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Snow.

Taxi driver killed in Tacoma.

The News Tribune’s parent company will shed 15 percent of its work force.

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Bobble Tiki likes to say he put the "bump" in Bump Kitchen- always pointing toward his lap and doing one of those pelvic thrust moves with a wink. Typically, Bobble Tiki does this at Bump Kitchen shows, when trying to lure unsuspecting middle aged women drunk on white wine on to the dance floor.

Sometimes it even works.

At a Bump Kitchen show, there's plenty of action like this to be had. Packing the dance floor with a body grabbing, booty shaking mix of groovin' favorites and bumpin' originals, Bump Kitchen is, like, the party band for the middle age club scene- a cougar heavy, expensive jeans wearing, tanned and trimmed mob that should never be taken lightly.

Tonight Bump Kitchen will celebrate the release of the band's new CD, Who Ordered the Waffle?, with a show at Jazzbones in Tacoma. There's no reason to expect this night to be anything less than the typical, sweaty, gyrating fracas that every Bump Kitchen show eventually turns into.

"Fans, old and new, can expect a whole new recipe- a remodeled sound that employs more vocals and a stronger funk element," explains Joe Bevins, Bump Kitchen's bass guitarist.

"This album is a true testament to who and what Bump Kitchen represents," adds drummer Everett James.

"Jazzbones is one of our favorite clubs to play," continues James about Jazzbones, just one of a number of local venues where Bump Kitchen inspires plenty of bumping" amongst a growing and loyal legion of fans.

"Our following in the Northwest is strong because we love to play for the fans, and we never take them for granted," says Dave Broyles, Bump Kitchen's guitarist.

"We bring it every show."

[Jazzbones, Saturday, March 7, 9:30 p.m., $10, 2803 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.396.9169]

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Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson avoids placement in the Weekly Volcano's Numbered Spaces column. He's the best.

A 32-year-old Alfonso Ibanez Martinez has been convicted in Tacoma of heroin trafficking charges after more than 46 pounds of heroin was found in his home. "I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have a story. Hell, memoirs are in. Especially wicked and outrageous ones like mine. After all, life is nasty and brutal and short, right?" Martinez did not say.

Just in case you didn't see it, CNN.com decided to remind American's about the current economic crisis and highlight the importance of family in its latest cream-filled puff piece.

Apparently M.I.A. is trying her best to ensure that her child gets shoved in a school locker. The name of her baby boy â€" Ickett.

If your looking for a place get naked this spring break, here's a list of the top ten places to go nude.

Bobble Tiki has said it before, but he loves sandwiches. Not as much as the folks at Scanwich, though, because Bobble Tiki has never scanned his lunch before.

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Tuesday marks the day for school bond and levy voting. It’s a all-mail election requiring ballots to be postmarked by midnight March 10. However, express voting booths are open today to deliver your vote in person. Vote yes because we need to fix this.

Bureaucrash posted a straightforward recap of CPAC, which everyone fondly knows as Conservatives Placing Assholes in Charge.

Craigslist is selling more than tiki bars and some peeps aren’t fans of the other goods for purchase.

The Watchmen opens today. Looks like a winner.

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Tacoma city officials want to bust down your apartment door to rid you of yellow teeth and reeking clothes and ashtray tongue and shallow breaths and bad skin and 50 bucks a month that you could instead spend on sushi and wine and good porn.

Most important Obama story. Ever.

Chances the U.S. is headed for a Depression: One in five.

Finally, Harriet Miers and Karl Rove will testify.

Lohan keeps the gossip rags in business. She’s so funny.

Stop. Drinking. Poison. Find out how here.

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A Gig Harbor neurosurgeon who treated the teenage kayaker critically injured Sunday puts a twist on Steve Martin’s Famous song: “Oh, I'm picking out a thermos, for you / Not an ordinary thermos, for you.” The doctor substituted “picking” with “smashing your face in.”

Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson is in line for a big raise.

Obama is a hit!

The New York Times uses Internet magic to map out the geography of the recession: Jobless rate in Pierce County rose 2.5 percent this last year to 7.2 percent; Thurston County rose 1.7 percent to 6.1 percent.

Who’ll lead the GOP? Rush? Steele? Palin? A porn enthusiast?

Thank gawd intelligence is back in fashion in Washington?

Bizkit dreamed of going for the Gold.

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The developer of Point Ruston wants to fill the tunnel!

Kopachuck. Fun to say but should it stay?

Score one for Christian fundamentalism: Scientists in Britain and Canada discover a way to make stem cells without destroying embryos.

Bobble Tiki's retirement WAS going to be one spectacular, endless cocktail cruise: Fed gives AIG $30 billion more.

Looks like Bobble Tiki’s late-night trips to 7-11 are helping: Consumer spending rises after six straight drops.

WTF? Rhianna is back together with Chris Brown at Diddy’s request.

Get this: it’s an anti-energy drink called Drank. Their slogan? “Slow your roll with Drank.”

Jimmy Fallon hosts his first Late Night tonight at 12:37 a.m. on NBC.

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Tacoma firefighters rule.

After five years in prison, Ali al-Marri will finally get a trial.

President Robin Hood Obama rides in with new tax cuts and increases.

Lesson learned by Facebook: Don’t piss off social network users.

Jewel pulls an A-Rod on Dancing With The Stars.

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Snow.

Tacoma City Council didn't know folks from White Center can now handle their classified operations.

Meanwhile, the winners and losers of the Obama budget.

What's wack? The fact that G.M. may need more money. GM loses $9.6 billion … which is more than half of its current cash reserves.

When it comes to their guns, Mexican drug cartels buy American.

Not what you eat, it’s how much. Who knew?

Seriously? Stephan was a douche, but at least Bobble Tiki remembers a few things he cooked. In all seriousness y’all, WTF? Bobble Tiki gives all credit to the sous!

Here’s one way to stimulate the economy: coffee and nudity.

Karma Sutra anyone?

The Arrested Development movie is a go.

Finally, Louis CK puts our economic crisis in perspective.

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What ho, South Sound! And, er, Happy Lent. 

Obama was talking to the nation again last night: Gets a big hometown treatment here, but a strange, semi-positive lede graf here.

Bobble Tiki thinks it’s safe to say the Republicans think we’re a bunch of dumb 5-year-olds.

“Right now, the economic landscape looks like that movie of the swaying Tacoma Narrows Bridge you might have seen in a high school science class.”

A Pierce County jury will begin deliberating today in the murder cases against two Tacoma men charged with the state’s highest crime.

Sweating bullets: A Pierce County jury will begin deliberating today whether Tyreek D. Smith, 23, and Darrell K. Jackson, 22, face life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Surprise!: Drinking will kill you. Maybe.

Bobble Tiki hopes National Pancake Day helped IHOP. Investors in the top 26 restaurant companies are taking a bath.

There’s a controversy over the new Britney Spears single, “If You Seek Amy.”

Bobble Tiki will transform his VHS machine into something that’ll tickle his taste buds.