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The Pierce County Library System selected the best-selling Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by nationally known award-winning author Ruth Reichl as the Pierce County READS book for 2010, which begins today and runs through April 3. The memoir tells the accounts of famous food
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The Art Stop is often the place to see some of the most interesting and beautiful handmade contemporary crafts in the city. Owners Steph Farber and Phyllis Harrison, more often than not, focus on ceramics. And, more often than not, their Art Stop shows lean on the creative side. Such
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GUTTERMOUTH >>>Friday, Jan. 22 You already know Guttermouth. I don't need to describe the band. I don't need to tell you about the purposefully offensive antics, the three chords, or probably even the band's Orange County roots. I don't need to tell you the band is old as sin, and you could
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Fact meets fiction and then rubs noses with history, Native American lore and modern science as the story of Bigfoot will play out in displays at the upcoming exhibit Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch at the Washington State History Museum. This exploration of the Sasquatch story here in
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Fact meets fiction and then rubs noses with history, Native American lore and modern science as the story of Bigfoot will play out in displays at the upcoming exhibit Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch at the Washington State History Museum. This exploration of the Sasquatch story here in
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For those who enjoy expressing themselves publicly, there is one place that not only opens its stage, but also lends you insights about how you performed. Barefoot Collective 8@8 event gives performance artists eight minutes to showcase their work before an audience. An audience feedback session follows the performance where
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Synesthesia I Know How It Must Feel: Turning 40 is a mother. All of a sudden my body is falling apart before my eyes; if things continue to progress at this pace, I'll be in a nursing home within five years. I've started to grow hair in unusual places like the
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Located on Market Street in downtown Tacoma, nestled quietly beneath the colorful Villaggio Apartments lays a gateway to an alternative to Tacoma's commercial nightlife. The Villa Caffe & Imbibery is a discreet little coffee house and bar that opened last week across the street from the Bicentennial Pavilion. The Villa
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Thursday, Jan. 14Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215.Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020.Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum
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Synesthesia I Smell Trouble: Typically, during karaoke nights, I grow listless and disillusioned leafing through song list after song list of wussified rubbish. My stomach churns every time I hear "More Than Words." However, I don't have the singing chops to rectify the situation.Do you?The D.A.S.H. Center for the Arts will
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<h2>Tommy Chicago Hot Dog</h2>In a mobile food truck parked in front of an old fast-food joint, Tommy Chicago Hot Dog serves a small menu that packs a solid flavor punch. At the 5-month-old drive-thru and walk-up, a modest menu of dogs, chips, potent garlic fries and homemade chili will see
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If you have a superb eye and a high tolerance for dust mites, vintage-store shopping can be a great experience. What's not to love about discovering hidden gems and one-of-a-kind pieces and creating a look that's completely your own? Also, there's just something about vintage clothes — tattered or not,
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(Merende is closed) Face it: the Great Martini Revival is over, although those splendid silver bullets remain deliciously potent. Then there are cosmopolitans. Sure, they are wildly popular and pretty and tasty, but essentially we're talking girlie libation. Now that the damp is back in the South Sound air, it's time
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Volifonix Thursday, Dec. 17 If there’s one thing white people like it’s mayonnaise. If there are two things white people like it’s mayonnaise and extended guitar jams — or so it often seems. Oregon’s Volifonix, coming from the Phil Knight and weed smelling woods of Eugene, know this all too well
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It’s a lovely breakfast option. Its large windows are perfect for watching the traffic craziness; the delicious coffee and free Wi-Fi keep the place busy. And now Forza Coffee in Lakewood offers three types of breakfast frittata burritos prepared by Pacific Grill: Black Forest Ham and Egg, Italian Egg and
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Many a strange phenomenon comes over us during this, the holiday season. People pretend they’re in ye olde Victorian England. Television commercials start to rhyme. We use terms like “hustle and bustle” in everyday conversation. But before you decide to curl up into a ball inside your big down parka
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If you happen to be anywhere near the Fulcrum Gallery on Hilltop Tacoma, you might have sworn you saw tumble weeds. You did in fact see bent, formed, and dried willows taken from riverbanks in Montana, but hidden behind the fantastic shapes was artist Kim Cheselka. The Los Angeles-based artist
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Thursday, Oct. 22, 1022 South — a craft cocktail lounge in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood — will throw a party to celebrate its new menu featuring more than 40 innovative, and in some cases, curative handcrafted cocktails. Beginning at 4 p.m., drinkers will be able to sip the new concoctions for
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In the kitchens, the end of summer is just something you have to get through, a grinding slog through the last hot days, the last slow nights. Everyone’s eyes are on the approaching holiday season — distant but just visible over the horizon. Chefs are dreaming of potatoes, of pork
