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Tacoma is a rock and roll type of town. There’s dirt under these fingernails and grease on these jeans. There’s a warm can of Rainer rolling around this back seat. There’s a love of things real and rock that’s obvious to all interested enough to observe. For those who’ve observed, hopefully
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Smart people watch for bargains, sales, and shopping parties during the holiday season. Start your engines smart people. Sanford and Son’s Holiday Open House and Sixth Avenue’s annual Late Nite Shopping party happen Thursday, Dec. 18. Down at Sanford and Son you’ll get the opportunity to create unique gifts for your fans
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Smart people watch for bargains, sales, and shopping parties during the holiday season. Start your engines smart people. Sanford and Son’s Holiday Open House and Sixth Avenue’s annual Late Nite Shopping party happen Thursday, Dec. 18. Down at Sanford and Son you’ll get the opportunity to
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It’s a sign of Tacoma’s maturity, and it’s about time. Though the details are necessarily hazy, a small group of locals has created Tacoma’s first secret society. Currently comprising four adepts of the dark visual arts, the Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians, or The CLAW, is coming for your kids. Well,
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It’s a sign of Tacoma’s maturity, and it’s about time. Though the details are necessarily hazy, a small group of locals has created Tacoma’s first secret society. Currently comprising four adepts of the dark visual arts, the Cartoonists League of Absurd Washingtonians, or The CLAW, is coming for your kids. Well,
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The Bayview Where: 229 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.2792 Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday Cuisine: Comfort food rules with soups, salads, sandwiches, four entrees and daily specials. Now serving breakfast on the weekends. Scene:
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The Bayview Where: 229 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.2792 Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday Cuisine: Comfort food rules with soups, salads, sandwiches, four entrees and daily specials. Now serving breakfast on
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Saturday, Dec. 27 Wine tastings, 1-4 p.m., $5-$7, Swing Wine Bar, 825 Columbia St. S.E., Olympia, 360.357.9464. Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101. Wine tasting, 1-6 p.m., Wildside Wine, 608A S. Oxford St., Tacoma, 253.565. 0811. Monday, Dec. 29 $5 Wine Mondays, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., $5
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Saturday, Dec. 27 Wine tastings, 1-4 p.m., $5-$7, Swing Wine Bar, 825 Columbia St. S.E., Olympia, 360.357.9464. Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101. Wine tasting, 1-6 p.m., Wildside Wine, 608A S. Oxford St., Tacoma, 253.565. 0811. Monday, Dec. 29 $5 Wine Mondays, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., $5
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The Red Wind Casino offers a Christmas Day Buffet. For details, check out redwindcasino.com. Bayview School of Cooking offers a “Teen Cuisine” class on New Year’s Eve titled “Midnight Munchies.” Oh no they didn’t. The righteous class begins at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 30 for $25. Give the Olympia cooking school a
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The Red Wind Casino offers a Christmas Day Buffet. For details, check out redwindcasino.com. Bayview School of Cooking offers a “Teen Cuisine” class on New Year’s Eve titled “Midnight Munchies.” Oh no they didn’t. The righteous class begins at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 30 for $25. Give the Olympia cooking school a
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il Trattoria di Merende il Trattoria di Merende is a wonderful restaurant, but before you make reservations for tomorrow night you need to know one thing. Jeff Bishop and Ian and Julia Martin-Lombardi’s brand new place offers Italian rustic cuisine, not Italian-American food. You won’t be able to order overloaded platters
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il Trattoria di Merende il Trattoria di Merende is a wonderful restaurant, but before you make reservations for tomorrow night you need to know one thing. Jeff Bishop and Ian and Julia Martin-Lombardi’s brand new place offers Italian rustic cuisine, not Italian-American food. You won’t be able to order overloaded platters
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So I have been dropping by a few bars lately to either celebrate someone’s new job or lament the addition of one more friend to the rolls of the unemployed or downtrodden. And then there are my own issues I need to drown these days, but that is a column
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So I have been dropping by a few bars lately to either celebrate someone’s new job or lament the addition of one more friend to the rolls of the unemployed or downtrodden. And then there are my own issues I need to drown these days, but that is a column
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There is no denying that it is absolutely freezing, beyond freezing. It's miserably cold. But more amazing than the icy cold fingers of sleet and snow wrapping around your throat, choking the warm breath out of you, is how the frozen world of Tacoma seems unprepared for this weather. Griffin
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There is no denying that it is absolutely freezing, beyond freezing. It's miserably cold. But more amazing than the icy cold fingers of sleet and snow wrapping around your throat, choking the warm breath out of you, is how the frozen world of Tacoma seems unprepared for this weather. Griffin
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The current exhibition at Childhood’s End Gallery seems well chosen for the holiday spirit in that the work on display is colorful and playful, and if you buy something from this exhibition as a Christmas present for your next door neighbors or your spouse or grown children who just bought
