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The past few years have been exciting ones for certain graduates of the Tacoma School of the Arts: members of a SOTA music collective called Dear Records. Alumni of Dear Records include Brad Oberhofer (of Oberhofer, you know?), Molly Hamilton (of Pitchfork-approved Widowspeak), Colin Scott Reynolds (I Low, Watermelon Sugar,
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Jasmine Meredith spends nearly every afternoon working at the Teen Zone on Joint Base Lewis-McChord. But the Lakes High School freshman,14, doesn't get paid - she does it all as a volunteer. For her dedication to volunteering and efforts last year, Jasmine was recently selected as the 2014 Boys and Girls
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COFFEE CHAT B Sharp Coffee House (706 Opera Alley, Tacoma) serves up delightful concoctions of the roasted bean and encourages enlightened coffee consumption with its coffee tasting events. At 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb 8. B Sharp will demonstrate what happens to single-origin beans along their journey to perfection. Increase your bean
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San Francisco trio Balms do shoegaze right. Their songs are positively drenched with murk - the sort of cloudy texture that'd make you just a little more buoyant if you found yourself swimming in the stuff. The vocals trail off and bleed into one another, punctuated by the occasional angular
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Peter Serko's production of "My Brother Kissed Mark Zuckerberg" at Dukesbay Theatre reminds us that AIDS is still with us. It also reminds us that boundless familial love is still possible. During the most devastating days of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s local photographer Peter Serko found out his
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Last November, La Luz were driving along in their tour van when they hit a patch of black ice that sent them skidding into a concrete block. While waiting for AAA to come, a semi-truck came barreling into their van. It was a terrifying and destructive blip in the middle
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude. 8 pm. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All
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Green Drinks welcomes you to meet new people and discuss environmental issues over happy hour. Happy hour for environmentalists. It's a beautiful thing. Green Drinks Tacoma rides into the Tacoma Cabana Thursday. That's right, brah, and the folks from the South Sound chapter of Surfrider will be under the thatched
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Pantages Theater Tacoma - Downtown. Masters Of Scottish Arts: Celtic Pipers, Drummers, Fiddlers & Dancers. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $30-$45. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Fingertips. 9 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Hambone Blues Band. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy
