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It’s quite a shame that our nightlife fun always has to end at 2 a.m. Stupid rules. That’s why I firmly believe in always having a refrigerator with at least a case of beer. Girls like me are constantly prepared, like a quick draw in a Western standoff, because you just
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It’s quite a shame that our nightlife fun always has to end at 2 a.m. Stupid rules. That’s why I firmly believe in always having a refrigerator with at least a case of beer. Girls like me are constantly prepared, like a quick draw in a Western standoff, because you just
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It’s funny how life tends to give you exactly what you need, precisely when you need it. Case in point: I’d been feeling a little lost in the shuffle amongst the Dockyard Derby Dames as one of the rookie New Bruisers. Just as I was beginning to doubt my involvement, I received
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It’s funny how life tends to give you exactly what you need, precisely when you need it. Case in point: I’d been feeling a little lost in the shuffle amongst the Dockyard Derby Dames as one of the rookie New Bruisers. Just as I was beginning to doubt my involvement, I received
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Tanya Chapman is a fixture in the Tacoma bartending scene. I met Chapman at a Tacoma Beer Club gathering at the now defunct Stadium Bistro. She was pulling duty as TBC founder Steph DeRosa's sidekick, a position she held for years as documented in DeRosa's previous columns for this rag.
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This is the good stuff. Portland artist Jason Greene’s paintings of bottles and jars and bags at the new Black Front Gallery in Olympia. The show is called “Contain” because all of the paintings are of containers of one sort or another. But what these forms contain is virtuoso painting
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This is the good stuff. Portland artist Jason Greene’s paintings of bottles and jars and bags at the new Black Front Gallery in Olympia. The show is called “Contain” because all of the paintings are of containers of one sort or another. But what these forms contain is virtuoso painting
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The Dockyard Derby Dames (DyDD) is gearing up for its 8th season of jams, slams and thank-you ma'ams, with a double-header opening-night bout Saturday, Oct. 5 at Pierce College in Lakewood. In anticipation of the new season, we caught up with Bridgette Walker, team captain of the Marauding Mollys and head
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Seahawks fans, assemble! Now let's make sure we have everything: Tickets? Yep. Snacks? Check. Autograph book? (You never know) ... Got it. OK, good. Just one more question - Y'all ready for some film-ball? (confused silence) Come, come people ... this time of year stands for more than pigskins, touchdown wins and 12th
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Over the course of music history, there's been a strong contingent of bands making beautifully melodic pop music with a bit of an edge, but not enough of an edge to ever really get the attention they deserve. If guitars aren't being wrecked, people tend to take the music for
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Thursday, Jan. 25 SINGER/SONGWRITER 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
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Thursday, Jan. 25 SINGER/SONGWRITER 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
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St. Helen’s Café I’m pretty much a sure thing. Not in a hooker type of way, but when it comes to restaurant reviews, I can call ’em. So listen up, Tacoma. For months now I’ve heard tell of an up-and-coming fish and chips restaurant, or chippie, as they’re called in London.
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St. Helen’s Café I’m pretty much a sure thing. Not in a hooker type of way, but when it comes to restaurant reviews, I can call ’em. So listen up, Tacoma. For months now I’ve heard tell of an up-and-coming fish and chips restaurant, or chippie, as they’re called in London.
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To be honest, the Original Roadhouse Grill isn't really a roadhouse at all. A true roadhouse is a place on the outskirts of town that serves booze and food and often offers gambling and/or sex on the side. There's no evidence of such illicit goings-on here. Still, the League of
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To be honest, the Original Roadhouse Grill isn't really a roadhouse at all. A true roadhouse is a place on the outskirts of town that serves booze and food and often offers gambling and/or sex on the side. There's no evidence of such illicit goings-on here. Still, the League of
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[POST PUNK] + FRI, OCT. 4 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
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The Second Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition at the Fine Arts Center, South Puget Sound Community College, is far more consistent in quality than the first go-round last year. There’s nothing that really blows me away; it’s all rather typical modernist painting, sculpture and photography. But the overall quality is
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The Second Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition at the Fine Arts Center, South Puget Sound Community College, is far more consistent in quality than the first go-round last year. There’s nothing that really blows me away; it’s all rather typical modernist painting, sculpture and photography. But the overall quality is
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A plaintive e-mail was sent out over the Tacoma ListServe on New Year’s Eve, requesting the return of Lola to her family. Lola was stolen from the parking lot at Trader Joe’s on Dec. 30 while her owner was shopping. Lola is a family art car with decals covering
