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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16 2013 >>> 1. 3 Inches of Blood divorced themselves from the cheesier of their metal ancestors. This Vancouver, B.C., sextet, sporting two singers - Cam Pipes belting out death metal screams while guitarist Justin Hagberg has replaced Jamie Hopper's vocal duties - spews classic metal
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TUESDAY, OCT. 15 2013 >>> 1. Tacoma's Head Bookworm Erik Hanberg is everywhere. If he's not helping old ladies across the street, or building little houses for squirrels at every park in Tacoma, or designing a marketing program with his wife, or ballroom dancing to raise money for
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Going to a sports bar usually means having some dude standing on your feet while you crane your neck and try to watch a TV because it's too loud to make any conversation. Triple Play Sports Bar on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue, on the other hand, never seems to get too
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MONDAY, OCT. 14 2013 >>> 1. Priscilla Dobler will be creating artwork for the Woolworth Windows installation ... live. You may peer at her through the window, day and night, as she takes textiles from white and minimal to lively and colorful with her floor loom and
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SUNDAY, OCT. 13 2013 >>> 1. The central joke in the '40s comedy Arsenic and Old Lace concerns spinster sisters Abby and Martha Brewster, who are pillars of the local church, much loved in their community, and always happy to provide soup for the sick and hospitality to the lonely. They
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LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> 502 Downtown Tacoma - Downtown. Kim Archer Band with Gritty City Sirens burlesque troupe and DJ Ninja Kat. Halloween costume contest plus raffle. 9 pm. $10 cash. Bob's Java Jive Tacoma - Central. Heavy Prog with Breag Naofa, Feng Chia, Moraine, God Hates Fads.
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SATURDAY, OCT. 12 2013 >>> 1. From the first resonant chords of piano on Rockwell Powers's and DJ Phinisey's new album, BUILD, it's clear that this is an album that strives to be more than just another album of blustering and posturing. Accompanied by the reading of
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The City of Tacoma has just released the three winners of this year's AMOCAT Arts Awards. Here's the press release: The Tacoma Arts Commission has announced this year's AMOCAT Arts Award winners: Erivan and Helga Haub and family (Arts Patron), Puget Sound Book Artists (Community Outreach by an Organization) and David
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FRIDAY, OCT. 11 2013 >>> 1. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, the folks at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium pull something like this. They're allowing visitors to dive into the South Pacific Aquarium with more than a dozen sharks - including
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THURSDAY, OCT. 10 2013 >>> 1. Hailing from Austin, Texas, Crooked Bangs is a band that is quite adept at building expectations and smashing them. Initially reveling in the sounds of '60s garage and '70s punk, Crooked Bangs slowly folds in elements of post-punk. It's compelling enough, but
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9 2013 >>> 1. No one knows for sure when the first Paleolithic cave-dweller stuck a mammoth tail in crushed-up berries and began painting stick figures on the wall of his rocky abode, but you can bet the market value of the neighboring caves instantly went up. Want to
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TUESDAY, OCT. 8 2013 >>> 1. Tacoman Erik Hanberg loves parks and books. He's taken both passions to the next level. He's currently a commissioner with Metro Parks Tacoma. He's also penned The Saints Go Dying, The Marinara Murders and within days of releasing his first sci-fi novel, The
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MONDAY, OCT. 7 2013 >>> 1. The Tacoma Film Festival is on, celebrating current independent film from around the globe ... and in our backyard. The 253 represent at this year's TFF. A whole slew of local film shorts will be screened at The Grand Cinema from 4-5:30: Harbor Island (Mystery,
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SUNDAY, OCT. 6 2013 >>> 1. Mural art doesn't seem like the kind of discipline that should be broken into seasons, like fashion or the performing arts - not least because so many murals, with their all-together-now imagery and perennial visibility, seem lodged in a permanent Sesame Street-like
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Some days we want to eat chicken feet. we want tripe and trotters, crispy fried intestine and all the assorted culinary weirdness that allows Anthony Bourdain to laugh all the way to the bank. We would be just as bored with cheeseburgers every day as someone living in, say, Mauritania
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SATURDAY, OCT. 5 2013 >>> 1. The Dockyard Derby Dames is gearing up for its 8th season of jams, slams and thank-you ma'ams, with a double-header opening-night bout at 6 p.m. in Pierce College's Health Ed Building. Bridgette Walker, team captain of the Marauding Mollys and head of sponsorship
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LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> 1230 Room Olympia - Downtown. Ethan Tucker, Big Blue Van. 6 pm. $5. Artubus Folk School Olympia - Downtown. Benny Sidelinger. All Ages. 5-7 pm. NC. Chickadee. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Art House Designs Olympia - Downtown. Dennis Hastings Quartet. All Ages. 6-9 pm.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 2013 >>> 1. Musical performances during openings at B2 Fine Art Gallery are nothing new, but the gallery is branching out into music in a big way with the first of a two-part series of art celebrating music. "SPIN 1: American Vinyl Exhibition" - which
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THURSDAY, OCT. 3 2013 >>> 1. Writing in her 1891 compilation, Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cookbook, Mrs. D.A. Lincoln describes a clam boil as follows: "An impromptu clambake may be had at any time at low tide along the coast where clams are found. If you wish to have
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The 2013 Tacoma Film Festival is shaping up to be everything a good film fest should be. There are movies from around the world, flicks in a variety of languages, screenings exploring the margins of different societies, and films from the comedy, drama, and short film categories and local ditties.
