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I desperately wanted to like the world premiere of the play adaptation of the classic children's book "Goodnight Moon" being staged by Seattle Children's Theatre. The show had everything going for it as it headed into opening night. It had the following of most theatergoers with young children - like me
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ANNOUNCER: Although fast-casual Mex is all the rage today - and with good reason, in the case of Lakewood's Taco Guaymas - high-end Mexican fare has hit Tacoma's Sixth Avenue in the form of Masa Comida Mexicana. The food is a combination of uppity Mexican standards (tacos, burritos and enchiladas)
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ANNOUNCER: Although fast-casual Mex is all the rage today - and with good reason, in the case of Lakewood's Taco Guaymas - high-end Mexican fare has hit Tacoma's Sixth Avenue in the form of Masa Comida Mexicana. The food is a combination of uppity Mexican standards (tacos, burritos and enchiladas)
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After a chat with Mark and Jeannine Sigafoos at last week's William Traver Gallery artists' reception, I felt inspired. I would, I decided, take Sigafoos up on his invitation and blow glass. The Tacoma Glassblowing Studio offers "The Glassblowing Experience" where you work through making a float or a
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Saul Williams Puyallup. Jan. 25 7 pm. $5 (Pierce College, TM). Tower Of Power Seattle. Jan. 25-27 7:30 and 9:30 pm, Jan. 28 6:30 and 8:30 pm. $35.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). The Game Seattle. Jan. 26 8 pm. $29.50-$39.50 (Moore Theatre, TM). Coco Montoya Seattle. Jan. 26 11 pm. $20 (Triple Door, 206.838.4333). BX3
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Saul Williams Puyallup. Jan. 25 7 pm. $5 (Pierce College, TM). Tower Of Power Seattle. Jan. 25-27 7:30 and 9:30 pm, Jan. 28 6:30 and 8:30 pm. $35.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). The Game Seattle. Jan. 26 8 pm. $29.50-$39.50 (Moore Theatre, TM). Coco Montoya Seattle. Jan. 26 11 pm. $20 (Triple Door, 206.838.4333). BX3
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Richard Lopez plays the trombone and loves it. Loves it. He loves its slender, beautiful curves. He loves the slide thing. He loves the cartoonlike, slippery sounds. If he could, he would slather it on toast or pancakes. Lopez wails like the late great Carl Fontana, combining a plump tone
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Richard Lopez plays the trombone and loves it. Loves it. He loves its slender, beautiful curves. He loves the slide thing. He loves the cartoonlike, slippery sounds. If he could, he would slather it on toast or pancakes. Lopez wails like the late great Carl Fontana, combining a
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The View lounge menu Housed in the Tacoma Club and open to the public, The View restaurant released its new lounge menu last Thursday during the Third Thursday Art Walk. Nine items fill the menu including vegetable and goat cheese strudel, seared pepper tuna, grilled chicken tortellini, coconut prawns and a
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The View lounge menu Housed in the Tacoma Club and open to the public, The View restaurant released its new lounge menu last Thursday during the Third Thursday Art Walk. Nine items fill the menu including vegetable and goat cheese strudel, seared pepper tuna, grilled chicken tortellini, coconut prawns and a
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Thursday, Jan. 25 Johnny Walker and the Hitchhikers Whenever I discover a gifted songwriter, it excites me to no end. I mean, anyone can write about new love, lost love, sex, broken dreams, etc., and those topics get a bit annoying to listen to after awhile. Great songwriters can look outside the
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Thursday, Jan. 25 Johnny Walker and the Hitchhikers Whenever I discover a gifted songwriter, it excites me to no end. I mean, anyone can write about new love, lost love, sex, broken dreams, etc., and those topics get a bit annoying to listen to after awhile. Great songwriters can look outside the
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The merging of hip-hop with electro/techno occurred at the dawn of the '80s, and the flavor was so good with acts like Debbie Deb, Egyptian Lover, Kraftwerk and others that the relationship continues to grow. This weekend, award-winning hip-hop duo Never Sleep host and perform at downtown Olympia's quaint and
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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 then you hear the vocals of Leda Ginestra
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I know next to nothing about Half Kingdom, beyond what I can hear in their two available songs online. What I can tell, just by listening to them, is that they embrace a moody post-punk that teems with energy even as it confounds expectations. Clattering drums and choppy guitars give
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Big Star, and Alex Chilton in particular, was a band driven to madness by a nation turning a blind eye to some of the purest pop music around. In typical fashion, Big Star were ignored in their time, but later discovered by several generations of power pop acts that valued
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com We
Food Matters
TACOMA CHOCOLATE FEST The Proctor District (North 26th and Proctor, Tacoma) hosts its annual Chocolate Fest Oct. 4 and 5. Tickets are $5 and include chocolatier demonstrations and samples at participating businesses throughout the district. There will be a scavenger hunt with the chocolate challenge for fun prizes and a cupcake
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When three tenors get together, there’s a butt-slapping bravado going on that smells an awful lot like a men’s locker room full of sweat and testosterone. Get together three divas, individually incomparable singers of great accomplishment, and you’d probably have something like rapier-sharpened nails and French perfume. Put
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Autumn. I love the onset of the season. I do all the usual autumn stuff: dodge geysers in the middle of Schuster Parkway; chase a flying Buick in Puyallup; drive all over town looking for a movie house not completely packed with government employees. But most of all, I look
