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Poet Lucia Perillo will be in the house for PLU English Department's Visiting Writers Series Thursday inside the Garfield Book Company. In truth, though, Perillo won't be traveling very far - she lives in Olympia. But Perillo's travel is beside the point. An accomplished author, Perillo's poetry has made her
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The Intermittent Health And Fitness Club, or IHAF, combines their gym-class glory days with a night of exercise. Titled "Recess," IHAF offers up Double Dutch, four square and hopscotch - or as they call it "our ridiculous way to get fit" - inside King's Books. These minimally challenging games
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Dan Nelson, the artist responsible for the book All Known Metal Bands - 300 something pages filled with an alphabetical list of every single metal band of all time (up until the book's 2007 publication) - is genius. Seriously. We don't use the word anywhere near as loosely as the
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We once saw a chick puke up a bunch of P-Diddy's vodka. It didn't look very hot. Friday at Hell's Kitchen, however, Queensryche guitarist Michael Wilton will be shilling his new Whip Ale billed as "bold," "rich," and "aromatic." With a musical lineup including Atomic Outlaws and Wide Eye Panic,
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For a fiddler, or Celtic violinist, Jamie Laval is as busy as they come. A practitioner of traditional music of Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Quebec - Laval has been heaped in praise for his "passionate" and even "romantic" style of performing. From what we understand, actually, the performance is where
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To Mike Squires, Zakk Wylde is a true guitar hero - as much as any living player. This was Mike's first trip to Japan, and he had only been playing in Loaded for a few months - there hadn't been an abundance of run-ins with the likes of a Zakk
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The corner of South 38th and South G streets has been home to many businesses over the years; the most recent past saw a Philly sandwich shop. Signs on the windows now promise Zocalo Mexican Restaurant and Bakery will be the next inhabitant. Yes, a Mexican bakery. Will that mean pan
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Created in 2006 as a three-piece, Song Sparrow Research originally cut its teeth as just that - a band exploring the rock based possibilities of a three person, drum, bass, guitar trio. Over time, however, and as is usually the case - interests fluctuated, and new sounds emerged. These days
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To be brutally honest, Bobble Tiki was happy back in the days when he knew the names of the restaurants, not the chefs. There’s no shame in a hard-working hash slinger staying at the stove and off the Food Network. But instead of humble cooks, Bobble Tiki is confronted with
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As your personal Tacoma cruise director, in a non-Julie McCoy sort of way, I’m required to draw your attention to the best lunch spot in this city because after a full night of partying, a girl’s gotta eat. However, the place that I’m about to bring you to is so cool
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Do you remember your first trip to Tacoma? Your impressions? The sensation in your gut? The things you saw and the way this place made you feel? Blinded by the Hilltop hysteria of the time, of course, I remember my first trip to Tacoma. There was the Aroma, naturally, and also
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Ah, The Vanity Show. What chutzpah! Art on Center owners C.J. Swanson and David N. Goldberg are showing their own paintings to mark the gallery’s second anniversary. This exhibition is an update on Art on Center’s premiere show two years ago, which is especially appropriate since this is slated to
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Have you seen Hated? It's the great documentary about the completely incomprehensible G.G. Allin, and it features such notorious performances as the one where he unbelievably gets to perform at NYU and responds by inserting a banana into his ass onstage and throwing chairs at the audience. Who knows why
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L'Orchidée d'Hawaï is a French band, and, as such, it's hard to tell when they're kidding. Their songs bounce back and forth from surf rock, to spacey jams, to Japanese pop. You know what? They really seem into Asian culture. One song - "Bangkok 1997" - is precisely what I
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The promotional posters for the Taj Mahal Trio's upcoming show at the Capitol Theater in Oly call Taj a "Grammy winning blues master." Truer words have never been spoken. Of course, the Grammy award is a verifiable, checkable, Google-able fact - but the "blues master" part, I suppose, is open
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My friend's band once bought a baby blue Ford conversion van that previously belonged to Thrones, a.k.a. Joe Preston. Inside was tour garbage, flat tires and a picture of Preston lounging on a saggy couch, orange ‘70s afghan thrown across his lap, a peaceful looking cat snuggled up against him.
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THRONES >>> Friday, Feb. 26 My friend's band once bought a baby blue Ford conversion van that previously belonged to Thrones, a.k.a. Joe Preston. Inside was tour garbage, flat tires and a picture of Preston lounging on a saggy couch, orange ‘70s afghan thrown across his lap, a peaceful looking cat snuggled
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Western Ghost House is yet another band that straddles the middle ground between indie rock and country, enriching and expanding both. I'm hesitant to call it alt-country, which is an awfully loaded word. The band plays as if trying to replicate the sounds of people like Townes Van Zandt, but
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Western Ghost House is yet another band that straddles the middle ground between indie rock and country, enriching and expanding both. I'm hesitant to call it alt-country, which is an awfully loaded word. The band plays as if trying to replicate the sounds of people like Townes Van Zandt, but
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Some books become excellent films. Take Jaws or The Godfather, for instance. Best-selling novels, both, turned into blockbusters. Some books spawn lousy film versions. Among the entries in this large category are: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the 2001 Planet of the Apes remake, Roberto Benigni's version of Pinocchio, and
