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WITH A SPATULA IN ONE HAND AND A HOT DOG IN THE OTHER >>> Bruce Walkup was the booking agent for Tacoma's Prosito Restaurant in the mid-'80s. Considered the first commercial venue to host alternative bands, Prosito's music was turned off by the Liquor Board for
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The sundresses and flip flops that are released from their closets this time of year are fine and dandy for this fundraiser. This Saturday, break out your inner Algernon or Lady Bracknell (please imagine the "r" rumbling like thunder as you read that name) for Lakewood Playhouse's Party on the
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One day long, long ago, Michael Jackson appeared on television doing this dance number called the Moonwalk. His song had groove, his right hand had glove, and this magical dance had Michael sliding, gliding backward, as if he were ... on the moon. It stands today as a best-loved reminder
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What's so cosmopolitan about a cosmopolitan? It's not as though the name corresponds to any of the concoction's inherent qualities (in fact, given its hue, "redneck" would make for a more ?tting moniker). Ditto the countless other cocktails whose appellations' origins remain obscure, from the Greyhound to the Rusty Nail.
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Every so often, a band comes along that blows you through the flaming hoop of innocence and hangs you out to dry on the tattered trapeze of days gone by. Sweet Water is one such band. In June 2007, the band - under the disguise The Cupcakes - prepared for
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Every Sunday night you grab your cardboard sword and settle in for George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy Game of Thrones on HBO. You drool over the grimly realistic medieval tale involving the classic elements of conquest, power and survival, with its multilayered storylines, casual murder, night-dwelling humanoids with a penchant
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The Grand Cinema teaches science in a different way: First it secures a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation to pair films with lessons in science. Next, it invites notable figures from the world of science, technology and medicine to give introduction
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You can watch a movie anywhere these days: your phone, Xbox, iPad, iPod and whatever Apple decides the next iProduct should be (iPants gets my vote - hip yet functional). But despite all the advances in movie-watching technology, there's nothing quite like gritty classic gore projected on the big screen
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Let this be your rallying cry. Let it be your new hot-button topic, a raw naked wildfire underground grassroots crusade, your juiciest of incentive programs, your inspired call to hit South Sound lounges and bars and taverns. It's a new old column called 3 Drink Minimum. It's maximum fun. The rules are
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A Buddhist friend once told me she found great peace by sitting in a comfortable place, shutting her eyes and paying attention to nothing. She said it was like a TV screen with no picture. She'd watch whatever popped up, then watch it disappear. On a recent evening, after days
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Mike Vax, an international artist for the Getzen Musical Instrument Company and a Summit Records recording artist, has played lead and solo trumpet with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, the Clark Terry Big Bad Band, and the U.S. Navy Show Band. His "sit-in" list is long and impressive that includes Art
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Those who tour the Tacoma art galleries, museum and businesses every Third Thursday - whether it was during the former Third Thursday Artwalk or its replacement, the Tacoma Art Mingle - have had that Moment. The Moment you know you will look back on six months (or a year, or
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Appropriate. One meaning, multiple nuances. Uno: It is not appropriate to use outside voices inside. Dos: It is very appropriate to yell "Yeehaw!" every time you agree with film reviewer Robert Horton at the Olympia Timberland Library. Horton will pull up a bale of hay Thursday and explain how the
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Looks like it's the end of the road for Tacoma Rock Band Midnight Salvage Co. Well, sort of. This Friday, May 10, at Jazzbones, the band will be playing their last official show - and releasing their sophomore album, Neon Lights. A year ago, the band holed up at Seattle's
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One Saturday this August, Music and Art in Wright Park will, once again, shake the lawn bowlers at Wright Park in Tacoma's Stadium District. What began in 1993 as an awesome outdoor rock concert is still an awesome outdoor rock concert, only now with more art. Last year 2,500 lounged
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The common interpretation of composer Susan Botti's Cosmosis is it tells the story of a science experiment. The PLU University Wind Ensemble and University Singers set the science-theme poetry of May Swenson to music, answering the question: Can a spider spin a web in space? The multi-discipline, three-part performance depicts
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Why go on a beer run when you can participate in a beer walk. We don't know what that means, but we do know this: Downtown On the Go's Walk Tacoma tours are awesome, and Wednesday, May 15 local historian Michael Sullivan will lead the tour through Tacoma's Brewery District.
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Michael Hoover, co-director at The BareFoot Collective, has created a dance piece to his love of punk music, and in particular Tacoma's Girl Trouble, the garage-punk band that has its sights on a 30th anniversary next year. As part of BareFoot's "Ides of May" performance May 11 at the Theatre
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First, I must thank you for being there when I needed you. Honestly, you came as a surprise. At the beginning of the night I couldn't have predicted we'd run into each other. You really stepped up and I thank you. You see, Bloody Mary, the reason why this column has
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