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With a rotating cast of contributors and performers over the past seven years, the core of Champagne Sunday is the creative brain of Jessi and Jared Fredeen. Jessi's huge, soulful vocals could star on Broadway, on tour with Garbage or in your church choir. Her voice - which draws comparison
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Dear Aquavit, I'm a little disappointed in you. After hours of driving around Tacoma, making phone calls from icy street corners, receiving blank stares and a few laughs, when I finally found you at Doyle's Public House, there were no bells. There were no alarms or whistles or charming notifiers, no
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Dear Mr. Price Is Right, If what follows doesn't make a great deal of sense, it's because I have been stricken with some kind of flu-bug thing that carries with it a high fever and the inability to effectively and quickly make the distinction between what is real and what is
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Dear Cointreau, OK, look. You're up to your neck in it, right Cointreau? Too much Mount Gay Rum, too much Remy Martin VOSP Cognac, too many trips through the effing blender with that no-good Milagro Tequila followed by dumps into a ridiculous salt-rim glass the size of a human head. You're
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In Kindergarten Cop, Hollywood's Lord of the Abs Ah-nold Schwarzenegger played a typical '80s movie super cop turned dedicated educator of precocious scamps - including a tumor-forewarning death-obsessive and a genitalia expert. Between the opening and closing credits, detective John Kimble saved a school and a family from a ponytailed
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OK, so you're not into the really olden Golden Girl every Tuesday night. You're not really a gallery type, watching dance performances makes your pasty little limbs quiver and if you could have it your way, you'd unplug the phone and hole yourself up in a dingy, dimly-lit room, limiting
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Dear Irish Handcuffs, OK, I know what you're thinking. You think since last week I turned into the biggest crank-guy I'm going to use this column to grouse about the holidays again. You think I'm going to groan about my horrible holiday work schedule; how more gunfire erupted since the last week's
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Dear Whipped Pumpkin Pie Martini, I need you Whipped Pumpkin Pie Martini. I need everything you represent. I need your big pumpkin taste and cinnamon aroma. I almost want to inject you into my thigh I need you so bad. You see I don't have the Christmas spirit this year. Yes I
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As sure as you'll pair a stack of pancakes with the 2 a.m. showing of the holiday cartoon featuring that French-Canadian miner and amateur dentist, the Weekly Volcano will write about Ocean Grooves hosting homeboy DJ Donald Glaude's annual Christmastime show in Tacoma. We'll remind you he spun at Lakewood
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Kelly Joe Phelps got his start interpreting old tunes like "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed." The raspy baritone's spine-chilling slide guitar, played lap-style, inspired fellow axe-man Steve Earle to call his sound "a feeling, a smoky, painful, yet somehow comforting groove that lets you know you are not alone
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Dear Nigori Crème de Sake, Here's my fear. Wait. This might be hard for you to comprehend, being you're rice wine. Try anyway. It's human nature to try to improve upon past accomplishments. We strive to improve our work skills, our parallel parking, our driving so that we don't single-handedly snarl traffic at
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Dear Campari, It was time to do something drastic. It was last Sunday. I spent most of the day at the office involved in the unpleasant side of the business, such as paperwork and watching the mold grow under our new roof. Don't ask Campari. Once home, it was all about My
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Dear Monte Cristo, I confess. You weren't my reason for dropping by the Hotel Murano Thursday. Two launch party buffets were on my radar. Upstairs, husband-and-wife team Erik Hanberg and Mary Holste introduced their new Side x Side Creative company specializing in publishing, marketing and social media for nonprofits and small
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Dear de León, Here is the thing. Everything is changing. Everything is changing at a gray Ford Explorer Interstate 5 trooper chasing pace that excites and petrifies almost everyone involved until you want to hold your head in your hands and shriek and drink and sob. Mostly drink. The change I refer
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Dear Zombie, I'll be brief. I need your help. Need your input. Here's the gist: I have a new drink column coming out soon. It's called Dear Drink. It's an open letter to a cocktail in the South Sound I consumed during the previous week. Expect big strange wonderful compendium of curated
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I've seen poet Luke Smiraldo perform maybe 34 times over the years. I've seen him whip up a spoken word ditty about the Weekly Volcano at the old Panamonicas. He blew me away with the Tacoma Urban Orchestra at this year's Fall Free For All. He's the real deal. Smiraldo,
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We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. 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 FRIDAY 10 AM Jeff Tate Seattle.
