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Metro Parks and the "Friends of McKinley Park" organization have joined together in hopes of cleaning up and revitalizing Tacoma's McKinley Park, nearly 27 acres of green that runs along Interstate 5 across from the Tacoma Dome. On Saturday, they'll host one of many upcoming "McKinley Park Cleanup Work Parties"
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First and foremost, we've raved about Brooklyn Pool before. We may have been calling the band "Former Foxes" at the time, or even "As Far as Foxes Go" or "Bearfeat" - but that's just because they were too. We've evolved as they've evolved - and now that the band is
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Almost two years ago I attended a free concert in People's Park. There, along with a modest crowd of polite audience members, I listened while several delightful folk bands sang loudly and without microphone. The show culminated in Kimya Dawson performing while sitting on the steps with the audience, my
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Roman Holiday is a band that begs to be seen live. It dares you, song after song, to sing along and raise a lighter. There's not a single moment in any of Roman Holiday's songs that suggests a band that's resting on its laurels. Every build-up is tight and suspenseful,
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Orchestras are fucking big, which is why it takes a certain amount of balls to reference one in your band name - unless, of course, you're being ironic. And chances are, that's what you're doing - especially if you're still wearing that godforsaken "KISS ME I'M IRISH" shirt you scored
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EMPTY SPACE ORCHESTRA >>>Thursday, Jan. 14Orchestras are fucking big, which is why it takes a certain amount of balls to reference one in your band name - unless, of course, you're being ironic. And chances are, that's what you're doing - especially if you're still wearing that godforsaken "KISS ME
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What do you get when you cross Top Foods with the Dollar Store, Big Lots, Cash and Carry, Metropolitan Market and that weird little convenience store with bars on the windows? I bet you are wondering what I’m smoking as I write, but really there is such a store and
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No matter what type of car you own, whether domestic or foreign, truck or sedan, old or new, it will need oil changes. With all the competition out there, it's tough to know where to drive your business. Below is a list of local shops that offer the best deals,
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Thursday Dyslexia 33 Perhaps one of the most prolific lines ever written for the silver screen was when Woody Allen said, “Comedy equals tragedy plus time.” I dig bands that use this as their mantra and don’t take life quite so seriously. With tongues firmly implanted in cheeks, Dyslexia 33 use life’s
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The name Clumsy Lovers has nothing to do with accidental intercourse or sloppy bedroom technique; it came from a song written for bagpipes. You thought it was something else? Chris Jonat, bass player and main songwriter of Clumsy Lovers, explains, “When we first started, we had a piper in the
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Jamie Lee and Company has been an established business for 12 years, but it’s not the kind of salon where the atmosphere is homogenized and bland. Bright walls serve as a backdrop for cool art, with plants and rainbows bursting through with vibrancy. Equally vibrant, each stylists’ station is personalized: Eric has
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Photographer Jim Oliver has hung 40 mixed-bag photographic masterworks for your enjoyment at the Tahoma Center Gallery. The loose collection of images under the title The Follies Return will range from the impressionistic to film noir to works influenced by Ansel Adams. Some have that lovely soft glow, others will
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Thursday, Jan. 14Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215.Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020.Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum
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WINTER BREWERS DINNERSalty’s At Redondo Beach and Widmer Brothers Brewing Company present a Winter Brewers Dinner Friday, Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m. The menu will be a collaboration of Chef Gabriel Cabrera's cuisine and Beverage Manager Scott McDowell's palate for pairing. They will discuss how and why they selected each
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Synesthesia I Smell Trouble: Typically, during karaoke nights, I grow listless and disillusioned leafing through song list after song list of wussified rubbish. My stomach churns every time I hear "More Than Words." However, I don't have the singing chops to rectify the situation.Do you?The D.A.S.H. Center for the Arts will
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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) - Awards and decorations officials at the Air Force Personnel Center here are seeking nominations for the 61st Annual William A. Jump Memorial Award. The annual award recognizes a federal employee for his or her outstanding service in administration and notable contributions to the efficiency
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WASHINGTON (AFNS) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a new state initiative to better help returning combat veterans land jobs and get whatever assistance they need to secure housing, health care and other veterans' services. The governor unveiled the Operation Welcome Home outreach campaign during his State of the State
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Growing up an only child in a house with two working parents, there were times when Joan Brown felt very lonely. It's a problem she doesn't have anymore. Life as an Air Force spouse and the more than 20 moves throughout the world have brought so many friends into the fold that
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When the McChord Air Museum rolls its latest completed restoration project, a B-18 Bolo, out of the restoration hangar and to its permanent location on Heritage Hill, it may bring tears of sadness to some sets of eyes. For the last 22 years, a group of nearly 30 museum volunteers have
