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On a night in May, 1997, Jeff Buckley went nightswimming in the Wolf River; his body was found a week later. Three years prior to his untimely death, Buckley released Grace, a towering monument to a truly eccentric talent who had the potential to find legendary status divorced of the
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Col. Michael J. Brokovich, retired, was inducted as the honorary colonel of the 377th Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Fires Brigade during an induction ceremony at the Cascade Community Club, Nov. 29. "The battalion has worked really hard to develop the history
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Yeah mofos! It's a rock party at the Dwell Hole, or, Chuck's Home for Wayward Babes. With Black Pussy, Sok and the Faggots, Ancient Warlocks, I Like Science and Zebrana Bastards, expect beer pounding, head banging dance offs and good ole fashion Tacoma fun. Black Pussy, with its fuzzy, psychedelic,
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"One of the obligations of owning a proper public house is being open to the public," says Russ Heaton, co-owner of Doyle's Public House in Tacoma. So when Green Drinks Tacoma approached him about having Dana Lyons perform his song "Sometimes" about the coal train slated to head from Billings, Mont.
Food Matters
BOATHOUSE BONUS If you haven't checked out South Sound's newest waterfront eatery Boathouse 19 (9001 S. 19th St., Tacoma), then set sail for it this month. If you dine at the Narrows Marina restaurant in December, it will award you a buy-on-get one-half-off voucher for January. Helps to pad the wallet
Music
You may have heard one or two of her tracks on a TV show, or seen her in one of her numerous tours, but Friday, Dec. 7 you have the rare opportunity to see the singer/songwriter Camille Bloom in a very intimate setting, and from the trajectory of her career,
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You may have heard one or two of her tracks on a TV show, or seen her in one of her numerous tours, but Friday, Dec. 7 you have the rare opportunity to see the singer/songwriter Camille Bloom in a very intimate setting, and from the trajectory of
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Duck the Malls has its own built in excitement. Every year we have new vendors, and returning vendors have new stuff," says Audrey Henley, theater manager and event director for Olympia Film Society. In its 10th year, Duck the Malls - a local craft fair Saturday inside the Capitol Theater in
Arts
You want to keep up with the South Sound arts scene, but how? Those crazy cats are always up to something and it seems you're always finding out just a bit too late. If you find yourself missing out on gallery openings, exhibits at museums, flash cash mobs at quirky
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The Ovation TV network awarded Spaceworks Tacoma one of its five inaugural innOVATION grants. In fact, Spaceworks was one of three organizations to receive the highest award at $25,000, from the $95,000 pool. "This award comes at a great time as we continue to evolve our model and strengthen the program. We
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Downtown Olympia was rocked Monday night by the senseless murder of one of its own, Casey Heath. Heath was an avid skateboarder sponsored by local company Northwest Snowboards, who was constantly wearing his trademark grin from ear to ear. He was a good guy with a heart of gold and
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What the heck is a hidden gem, anyway? The phrase rises from the mist of culinary cliché, a cheery, primordial beast eager to swallow any eye-opening South Sound dining experience that wanders unchained out of our delicious routine. It's hard to lift a fork around here without poking it into
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Dear Nigori Crème de Sake, Here's my fear. Wait. This might be hard for you to comprehend, being you're rice wine. Try anyway. It's human nature to try to improve upon past accomplishments. We strive to improve our work skills, our parallel parking, our driving so that we don't single-handedly snarl traffic at
Music
For years, local musicians and bands have struggled to find safe, secure, moderately sound-proofed, and remotely comfortable rooms in which to rehearse. The carpet-padded garages, busy storage units, blanket-lines laundry rooms and drafty backyard tool sheds - band practice spaces come in all shapes and sizes. Practice spaces can be mysterious
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>>> Thursday, Dec. 6 BROKEN WATER After several months of silence Broken Water has emerged. This serves as a relief to those concerned about the state of the band following the groups critically acclaimed LP, Tempest. After a period of canceling a number of shows in July, including its own record release
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What do you want from a Christmas play? If you're like most people, you want sparkly lights, a jolly Saint Nick with a real beard, tiny tots with their eyes all aglow, and a reminder of the true, commercial-free meaning of Christmas (brought to you by Coca-Cola). If the lobby
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Pierce College has small but outstanding art exhibits on both the Steilacoom and Puyallup campuses. I mentioned the Fall Invitational Exhibition on the Puyallup campus in this column last week, saying that Barlow Palminteri and Becky Knold are both excellent painters. The other two artists in that show are Charles
