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WHEN IN DOUBT, GO OLD SCHOOL >>> Last week, Click! Cable TV launched a new channel exclusively for Tacoma Area cable TV customers: ReelzChannel. Found on channel 59 for Click! customers, ReelzChannel is devoted to movies, featuring reviews from top critics along with extended interviews with today's top stars. It's basically TV
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TUESDAY, JAN. 26, 2010 >>> 1. REI offers a free GPS 101 class at 7 p.m. You can find it at ·47° 13.333' N and 122° 27.95' W 2. Audio Atonement presents an all-ages show featuring The Ghost Inside, For The Fallen Dreams, Suffokate, Your Demise, Oblivion, Cowardice, and Culling The Weak
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THE GOLDEN TICKET >>> And ... March 7 is the day. Oscar day. The day all those little-golden-statue-grubbers have been losing sleep over. You want to watch, you know you do. Food, raffle, silent auction, cash bar, live broadcast of the show - yep. The Grand Cinema will throw its annual
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GOOD SUPPORT DURING THESE TRYING TIMES >>> Bikinis Espresso Bar, one of Lakewood's many bikini espresso stands, will knock 25 cents off your cup of coffee if you say the word "bra" today. That's nice.
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MONDAY, JAN. 25 2010 >>> 1. Barefoot Collective's 8@8 event gives performance artists eight minutes to showcase their work before an audience at 8 p.m. inside the Tacoma City Ballet Studio B at the Merlino Arts Building. 2. Historian Todd Smith discusses how Washington state's national parks changed during The Great Depression
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LOCAL BLOG ROUNDUP >>> Another week, another six days of cruising the local blogosphere for decent reading. This Morning's Breakfast: French Toast Sticks ($1.79) Where: Best Burgers in Lakewood Taste: They have a golden crunchy outer layer that caves-in from the pressure of our first bite, revealing a soft and chewy warm center.
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SATURDAY, JAN. 23, 2010 >>> 1. Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch opens at 10 a.m. inside the Washington State History Museum. 2. Jeff Bridges is a Best Actor front-runner for his performance as Bad Blake, a broke-down, boozy country singer with a stubborn pride in the film Crazy
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YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED TUESDAY, FEB. 2 >>> Andy Buelow, executive director of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, posted on the Tacoma Arts listserv an alert of a statewide convening of arts advocates in Olympia. It's important enough to post again. Appointments have been scheduled with state legislators. All you need to
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MANY ART SHOWS OPEN TONIGHT >>> "Here's another!" I shouted at Weekly Volcano editor Matt Driscoll. "And another" I said waving a press release from a Tacoma gallery that announced an exhibit opening during Third Thursday ArtWalk. It's common for galleries to open shows during the monthly Tacoma ArtWalk for obvious reasons.
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HOPPY BEERTHDAY, 99 BOTTLES! >>> Cake and beer, oh yes. Sweet, tasty carrot cake, and a frothy pint o' brew - the perfect way to end a Wednesday, or punctuate a particularly monotonous stretch of existence. Any excuse is a good excuse when it comes to beer and cake. The Federal Way
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, 2010 >>> 1. Tempest Lounge hosts The Hayburners at 7 p.m. 2. City Club of Tacoma Lunch Program welcomes UW President Mark Emmert who will speak on education in the current economic environment at 11:30 a.m. inside The Tacoma Art Museum. 3. Kittredge Gallery holds an opening reception from 4-6
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TUESDAY, JAN. 19, 2010 >>> 1. Leonard Mynx will weave tales of desperation, death and heartbreak over slow heartbeat tempos at 7 p.m. inside the Mandolin Café. 2. Jeannet Iskandar's ethereal constructions of suspended light and line meet in a confluence of rhythm and repetition from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at
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MONDAY, JAN. 18, 2010 >>> 1. Tacoma is known for hosting one of the largest annual indoor MLK celebrations in the country, and this year will be no different. With a "Unity in the Community" theme, the 2010 MLK celebration will start at 10:30 a.m. at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall
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LOCAL BLOG ROUNDUP >>> Another week, another six days of cruising the local blogosphere for decent reading. Exit133 is many things Tacoma - civic involvement, politics, and urban development. It is also a watchdog for awards and trends associated with the City of Destiny. Thursday morning Derek Young announced that the year 2010
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SUNDAY, JAN. 17, 2010 >>> 1. Beale Street Kick-off Party & Fundraiser featuring Mia Vermillion and Orville Johnson, Fingertips, The Chester Dennis Jones Band, Blues Redemption, and The Randy Oxford Band from 5-11 p.m. at Imperial Dragon in Tacoma. 2. Over the River and Through the Woods hits the Tacoma Little Theatre
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SATURDAY, JAN. 16, 2010 >>> 1. The Grand Cinema presents a free screening of The Secret of NiHM at 10 a.m. 2. Metro Parks and the Friends of McKinley Park organization host one of many upcoming McKinley Park Cleanup Work Parties where people will gather between 9 a.m. and noon at the
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MOCTEZUMA'S NEW TACO PLATE >>> Moctezuma's Mexican Restaurant in Tacoma has a new taco on its menu. Their Monterrey Chicken Taco plate (three tacos) loads up each flour tortilla with tons of citrus marinated fire-grilled chicken, jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, then tops them off with a chiptole crema. It
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FRIDAY, JAN. 15, 2010 >>> 1. Almodovar's passionate new film Broken Embraces is a voluptuary of a film, drunk on primary colors, caressing Penelope Cruz, using the devices of a Hitchcock to distract us with surfaces while the sinister uncoils beneath. It opens today at The Grand Cinema at 3, 5:50
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MICHAEL SWAN: LOCAL BLOG ROUNDUP >>> OK, the logjam of good will, overspending, and plastic Nativity action figures slowed the local blogosphere down to a trickle. Here are a few notable posts from the past week. >>>Tacoma preservation advocate Morgan Alexander looked back at 2009 in Tacoma on his blog, Morgan's
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MICHAEL SWAN: HAVE YOU DANCED YET? >>> It's Dance Oly Dance time this Friday. The OlyBlog has details.
