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Alert the tree huggers and break out the patchouli for a day. Let your armpit hair flow free as you step into the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall for the Livable Communities Fair this Saturday, May 17. Pierce County and the City of Tacoma have partnered up to give you an all-inclusive
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I swear to blog, I have never in my expansive 36-year-old life seen so many damned liquor bottles on display. At least that is, for a dive bar. Leave it to Bandito Betty and me to stumble upon a metaphorical glass decanter metropolis called The Friendly Duck’s Decoy Room on
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(Ed. Note: The Friendly Duck is currently closed.) I swear to blog, I have never in my expansive 36-year-old life seen so many damned liquor bottles on display. At least that is, for a dive bar. Leave it to Bandito Betty and me to stumble upon a metaphorical glass decanter metropolis
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About a year ago The Acme Grub Cage was purchased by an eager bartender and his customer. Together they are changing the way Tacoma views this once dilapidated dive bar. New wooden cabinets are stained and ready for the multitude of liquor bottles that will be available once
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About a year ago The Acme Grub Cage was purchased by an eager bartender and his customer. Together they are changing the way Tacoma views this once dilapidated dive bar. New wooden cabinets are stained and ready for the multitude of liquor bottles that will be available once their liquor
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We’re still not quite sure if Terry’s Office Tavern is a real and true dive. It certainly looks as though it would be classified as a dive, but it sure doesn’t feel like one. Instead, Terry’s feels like the neighborhood hideaway. The tavern where local homeowners escape dinner duty and local
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We’re still not quite sure if Terry’s Office Tavern is a real and true dive. It certainly looks as though it would be classified as a dive, but it sure doesn’t feel like one. Instead, Terry’s feels like the neighborhood hideaway. The tavern where local homeowners escape dinner duty
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It was in the bar at Puget Sound Pizza that Bandito Betty and I overheard a somewhat toothless lady talking. She was venting her outrage about how she had been 86’d (kicked out) from Ida’s. Wait a second. If a toothless lady had been 86’d out of Ida’s,
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It was in the bar at Puget Sound Pizza that Bandito Betty and I overheard a somewhat toothless lady talking. She was venting her outrage about how she had been 86’d (kicked out) from Ida’s. Wait a second. If a toothless lady had been 86’d out of Ida’s, Ida’s was a place
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Bandito Betty, as I’m sure most of you know, slings beer part time at the Parkway Tavern. For our dive bar experience this week she suggested we stop by The Corner Bar, which is the bastard child of Jeff, Parkway Tavern owner. The Corner Bar is located in a
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Bandito Betty, as I’m sure most of you know, slings beer part time at the Parkway Tavern. For our dive bar experience this week she suggested we stop by The Corner Bar, which is the bastard child of Jeff, Parkway Tavern owner. The Corner Bar is located in a somewhat shady
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The KAke had to rent a movie the other night for her needy, sick boyfriend, so we stopped by Stadium Video to check one out. Bored out of our minds and eager for some action, BanditoBetty and I split upstairs to toss one back at the lounge behind The Harvester.
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The KAke had to rent a movie the other night for her needy, sick boyfriend, so we stopped by Stadium Video to check one out. Bored out of our minds and eager for some action, BanditoBetty and I split upstairs to toss one back at the lounge behind The Harvester. There
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Jim Moore built Diamond Jim’s Restaurant & Lounge from the ground up in 1971. A few years ago Jim sold his creation. Now in his 70s, Jim works as a boat salesman. Once a week he comes in to visit Kelly, the lounge’s bartender of six years. And what makes
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Jim Moore built Diamond Jim’s Restaurant & Lounge from the ground up in 1971. A few years ago Jim sold his creation. Now in his 70s, Jim works as a boat salesman. Once a week he comes in to visit Kelly, the lounge’s bartender of six years. And what makes
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I had heard my friend Karla Corona was now working at Hob Nob’s Sidedoor Lounge, so I had to bust in on her and have a drink. I told her I was reviewing it for a dive bar column, and I think she wasn’t sure whether to be insulted or
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I had heard my friend Karla Corona was now working at Hob Nob’s Sidedoor Lounge, so I had to bust in on her and have a drink. I told her I was reviewing it for a dive bar column, and I think she wasn’t sure whether to be insulted or
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If I were a candy bar, I’d be a Snickers. And if I were a coffee drink I’d be an Americano. But if I were a dive bar, I’d be Westgate Inn. Bandito Betty and I have never had as much of a good, good time as we did
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If I were a candy bar, I’d be a Snickers. And if I were a coffee drink I’d be an Americano. But if I were a dive bar, I’d be Westgate Inn. Bandito Betty and I have never had as much of a good, good time as we did on Tuesday
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I had heard from a friend who heard from a friend who heard from a friend that one of the highest concentrations of fecal matter was found in the finger holes in bowling balls. BanditoBetty and I were looking for a huge helping of crap alongside our dive bar
