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I am both the best and worst person to be writing this column. I am married, therefore not looking to hit on and/or pick up anyone in any type of situation ... yet I absolutely love to check out what's grillin' inside today's meat markets. Besides - I have a
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Thing: Free wings, baby! Place: Sparks Firehouse Deli Located: Across from Sparks Stadium In: Puyallup Given to: Local high schools In pursuit of: Fundraising And: School spirit Sparks also has: Awesome pizza Goes with: $5 happy hour pitchers of beer Which makes for: A cheap date An estimated $85,000 has been donated in the form of either food product or
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Thing: Faux cupcakes Where: Feeling Smitten Serving: Ice cream cones And: Cupcakes They look: Delicious! They taste: Awful Soft & Warm: No Gooey & Sweet: Not at all Taste disappointment: 100% Skin softness & relaxation: 100% Through the front doors of Feeling Smitten, located on Sixth Avenue in Tacoma, I see beautiful cupcakes, cakes, cake-pops and ice cream cones. They
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Thing: Raw food Place: Caffe Dei Includes: Veggies Not: Animals Nor: Sushi (darn) Mainly: Vegan Must try: Kale chips Tasty: Yes Healthy: Yes Friendly: Yes I am: One of those three things Which one: You guess Every once in a while this ol' liver of mine screams for a good detox, so I put down my beer and fulfill my body's requests.
Nightlife It List
Sometimes I'm just in the mood for sex, and the Matador seems to know how to do me up right. It's got hard wood, dark ambience, and it will wine me and dine me and feed me tequila until I say "take me home." It has everything a swinging bachelor
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Place: The Hardware Store Restaurant Location: Vashon Island Day: Sunday Time: 13:20 Wait for table: 30 minutes Wait for drinks: 25 minutes Wait for food: 35 minutes Sundays: Limited breakfast menu only And maybe: A burger or two Hardware available for sale: No Hardware on display: No Hardware rhymes with: Underwear! Sad fact: I'm still immature Western Washington has been suffering from sun
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I feel like a queen when I hit Westport city limits. Besides a few random locals and most visitors, I'm practically the only one there with all my teeth. Folklore has it that hillbillies and squanderers make up the majority of Westport's inhabitants, so when out-of-towners like myself infiltrate it's
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Place: Crockett's Public House Located: Behind Trackside Pizza City: Downtown Puyallup Opened: Last month Full bar: Yes I drank: Beer, duh Server: Chris He took: Forever to bring me my beer So: I got it for free! Did you hear that: Free beer! Correct, my beer was: Free! You're jealous of my: Free beer! One of my worst childhood memories is of
Viva South Sound
The novelty of overpaying for drinks, or being hustled for drinks, while trying not to look at someone's not-too-clean-looking private parts splayed right there in front of you, well, it wears thin quickly down in the South Sound. And when it does, one may find oneself seeking stronger, more affordable
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Thing: Vanilla Bean Marshmallows Covered in: Chocolate And sometimes: Caramel And also: Nuts, toffee Made by: Breeze Wetzel In: Bonney Lake Breeze's assistant: Madyson Madyson is: 5 years old She probably: Cooks better than me Do I care: No Will I eat the marshmallows regardless: Damn straight Since Christmastime 2008, Madyson's Marshmallows has been cooking up candy goodies from a certified
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Place: Pick-Quick Drive In Located: Fife Open since: 1949 Building: 450 square feet Average employees inside: Six Most ever: Eight Picnic tables: 22 Top seller: Double cheeseburger with bacon Top milkshake: Wild mountain blueberry Goddammit: Now I'm hungry. Simply from habit, most Tacomans will testify Frisko Freeze has top billing in the world of drive-ins. But I will declare that
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In 2009 two things happened pertaining to local restaurants and the recycling challenges they face. In July the Weekly Volcano's Paul Schrag shined a light on the dilemma faced by Matador and every other bar and restaurant in town: recycling the enormous amount of glass they go through (think booze
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Thing: Homemade natural soap Price: $4 per bar Made possible by: Jada-Moon Gridley Who also makes: Massage candles And: Lip balms And: Shampoo bars And: Shaving bars And: Lotion bars Not found in: Drinking bars Or: Behind prison bars Not to be confused with: Candy bars I have my moments of cleanliness. Most of the time I'm organized. Sometimes I'm punctual.
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Thing: Everything Buffalo Place: Bruceski's Buffalo Wings and Pizza City: DuPont Opened: 2005 Seats: 20 Owner: Yon Kim Obvious specialty: Buffalo wings and pizza Buffalo meat present: No Buffalo, NY correspondent: Eric Curley With delivery available to all of DuPont and Fort Lewis, Bruceski's Buffalo Wings and Pizza stays plenty busy. And from what owner Yon Kim tells me,
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This week ... Thing: Tacoma Pride Where: AMOCAT Cafe Obvious: AMOCAT = TACOMA Sells: Coffee and local goodies Run by: Morgan Alexander Morgan Alexander is: A community zealot He's also: A real estate agent and guru of local projects If you were to poke AMOCAT Cafe with a huge hypothetical (and hypodermic) needle, the streets of downtown Tacoma
Hip-Toss
Old "rink rat" roller skaters that blossomed during the 1980s heyday of Skate King, Pattison's, Melody's and Tiffany's are rediscovering where exactly being fast on wheels can get you. With both male and female roller derby gaining popularity by the day, new derby stars are emerging because of their past
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Place: Ale House Pub & Eatery Event: Gonzaga vs. BYU basketball Number of TVs: Approximately 20 Neck-strain: 10 percent Food devoured: Texas Straws Made with: Jalapeños Cooking technique: Fried Goes well with: Beer Cost: $6.50 Happy Hour cost: $3.25 Savings: Half off Leftover money: Buys more beer Number of beer taps to choose from: 64 I'm fortunate enough to be married to a
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Just five months old and like a growing newborn, Tacoma Comedy Club is already too big for its britches. The only difference is Tacoma Comedy Club co-owners Adam Norwest and Aaron Flett-Riggs aren't whining. Instead, they're enabling their very own growth spurt - planning a move next weekend to 933
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This week's intended thing: Johnny's Dock PB&J & Bacon Sandwich Deleted from existence: Six months ago Tears shed regarding item deletion: 2,329 Popular menu item: Yes Popular enough: Obviously not Initial gross out factor: High Actual deliciousness: Heavenly Jelly used: Jalapeno Random ingredient: Cheddar Cheese Thing substituted for this week's column: Reuben sandwich Gah! I navigated my way along Pacific
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What: DeRosa's fish taco de-virginization Where: Mazatlan Restaurant, downtown Puyallup When: During happy hour Happy hour days: Monday-Thursday Happy hour times: 3-7 p.m. and 9 p.m. to close All day happy hour: Sundays Happy hour located: In the bar Was I happy: Oh, you betcha! For more than an hour: HELL. YES. It's a fish taco. Fish inside of
