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Normally, you might not consider spending the Third Thursday Art Walk in South Tacoma, but the Asia Pacific Cultural Center has cooked up a special "somtum somtum" for you: A Meet the Artist reception for Kathy Thurston followed by a screening of Somtum (a.k.a. Muay Thai Giant). The former promises
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I have a monkey on my back. In fact, I have one hundred monkeys on my back. And they're all ready to party! That's right, one of Tacoma's most popular events makes an epic return. If you've never been to a 100th Monkey bash, here's what you've been missing: wine,
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Accountants-turned-pirates, a daydreaming bureaucrat from a dystopian future, folklore-collecting con-artist brothers, a fantastically lying baron, and an ill-fated attempt to bring Don Quixote to the big screen. These could all be among the topics tonight as Saint Martin's University presents "The Films of Terry Gilliam" as part of their Robert
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Oompa Loompa Doompadee Doo/I've got a perfect puzzle for you/Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dus/When can I ride the Tacoma Art Bus? The answer to that musical riddle, my friends, is Feb. 20. After a two-month hiatus, the Art Bus rolls again - this time with special guest Willy Wonka as tour guide.
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Let's see: Pajamas? Check. Red silk robe? Check. Pipe? Check. A scantily-clad 18-year-old blonde bimbo on each arm? Check and check! Looks like I'm ready to see Black Box Theatre's production of Playboy of the Western World, the stage show about Hugh Hefner's life, loves and - wait. What's that,
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We're only half way through February and already it's been quite a month for sports in the Puget Sound area - with the Seattle Seahawks pummeling the Broncos to win its first Super Bowl, and four elite Pacific Northwest athletes competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Tightwad publisher Pappi Swarner
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"We're putting the band back together." "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now." "We got both kinds. We got country AND western." "You promised you'd visit the penguin the day you got out." "We're on a mission from God." "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we
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When you think "book club," is the first image that comes to mind a bunch of middle-aged women with their chairs pulled in a circle sipping white wine and discussing the latest hoity-toity-pabulum-for-the-masses endorsed by Oprah? If you're like me, that holds absolutely zero appeal. Give me something that's fun
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If you're a fan of Downton Abbey, and have craved receiving a fancy engraved invitation that reads, "Lord and Lady Hinklebottom request your company for dinner at Hinklebottom Manor in East Thrappingstock," then this is your lucky day. OK, "Hinklebottom Manor" is actually the Key Center Pierce County Library and
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Looks like the Bettie Brigade, Dockyard Derby Dames and Oly Rollers have competition for the title of Fastest Wheels in the South Sound. The National Speed Skating Circuit (NSC) holds its first event of the year Saturday at the Tacoma Armory. Inline skaters will race around a wooden track at
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Lemay - America's Car Museum is going cool and groovy with "Vee Dub: Bohemian Beauties," an exhibit it has dubbed as "psychedelic." More than likely this means the classic Volkswagens on display will be painted with designs in bright neon colors. It probably does not mean that you'll be laying
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Clickity click click click click clickety click click ding zzzshuh clickety click click clickety click zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzip! That, kids, is the sound of a typewriter. Why, back in my day, we didn't use those dangnabbit computers - with the fancy-pants noiseless plastic keys - to correspond with others or write that great
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When I was a kid, I used to love having a story read to me. Lolita Curious George was one of my favorites. But then, when I grew up, nobody wanted to read to me! Not my parents, not my grandparents and certainly not Santa, who found it odd I
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The year 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Arguably one of this country's greatest presidents, there are many questions left to be answered about what happened that day in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963. Although his assassination casts a long shadow over his time on this
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Having a difficult time coping with the down time between Xmas and New Year's Eve? Jonesin' for one more holiday of fun before Jan 2 rolls around and you find yourself back at the office thinking, "Damn! A whole 'nother year of the same crap? Really? In which drawer did
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The Kephartsburg Address Nine fortnights and four days ago the Karpeles Manuscript Library brought forth in this city documents, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men (and women) should come see them. We are now engaged in a great holiday war, testing whether we, or anyone, can endure
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You got a hankering for gingers? I know I do. No, I'm not confessing some dirty little secret. I'm talking about the kind of ginger that comes from a root - and besides, my love of the other "gingers" is already well-known. The Tacoma Brewing Co. is celebrating both kinds
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If Tacoma is known for one thing, it's that we're gritty. If we're known for two things, the second would be our awesomeness when it comes to throwing a benefit for one of our friends or neighbors who is down on their luck/has cancer/was hit by a car/had their band
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Prepare yourselves for fun, as America's favorite form of comedy comes to its new permanent home at the Lakewood Playhouse. That's right, I'm talking about improv. From Second City to the Groundlings to Who's Line Is It Anyway to, uhhh ... did I mention the Groundlings? America has come to
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So it's December, and Christmas is preparing to sidle up next to you and give a wet kiss under the mistletoe as it pickpockets your wallet. You want to celebrate the forthcoming holiday season but maybe you feel like you didn't fully get your Halloween fix satiated. What to do?
