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Last week was filled with all kinds of dreamy thoughts about something you and I probably both love equally. Summer, summer, summertime! Even though I’m a devoted Washingtonian, and I really don’t mind the rain at all, there’s nothing quite like the first days of sunshine on those beautiful blue-sky breakthroughs. I love
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This week I’ll put you in my pocket and take you to a Proctor establishment with a name as sweet as it’s presence and ownership: Rosewood Cafe. This is a laid back neighborhood café that’s full for lunch and dinner. All of the faces in it are relaxed and smiling. Mine was,
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I feed my dogs decent food: Nutro Natural Choice Lite with glucosamine and chondroitin. I always thought, they have the glucosamine and chondroitin for joint health, they have the protein and other good stuff to keep them well-ish, and they have the kibble-only aspect for clean white teeth and no
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The missus and I are big fans of “West Side Story” even though it is sort of quaint and predictable no matter how a director stages it. Theaters have to assume that everyone in the audience has seen the show and know what they like since, well, everyone in the
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“Whorehouse” Those whores are at it again — getting all uppity about being a victimless crime and what not. Such is the case at Tacoma Little Theatre as it finishes its season with “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” a look at life and politics surrounding the Chicken Ranch. [Tacoma Little Theatre, June
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“Sideways” is the next film screened as part of The Cans Film Festival, the Emergency Food Network and Food Connection’s food-theme movie festival — each film matched with a coupon to a local restaurant — to raise awareness to fight hunger. Thursday, June 14, “Sideways” will screen at the Blue
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If you happen to be in the neighborhood, stop by the University of Washington-Tacoma art gallery to see the installation by Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Betsy Alwin. I’ll make a wild guess that you’ll find it fascinating — for upwards of two minutes. After that, you may catch yourself yawning. I drove
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If “Old School” and “She’s Having a Baby” lined up 50 yards apart, sprinted at each other at full speed and collided in violently comedic-sexual fashion spawning one film (“She’s Having an Old School Baby”?), the result would be “Knocked Up.” Of course, that would mean “Old School” and “She’s Having
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Mr. Brooks is Portland’s Man of the Year. He’s one of those 50ish, effortlessly charming multimillionaires who wear a tuxedo as easily as most of us don sweats. Mr. Brooks has a hugely successful business and an adoring and gorgeous wife of 20-plus years who still banters with him and flirts
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Even today, with tens of thousands of soccer moms omnipresent across the landscape of suburban America, it is somewhat puzzling that the world’s most universally accepted sport — known everywhere outside the United States as football — still hasn’t totally enraptured U.S. sports fans. Flash back to the late 1970s, and
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Bobble Tiki knows a good match when he sees one. Rum and Coke. Ben and Jerry. Simon and Simon. All of these pairs get high marks in Bobble Tiki’s book. Sunday, June 3, Thee Ohsees will make a tour stop at Le Voyeur in Olympia, and something tells Bobble Tiki Oly and
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Three roommates, all musicians, decided to start a band. They named it Basic Radio because, “We didn’t need some band name with a ‘deep’ meaning, we just needed something that would stick,” says Brandon Eisenbeis. The result is a lot more classic rock sounding than the poppy name implies. “We wanted
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Students at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor have their own radio station. Outside of Tacoma School of the Arts, there aren’t many high school electives that rate as high on the coolness scale as radio production class. I decided to investigate.KGHP FM was started 19 years ago by three
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Wanna hear something crazy? Of course you do. About three weeks ago, in an act of extreme preparedness and preplanning (something I’m not exactly known for), I spoke with Jahred Shane, who co-created and still fronts (hed) pe. (hed) pe, originally scheduled to play The 54, will bring its “Scratch ‘N’ Sniff”
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Thursday, May 31 ELECTRO-POP yacht The first time I saw the Art of Noise, the band blew my mind with its video of the song “Close To the Edit.” The rhythms were coarse, but they blended flawlessly with the mechanical sounds and visual theater that accompanied them. No vocals, just a punked-out
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I really dislike labeling bands. Alternative metal is where the Apex Theory has been slotted, but let’s get real, it’s a rock and roll band and nothing more. Sure, it incorporates complex guitar riffs and rapid fire drum beats among a wash of volume, but the group’s music is not
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Mandolin Café will be hosting a women’s wellness and beauty event Sunday, June 3. For $15 you get an organic lunch (salad and fruit bar), dessert and refreshments (wine is available for purchase), as well as a full program with local specialists in the health, wellness, and fashion industry. The featured
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I’m graduating June 8. Technically I graduated last year, but since there was no big ceremony in the winter, I have yet to “celebrate” my accomplishment. While I suspect my kid won’t be too ecstatic about three hours of Pomp and Circumstance and a couple of other key individuals I’d like as
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Art shows up in the most unlikely places in Tacoma, and then blends right in. Witness Sanford & Son Antiques’ Middle Floor Merchants. Here, Gretchen Bailey has brought local art into her shop since last autumn, and then encouraged its spread into formerly vacant shop spaces. Right around Valentines Day, the
