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Tacoma City Ballet kicked off a scavenger hunt in January the likes of which Tacoma has never seen - a yearlong search for nuts. You heard right. Nuts. The nuts tie into the company's highly anticipated December performances of The Nutcracker and The Tale of the Hard Nut. The contest
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Most of the time they wash dishes in exchange for a day's ticket to ride. They probably drive a beat-up ride. And they definitely don't have full-ride dental plans. But the ski bums who careen through Warren Miller's annual ski-adventure films have this unnerving ability to inspire - for at
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Happy Dale Chihuly Weekend, everyone! We know; we know. Dale Chihuly's dreamy color, glossy surfaces and flamboyant design are old hat for Tacomans, but as far as we're concerned, the Chihuly's contemporary glassmaking still draws. Saturday and Sunday, visitors to the Museum of Glass may watch Dale Chihuly and his
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Open Space For Arts and Community Vashon. Cedarsong Nature School Benefit, with Caspar Babypants. All Ages. 10:30 am. $8. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Seth Martin & Friends. All Ages. 7 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Pete Lee. 8 and 10:30 pm. $20.
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Halloween terrifies you every year. You cower behind darkened doors, hoping the pint-size ghosts and goblins don't invade when they discover that you're keeping the candy for yourself. Time for a change of tradition. This year, introduce mini-monsters to the Mexican practice of Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of
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The ol' Weekly Volcano water cooler is bubbling with the chatter of Showtime's new Masters of Sex series, the dramatized story of 1950s sexuality-research pioneers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Brody and Carrie who? Anyway, with sex on the brain, the University of Puget Sound press release for In the
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Emma's Revolution. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Washington Center Olympia - Downtown. Leo Kottke. 8 pm. $30-$35. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Pete Lee. 8 and 10:30 pm. $20. DJ/ELECTRONIC Jezebels Bar & Grill Olympia - Downtown. DJ.
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One of the worst feelings you can experience involves staying up all night, boozing with fellow belligerents and pondering the many unanswerables of our perhaps-meaningless existence: The Devil won that fiddling contest, right? Is it still cheating if you can't remember? And then - zoom! - there goes an early-morning
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All Ages. 9 pm. $5. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Pete Lee. 8 pm. $20.
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While not a true biography, Shadowlands by William Nicholson depicts the meeting, courtship, and subsequent marriage of British author and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis to American poet Joy Gresham. Fans of historical accuracy will be disappointed that many details are left out such as one of Gresham's sons or that
Food Matters
FOOD AND CRAFTS Tacoma Buddhist Temple salutes autumn with a Fall Food and Crafts Bazaar from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3. Inside the Temple (1717 S. Fawcett, Tacoma), visitors may nibble freshly prepared Japanese delights such as kabobs, chow mien curry and udon noodles, just to name a
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In looking out for bands to cover, what usually draws me in first is not the music. Band names that catch the eye or make me laugh are usually shown preference. Well, Power Skeleton hit the holy trifecta. They have a great name, they have an intriguing way to describe
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Les Rhinoceros make experimental music that vacillates from the understatedly regal ("Seepy Seepy") to defiantly abrasive ("Brea Spiders") and everything in between. Incorporating elements of noise-rock, world music, progressive rock, and ambient electronica, Les Rhinoceros make for a difficult band to pin down. From song to song, or even moment
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We do our best to keep these events and parties within few minutes distance from Tacoma/Olympia (The 25360), but sometimes an event supersedes home. For those who claim to love, like or just listen to hip-hop, this is that show. The legendary DJ/producer Pete Rock and his trusted friend on the
Concert Alert
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
Music
There was a certain point in the '90s when terms like "progressive rock" and "math rock" stopped signaling quite the potent meaning that they possessed before. Turning rock music on its head had become a foregone conclusion, and the act of throwing befuddling elements into your music became not only
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When I called up Scatter Gather, based out of Denver, they balked at my idea that their music was complicated. Maybe this is the moment that I realize that I am an old man that doesn't understand this new-fangled rock and roll music. But, when I
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Certain his legs were cut off below the knees, Lt. Brian Giroux quickly tied tourniquets around both legs to stop the bleeding. A roadside bomb on a dirt road in southern Afghanistan flipped the Stryker he was riding in. His lower legs were trapped beneath the armored vehicle. "I thought my legs
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[EXPERIMENTAL] + FRI, NOV. 1 Les Rhinoceros make experimental music that vacillates from the understatedly regal ("Seepy Seepy") to defiantly abrasive ("Brea Spiders") and everything in between. Incorporating elements of noise-rock, world music, progressive rock, and ambient electronica, Les Rhinoceros make for a difficult band to pin down. From song to
Show And Tell
Can a climber do any better than reaching the summit of Mount Everest? There is literally no higher achievement than successfully scaling the "Roof of the World." It's not a feat to be taken lightly. Many die in the attempt, only to remain on the mountain as warnings to others.
