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Noble Bars are a food product born in Tacoma, the brainchild of a Tacoman, and are available - for the time being - only in local stores. But give it time. These bars are tasty and all-natural in a way that most "all-natural" products can only envy. Noble Bar was founded
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For 10 years now, Beautiful Angle has created handcrafted letterpress posters. Once a month, these posters get wheat-pasted and stapled in locations around downtown Tacoma in what the two men responsible - graphic designer Lance Kagey and writer Tom Llewellyn - like to call "guerrilla art." Beautiful Angle's annual holiday party
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Sometimes we have trouble knowing how to take the holidays. It's tempting to just sink into a vat of gravy and football games and fruitcake and mulled whatever and giftwrapping and champagne and marinate in the shiny, happy version of the celebration. And sometimes, it's hard not to want say
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For 10 years now, Beautiful Angle has created handcrafted letterpress posters. Once a month, these posters get wheat-pasted and stapled in locations around downtown Tacoma in what the two men responsible - graphic designer Lance Kagey and writer Tom Llewellyn - like to call "guerrilla art." Beautiful Angle's annual holiday party
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It's about dreams at the D.A.S.H. Center for the Arts. The Hilltop Tacoma organization offers a unique avenue to Pierce County young adults - an avenue straight to the arts. For the students, this often means opportunities to move onward and upward, and ultimately fulfill dreams. For the Pierce County
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Saturday you can be a part of an age-old Tacoma holiday tradition - one of the few that has survived Tacoma through the ages: the Great Depression, World War II, the 1980s. Tacoma's tree lighting ceremony is a tradition that dates back almost 100 years, but since
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To celebrate and honor the Pierce County AIDS Foundation's 25 years of service, South Sound artists created pieces in every medium - mixed media, pen and ink, acrylics, charcoal, and more - with one common thread: the red AIDS awareness ribbon is woven into the artwork either
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The hum of reels and ribbons in the movie theaters will soon disappear. By 2015, film will slip to niche status; venerable old 35 mm film will be mostly gone. Digital is the way now, and while that makes life easier for distributors, the cost for small cinemas across the
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Video Games Live is not just a concert. It's an experience. An experience to end all experiences for all nerdkind. An experience that will give every game geek in the land the chance to hear live video game music. An experience that will yank game fanatics from
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Video Games Live is not just a concert. It's an experience. An experience to end all experiences for all nerdkind. An experience that will give every game geek in the land the chance to hear live video game music. An experience that will yank game fanatics from joysticks Friday night
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See dance as you've never seen it before - trouncing through a bookstore! Tonight at King's Books, the BareFoot Collective will take to the shelves and deliver a unique performance in a unique venue that is just about the opposite of a formal theatre in every way. Tonight's performance
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Art at Work Month is a collective of events and exhibits packaged into one exciting month by the Tacoma Arts Commission. Some of these happenings take place year-round, others are Art at Work specific, but all of them invite the public out to see why Tacoma is such an amazingly
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Art at Work: Tacoma's Arts Month showcases just about every aspect of the arts T-town sports during the month of November - but one of the most unique facets to this dreary month of art is the studio tour program. Nov. 3 and 4, 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.,
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It's always a good thing when you can get dressed to the nines and help to better mankind, or at least the community around you. Head to Tacoma Art Museum, Nov. 10, and you can do just that at the Get Involved Gala 2012 - or the GIG,
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Pacific Grill is a shining culinary gem in downtown Tacoma, the home of award-winning deliciousness, the creation of chef and owner Gordon Naccarato. Originally from Tacoma, Naccarato worked at and learned his tasty craft around the world before returning to Tacoma to open Pacific Grill. If you've never been to Pacific
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Tacoma Art at Work month fills the month of November with just that - art in progress, art out in the world, art doing more than simply sitting on a shelf and looking pretty. Thursday, Nov. 1 from 6-8:30 p.m., the Art at Work kick-off party welcomes all into
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Save pumpkins, few foods say fall better than apples. Especially in Washington, the ubiquitous apple harvest finds its way into many local foods. Some of these are even nationally recognized, such as Lattin's Apple Cider, pressed in Olympia at Lattin's Country Cider Mill and Farm. Owned and operated by Carolyn Lattin
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Grownups can't go trick or treating. I've tried. Mostly, it's a good way to celebrate Halloween by getting a lot of awkward looks. A lot. Instead, join in a local community event or party. With several to choose from in Tacoma and Olympia, kids won't be the only ones having a
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When local cookie company owner Deborah Tuggle invited me into her cookie factory, I thought I might have died and gone to heaven. Cookie heaven. Tuggle is the woman behind the genius that is Friday's Cookies-a company she has owned and operated since 1999. More recently, in 2004, she acquired a
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As fall cools off our wonderfully warm summer weather, you might start craving warm, cozy food. Savory meats on hot plates or skewers. Soups. Perhaps a fancy burger with a side of warm au jus. You might be craving Asado. With a full menu of steady Argentine-inspired delights and a
