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DISCUSS >>> Coffee is awesome! I always ignored it, thinking, "Why start a bad habit?" This is an awesome habit! I get more done in an hour than I used to get done in a week. Coffee! And soon I will be able to visit four coffee shops all withn
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ACOUSTIC QUIRKY ELECTRO-PUNK-ROCK >>> Johnny Gonken - he of a band profile on our Web site - will perform an acoustic set tonight at Hell's Kitchen in support of his new acoustic EP, Live From Steve's Mom's House. Energetic synthaholic Gonken always seemed to have a wacky new synth sound to
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HERE COMES THE JUDGE >>> Today, we polished off two of Hot Rod Dog's most popular dogs - the mozzarella sausage and the kielbasa, both made and smoked by Blue Max Sausage Company in Puyallup. And we were nowhere near their tiny restaurant on Pacific Avenue. A month ago, Hot Rod Dog
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FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>> When I was 10 years old, Bach was the bane of my existence. During childhood piano lessons, time spent struggling with the German composer's Inventions 1 through 5 forced me to miss out on crucial bike-riding time and numerous episodes of Captain Caveman and the Teen
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CONCERT ALERT >>> Country singer/songwriter Justin Moore will perform in the KMPS Showcase Friday, April 16 during the Puyallup Spring Fair. The concert kicks off at 7:30 p.m. It's free after shelling out $7-$9 for gate admission.
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THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE PRETTY >>> If you don't know Alan Gorsuch, co-owner of Sanford and Son Antiques, this blog post sums him up perfectly. He's nuts. With arts critic Alec Clayton under the weather, Pappi messing around with our Tournament of Tacos, and Driscoll at SXSW, I had to take
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THE LATEST TO JOIN >>> Last night I popped into our Community Hot Spot to check out our new members. The dimly lit online community is happening with its warm brick walls and comfortable, neo-Moorish flavor. Of course, it could also cause flashbacks for folks who had one of those
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THIS JUST IN >>> This just out of the City of Tacoma headquarters: On March 31 at 9 a.m., the City of Tacoma in partnership with the Washington State Department of Transportation, will host a ribbon cutting celebration to commemorate the completion of the re-cabling work and the turnback agreement for
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THEIR INVENTION >>> GreySlade Music's Chad Hagedorn (The Happy Vanishing) and John Walker (John Walker and the Hitchhikers) wrote and produced the art rock/sci-fi folk album The Measurement Problem as a force known as My Own Invention. And they want feedback. Download The Measurement Problem here. Listen to the "musical journey down a
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THIRD THURSDAY ARTWALK ON A BUS >>> Every Third Thursday ArtWalk participant has had that Moment. The Moment you know you will look back on six months (or a year, or 10 years) from now and laugh. Laugh and laugh and laugh, just laugh hysterically that you couldn't find the
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ONE OPENS, ANOTHER CLOSES >>> People craving a cup of joe in Tacoma's Theater District can finally look further than their own kitchens and office coffee machines. Café Messina - located at 744 Market St. - opened this week for business. Serving Urban City Coffee Roasters coffee and baked goods from
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BORN TO BE BAD >>> The Runaways were a teen-girl band of the '70s whose influence reverberates to this day. Its members included Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and Lita Ford. The film The Runaways, which opens Friday at The Grand Cinema, follows Currie and Jett who become fast friends, drinking pilfered
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BARBARIC HARMONY >>> The band Going Shopping joins Humble Cub tonight at Fulcrum Gallery for an ambient music extravaganza. Read Editor Matt Driscoll's take on the show here. I found this Going Shopping video on YouTube to get you in the mood. [Fulcrum Gallery Art Space, with Humble Cub, Thursday, March 11, 8-10
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THE GIG HARBOR WINE JOINT ADDS BOOZE >>> (Sip. closed Monday, May 24, 2010) The drunken junket is a wonderful thing. It's the sort of perk that makes up for the lousy pay in this typing business, at least for a few days. But times have changed since the halcyon hedonism of
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YOU'VE ALMOST MADE IT >>> You have dragged your weekend-weary, sorry self through the first day of work-week drudgery. It wasn't easy, though, and you deserve a little reward. When you buy a martini at Toscanos in Puyallup during the month of March, the café and wine bar will give
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A HOLE >>> Happy Donuts in downtown Puyallup can't be happy about their sign tonight.
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THIS GUY IS NUTS >>> As you have all read over and over Quinton Loyne-Packard will be co-hosting The Grand Cinema's Academy Awards Party Sunday at the Rialto Theater. In addition to the live broadcast of the Academy Awards' red carpet and live show on the Rialto's movie screen that
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CLAW CARES >>> There are those who dread going home to an empty house, and there are those who revel in it. Those in the second category usually have large families. Or just families. Or maybe they're just antisocial, which is fine. But the point is to scheme new and
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TWANGY GOOD IDEA >>> San Francisco's porch band Trainwreck Riders will be rolling into Olympia Friday for a show with Southern Skies and Tilted Stilts at Northern. Their debut album, Lonely Road Revival, harkens back to a golden age of Americana, when folk, country and blues musically intertwined. Anyway, I found
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THE INCREDIBLE, EDIBLE BOOK >>> Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound dedicates itself to protecting books, but come April 1 (no joke) it will eat them at the University's fourth Edible Books Festival. What is an edible book? Duh. An edible book is made of food and inspired
