This particular
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Teddy Haggarty allows the public to ride along with him for a day — his awaking, through a winding series of philosophy, art, interviews and interesting moments — in his film “All About Haggarty,” set to screen at the Tacoma Film Festival Sunday, Oct. 7, at the Tacoma School of
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My friend sent me an alarmed text message when she went shopping for jeans for her teenage daughter. Seemed she was struck with a bad case of sticker shock by the prices she was seeing in the boutique where they shopped. I responded apologetically: sorry, I thought you knew boutique equals
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How much worse can it get for a 30-something guy to have to move back in with Mom and Dad? Not much, some would say. But it can get worse, a lot worse. He could lose his girlfriend, his nightclub, and go bankrupt in the same year, freezing his life
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THE 11TH HOUR: A dire warning about the demise of planet Earth, presented in a deadening format of talking heads and what often looks like stock nature footage. The doc has a lot of valuable information, but fails to convey it in an effective, involving way. Rent Al Gore’s “An
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Vicki León has gotten good at making work fun. In her latest paperback tome, “Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World” (Walker & Co., 313 pages, $16.95), León gallivants into Greek and Roman times, gleefully lifting the veils of history to
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The premise of "The Heartbreak Kid" is that a man marries a woman who quickly becomes unbearable to him. The problem is that she just as quickly becomes unbearable to us. Perhaps it is a tribute to Malin Akerman, who plays the new bride, named Lila, that she gets the
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Jane Austen wrote six novels, which are pillars of English literature in spite of being delightful, wise, warm and beloved. Robin Swicord’s “The Jane Austen Book Club” centers on its six members who meet over six months to discuss the novels, which seem to have an uncanny relevance to events
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SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, (253) 627-TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, (800) 325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, (866) 468-7623, www.ticketweb.com on sale now Kyle Eastwood Olympia. Oct. 11 8 pm. $10-$25 (Minnaert Center, 360.596.5501). Ukulele Wizard Jake Shimabukuro Bremerton. Oct. 12 6:30 pm dinner 8 pm show. $16-$63 (Admiral Theatre, 360.373.6743). Family Force 5, Jonezetta, The
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Like most of the insight Bobble Tiki has collected over the course of his life, Bobble Tiki’s knowledge of Japan comes mainly from cartoons. Just like Tom and Jerry taught Bobble Tiki about difficult relationships, the Simpsons taught Bobble Tiki about loving parenting, and the Family Guy taught Bobble Tiki
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Too Slim and the Taildraggers call Seattle home these days, at least according to their Web site (www.tooslim.org) but that doesn’t mean the band’s Spokane roots aren’t as blaring as ever. Spokane is where Too Slim originated, and the city was obviously the perfect breeding ground for the band’s vision
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Have you ever noticed the music playing inside urbanXchange clothing store in downtown Tacoma? It’s usually something trendy, avant garde and/or locally made, which is not unlike the clothes on the adjacent racks. The marriage between fashion, art and music at urbanXchange is a reflection of what has been occurring
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Attention spans are decreasing. Let’s face it. People want their news and entertainment in cute little bloggable bites — ready made for a MySpace bulletin. People want pictures and hyperlinks and no compound sentences to slow them down. The world is moving at a thousand mile per hour, and most
