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Like a good surgeon, a bank robber must maintain a state of order while chaos and bloodshed threaten to erupt at any moment. With time (and law enforcement) in close pursuit, the thief relies on both animalistic cunning and advanced calculation to perform his monetary extraction. This dichotomy between precision
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BRUNO: Early opening. (R) Lakewood Towne Center 12: Thurs, July 9 12:01 a.m. ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS: The best of the three Ice Age films, involving the best use of 3-D I’ve seen in an animated feature. It also introduces a masterstroke that essentially allows the
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If you like a show — and I mean a real, live, going to leave you talking about it for days show — you’re going to dig the Woolly Bandits. Sure, the Bandits have the ‘60s inspired, go-go boot clad, garage rock ethos down pat — but there’s more to this
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It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new edition of Bobble Tiki’s South Sound music notes column. Let’s get rolling. Bobble Tiki is no fan of Seattle. Sure, he’s been there. Sure, he likes a Dick’s Deluxe like the next island themed souvenier. And sure, he
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Trash art has gone eco. We’re not talking the kind of trash art that emerged out of Baltimore in the late ‘80s, or the self-indulgent wallowing you’ll find in emo-goth basement dives. This is trash on a mission. Next time you’re headed to the Tacoma landfill, take a side journey
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If you don’t like setting off fireworks on the Fourth of July — your own fireworks, explosives you spent your own hard earned money to purchase — then you’re a terrorist. There. Someone (me) finally had the stones to say it. Simply put: Safe and sane has ruined the Fourth of July.
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Big band leader Rich Wetzel, no stranger to snappy sports coats and even snappier jazz numbers, isn't afraid to make a big promise. So, when he proclaims Sunday's performance at Stonegate Pizza as "the Super Bowl of live entertainment," we shouldn't be surprised. Does this mean we should expect four-plus hours
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SOUTHERN FRANCE Charlie McManus of Primo Grill in Tacoma leads a cooking class on The Cuisine of Southern France Saturday, July 11 from 2-4 p.m. Tickets are $65 a person, which includes gratuity, glass of wine, samples, recipes, instruction, lunch and dessert. Reserve your space at 253.383.7000. MOLLY WIZENBERG New York Times bestselling
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VOLUNTEERS Thursday, July 2 Something tells me Volunteers is going to go over well in Tacoma. A classic rock inspired mix of sex, drugs, debauchery, open chords and more drugs thrown in for good measure – Volunteers comes off like Brooklyn’s version of The Jet City Fix, replacing the Buckcherry vibe of
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The cover of Canon Canyon’s 10-inch vinyl release Sit Down and Listen (October, 2008) shows a torn, empty couch flanked on both sides by guitar amps. A picture of John Wayne hangs on the wall beside a stuffed, crazed-looking bear. A guitar, a small lamp, a model sailboat and a
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Minoela The rustic wine bistro Minoela opened last week next to The Grand Cinema. Occupying the location that formerly housed the Kickstand Café (and One Heart Café) Minoela serves lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturdays at 604 Fawcett Ave. in Tacoma. The physical lay-out of Minoela strongly resembles former One Heart
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Soldiers transported patients from one decontamination station to another. Medical and chemical specialists rushed to treat patients as the number of wounded started to build up. The chemical specialists set up a decontamination area and began the process of decontaminating
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Sixties Chicks was one of those shows I was looking forward to seeing the way high school girls wait for prom night. I wanted to see this show, especially considering Harlequin Productions has a long and strong history of staging great musicals. So it was with that tradition in mind that
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Editor's note: This is the final installment in the "A different look at deployment series." To see past deployment series stories, go to www.dcmilitary.com. One farewell scenario between couples has changed dramatically since World War II. Americans were accustomed to reading newspaper or magazine
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Airmen from the 62nd Airlift Wing and Soldiers from the 62nd Medical Brigade recently trained together during an exercise in an effort to practice rapid deployment capabilities. During the exercise, loadmasters from the 62nd Operations Support Squadron demonstrated the basics of securing medical vehicles and
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Some people like to celebrate the Fourth drinking a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon, munching a bag of pork rinds and getting a tattoo of the American Flag on their nether regions. But if drunken debauchery and in-your-face patriotism seem a little too much for you, check out Old Fashioned
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Can't get there from hair My first wife and I married in our early 20s and broke up several years later. When we were married, she had very short hair, even though I wanted her to grow it long. She was not only adamant about keeping it short; she claimed she
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Thursday, July 2 Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215. Wine tasting, 5-7 p.m., complimentary, Cork!, 3012 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.212.1492. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday, July 3 Fridays Uncorked, 5-7:30 p.m., $12,
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LeeAnn Seaburg Peery is a sculptor whose work harkens back to Michelangelo’s slave sculptures — highly polished figures emerging from rough marble — and similar figures by Rodin. She carves abstracted human bodies in marble, alabaster, soapstone and limestone, which she personally chooses from a quarry in Vermont. At their
