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The North End of Tacoma has its own very special aura. It has a quaint upper scale, artsy vibe with its well-built older homes and manicured lawns that seem to say, “We are successful and established here.” As if it were pre-planned by some city official, Proctor District has just
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Coffee and Rhetoric is an interactive, live talk show where the community is invited to discuss issues that affect them in a no-holds-barred environment. The discussions take place on the 4th Thursday of the month at Cutters Point Coffee shop, next door to UrbanXchange on Pacific Avenue downtown Tacoma. The
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It’s time for falling prices (but not for long!) The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, the unofficial mark of the end of summer for me, is in full swing, but only until Aug. 6, at which point all the sale tags will be unceremoniously yanked off the clothing items, and the bigger numbers
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When he was in Tacoma doing estate sales, Kelly Hughes says he was “inspired by the development” that he saw here. He moved back to Seattle, but remained intrigued by happenings in the south end, and though about putting his background — broadcasting — to good use in building a
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Kill your “this one time in band camp” jokes. The Tacoma Concert Band was up to none of those “American Pie” shenanigans when they recently embarked on their tour of the French Riviera to wow the crowds with the professional sounds of the volunteer ensemble. For one, they’re too old
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On sale now Switches, The Catch Seattle. Aug. 10 (all ages) 6 pm. $8-$10 (Chop Suey, TW). Eddie Izzard Seattle. Aug. 11-12 8 pm. $50 (Seattle Repertory Theatre, 206.443.2222). Geezerfest 2007 with Blood Circus, Catbutt, Swallow, Coffin Break, Love Battery, Snow Bud & The Flower People, RC5, Green Pajamas, Valis, From The North,
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These guys evoke memories of sitting in front of the console stereo spinning 45s when I was just a wee lad. Yes, I was a music geek as early as age 5. You might know songs like “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” and “Crimson and Clover” as ’80s
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Friday, Aug. 3 JAZZ KVH I love it when truly gifted musicians join forces to form a band. All gifted and respected players in their own right, Northwest keyboard extraordinaire Wayne Horvitz, New York saxophonist Briggan Krauss and Vancouver, B.C., percussionist Dylan Van der Schyff have done just that for a project
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This week’s column I believe will really hit home for those of us in the hospitality industry. Strange things happen on a day-to-day basis that defy common sense and it never ceases to amaze me how clueless some people can be. I don’t mean this in a general sense because
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Last "Beauty" It\'s the last weekend for South Sound audiences to see “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast" at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. The show runs 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; Narrows Theatre, 7116 Sixth Ave., Tacoma; $16-$23; 253-565-6867, www.tmp.org. "Twelfth Night" Works by William Shakespeare are in full steam these
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The evening of July 28, smack dab in between summer and fall, brought a bevy of beauties, cuties, and booties to the artists’ live/workspace known as the warehouse. And the Midsummer Soiree, thrown by many of the female masterminds who brought Tacoma Eyefull last winter and the reason behind the assemblage
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One of two things invariably happens to you after your stylist gets hold of you. Either you walk away from the chair sticky and funky, with a coif so sky-high that your hands itch to wash it and kill the evidence of the bad style, or you walk out of
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RobKat shows his sentimental artist style with pieces that have a comfortable cool aesthetic. The shirt he’s wearing is a vintage seventies synthetic-fiber (my guess? Polyester) button-up featuring bike racing (my guess? Greg Lemond is the dude on the bike). His distinctive trousers — definitely NOT Hammer pants — came from a
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Words can in no way express how delighted I am to be the first to alert you on the following piece of nightlife development in Tacoma. Harry’s Place, located at 3529 McKinley Ave., has closed, and new ownership of the building and the business has taken over. The new proprietor? It’s none
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This is were all of my journalistic integrity goes out the window and is replaced by a father\\\'s pride. My daughter is making her theater debut this week. It\\\'s a bit part with no lines of her own, but she has a lot of background stage time so that makes excited.
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Thursday, Aug. 2: Wine 100: Basics of Enjoying Wine, 7:30 p.m., $89 pre-register, Water to Wine, 9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor, 253.851.2424. Thursday, Aug. 2: Tacoma Singles Wine Tasting, 7-9 p.m., Winfield’s, 503 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.238.1030. Friday, Aug. 3-Saturday, Aug. 4: Smorgasbord wine tasting, 6 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. Saturday, $5,
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“Mining Glass” at the Museum of Glass features installations by eight contemporary glass artists. Some are great, some are interesting but unexciting, and some are just boring. The big disappointment is Maya Lin, one of the most exciting and intelligent artists working in America today. Lin is the creator of the
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THE BOOKS Page Ahead I could make jokes about how you never read anymore. But that’s just not true. You do. TV Guide doesn’t read itself, you know. Plus you have to figure out that little graph thingy with the channels and times — not to mention the plot summaries. However, I
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When summer hits I undergo a visible transformation into a festival-frolicking female. The rest of my weekends this summer are booked with them, but there’s one in particular that changes me more than the rest. Hotrod-a-rama. As a matter of fact, this annual powerhouse festivity does a little something to everyone, and it
