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BEST PLACE TO FIND RAD MESSAGE SOCKS AND SWEATERS FOR BOTTLES Nine Lives Vintage Wears OK, folks, here are two great places that spread Tacoma funshine in one spot! At Nine Lives Vintage Wears, you can't help but smile at the well-made striped knee-high socks with statement words like punk, nerd, bacon
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Thank you to all who took the time to vote in our Best of Tacoma 2014 Readers' Poll. You are the Best. Best Shoe Store: Nordstrom Best Record Store: Hi-Voltage Records Best Grocery Store: Metropolitan Market Best Tattoo Shop: House of Tattoo Best Hair Salon: Willow Salon & Spa Best Yoga: Source Yoga Best Book Store: King's
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BEST CAULIFLOWER IN TACOMA Smoke + Cedar Perhaps you see cauliflower on the menu and instantly get flashbacks. It's the 1980s. Your mother has boiled up some of the vile white vegetable and you have to eat it before you can get back to your paused Super Mario Bros. game. Bowser awaits.
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Thank you to all who took the time to vote in our Best of Tacoma 2014 Readers' Poll. You are the Best. Best Restaurant: Marrow Kitchen and Bar Best Restaurant Server: Kent Bolden at Maxwell's Restaurant Best Bartender: Jason Alexander, Tacoma Cabana Best Happy Hour: Pacific Grill Best Pizza: Puget Sound Pizza Best Sushi: TWOKOI Japanese
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BEST NEW HANDOUT Working Class Theatre Northwest Over the years, I've seen plays in a lot of found spaces from a lot of folding chairs. Seldom has the payoff for that spine-wrenching sacrifice been as enjoyable as A Life in the Theatre, a jagged take on David Mamet's affectionate two-hander. Aside from
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Thank you to all who took the time to vote in our Best of Tacoma 2014 Readers' Poll. You are the Best. Best Filmmaker: Isaac Olsen Best Movie Theater: The Grand Cinema Most Creative Person: James Bender Best Theater Company: Tacoma Little Theatre Best Dance Company: MLKBallet Best Performance Space: Pantages Theater Best Actor: Alex Smith Best Actress:
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BEST LAST LAUGH Lakewood road painting Puget Sound Energy and the city of Lakewood Public Works tested the nerves of those accessing Bridgeport Way and Custer Road Southwest this past winter and spring. Long lines of cars backed up on both roads and weaved through interested temporary lanes as a gas main
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Thank you to all who took the time to vote in our Best of Tacoma 2013 Readers' Poll. You are the Best. Best Politician: Mayor Marilyn Strickland Best Politician You Love To Hate: Gov. Jay Inslee Biggest Nuisance: Pot holes Best Pierce County Nonprofit Organization: YMCA Best Local Hero: Sonics Guy Kris Brannon Best Pierce County-based
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[GOODBYE]+ NOW It has been called The Barcode, The Mint and finally, this week it will close its doors for the last time as Jezebels. Yes, the Olympia-based hip-hop and rap nightspot - often the center of scrutiny and critical review - will close its doors as owner Mark Valerio re-focuses
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We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Storm Large Tacoma. Sept. 4 7:30 pm. $18-$48 (Theatre on the Square, 253.591.5894 Made
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SAVOR SOUTH SOUND The Thurston County Fair (3054 Carpenter Road, Lacey) will host a Savor South Sound beer, wine and cider tasting from 5-10 p.m. Aug. 1-2. The special section will features more than a dozen craft beer, wine and hard cider producers from the Pacific Northwest. Sip your way through
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In a manner of speaking, Lakewood was made for getaways, beginning with the founding of a number of country estates in the 19th-century by Tacoma area business leaders. And although the then-bedroom community has since grown up, some of those estates remain, clustered around the local lakeshores. One such estate on
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Summer has put us in a serious doggie mood, which is why our ears are all perked up over the canine events at the Proctor Arts Festival. This is no snooty American Kennel Club affair, populated by overbred humans with overbred dogs sporting names like Major Buffington Blue Shropshire-Cronenberg; instead,
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Little Bill Engelhart is soul on wheels, thanks to his musicianship and polio. He grew up on Hilltop Tacoma and learned rock 'n' roll by playing rhythm and blues with the black musicians downtown, which was unusual for a young white kid at the time. He formed a band with
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The students at Arbutus Folk School will put down their Pieh Har-Lev Ergonomic Cross Pein Hammers, Langstroth Beehive Frames, Spriggs Adjustable Frame Looms and Excalibur nine-tray food dehydrators and pick up guitars for the Arbutus Acoustic Open Mic, which happens every first Monday of the month. The M.C. and organizer
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As the last month of summer begins, it's time to step outside your air-conditioned oasis and take some time to appreciate your neighborhood. Or as this practice is referred to around the country, National Night Out, the one evening a year in which law enforcement, citizens, business owners and local
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As we wolfed down fresh wild blueberries, we couldn't recall the last time we ate any fruit quite so flavorful. Eating a blueberry still warm from the sun was like tasting one for the very first time. Its essence goes straight to our heads. And everyone knows blueberries are loaded
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[AVANT-POP] + SAT, JULY 26 One of the things that tends to deter me from music with the "experimental" label is that it too frequently has a tendency to spiral out into free jazz journeys with no end in sight. My roots are too entrenched in pop construction for me to
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW The Breeders Seattle. Sept. 10 8:30 pm. $25-$28 (The Showbox, axs.com) Heart Seattle. Sept.
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LOCAL BOOZE RELEASE Heritage Distilling Company has just announced the release of their Batch No. 12 line of spirits. Batch 12 will include a vodka, bourbon and rye whisky all produced and bottled at its Gig Harbor site. The salivating, booze-loving public can get their first sip at
