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Steak is a splendorous thing. With the right cut and a skilled chef, a good steak ranks among life’s great pleasures. There are few places that can properly coax true, transcendent glory from a hunk of USDA Prime. If you want the best, go to Peter Luger in Brooklyn. If
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Steak is a splendorous thing. With the right cut and a skilled chef, a good steak ranks among life’s great pleasures. There are few places that can properly coax true, transcendent glory from a hunk of USDA Prime. If you want the best, go to Peter Luger in Brooklyn. If
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Local choreographer and dancer Joel Myers wants to move you. Along with a cadre of professional body-movers, he will do just that when he presents “The Joel Show II” at the Annie Wright Theater Saturday. For those wondering, “The Joel Show II” is all about its creator, Joel Myers. Well, sort
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Local choreographer and dancer Joel Myers wants to move you. Along with a cadre of professional body-movers, he will do just that when he presents “The Joel Show II” at the Annie Wright Theater Saturday. For those wondering, “The Joel Show II” is all about its creator, Joel Myers. Well, sort
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Ed. note: Best of Tacoma issue is inserted into all Weekly Volcano, Ranger and Northwerst Airlifter newspapers this week. Pick one up, like, now. Tacoma has rescued a number of beautiful buildings in the past year or so. We found a developer for the Elks building; the Union Bank of California
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It’s official — First Night Tacoma-Pierce County is back and promises to be bigger, better and more piratey than ever (Piratey is a word. Look it up). Debt-free and ready to roll, the resurrection of Tacoma’s annual non-alcoholic, arts-enriched, sumptuous, family-friendly New Year celebration is alive in a way that
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It’s official — First Night Tacoma-Pierce County is back and promises to be bigger, better and more piratey than ever (Piratey is a word. Look it up). Debt-free and ready to roll, the resurrection of Tacoma’s annual non-alcoholic, arts-enriched, sumptuous, family-friendly New Year celebration is alive in a way that
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Photographer and community activist Gordon Swetland, along with a small team of artists, historians and preservationists, would like to offer you an opportunity to experience a rapidly-disappearing piece of Tacoma’s landscape and history. In its heyday, Tacoma’s Japantown — Nihonmachi to the people who lived there — had everything the City
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Photographer and community activist Gordon Swetland, along with a small team of artists, historians and preservationists, would like to offer you an opportunity to experience a rapidly-disappearing piece of Tacoma’s landscape and history. In its heyday, Tacoma’s Japantown — Nihonmachi to the people who lived there — had everything the City
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Roxanne Murphy, community relations specialist for the City of Tacoma, has one word for thugs, hookers, gangsters and drug dealers inhabiting Tacoma’s East Side. “Rawwwrrrr!” That, for the apathetic among you, is the primal scream of a community activist. Hear it in your head, feel it, recognize what it represents, and read
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Roxanne Murphy, community relations specialist for the City of Tacoma, has one word for thugs, hookers, gangsters and drug dealers inhabiting Tacoma’s East Side. “Rawwwrrrr!” That, for the apathetic among you, is the primal scream of a community activist. Hear it in your head, feel it, recognize what it represents, and read
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Gypsy jazz geniuses Pearl Django will make a blessed appearance June 2 at Tacoma Musical Playhouse, with local favorites the Lance Buller/Stephanie Porter Experience. Twelve years on the road, Tacoma-born jazz nomads Pearl Django continues to wear out shoes, fingers and kegs on its path to musical Mecca. Neil Andersson,
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Gypsy jazz geniuses Pearl Django will make a blessed appearance June 2 at Tacoma Musical Playhouse, with local favorites the Lance Buller/Stephanie Porter Experience. Twelve years on the road, Tacoma-born jazz nomads Pearl Django continues to wear out shoes, fingers and kegs on its path to musical Mecca. Neil Andersson,
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Let’s all get ready to wish the Emerald Queen Casino a big, happy 10th birthday Saturday and Sunday at the Emerald Queen I-5 Showroom. It all starts at 11 a.m., so there’ll be plenty of time to feed the money-gobbling monkey alongside your grandma’s friends. Thinking back 10 years is hard
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Let’s all get ready to wish the Emerald Queen Casino a big, happy 10th birthday Saturday and Sunday at the Emerald Queen I-5 Showroom. It all starts at 11 a.m., so there’ll be plenty of time to feed the money-gobbling monkey alongside your grandma’s friends. Thinking back 10 years is hard
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Tacoma deputy prosecutor Mark Lindquist will debut his latest masterwork, “The King of Methlehem,” Thursday, May 17, 6 p.m. at the downtown Tacoma Public Library. Let’s not get confused by the fact that Lindquist is a lawyer. The man is a literary genius – especially true for those of us
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Tacoma deputy prosecutor Mark Lindquist will debut his latest masterwork, “The King of Methlehem,” Thursday, May 17, 6 p.m. at the downtown Tacoma Public Library. Let’s not get confused by the fact that Lindquist is a lawyer. The man is a literary genius – especially true for those of us
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Hey Tacoma, get ready for a lesson in collaboration from a zealous nut on a pink motor scooter. It’s called the “Go Local Passport” campaign, and Patricia Lecy-Davis is the invisible thread that runs through this scintillating little fractal of community connections. Celebrate the kickoff May 17 from 2 p.m.
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Hey Tacoma, get ready for a lesson in collaboration from a zealous nut on a pink motor scooter. It’s called the “Go Local Passport” campaign, and Patricia Lecy-Davis is the invisible thread that runs through this scintillating little fractal of community connections. Celebrate the kickoff May 17 from 2 p.m.
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Leave it to the masters at Fab 5 to bring the world’s premier one-on-one bboy battle to the South Sound. Stop for a minute and think about what it means that Bboy World’s All Nations 1v1 Breakdance Competition will make stops in just eight cities – New York, Miami, San
