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Tacoma's first annual Tacoma Beer Week is mere moments away. Earlier this year, some of Tacoma's finest brewmasters joined forces to create a collaborative brew, which, at the time, was simply reported as a black IPA. We now know that this brewski has been given the moniker Tacoma's Neo Noir
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"Feeling crazy - like we are turned inside out - is the result of the brain and body trying to overcome the stimulation of those experiences. Breathing and thought processes change, sleep is disordered and interrupted, weight fluctuates, chemicals like testosterone are released at the slightest provocation, and the personality
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Hip-Hop 4 The Homeless will be held Saturday, Jan. 30, 4-10 p.m., at The Loft on Cherry in Olympia. It continues to thrive as an annual event that focuses on the increasing numbers of the homeless nation and raises food, clothing, resources and funding for the homeless and needy of
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May as well get this out of the way right now: TBASA is not an acronym. Rather, it's a sort of convenient mashup of one guy's name. Tim Basaraba is a restlessly inventive singer-songwriter, beginning his musical life in Idaho as a punk singer, and subtly merging into a genre-hopping
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May as well get this out of the way right now: TBASA is not an acronym. Rather, it's a sort of convenient mashup of one guy's name. Tim Basaraba is a restlessly inventive singer-songwriter, beginning his musical life in Idaho as a punk singer, and subtly merging into a genre-hopping
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Once your band has been together for a while, after you've worked up a bit of material, the next logical step is to put it all on record. But it's a big and kind of scary step. Even at relatively cheap studios, you're going to be throwing down a
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ON SALE NOW Mudhoney, Sleepy Sun Seattle Feb. 8 9 pm. Free ticket with purchase of a Fat Tire in Moe Bar (Neumos) Post Harbor CD release show Seattle Feb. 11 7 pm. $7 (Neumos, TW) See Me River, Blood Red Dancers Seattle Feb. 17 8 pm. $7 (Neumos, TW) Esperanza Spalding Seattle Feb.
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All Ages. 9 pm. $5. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andy Haynes. 8 pm. $15.
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I do believe hell has frozen over. Several signs seem to suggest it. Consider this. All of these things have recently happened: Al Gore won an Oscar. There’s a guy from the Smiths playing guitar with Modest Mouse, and the band debuted at
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The Kids Design Glass exhibition at Museum of Glass should not be reviewed in any critical way. It should, however, be applauded with gusto. This is a delightful show and a wonderful program. Sponsored by KeyBank /Key Foundation and the Muckleshoot Charity Fund, the program invites children 12 and younger
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As artists, we often cordon ourselves off from the world in the name of creativity. It's easy to do - to pass off our own, deeply ingrained alienation as some sort of heroic individualism. When contrasted against the sort of pap that passes itself as "community", or "leisure," the dandyism
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You've seen one. If you're lucky enough to have been psychoanalyzed at length, you may have seen plenty of them. A Rorschach Test. The inkblot thing - "Look at this image and tell me what you see, feel, sense. ..." A butterfly? A bullwhip? A butthole? A bag
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This southern girl has finally been conditioned to the Pacific Northwest. I no longer have the local suicide hotline on speed dial, and the carpet has started to perk back up in the corner where I used to curl up and cry for days on end. That being said, every
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Golden Bough. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$15. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday
Food Matters
FRIED CHICKEN DINNER TUESDAYS When choosing a place to eat Tuesday nights, I will stick to my New Year's resolution. Fortunately, my resolution is to eat more fried chicken, which is a pretty easy promise to keep.Pacific Grill has introduced Fried Chicken Dinner Tuesdays: wedge salad with blue cheese, Coca-Cola brined
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There will be a lot of lonely hearts this Valentine's Day in the South Sound area. With 18,000 soldiers deployed, that is a fair number of spouses, girlfriends, even boy friends without their loved ones to share the day of love. The Fort Lewis Ranger and Northwest Airlifter newspapers recognized the
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No matter how jaded I sometimes feel about music, there's always something that comes along and takes me completely by surprise. I think the last thing to have that effect on me was St. Vincent - known for jarringly jumping back and forth from pop to folk to crunchy space-funk.
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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. ...Bobble Tiki has never been called a minimalist. He's been called lazy, unproductive, uninspired, unmotivated and unbecoming to Tikis everywhere, but no
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BLAZING ONIONWhere: 4701 Point Fosdick Drive N.W., Gig Harbor, 253.514.6703 Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. dailyCuisine: American diner fare on steroids Scene: Casual, order-at-the-counter, family-friendly dining room and 21+ bar area with table serviceDrinkies: Microbrews, wine, bottled beer, cocktails. Fountain, Henry Weinhard's and Jones sodas, Citavo organic coffeeDamage: $2.99-$14.99ANNOUNCER: Lit up
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Nick, a young man living in New York, is torn: Since his parents moved to Florida, he is the only remaining relative of his maternal and paternal grandparents. Every week they all get together for a big Sunday Italian dinner ... but this particular Sunday, Nick has an announcement. Nick
