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Spring is in the air, Oly style!

Both Hoopla and Sweet Life used their exquisite customer service to let me know about some fun new spring arrivals. Sweet Life, whose style can be described as making mom happy through making kids cute also makes moms happy through lingerie and bath and body items (hey, moms are women, too!),

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Raven the sexologist

Her name is Raven, and she’s a sexologist who does a radio show on sex out of Lakewood on www.kd mradio.et, which will eventually be broadcast live in a Lakewood club yet to open. Raven, who gives motivational speeches on achieving sexual charisma, has great plans to expand her empire of

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Raven the sexologist

Her name is Raven, and she’s a sexologist who does a radio show on sex out of Lakewood on www.kd mradio.et, which will eventually be broadcast live in a Lakewood club yet to open. Raven, who gives motivational speeches on achieving sexual charisma, has great plans to expand her empire of

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RAGS

Sure, Tacoma celebrates its status as an arts community.  Sure, Tacoma loves to band together for a good cause.  With the YWCA RAGS Guild Wearable Art Sale and Juried Gallery, continuing for its 13th year, it does both. RAGS started as a fun way to raise money for

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RAGS

Sure, Tacoma celebrates its status as an arts community.  Sure, Tacoma loves to band together for a good cause.  With the YWCA RAGS Guild Wearable Art Sale and Juried Gallery, continuing for its 13th year, it does both. RAGS started as a fun way to raise money for the YWCA,

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No emo for me

I asked Renee Seamount from Renee’s Hair Shop about getting emo-girl bangs cut into my shaggy ‘do.  In her characteristic way, she smiled and laughed, “No!” We talked about emo, screamo, thrash, and hardcore; back when we were wee, there was punk, metal, or new wave — now those basics have

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No emo for me

I asked Renee Seamount from Renee’s Hair Shop about getting emo-girl bangs cut into my shaggy ‘do.  In her characteristic way, she smiled and laughed, “No!” We talked about emo, screamo, thrash, and hardcore; back when we were wee, there was punk, metal, or new wave — now those basics have

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Irene Deneen

Artist Irene Deneen, whose medium is makeup,  showed up at last Friday’s reception for Desiree Flerchinger at Jazzbones looking cool and green as a cucumber — in the best of ways. Her kelly green dress, described as “hella old,” is echoed in the green lining around her eyes and mixes with

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Irene Deneen

Artist Irene Deneen, whose medium is makeup,  showed up at last Friday’s reception for Desiree Flerchinger at Jazzbones looking cool and green as a cucumber — in the best of ways. Her kelly green dress, described as “hella old,” is echoed in the green lining around her eyes and mixes with

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What’s Josh Carter wearing?

Sitting in the lobby of the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel as Wintergrass swirled around him, Josh Carter looked conspicuously non-banjoesque and took some time to describe elements of his look for the Weekly Volcano. The fabulously zebra Guess? pants were found at urbanXchange, several sizes too large.  Carter’s girlfriend (coincidentally last week’s

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What’s Josh Carter wearing?

Sitting in the lobby of the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel as Wintergrass swirled around him, Josh Carter looked conspicuously non-banjoesque and took some time to describe elements of his look for the Weekly Volcano. The fabulously zebra Guess? pants were found at urbanXchange, several sizes too large.  Carter’s girlfriend (coincidentally last week’s

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What is art?

Tacoma.  Art.  The two go together like love and marriage, peanut butter and jelly, and gin and tonic. And the two are equally broad spectrum with Tacoma’s art scene encompassing a range from coffee to dance to clothing to paintings to parties to food to random acts of kindness. But is it

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What is art?

Tacoma.  Art.  The two go together like love and marriage, peanut butter and jelly, and gin and tonic. And the two are equally broad spectrum with Tacoma’s art scene encompassing a range from coffee to dance to clothing to paintings to parties to food to random acts of kindness. But is it

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Turning Point Integrative Therapies

Kate Shanaman Bender starts her day by going downstairs for coffee with her neighbor. “What’s the good news?” she asks Chiara Wood. She calls Wood by many names: Chiara, Kiki, my mother. “We have a unique situation,” Bender admits. Together they’ll begin their commute down one flight of stairs into the offices of

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Turning Point Integrative Therapies

Kate Shanaman Bender starts her day by going downstairs for coffee with her neighbor. “What’s the good news?” she asks Chiara Wood. She calls Wood by many names: Chiara, Kiki, my mother. “We have a unique situation,” Bender admits. Together they’ll begin their commute down one flight of stairs into the offices of

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Supernova

Rockaroake reigning champ and all around fun chica Najamonique Todd took a minute to chat with me. We overheard the tattoo guys in back talking about something, and Todd clarified what the subject was: “They’re talking about Monday nights at Jazzbones — the whole indie rock scene in Tacoma shows

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Supernova

Rockaroake reigning champ and all around fun chica Najamonique Todd took a minute to chat with me. We overheard the tattoo guys in back talking about something, and Todd clarified what the subject was: “They’re talking about Monday nights at Jazzbones — the whole indie rock scene in Tacoma shows

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Shopping-gasm

Shopping-gasm There is nothing on the planet that inspires warm, fuzzy, happy, elated feelings quite like a perceived good bargain. Throw in a really good bargain and you can amp that emotion up about 17,000 notches. So there I was at Dame Lola picking up my long-forgotten AG cords, busted apart by my

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Shopping-gasm

Shopping-gasm There is nothing on the planet that inspires warm, fuzzy, happy, elated feelings quite like a perceived good bargain. Throw in a really good bargain and you can amp that emotion up about 17,000 notches. So there I was at Dame Lola picking up my long-forgotten AG cords, busted apart by my

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It’s frock and tux season

So you thought, after your senior prom, that you’d never have a chance to don your fanciest clothes again.  Well, I’m happy to say you thought wrong. Go now and buy yourself a beautiful dress or a French-cuff shirt (go ahead and rent a tux, if you must) so that you

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