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Want to go see a show and don't feel like driving to Seattle? No problem. Tacoma and Olympia both have a number of great theatres so you can enjoy a night on the town close by. Here's a local theatre listing lineup for this week and weekend. Chicago at Tacoma Musical
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Stadium Art and Wine Walk is a unique event in Tacoma-a community wine tasting coupled with local artists. More than 30 Stadium businesses will host local artwork and maybe even the artist, provide snacks, as well as offer a wine or two for tasting. Tickets include 10 wine tastings and
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Godspell is on at Fircrest Presbyterian Church until October 14! If you haven't seen Godspell before, there are few finer pieces of hippie musical composition. Like Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell follows the life of Jesus as he tells parables, does a few miracles, and sings a lot-but is much cheerier
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What's Marketgrass, you ask? No, it's not something new and novel for you to smoke. It's a brand new event taking place at the Proctor Farmers' Market on Saturday, September 29. Marketgrass is all about music. Two bands will take to the performance tent: Tattered Dress from 9 to 11 a.m.
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On September 21, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., Park(ing) Day will transform ordinary parking spaces into public parks. Artists, activists and everyday people alike will be parking it up until the meters run out. Park(ing) Day started in 2005 in San Francisco as a way to ponder how we use
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Third Thursday is upon us and with it comes an opening reception at 253 Collective Art Gallery featuring artist Terese Cuff. Cuff is one of the newer artists to be assimilated into the 253 Collective. She's lived in Tacoma for about 15 years and works largely in the media of painting
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Today, kick back and enjoy a free brass quintet concert, courtesy of the Summer Box Lunch free outdoor concert series that B2 Fine Art Gallery hosts throughout the summer. September 14 will be the last summer concert since, sadly, summer is ending soon. The concert goes on at noon at Ledger Square-711
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If you haven't been to Charlotte's Blueberry Park in Tacoma, you're missing out. Big time. Because there are free blueberries here. Located close to the corner of S 72nd and D Street, the blueberry park covers 20 acres of parklands managed by Metro Parks Tacoma-10 acres are covered with more than
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September 15 and 16, head to Gig Harbor for a day of arts. The Gig Harbor Open Studio Tour is a self-guided tour welcoming the public in to art studios throughout Gig Harbor. Artists on this tour are selected by a jury to ensure that they each have a high level
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Love it or hate it, everyone knows what sushi is, but sushi's cousin gimbap (or kimbap) remains largely unknown or ignored or both. It's extremely worth trying and I would even venture to say that I love gimbap as much as I love sushi, sometimes even more because I'm not
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The Rock Pizza Buffet and Lunch Specials The Rock has the best pizza buffet in town with lots of pizza, pasta, soup, lasagna, salad and a soda for $8.99 (or with a beer for $9.99). If you haven't been in a while, you may not know that the buffet is only
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The Washington State History Museum has a kind of new installation in its Great Hall of Washington History-Women's Votes, Women's Voices. "Kind of new" because this installation travels and has visited the hallowed halls of WSHS before. Most recently, it was located at the Capitol in Olympia. But now it's
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You may feel hesitant to go to an event with "boinkers" in the title, and yet, sometimes the word "boinkers" doesn't refer to some questionable something and merely points to a rockin' band at a casino. September 7 and 8, The Boinkers will play at Red Wind Casino. The Boinkers are
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LimeBerry is one of several frozen yogurt chains in the Tacoma-Olympia area, but it is perhaps the one that is most steadily growing. On Saturday, September 1, a new location opened in Lacey at 1110B College Street. LimeBerry is a self-serve fro-yo joint with 15 flavors on tap each day and
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The Tacoma Murals Project is on fire! Another mural is wrapping up this week! The Hope Heights mural is located at 64th and McKinley and is a vividly colorful addition to an intersection that definitely needs some love. If you want to see the artists in action, they will likely still
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If you know the name Murray Morgan Bridge, then you have passed the test. You are a real Tacoman. If you don't, then shame on you. Shame! Murray Morgan Bridge is the proper name of what some people call the 11th Street Bridge or City Waterway Bridge. It's that old steel bridge
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With the Tacoma Craft Beer Festival this Saturday, it goes without saying that many Tacomans will be consuming far too many calories for the day. Why not kick the fest off with some exercise to balance out your caloric load for the day? Paddle and Pints, hosted by MetroParks, starts at
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If you're the kind of person who can never have enough sushi, Mongolian barbecue, or Asian cuisine served up buffet style, you're in luck. In late July, a new Asian fusion buffet opened in University Place-Fortune Palace Buffet at 3819 Bridgeport Way (where the Blockbuster used to be). The exterior
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The Tacoma Murals Project is in full force for the summer and T-town is getting new murals as you read this. That's right. Right now, a mural is being born. Right now, artists are painting their souls onto a wall that needed love. Right...now. Unless you're reading this at night and
