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Five peace activists, including an 83-year-old nun and an 81-year-old Jesuit, were found guilty this week of a range of crimes after breaking into a nuclear storage facility in Silverdale, Wash. Anne Montgomery, 83, a Sacred Heart sister from New York; Father Bill Bichsel, SJ, 81, a Jesuit priest from Tacoma
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Stop me if you've heard this one. Two venerable priests, a nun and two peace activists break into a naval base. This particular naval base is host to what is potentially the largest single stockpile of deployable nuclear weapons in the world. Unescorted, they make their way deeper and deeper into
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Race + Education = Art. That is how local artists see the controversial issues of race and education - matters they consider too important to leave solely to those in the halls of power. During October, a selection of artists will present their own creative interpretations of how race impacts
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Take the modern alt-country blues sound of Drive-By Truckers, throw in the fun loving attitude and riff-blues-rock of ZZ Top, mix them all together and you get close to the vibe of Too Slim and the Taildraggers. This is real, down and dirty rock and roll - a delightful jumble
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Kala Dralle loves shoes, but she'll never, ever open another shoe store. Remember Heel Shoes? Dralle does. She used to own it. Used to. Because it closed a few years back. She's OK with that. Dralle is much happier in her role as Program Development Specialist for the City of
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Gary and Deborah Boone could have dropped their new art gallery in the middle of Pioneer Square. But they chose Ledger Square instead. Ledger Square is in Tacoma, by the way. It will soon be home to B2 Fine Art Gallery and Studios. "B2" usually is pronounced "Bee Too".
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Sweet Pea really is a superhero. In fact, he’s been voted Tacoma’s Best Superhero. Like most superheroes, sweet pea has a mild-mannered everyday persona. Real superheroes never appear to be superheroes until there’s a crisis. Then they unleash with full force. If they walked around looking all powerful, bad guys
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If Marilyn Strickland could pick a superpower, she would choose mind reading. “I’m very good at understanding what motivates people,” she says. “And you need that to get things moving in politics.” It’s those kinds of honest insights that made Marilyn Strickland the nearly unanimous pick for Best Politician in the Weekly
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If you guessed that Primo Grill was going to win Best Overall Restaurant in the Weekly Volcano’s 2010 Best of Tacoma Readers’ Poll, you guessed right. And you knew what was up. The perfect balance is hard to strike in the restaurant business. And it’s different depending on where you
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Earlier this year a small group of a dozen or so artists celebrated the re-opening of the legendary Broadway graffiti garages. As part of an invitation-only, relatively quiet gathering, graffiti artists from Seattle and Tacoma filled three parking garages with a dozen or so burners (murals). Since then, the walls
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It’s hard to find a good aromatherapy and herbal/tobacco accessories supply store these days. I mean one that really distinguishes itself. You can walk into any strip mall smoke shop and find an array of strangely-shaped glass smoking accessories. It’s overwhelming, really, the array of options for people who indulge
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Dennis Flannigan is what some of my friends on the East Coast would call a mensch. He would probably disagree with me. That, in part, is why he’s a mensch. Mensch is Yiddish, and it means a kind of stand-up guy. It also means about 50 other things. All of them are
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It started with a prayer. If you believe in such things, it was a synchronicity - a meaningful coincidence. Three evangelical types - an older African-American woman and a nice-looking young black couple with a baby - showed up on my doorstep. They arrived just 10 minutes before I sat
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I don't believe it. Someone in Tacoma is selling art. A lot of it. And spray paint. A lot of it. Don't sleep on Gallery 38 Art Supply on 38th Avenue. I hope someone has a fit. Because Gallery 38 is a graffiti joint. And they're selling art. I don't believe it.
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It's that time again. Time to celebrate all the beauty and creativity and funk and goodness that exists between the cracks of urbanity. There are a whole lot of festivals in Tacoma. But only one Urban Art Festival. On the surface, this may look like any other Urban Art Fest
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It's that time again. Time to celebrate all the beauty and creativity and funk and goodness that exists between the cracks of urbanity. There are a whole lot of festivals in Tacoma. But only one Urban Art Festival. On deck are live art demonstrations from painter and
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Somebody in Tacoma has a huge sack. Cajones, I mean. Moxie. Hempfest in Tacoma. We've had festivals celebrating queer pride. We've had marches against war. We've had parties featuring full on nudity and celebration of sexual freedom. Now Hempfest. Tacoma is being dragged into the 21st century kicking and screaming. Or
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"With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort and worry; the first instinct is to abolish these painful sensations. First principle: any explanation is better than none. The question "Why?" is not pursued for its own sake but to find a certain kind of answer - an answer
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Tacomans are responding with varying degrees of joy and outrage to news that the Northwest Detention Center will be moving from the Tacoma tide flats to Russell Investments headquarters in downtown Tacoma. Insider sources have confirmed that Florida-based private prison corporation the GEO Group has plans to expand its prison for
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"There are hints of ‘it's all fucked up.' But it's not. There's hope." They tell you in journalism school never to start an article with a quote. Without context, quotes lack meaning. It takes the punch out of the punch line. What they also don't tell you, but probably should have told
