Arts
An exhibition of art about food is a delightful concept -- lighthearted and lightweight. Most of the art in the "Food in Art" exhibition at Tacoma Community College consists of pop-style paintings of food, many of which are clever and funny, such as Diane Fairbanks' "Deception Pass Doughnut," a painting
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As Tater Tot and I enter the North Point Bar and Grill, we’re struck by the odor of booze, cigarettes, and cheap perfume. At first, I think my Aunt Hilda must be in the building, but then I realize that this is just the typical North Point smell, and yes,
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Thursday, June 7: Mountaineers Social Singles wine tasting, 7-9 p.m., Stadium Bistro, 204 St. Helen’s Ave., Tacoma, 253.683.4150. Friday, June 8-Saturday, June 9: Magnificent Malbec tasting, 5 p.m. to close, $10, Pairings, 3012 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.274.9463. Saturdays: Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101). n Tuesdays:
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It’s a real challenge to feel and look manly while guzzling out of a blue kiddie’s bucket with a yellow shovel as a swizzle stick. I’m sitting in The Rock Wood Fired Pizza & Spirits’ newest location in Federal Way listening to Led Zeppelin, and I’m surrounded by masculine bikers,
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THE LEGEND Hi Bob! (Drink!) Bob Newhart, the befuddled comic genius best remembered for his TV shows “The Bob Newhart Show” and, later, “Newhart,” strolls into the Pantages Theater Thursday to ma-ma-ma-make people laugh. The Jesuit-educated funnyman began his professional life as an accountant. So perfect. Newhart looks like an accountant. He
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It's back! The "Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational" at American Art Company. I used to look forward to it every year, and then they quit holding this show for about three years. Now it's back and more colorful than ever. And I mean that literally. Unless my
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Shake Shake Shake's sister store, Fish Fish Fish has been one of the most highly anticipated South Sound restaurant openings for some time now. Luckily, for those salivating in excitement as they zip by the 6th Ave. locale, the establishment is expected to open in just a few weeks, seriously.
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Poetry isn't for the weak. If an artist is looking for adulation and widespread accolade, poetry will probably never deliver. Poetry is thankless - at least when judging thanks by the usual response of mainstream America. That said, Collier Nogues is a poet worthy of your attention, even if you
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A few weeks ago we highly recommended a play about stamps (Mauritius). This week, we're back at it, throwing our weight behind The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a Tony award-winning musical taking to the Tacoma Little Theatre stage three weeks starting this Friday. Billed as, "tender and sardonic,"
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The Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright is a strange and mesmerizing play based on the true-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite and LGBTQ activist who survived the Nazis, lived through the East German Communist regime, and founded and ran not
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It's become a cliché to say this, but Georges Bizet's Carmen is an opera custom-made for people who say they don't like opera. It's an opéra comique -- a form in which choruses and arias are separated by spoken dialogue, ancestral to American-style musical theater -- based on a short
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It's back! The Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational at American Art Company. I used to look forward to it every year, and then they quit holding this show for about three years. Now it's back and more colorful than ever. And I mean that literally. Unless my memory is faulty,
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When it comes to finding live blues in Tacoma, there's rarely a better bet than Sunday night at the Spar in Old Town. This week, the Spar welcomes national touring blues act the Avey Brothers, best known near the Illinois-Iowa border but becoming a well known name in blues thanks
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You've seen the cover. You know this weekend brings the third annual Tacoma Craft Beer Festival. Your mouth is already watering at the thought of it. But even better - this year you have an opportunity to do a little paddling before you pound the brews. In conjunction with Metro
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DJs dAb and Chris Savenetti have helped shape the local DJ music scene since the days down at The Breeze — inspiring many house heads and fellow DJs. A walking encyclopedia of records, Tacoma club history and ’80s films, dAb and Savenetti are your favorite DJ’s favorite DJs. Not to
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MARCY PLAYGROUND >>> Thursday, Sept. 1 If you came of age, musically speaking, during a similar period in time as this hack writer, you're probably moderately familiar with the Marcy Playground story - or at least the band's "hit," the radio friendly "Sex and Candy." The song came from
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When one experiences life as a soldier, airman, sailor or Marine, he or she doesn't experience it alone. Friends, family members and sometimes even the community experiences the effects of military life along with the servicemember. Those parallel, collateral experiences are most often unacknowledged ... until now, that is. The
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I remember reading that the rapper Drake used the word "I" over 400 times on his debut album, in a kind of subliminal act of superhuman self-obsession. In the case of Oh Dear!, and the band's debut album, lead singer Brandon Sagnella may have set some sort of record for the
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David Boe's Tacoma City Council campaign get-togethers continue with a special Bowling For Boe event Thursday at Chalet Bowl in Tacoma's Proctor's District. Wearing the same shoe style as the public, Boe will shake hands, bend ears and pick up 7-10 splits just like Earl Anthony back in the day.
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Birding isn't something a person can just nonchalantly walk into. There are rules, and basic principles that must always be applied. Always! Rule number one of birding: never talk about birding. And so on ... Monday, a four-week "Birding Basics" class presented by Tahoma Audubon kicks off at the Tacoma
