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DEC. 13: CLASSICAL TUESDAYS WINE & SONG BENEFIT This year's Classical Tuesdays Wine & Song Benefit in Old Town Tacoma will feature "American Arias and songs from operas, musicals and movies," according to the press release. It will also - more importantly - feature soprano Christina Kowalski and tenor Gino Lucchetti
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Over the years album art has grown to crazy new heights. Conveying information about the band, or a sense of what the band might sound like, has more or less faded to the background in exchange (legitimately, in my opinion) for expressing something less clear about the band's spirit. It's
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Peter Serko's photography exhibition at the Museum of Glass artistically documents the brief history of the museum since 2006. It also shows different aspects of the building, and of the adjacent Chihuly Bridge of Glass, taken during different times of day throughout the seasons. Serko, who will be on hand
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Last year Weekly Volcano Publisher Pappi Swarner pounded some syrup, transformed into Buddy the Elf, and infamously acted as the tour guide for the Dec. 2010 installment of the Tacoma Third Thursday Art Walk Art Bus. Hilarity and art bus history ensued. Well guess what? Buddy
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Tacoma is a metal town. Always has been. Always will be. Period! Some folks say it's the weather, the water or the drugs, but I say it's in our blood. Like any other blue-collar town, Tacoma likes no-BS, aggressive, powerful music. This Saturday Infernal Region will release its newest full-length record
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In every issue of this fine rag my hack team of wannabe journalists and I tackle some of the most laughable criminal acts that have recently happened in our area. Then - if we're doing our job - we write about those crimes in a way that makes you chuckle,
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Like many of the best things in life, it started with a drive and an album blaring on a car stereo. It was the Cure’s first record, and Joshua Vega and Brooke Envy — long before they teamed up as the heart and soul of Tacoma’s Paris Spleen —
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For Staff Sgt. Christina Winter, joining the Army was for her the best decision she has ever made.“No doubt, the best thing I have every done,” said the noncommissioned officer (NCO) who serves in the Madigan Army Medical Center’s (MAMC) emergency room.“I grew up sheltered, and while serving my country
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It’s finally happening to me The thing I just had to believe It will be seven years in June I know my time is coming soon — Motopony, "June" A gray, blustery Tuesday afternoon. The Mad Hat Tea Company in downtown Tacoma is quiet, almost empty. When Daniel Blue
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Sgt. First Class Patrick McDonald serves his country as an Army Reservist. Three times he has left his civilian job as an assistant to the Washington secretary of state and deployed. His time deployed now stands at two and a half years. However, although he started working for the secretary
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JIMMY THACKERY Friday, Oct. 30 What exactly is Jazzbones these days? It’s the million-dollar question. Is it a DJ spot? A rowdy karaoke bar? A sushi joint? A poor man’s Masa? The next stop on the Girls Gone Wild world tour? Or an actual live music venue, you know — like
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Maxwell’s Speakeasy updated fall menu As the leaves fall and the weather changes, so do our cravings and the seasonal availability of produce. As soon as the scent of fireplaces permeates crisp air my desire for roots vegetables, grains and squashes goes through the roof. Maxwell’s Speakeasy & Lounge has
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Halloween terrifies us every year. We cower behind darkened doors, hoping the pint-size ghosts and goblins don’t smash our Halloween Superstore shit when they discover that we’re keeping the candy for ourselves. In your desperation to make it through Halloween, you probably completely forgot about Dia de los Muertos.
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Sushi has only entered my life within the last five years. This whole “raw fish” concept has rented out a space in my brain, and will most likely forever replace small memories of my family’s delicious southern cooking. Although I could never forget the grease-laden goodness of a deep fried
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Titles usually need to be short. Otherwise it should be called Art at Work and at Home and Where You Play Month. Art is everywhere in T-town for the month of November. Visual and performing art, parties, lectures, readings, exhibitions, Art Slam, classes and workshops, studio tours. And it all
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My dad is a huge fan of progressive rock. He’s very opinionated on the matter. On more than one occasion he’s admonished me for describing a band as “proggy,” or for trying to tell him about some new subgenre, i.e. post-rock — he says that something so unclassifiable that it
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There aren’t many cities willing to dedicate an entire month to art. Tacoma is one of the few, and it’s called Art at Work Month, which runs through November. This year will mark the eighth anniversary of Art at Work, which will showcase Tacoma talent via hundreds of community-hosted arts and
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It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki’s South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let’s get rolling. So, Hell’s Kitchen is moving downtown. Perhaps you’ve already heard. First broken on the blogosphere by everyone’s favorite Michael Turner (Atlanta Falcons running
