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The United States of America, as a nation, is perhaps the most charitable in the history of the world. Despite its flaws, the philanthropy that flows from our country is unmatched. Our country is full of folks just itching to pitch in and do their part to help their fellow
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The Whiz: Cascadia, hitting Tacoma and the Pantages Theater Saturday, is said to celebrate "urban subcultures by showcasing an array of different dance, performance, and musical styles from hip-hop to funk, postmodern to drag and contemporary to psychedelic." With choreography by Nicholas Leichter and a score by Monstah Black, we're
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If you haven't been to a Dockyard Derby Dames bout yet, or any sort of roller derby, from the national champion Oly Rollers to the upstart Toxic 253, you officially suck. There, we said it. The good news is you can redeem yourself Saturday as the Derby Dames return to
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Agent Orange is old, and so are you. You listened to them on a boombox, right? A real boombox, about the size of a microwave. A boombox in the parking lot of the bank where you went to skate on real skateboards, boards with trucks no wider than your fist. That boombox was
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There is no formula for creating an iconic image of an age or event. Certain images simply touch a nerve. Such is the case with Norman Rockwell's painting of 6-year-old Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz Public School in New Orleans in 1960. It was not
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If the history of the Olympia Comics Festival were told in funny book form, this year would be its splash panel. Whether you know what that sentence meant or not, the folks at Danger Room Comics think this it's time you dropped by. "This is our 10th year," says Executive Director
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In Laura Numeroff's 1985 social treatise If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, she uses the analogy of a mouse to illustrate the dangers of welfare. If you give a mouse a cookie, she warns, he'll want milk. And once he has milk, he'll want a place to sleep. Soon
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Bread & Circuses make lyric-heavy songs that generally tell a story, and many times lead singer and songwriter Marcus Buser allows himself to be the de facto bad guy in his own tales. "I'm very OK with not being the hero," says Buser. "In fact, a lot of
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STRIKE ONE Sure, I've been known to complain this time of year about the lack of sports excitement - no football, bloated NBA playoffs, Canadians on skates for NHL teams in Nashville and 120 games left of the Major League Baseball season. There's no denying it's slow going out there. Of course,
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The notion of an unreliable narrator is a classic tool utilized by storywriters and songwriters alike. This idea-that you would doubt the validity of the claims being made by the only person who has a direct line to your mind-is endlessly intriguing. Of course, most of the time the narrator
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In Laura Numeroff's 1985 social treatise If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, she uses the analogy of a mouse to illustrate the dangers of welfare. If you give a mouse a cookie, she warns, he'll want milk. And once he has milk, he'll want a place to sleep. Soon
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In many ways, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead is exactly what it promises to be, a juvenile parody of Charles Schulz's beloved Peanuts comic strip and characters. Imagine You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as rewritten by Kevin Smith. It's undeniably hilarious, even as it goes to
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Macau Casino Restaurant Where: 9811 South Tacoma Way, Lakewood, 253.983.1777 Hours: Open 24 hours a day except 7- 11 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Happy Hour is daily from 4-7 p.m. and 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Cuisine: Chinese, Thai, and American. Scene: Sparsely decorated dining area occupied mostly by guys in loafers, pleated
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You never know what you're going to find at a garage sale, from antique lamps to half-used bottles of hand lotion. But at the Artists' Garage Sale you do know whatever you find will be art-related. The Artists' Garage Sale was originally launched by the City of Olympia and co-produced
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Joe Feddersen, of Colville heritage from Omak and an art teacher at The Evergreen State College, is best known as a printmaker, but also makes baskets, glass art and sculpture. In the current show at B2, Coyote Forward (also featuring prominent Native American artists Gail Tremblay, Lillian Pitt and up-and-comer
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If the history of the Olympia Comics Festival were told in funny book form, this year would be its splash panel.Whether you know what that sentence meant or not, the folks at Danger Room Comics think this it's time you dropped by. "This is our 10th year," says Executive Director
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A handful of local artists are suddenly out of luck as property owners in downtown Tacoma have announced they will stop participating in a program that provided artists with free studio and gallery space. You've likely already seen some of the fruits of the program known as Spaceworks Tacoma -
