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I confess: I play favorites. I review my favorite galleries over and over again while ignoring many others. That’s because I’m old and jaded. I’ve been around too long to subject myself to reworked Americana and calendar art and amateurish offerings of whatever stripe. This week I revisited one of my
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You have four weeks to party in a dance club with $4 Jägerbombs, smokin’ hot cage dancers, and crazies juggling fire balls, and then the DJ/freak show will disappear. It’s been ages since I’ve gotten my groove on, but back in the day my weekends were spent swinging between dance
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If they had to remake “Rear Window” — and it was inevitable — this is the way to do it: with an appealingly sullen teen hero, lots of nifty surveillance gadgets in place of James Stewart’s telephoto lens, and a romantic interest who looks like Gisele Bundchen’s younger sister. This
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Just when you thought “The Reaping” was the most convoluted and overwrought flashback-riddled thriller starring an Academy Award-winning actress in theaters, along comes “Perfect Stranger.” With her Oscar for “Monster’s Ball” fading fast in the rearview mirror, Halle Berry continues her string of earnest but mostly sub-par performances in mostly bad
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Aqua Teen Hunder Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters The creators of the television comedy use the big screen to reveal the secret origins of characters Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. Rated R for crude and sexual humor, violent images and language. – Bill White The Host A horror thriller, a political satire,
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Friday ROCK dirty bird A short visit to urbandictionary.com’s definitions of “dirty bird” tells me that this simple phrase means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. One thing is for sure, it’s a popular band name. A quick Google pulled up six bands with the same or
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It has to be rough to be the sibling of a legend, and may very well be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, musicians such as Sean Lennon, Jakob Dylan and Jason Bonham might have found it easy to get a recording contract, but the ever-looming comparisons with their
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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 Joyce, Dori Caymmi Seattle. May 1 7:30 pm. $22.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). Pretty Ricky, Meat N Bones, Butter Cream, 2XL Seattle. May 1 (all ages) 8 pm. $32 (Neumo’s, TW). Wallace Roney Sextet
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Every Sunday morning a crowd huddles around Bobble Tiki in a downtown Tacoma condo elevator (Bobble Tiki rather not get into it), waiting to push into a claustrophobic container. Nearby, a door leads to another option: a stairway. Nobody opens that door. But later that day, at the YMCA, these same
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When I first heard Lula LaFever I had no idea it was her burning up the fret board and was blown away by her tight riffs and red hot solos. A versatile artist, LaFever effortlessly bounces between light to jump jazz, sizzling blues, and rock and roll. No stranger to
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In the fall of 2002, two buskers met for the first time on Broadway Street in Seattle. Both were performing in order to raise money. Felicia Figueroa, originally from Arizona, was touring the country with her dog Tobin, and she was singing on the street corner to raise money to
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I’m sorry. I don’t have a well-written, well-conceived intro for this week’s column. I know you’ve probably come to expect nothing less than journalistic excellence from me, but I’m afraid, my friends, this week you get less. Perhaps shattering the illusion will be a good thing. Crash! I can’t be golden all
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We wandered door-to-door on that third Thursday in October, card in hand, a sort of trick or treat for Unicef minus the Unicef boxes, minus change from the individuals who rewarded our presence with samplings of wine. It was a surreal night downtown, with haphazard and uber-friendly crowds wandering from point
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Changes afoot on our favorite little Tacoma street of antiques and other hidden treasures. While the prospect of a south-bound one-way street on the St. Helens side of the Bostwick building has been announced as a potential improvement, it would appear that at least two merchants are set to close
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This past week I made my way out to downtown Tacoma to check out the boutiques. As this rag has stated many times — urbanXchange rules. I love everything in this store, from the vintage clothing to the brand names. The clothing was very different than what I would wear
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Northwest Salon and Spa worker bees Corinna Canfield and Stephanie Benson may look like they spend hours shopping for clothes and making-up, but in point of fact, Canfield confesses to putting on her makeup in her car. The salon carries Canfield and Benson’s brand — Youngblood, and also serves as the
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I have shopper’s ADHD. I flit, butterfly-like, from point to point. At the most fabulous shop I’ve just discovered, I find the shopper’s ADHD to be worse. Things, things, wonderful cool things: retro fun dresses, new but with pin-up girl styling, fabulous skirts, sizes from super small to 1X, baby clothes,
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Extensions, braids, fabulously elaborate bridal up-dos: many of these styles borrow from African-American Hair Artistry, which arguably began when Madam C.J. Walker invented products that, ironically, sought to emulate the straightened “Suzie Caucasian” hair. Years later, after the likes of the Supremes, Patti LaBelle, and others were coiffed with pieces
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OK. Tacoma, it’s time to get global. A group of local visionaries is going to make it easy by presenting the first ever World Affairs Summit April 19-21 at various locations throughout our burgeoning little burg. Organizers promise a series of compelling conversations with local and regional globetrotters, culture hounds and
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Holy coffee shops batgirl! If I see another Starbucks or Tully’s, I’m promptly moving back to Ohio. But people around the world are ditching their morning cup of joe for its herbal alternative. Although I’m not a big fan of hot beverages, unless it’s chocolate, I admit that the health
