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The Karpeles Manuscript Library was founded in 1983 by David and Marsha Karpeles, "who created the museum(s) to stimulate interest in learning, especially in our children," according to its website, which details the national network of history museums, including the one in Tacoma by Wright Park. In a nutshell, the
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For those who didn't attend February's Big Beer Festival at the Foss Waterway Seaport will receive another chance to see the remodeled space when the "Puget Sound's premier maritime heritage, education and event center" reopens to the public at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 11. After 18 months of closure for
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Think of all the things you could do in 72 hours. You could watch six installments of the Star Wars series five times. You could walk back and forth from Seattle to Tacoma approximately seven times. You could drive from Tacoma to Yellowstone National Park and back about six times
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72 hours is not a long time. The teams competing in this year's Grand Cinema 72 Hour Film Festival - a yearly Tacoma institution - know this all too well. Last weekend, frenzied packs of Tacoma filmmakers dashed around T-town, hurriedly capturing on film all the entries
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Why go on a beer run when you can participate in a beer walk. We don't know what that means, but we do know this: Downtown On the Go's Walk Tacoma tours are awesome, and Wednesday, May 15 local historian Michael Sullivan will lead the tour through Tacoma's Brewery District.
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The common interpretation of composer Susan Botti's Cosmosis is it tells the story of a science experiment. The PLU University Wind Ensemble and University Singers set the science-theme poetry of May Swenson to music, answering the question: Can a spider spin a web in space? The multi-discipline, three-part performance depicts
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Hilltop Artists is a nonprofit glass arts program created by the iconic Dale Chihuly designed to use "glass art to connect young people from diverse cultural and economic background to better futures." The program boasts more than 500 students a year, and each year its Spring Glass Sale acts as
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After a movie, most audiences pour our into the blinding sunlight only to eventually refocus on a gray parking lot, maybe the backside of a Dairy Queen and probably three ratty looking shrubs with Good & Plenty boxes wedged in their branches. Pop out of the Rainier Independent Film Festival
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The music that Future Bass residency produces falls into the glitch-hop/indie electroclash/heavy electro dance music category, and they have the talent and the know-how to push glitch-hop further than we knew it could go. Team Electro DJ Broam, Bobby Galaxy, Mr. Melanin (happy birthday!), Del Brown and Najamoniq will lay
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One Saturday this August, Music and Art in Wright Park will, once again, shake the lawn bowlers at Wright Park in Tacoma's Stadium District. What began in 1993 as an awesome outdoor rock concert is still an awesome outdoor rock concert, only now with more art. Last year 2,500 lounged
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BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan Tyack. 7:30 pm. Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Crazy Texas Gypsies Open Jam. 8 pm. Midtown Grill Bonney
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According to Glass Candy’s MySpace page, the band resides in Hustle Town, USA. By the sound of their beat, Hustle Town must be a pretty sexy place. In truth, Glass Candy calls Portland home, a city far hipper than it is sexy. But that’s not important. Glass Candy will be heading our
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According to Glass Candy’s MySpace page, the band resides in Hustle Town, USA. By the sound of their beat, Hustle Town must be a pretty sexy place. In truth, Glass Candy calls Portland home, a city far hipper than it is sexy. But that’s not important. Glass Candy will be heading our
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A wrinkle in timing I'm 25, and work in film and TV. Last year was my first year of consistent employment. I'm producing my first documentary, but I still have a long, brutal climb ahead. My girlfriend of a year is extremely pretty, kind, and smart, and has supported me in
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The ads would have you believe Fool’s Gold is pure rom-com, with two sunkissed alpha babes trading patter and pratfalls on their way to renewed love, but there is more to it than that. Oh, nothing intrusive like depth or character development — those would be about as welcome here
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Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights — Hollywood to the Heartland is a documentary that follows actor Vince Vaughn as he hosted four comedians on an old west variety show style comedy tour that traveled more than 6,000 miles while
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27 DRESSES: “Knocked Up” and “Grey’s Anatomy” star Katherine Heigl is a perennial bridesmaid whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. (PG) – BW Century Olympia: Fri-Thurs, Feb. 14 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10. Galaxy Tacoma 6: 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55.
