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Every other month at the 100th Monkey Party there is a drawing, and the winner becomes the honored 100th Monkey at the next artist community critical mass party. The rules are simple: bring food and drink to share and introduce yourself to at least three people you’ve never met before.
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Being single is a choice. For me, it’s a very good choice, and it’s one that Natasha and I have decided we’re sticking to for the good of the order. I think it’s interesting that so many people spend their time trying to figure out what’s wrong with me since I’m not
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Normally on weekdays I stick to my guns so I can continue to churn out amazing accomplishments at my above-ground professional job. But this fine rag, my nightlife investigations, along with an ever-evolving city, has been keeping me underground all week long lately. I don’t mind, though, because I’m too young to
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There were no pompadour-coiffed hipsters present at the Rosewood Café Monday night. Instead, laid-back friends sat back to enjoy half-priced wine, hearty food (bacon blue cheese salad, num!) and conversation. The group of retro-bike (no lycra or titanium allowed!) riding chums meets at 6:30 p.m. on fair-weather Mondays at the UPS
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As a five-minute film at the 72 Hour Film Competition last Thursday, “Strander” stood out. Unlike most of the other film festival participants, “Strander” was not a lighthearted frolic. “I’m always striving to do something new and unique,” explained lab-worker by day Richard Acosta, who wrote and directed the movie
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Bob Gillis’ maturity is showing in his mini-retrospective, “Work After 70 Years,” at Art House Designs in Olympia. I’ve followed his progress over an almost 20-year period, and his latest works are the strongest yet. Gillis has always done wonderful things with intricately textured surfaces. His earlier works were all about
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Black Book Tragic love story set in wartime Holland as a young Resistance fighter uses her intelligence and sexuality to seduce a local SS commander whom she soon falls in love with. Paul Verhoeven (“Robocop” and “Showgirls”) directs. (R) – Bill White Delta Farce Larry the Cable Guy and two of his buddies
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Two months shy of her 21st birthday but already with enough partying in her past to give Keith Richards a hangover, Lindsay Lohan has more baggage than luisvuitton.com as she stars in “Georgia Rule.” And she’s playing a deeply troubled party girl. Is Lohan tapping into the continuing soap opera that is
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Director Danny Boyle’s edgy and very gritty 2002 film “28 Days Later” was an outstanding addition to the genre of “plague pictures” — films usually (but not always) set in a dark future world being overwhelmed by some kind of disease or infection that threatens to annihilate the planet. Now, Spanish
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on sale now 3 Inches of Blood, Book of Black Each, Darkness Stole the Sky, Left Alive Tacoma. May 19 (all ages) 5 pm. $10 (Hell’s Kitchen, TWeb). Benefit for Jana from Supernova with 3 Inches of Blood, Violence Unfolds, Severus, Mos Generator Tacoma. May 19 9 pm. $10 (Hell’s Kitchen, TWeb). Michael
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Bobble Tiki sometimes feels a bit out of place in Olympia. From time to time, Bobble Tiki has been known to head south from his Tacoma bungalow, and hit up Le Voyeur for a few drinks and one of the few non-vegan delights on the menu. Sometimes Bobble Tiki cruises
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Finn Riggins has all the elements that define the future of music. The music is organic (man made) mixed with inorganic (computer generated). It’s socially responsible, energetic and dance friendly. It is co-ed and co-written. And it’s at Le Voyeur Saturday. Finn Riggins is three friends, living together and touring the
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Vicci Martinez checked her bags and made her way through Sea-Tac Airport security on Sunday. She found her gate and checked in. As she took a seat in the waiting area, she fished her cell phone out of her bag, and then dialed my number. Busy girl that she is,
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Beware of a certain hamburger and teriyaki joint on Sixth Avenue. I warn you because I care. This week’s column is about Bob Wayne, his Outlaw Carnies, and their show at Hell’s Kitchen tonight. Bob Wayne sits near the top of a very short list of country artists who don’t make me
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Friday, May 11 Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities I think I’m pretty darn clued-in about music, as I listen to almost everything and have soaked in data about pert near every genre there is over the years. However, while I pride myself on having a vast Rolodex of musical knowledge
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There is a thin line between blues and soul. However, rarely do you hear a blues singer perform soul or a soul singer perform blues. While Etta James is slotted as blues diva, in reality she is a soul singer who can belt out a blues tune with the best
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Chopstix might push — OK, hurl — you over the edge. It all starts innocently. You sit down to dinner. A friendly blonde brings drinks. More drinks. Co-owner PJ Pedroni speaks of heartwarming harmonies about to envelop you, people of many generations all singing along to the same Billy Joel song. Then
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Missing the wine wobble? The Puyallup Main Street Association and Valley Arts United invite you to their version of a wine wobble on May 19 from 2 to 6 p.m. Advance tickets cost $15, or $20 at the door. Spend an afternoon tasting wines from around the world, check out Puyallup’s local
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Mommapalooza Yeah. Mother’s Day is imminent. Embarrassingly, I must admit I have made no purchases for either of the mothers on my list — neither his, nor mine — and time is running out. Enter the Francophile-ic lovey-ness of Trouve, which, yes, will be closing, but not until July. A recent
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So there we were at Masa, and we saw this amazingly fabulous haircut. Just prior to that trip, there we were with a group of girlfriends, and we saw this amazingly similar, amazingly fabulous haircut. And there I was, home alone watching Shear Genius (a guilty secret pleasure, shhhhh, don’t
