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The latest location for the Original Roadhouse Grill is a killer. It's in the Federal Way retail bottleneck, at the back of some plaza that sits like a box canyon; shoppers, diners, and moviegoers alike all funnel into this zone off 320th and Highway 99, half blind from wholesale excess,
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On sale now Daughtry Seattle. Feb. 6 (all ages) 8 pm. $20 (Neumo’s, TW). Shemekia Copeland Seattle. Feb. 8-10 7:30 and 9:30 pm, Feb. 11 7:30 pm. $23.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). “Tribute To Buddy Holly” Seattle. Feb. 13-March 4. $20-$73 (5th Avenue Theatre, 206.625.1900). Ernestine Anderson, Houston Person Seattle. Feb. 14 7:30 and 9:30
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On sale now Daughtry Seattle. Feb. 6 (all ages) 8 pm. $20 (Neumo’s, TW). Shemekia Copeland Seattle. Feb. 8-10 7:30 and 9:30 pm, Feb. 11 7:30 pm. $23.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). “Tribute To Buddy Holly” Seattle. Feb. 13-March 4. $20-$73 (5th Avenue Theatre, 206.625.1900). Ernestine Anderson, Houston Person Seattle. Feb. 14 7:30 and 9:30
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Anyone who pushes the boundaries while successfully creating her own distinctive sound is all right in my book — and the weirder the better. Self-described as dark jazz roots music, Myshkin is one artist who gets a high recommendation from me. With a moody timbre, the New Orleans native draws
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Anyone who pushes the boundaries while successfully creating her own distinctive sound is all right in my book — and the weirder the better. Self-described as dark jazz roots music, Myshkin is one artist who gets a high recommendation from me. With a moody timbre, the New Orleans native draws
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You know it’s a good start to the week when you get to kick it into gear with an exclusive event. Last Monday was the Doyle’s holiday employee appreciation party, and everyone’s favorite Doyle’s ambassador, Russ, was kind enough to take me as his date. However, I do realize that he’s
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You know it’s a good start to the week when you get to kick it into gear with an exclusive event. Last Monday was the Doyle’s holiday employee appreciation party, and everyone’s favorite Doyle’s ambassador, Russ, was kind enough to take me as his date. However, I do realize that he’s
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Evan Purcell’s new CD, Attachments, was scheduled to be released last month at Shakabrah Java, but alas, it was not meant to be. Tacoma’s longtime favorite acoustic music venue decided to be a little less shaka and a little more java and cancelled all of its music performances. But Sixth
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Evan Purcell’s new CD, Attachments, was scheduled to be released last month at Shakabrah Java, but alas, it was not meant to be. Tacoma’s longtime favorite acoustic music venue decided to be a little less shaka and a little more java and cancelled all of its music performances. But Sixth
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Usually, when I write about house parties, I’m not talking about music and there’s a member of Top Heavy Crush involved. Usually, when I write about house parties, it’s something about who diddled who in the hot tub, who showed up with herbal jazz cigarettes, and who drank so much
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Usually, when I write about house parties, I’m not talking about music and there’s a member of Top Heavy Crush involved. Usually, when I write about house parties, it’s something about who diddled who in the hot tub, who showed up with herbal jazz cigarettes, and who drank so much
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blackberry bushes In Olympia, girls like to do things their way. Since the early ’90s punk rock girls and Washington’s state capital have walked hand in hand down the independent music highway. But the self-reliant female energy from punk music radiated into other things. In 2004, three friends noted that in
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blackberry bushes In Olympia, girls like to do things their way. Since the early ’90s punk rock girls and Washington’s state capital have walked hand in hand down the independent music highway. But the self-reliant female energy from punk music radiated into other things. In 2004, three friends noted that in
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His mother was supposedly rushed out of a James Brown concert to give birth to him. That could be why, in one of his poems, Saul Williams says, “At that concert he sang, ‘Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud,’ and that shit came out in my bloodstream.” On
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His mother was supposedly rushed out of a James Brown concert to give birth to him. That could be why, in one of his poems, Saul Williams says, “At that concert he sang, ‘Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud,’ and that shit came out in my bloodstream.” On
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This fall, the United Service Organizations (USO) will say a special thank you to one of Joint Base Lewis-McChord's very own. This year, Sgt. Craig D. Warfle of the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, has been selected as the USO's 2013 Soldier of the Year. The USO will recognize Warfle and
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The 71 drawings in Marilyn Frasca's "Like This" at Childhood's End are stunning. It is an exhibition of drawings done since 2001. All of the drawings are done with pastel or other media drawn into monoprints. Each picture tells a story, be it the story of Squaxin Indians recreating an
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The 71 drawings in Marilyn Frasca's "Like This" at Childhood's End are stunning. It is an exhibition of drawings done since 2001. All of the drawings are done with pastel or other media drawn into monoprints. Each picture tells a story, be it the story of Squaxin Indians
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The first thing that has to be said about Henry V is it wasn't the first thing that had to be said. That's because it isn't a sequel, it's a fourquel, expanding on characters who first appear in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Luckily, as
