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Last year's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf and Japan's current tribulations with natural and man-made disasters are periodic, sober warnings of people's tenuous yet vital hold on the environment. Nature nurtures both our physical and artistic instincts. A filmmaker, for instance, looks about and sees Earth as one vast
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Last year's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf and Japan's current tribulations with natural and man-made disasters are periodic, sober warnings of people's tenuous yet vital hold on the environment. Nature nurtures both our physical and artistic instincts. A filmmaker, for instance, looks about and sees Earth as one vast
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OK, film class, let’s review: in the movie “Urban Cowboy,” the mechanical bull as an icon symbolized what? A) Humankind’s insistence that the forces of nature can be overpowered. B) Bud’s intrinsic Alpha-male need to feel superiority over his peers. C) The struggle for dominance in relationships, as evinced by Sissy’s covert riding
Military Life
A soldier and a female airman met in Korea in 1995. Love brought them together, and sacrifice kept them together as they grew a family. Now, one wants to recognize the other for all those years of service and sacrifice. "Most military families consist of the husband being in the
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Thursday, May 24: Taste of Cuba with wine pairings, 6-9 p.m., $45, Pour At Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Thursday, May 24: Singles Wine Tasting, 7-9 p.m., Wildside Wine, 608 S. Oxford, Tacoma, 253.565.0811. Friday, May 25-Saturday, May 26: Cabernet Franc Tasting, Friday 6 p.m., Saturday 4 p.m., $10, Pairings
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Last week there was much lamenting regarding the lack of cool places to dine in University Place. Depending on how closely you listen to your foodie and oenophile friends, you may have just heard of Creig Kostoff’s recently opened Sofia Bistro, the West Side’s answer to this dilemma. Its upscale
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It is always fun to see a new theater thrive, especially when the theater fills a niche that was otherwise unfilled. Such is the case at Tacoma Children’s Musical Theater. It is the resident children’s theater program at Tacoma Musical Playhouse, and it is staging its second production, “The Fabulous Fable
Cup Check
STRIKE ONE After taking a short, one-week hiatus so the Volcano's Brett Cihon could whore the Tacoma Rainiers coverage we have planned this year, Cup Check is back ... better than ever! Actually, that's not true. Not much has changed since the last Cup Check column. Sure, the woman at the wrong
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The common wisdom is that sequels inevitably disappoint. For every The Dark Knight, there are a half-dozen Iron Man IIs, and the maxim tends to carry over to other mediums, as well - Guy's "Teddy's Jam 2" couldn't match the New Jack punch and sizzle of the original eponymous Teddy
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I hate it when people say "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." Invariably that statement is followed by some really stupid put-down of art the speaker hasn't even attempted to understand.But when trying to evaluate Native American art, I find myself at least tempted
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I'll keep repeating this until I'm sure we all get it: I can only review the show you show me. There was no sane reason for Theater Artists Olympia to invite me to see Cannibal! The Musical eight days early. I double-checked; that's how they wanted it. Perhaps director Pug Bujeaud,
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Linda Jacobus is a local oil painter. She's an oil painter with a show going on at Morso Wine Bar in Gig Harbor until April 24. If you haven't checked out Morso before, it's a beautiful harborside restaurant with tasty food and an array of wines. If you haven't checked
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Linda Jacobus is a local oil painter. She's an oil painter with a show going on at Morso Wine Bar in Gig Harbor until April 24. If you haven't checked out Morso before, it's a beautiful harborside restaurant with tasty food and an array of wines. If you haven't checked out a
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Eating green has awareness and education at its core. To some, eating green means growing fresh herbs in a personal garden rather than driving to a store and purchasing a dried version in a plastic container delivered by semi-truck from a dozen states away. To others, it's volunteering with the
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A sanctuary can be found at Jewell Day Spa, located on the busy hub that is Sixth Avenue (2501 Sixth Ave.). As you enter Jewell Day Spa, exquisite aromas beg you to pause. Immediately you begin to soak it all in. Earthy tones, earthy textures, earthy scents ... it's just
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It just makes sense that Duncan Green coordinates the Thurston County Bicycle Commuter Contest: A bicycle has always been his primary mode of transportation. "In high school, I pretty much rode my bike to school every day, including through the snow and ice and stuff like that," says Green - and
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In 2009 two things happened pertaining to local restaurants and the recycling challenges they face. In July the Weekly Volcano's Paul Schrag shined a light on the dilemma faced by Matador and every other bar and restaurant in town: recycling the enormous amount of glass they go through (think booze
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Going green is good. Compostable chip bags, solar powered buses, wind powered electricity plants. Most everyone will agree we should save our mother Gaia's resources and cut back on our carbon footprint. But going green isn't always easy. It can be a complicated, messy process. And as many from The Evergreen
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Tuesday, April 19, three days before Earth Day, the Tacoma City Council will introduce two new sustainability policies, one regarding the city's internal purchasing standards and the other relating to its construction and building maintenance standards. Both policies are designed to ensure Tacoma leads by example as it encourages businesses
