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Here's a list of South Sound visual artists to watch for in the coming months and years. File these names in memory, and when you hear that one of them is showing in an area gallery, check them out. 1. Jeremy Mangan: Winner of the 2009 Foundation of Art Award
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Great Waves is an awfully grandiose name for a young band - a band that, indeed, is young enough to compete in this year's EMP Sound Off! competition. Reflecting the grandiose name, Great Waves give titles to their songs like "The Moon and the Gutter" and "Konza Plains." In turn,
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WATCH IT SPARKLE Thursday, Feb. 18 Seattle's Watch It Sparkle is a goddamn mess. Seriously. A sweaty, slurry, falling down, down-and-out mess. And it's beautiful. Low-fi garage punk the way it was meant to be - with equal parts piss, vigor and relentlessness - the band is releasing a 7-inch and
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The history of Tacoma is one filled with unrealized dreams and plenty of disappointment. It's a history of grand visions, and usually not-so-grand realizations. It's a history of struggle, tastes of prosperity and silver linings. It's the history of an underdog. Where Sails Meet Rails. Before it was a band
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We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com On sale now Band of Skulls Seattle April 22
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Every week I make the long trek over the tide flats and up the hill to Twin Lakes/Federal Way. It's an enjoyable drive filled with sawmills, acres of new cars, scrap heaps and landscaping supplies. It's a hell of a lot better than strip malls and fast food joints
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So, you need a job. You've probably already realized you're not alone. Tuesday at the Tacoma Public Library, Robin Ryan, described as "one of the nation's leading career coaches," will offer several workshops designed to help you "develop and polish" your "job seeking skills." Chances are, after all, during the
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Starting Saturday and going into Sunday, our area's best high school wrestlers will converge on the Tacoma Dome for the WIAA Mat Classic - the yearly battle royale of Washington State high school wrestling. With studs in every weight class, and enough high school pep to make you gag -
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This was going to be a two part story, but the events leading up to - and just after - Mike Squires' life fearing flight from the Rock Rock bar in Japan are worth a third part epilogue. I went up to Seattle today and got the story straight from
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Kevin Powell may be the finest example of a human being ever to grace reality television. Of course, when Powell was a member of the very first Real World, the beast was nowhere near the depressing culture suck it is today. Powell went on to write for just about every
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New Phoebe House in Tacoma is dedicated to helping women right their lives - souls beaten down by life, addicted to substances, chronically homeless, uneducated, and/or just downright hopeless. It's an amazing thing, the way New Phoebe House snatches lives from the jaws of despair. Sunday at the Swiss, Junkyard
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New Phoebe House in Tacoma is dedicated to helping women right their lives - souls beaten down by life, addicted to substances, chronically homeless, uneducated, and/or just downright hopeless. It's an amazing thing, the way New Phoebe House snatches lives from the jaws of despair. Sunday at the Swiss, Junkyard
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Sustainability. It gets more important by the day. As a culture and society we simply can't go on living the way we have been. Permaculture is a "solutions-oriented approach to sustainable living," - and it'll likely play a roll in getting us out of the mess we've made. Friday, permaculture
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So what if you've already been there? It doesn't matter. The Speakeasy Arts Cooperative is celebrating its "grand opening" Thursday - during Third Thursday Artwalk - and you should totally be there. Voxxy Vallejo, Steven Bucklew and instigator Angela Jossy will provide music, Aaron Voronoff Trotter will paint, and the
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There are many different viewpoints when it comes to global warming. There are those who think that it is out of our hands and nothing can be done about it. There are people who think it’s all a bunch of hooey and it will never happen. There are those who
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COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Theo Von. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. David Leon & Scott Losse. 8:30 pm. $15. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. The FieldHands, Phil Royal. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC The
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Like the cat in Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, burlesque exists in a dual state of dialectical uncertainty. It both is and is not theatre. It is and is not performance art. It is and is not subject to criticism. Modern burlesque is both defiantly feminist and old-school objectification, simultaneously reflecting
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Power Patriot is an excellent example of what I like to think of as "heavy instrumental jazz." The album is jazz/rock/jam supergroup Garage A Trois' first album following the departure of Seattle eight string guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter. As a longtime Benevento fan, I personally rejoiced when I heard keyboard player
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Claudia Schmidt. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. BLUES Harmon Brewery and Eatery Tacoma - Downtown. Gray Sky Blues Festival Harmon Stage, with Fistful Of Dollars, The Mark Riley Trio, Maia Santell & House Blend, Jack Gaffney, Nolan Garrett. Noon to
