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How do you review a coffee bar? Or rather, why would you? Although the level of coffee connoisseurship in Tacoma is on the rise, even the most exacting bean fiend might find the process futile. A barista either knows what he’s doing or he doesn’t. The beans are either sustainably
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I know I don’t look the hottest when I’m sporting my workout clothes and no makeup, but that’s no reason to run away when I arrive. I couldn’t even catch one name of the three adults working the Nisqually Bar & Grill on Martin Road in Nisqually; they were way
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I know I don’t look the hottest when I’m sporting my workout clothes and no makeup, but that’s no reason to run away when I arrive. I couldn’t even catch one name of the three adults working the Nisqually Bar & Grill on Martin Road in Nisqually; they were way
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“Just Jen” — that’s what I call her. When I met Jen Quaschnik more than a year ago, she had just opened her budding cupcake shop in downtown Puyallup. I meandered in, she greeted me with enthusiasm, and we almost immediately realized we had been separated at birth. I told
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Who in the hell came up with putting green dye in beer? Like St. Patrick’s day isn’t obnoxious enough with all its green-wearing, shamrock-having, pinch-me-if-I’m-not-into-all-this-shit-as-much-as-you-are attitude. Does America even know what St. Patrick represents and who he was? And most importantly — if I drink enough of that green beer,
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Who in the hell came up with putting green dye in beer? Like St. Patrick’s day isn’t obnoxious enough with all its green-wearing, shamrock-having, pinch-me-if-I’m-not-into-all-this-shit-as-much-as-you-are attitude. Does America even know what St. Patrick represents and who he was? And most importantly — if I drink enough of that green beer,
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What started out in 1912 as the Opal Saloon, hosting a brothel above its landmark South Tacoma Way residence currently represents what is Tacoma’s oldest bar. Well, kinda. Technically it is the oldest bar that started out as a bar, and still currently runs as a bar. Now when I
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What started out in 1912 as the Opal Saloon, hosting a brothel above its landmark South Tacoma Way residence currently represents what is Tacoma’s oldest bar. Well, kinda. Technically it is the oldest bar that started out as a bar, and still currently runs as a bar. Now when I
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Gayle Selden was an easy interview seeing as we’re good friends who met during our first days together in the Junior League of Tacoma back in 2004. In 2006, with the help of a few JLT co-members, I embarked on beginning a little fund-raiser called Bib ‘n’ Bid — a
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Gayle Selden was an easy interview seeing as we’re good friends who met during our first days together in the Junior League of Tacoma back in 2004. In 2006, with the help of a few JLT co-members, I embarked on beginning a little fund-raiser called Bib ‘n’ Bid — a
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The history goes way back with Barry Watson, owner of Rosewood Café in Tacoma’s North End. He’s been in cahoots with Chris Trashcan from The Red Hot and some yahoos from the Parkway (and by “yahoos” I mean “kick ass beer peddlers’) for many years. I’d love to name these
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There’s not a whole lot I won’t do for a good friend. The return payment for putting up with my bullshit can run quite high, and have its rewards. Take Matt Driscoll, for instance. Driscoll has been asking me since October to join him at the Java Jive for our
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There’s not a whole lot I won’t do for a good friend. The return payment for putting up with my bullshit can run quite high, and have its rewards. Take Matt Driscoll, for instance. Driscoll has been asking me since October to join him at the Java Jive for our
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The history goes way back with Barry Watson, owner of Rosewood Café in Tacoma’s North End. He’s been in cahoots with Chris Trashcan from The Red Hot and some yahoos from the Parkway (and by “yahoos” I mean “kick ass beer peddlers’) for many years. I’d love to name these
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The first time I met David and his bandmates was last year at the first ever Point Defiance Music Festival where 2112: A Tribute to RUSH was playing on the Weekly Volcano stage. With all of us together, beers were downed inside their white van and memories were had as
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I remember it being called Steilacoom Pub and Deli from my days of living in Lego Land — oops, I mean DuPont. Not only is Steilacoom one of the most beautiful and historic cities bordering a waste treatment plant, but it is also THE place to go for beer selection,
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I remember it being called Steilacoom Pub and Deli from my days of living in Lego Land — oops, I mean DuPont. Not only is Steilacoom one of the most beautiful and historic cities bordering a waste treatment plant, but it is also THE place to go for beer selection,
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Once again the Top of Tacoma will be the epicenter of local happy hour festivities. Leave it to owner Jaime Kay Newton to give back to the community that has supported her sociable neighborhood bar for so long now. Top of Tacoma and Project:U, a young and hip offspring of United
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Once again the Top of Tacoma will be the epicenter of local happy hour festivities. Leave it to owner Jaime Kay Newton to give back to the community that has supported her sociable neighborhood bar for so long now. Top of Tacoma and Project:U, a young and hip offspring of United
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The first time I met David and his bandmates was last year at the first ever Point Defiance Music Festival where 2112: A Tribute to RUSH was playing on the Weekly Volcano stage. With all of us together, beers were downed inside their white van and memories were had as
