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Eligh used to take more prescription pain medication than you can imagine. Like hundreds per month - Percocet, Oxycodone, Morphine - you name it. Eligh looks old and young at the same time. He walks gingerly and staggers a bit into the room. We're at North End Club 420, where

Partners In Crhyme

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Partners In Crhyme

It all started with some “ill rhymes and a hand-me-down keyboard” and evolved into a hardcore hip-hop act that sounds like maybe they incorporated an 808, a guitarist, and a better herbal jazz cigarette hookup. Partners in Crhyme has been around since 2001, sporting the names “Mr. Penetration” and “Johnny

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LeMay Car Show

Come see how many cars one solid waste mogul can collect as the LeMay Museum presents The LeMay Car Show this weekend. The car show will showcase an amazing assortment of 1,000 vintage collector cars spread out over 80-plus acres, as well as collections of dolls, antiques, and nostalgic memorabilia

Art market still hungry

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Art market still hungry

Two Vaults Gallery owner Paula Tutmarc-Johnson had her first good month in a year. Art sales in July were so strong, in fact, that she actually drew a paycheck. Tutmarc-Johnson, like so many other business owners, has weathered an economic storm, or lull perhaps, as widespread unemployment and a general

Art market still hungry

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Art market still hungry

Two Vaults Gallery owner Paula Tutmarc-Johnson had her first good month in a year. Art sales in July were so strong, in fact, that she actually drew a paycheck. Tutmarc-Johnson, like so many other business owners, has weathered an economic storm, or lull perhaps, as widespread unemployment and a general

Doin’ it by hand

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Doin’ it by hand

Sometimes the themes that clamor for our artistic attention are overwhelming. The old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” takes on a special significance for artists. Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring know this, and chooses to focus at least one series of print creations on the mystery and

Doin’ it by hand

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Doin’ it by hand

Sometimes the themes that clamor for our artistic attention are overwhelming. The old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times,” takes on a special significance for artists. Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring know this, and chooses to focus at least one series of print creations on the mystery and

Revolving jail door

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Revolving jail door

Pierce County auditors released a report this week that held one surprising bit of news, and another bit that should surprise no one. The study was conducted to examine a long-held assumption in Tacoma — that people being released under a program designed to thin out an often over-crowded Pierce County

Revolving jail door

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Revolving jail door

Pierce County auditors released a report this week that held one surprising bit of news, and another bit that should surprise no one. The study was conducted to examine a long-held assumption in Tacoma — that people being released under a program designed to thin out an often over-crowded Pierce County

Finding your way

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Finding your way

This week, local community organizers and public officials will take a big step toward making it hard to get lost in Tacoma. Even better, Tacoma’s wayfinding sign project may help visitors and residents find some of the cool stuff. Truth is, Tacoma already has a few wayfinding signs. But so

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Thoughts on Tacoma pot club bust

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO >>> And then there were two. The News Tribune reported this morning on a bust at Club 420 - the so-called medical marijuana dispensary, ‘round the corner from Costco. Law enforcement officials allege the two men were arrested were selling marijuana for profit and selling

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