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Kyoshi Skip Ettinger, who teaches Shorinryu Seibukan Okinawan karate classes at Fort Lewis, has many reasons to be proud of his first student — Drew Derrick-Bisbee.In 2008, Derrick-Bisbee was awarded two World Championships by the North American Sport Karate Association. He also won a highly selective spot on the U.S.
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Top nachos Too often cheap pub grub means soggy nachos, cold fries, messy wings and other boring fried food. Not so at the Top of Tacoma — especially the nachos ($8.50). Served on a large baking sheet, it’s as if co-owner Jamie Kay Newton makes the ultimate nacho on each chip
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Best Mexican Coffee drinkWe’re all used to the “third-wave” coffeehouses by now, the post-Starbucks cafés where baristas command more machinery than some industrial chemists, and your morning cappuccino, drawn from a $12,000 coffee making contraption adorned with more chrome than a ‘58 Buick, is decorated with a heart, a leaf
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Too often cheap pub grub means soggy nachos, cold fries, messy wings and other boring fried food. Not so at the Top of Tacoma — especially the nachos ($8.50). Served on a large baking sheet, it’s as if co-owner Jamie Kay Newton makes the ultimate nacho on each chip then
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The award-winning Canadian Hip-Hop group, Sweatshop Union will rock the crowd at Olympia’s Royal Lounge (311 Capital Way, downtown Olympia) tonight combining conscious lyrics, crowd-rocking tactics and a long and rich history of representing the best of hip-hop straight from the ‘much-slept-on, vastly beautifully land of British Columbia. Canada
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I admit we talk about The Red Hot on Spew more than any South Sound business. Maybe too much. The reason is two-fold. One, owner Chris "Trashcan" Miller promotes the hell out of it. He's a smart business owner. And two, well, Weekly Volcano restaurant critic Jake de Paul said
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I admit we talk about The Red Hot on Spew more than any South Sound business. Maybe too much. The reason is two-fold. One, owner Chris "Trashcan" Miller promotes the hell out of it. He's a smart business owner. And two, well, Weekly Volcano restaurant critic Jake de Paul said
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Inspired by the lack of variety in dance music in Tacoma, Calvin Murphy and Omar Stokes founded Ocean Grooves Entertainment in January 1999. They started off strong that February with Monday night shows at the 6th & Proctor Bar & Grill (now Hell’s Kitchen) and dedicated it to underground dance
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When Perry Farrell christened his groundbreaking alternative rock tour Lollapalooza in 1991, did he have any idea the word would someday be appropriated for everything from a parenting book written by John Lithgow to the Temple Beth Hatfiloh’s Blintzapalooza celebration of the humble blintz? Then again, perhaps the artist formerly
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When Perry Farrell christened his groundbreaking alternative rock tour Lollapalooza in 1991, did he have any idea the word would someday be appropriated for everything from a parenting book written by John Lithgow to the Temple Beth Hatfiloh’s Blintzapalooza celebration of the humble blintz? Then again, perhaps the artist formerly
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You spend hours wandering around consignment stores, yard sales, and nothing. Break the cycle. Rethink your thought process. Antiques — The older they are the better. And, unlike the average retail giant’s merchandise, you can sometimes get a deal. So come check out the Annual Puget Sound Flea Market and
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You spend hours wandering around consignment stores, yard sales, and nothing. Break the cycle. Rethink your thought process. Antiques — The older they are the better. And, unlike the average retail giant’s merchandise, you can sometimes get a deal. So come check out the Annual Puget Sound Flea Market and
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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 third Edible Book Festival. Eat this up: For the third consecutive year, Collins Memorial Library will participate in the international edible book festival. There are
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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 third Edible Book Festival. Eat this up: For the third consecutive year, Collins Memorial Library will participate in the international edible book festival. There are
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The University of Puget Sound’s SCRABBLE Rousers club will host a tournament to raise funds for the Tacoma Community House with triple word scores. I’ve personally always enjoyed hanging onto the “Q,” where it hangs there on your rack like some ultimate weapon of destruction, waiting for that all-enabling “U”
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The University of Puget Sound’s SCRABBLE Rousers club will host a tournament to raise funds for the Tacoma Community House with triple word scores. I’ve personally always enjoyed hanging onto the “Q,” where it hangs there on your rack like some ultimate weapon of destruction, waiting for that all-enabling “U”
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You glower at your Republican neighbors over the fence. You’ve considered tampering with their satellite dishes to prevent them from receiving the Fox News Channel. You invite all of your most obnoxious Green Party friends over on Election Day night for a party in your front yard. As much fun
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You glower at your Republican neighbors over the fence. You’ve considered tampering with their satellite dishes to prevent them from receiving the Fox News Channel. You invite all of your most obnoxious Green Party friends over on Election Day night for a party in your front yard. As much fun
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Besides broadcasting the event, The Grand Cinema will have Oscar ballots for prizes Sunday during their Academy Awards Party at the Rialto Theater. Finally, something positive about the Academy Awards. I typically watch the ceremony now to amuse myself with how wonderfully predictable the Academy is — and also to
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Besides broadcasting the event, The Grand Cinema will have Oscar ballots for prizes Sunday during their Academy Awards Party at the Rialto Theater. Finally, something positive about the Academy Awards. I typically watch the ceremony now to amuse myself with how wonderfully predictable the Academy is — and also to
