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ANNOUNCER: Weaned on Campbell’s chicken noodle and tomato canned soups, the boys’ soupy palates have broadened considerably over the years. They still get a hankering now and then for trusty ol’ Campbell’s; maybe it’s the sodium they crave. At any rate, while they do enjoy an elaborate seven-course meal, there’s
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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 Lucero, Bobby Bare Jr., Whiskey & Co. Seattle. Oct. 17 9 pm. $13 (Crocodile Café, TW). Junior Brown Seattle. Oct. 24 9 pm. $25 (Tractor Tavern, TWeb). Luciana Souza Seattle. Oct. 30 7:30
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The Wine Bank The Wine Bank stares across the street at Cheers West in University Place. It’s easy to miss unless you’re looking up as you round the bend in the road (keep your eyes on the road, man!). After safely parking, venture in and spend a while. Owners Bob Kinnaman
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The second annual Tacoma Film Festival has made it loud and clear that it’s here to stay with a full week of films, filmmaker appearances and special events. Many came out to mingle during opening night ceremonies at the a.o.c. gallery including writer, director and star of another feature film,
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In a battle of great band names, the Bug Nasties and Fungus Riot will play Le Voyeur Friday, Oct. 12. Fungus Riot won’t have far to go. The band, which you may or may not know for their work as the house band at Rang Dong on Olympia’s Westside, is
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Most of what Bobble Tiki knows about Olympia he’s either gathered from the wild water cooler stories of Matt Driscoll or from his limited experience in our state capital. Bobble Tiki has devoured some Old School Pizza in his day, and gotten too drunk to stand at The Clipper on
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You would think, after living in Olympia for over four years, I would have managed to see a show at Plenty. Then again, after living in Olympia for more than four years you would think I would have managed to accomplish a lot of things. I really didn’t. I have eaten
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Chocolate Among the discerning with a sweet tooth, the quest for chocolate is a perfect obsession, with three of the classic gourmet’s favorite factors at play: 1) there’s a lot to know about chocolate, so you can impress both friends and wanna-bes with your erudition; 2) it’s an artisanal product; 3)
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"It’s my season," confides Karen Luke Fildes. "When the gray days come, I come alive." Despite recent trips around Hawaii and other sunny, color-saturated spots, Luke Fildes speaks about the Northwest sky with reverence, using adjectives reserved for people. She explains how the cloud’s personality will take on whatever the
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"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" is weighed down by its splendor. There are scenes where the costumes are so sumptuous, the sets so vast, the music so insistent that we lose sight of the humans behind the dazzle of the production. Unlike "Elizabeth" (1998), by the same director, Shekhar Kapur, this
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Vep! Centerstage Theater is staging “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” a musical comedy with the spirit of vaudeville. It runs through Sunday. [Knutzen Family Theatre, through Oct. 14, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, $8-$25, 3200 S.W. Dash Point Rd., Federal Way, 253.661.1444] Damn! Tacoma Musical Playhouse is staging the musical classic “Damn Yankees,”
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There was a crime committed in downtown Olympia last weekend. There were two empty seats at Capital Playhouse’s production of “Sweeney Todd,” a tasteful play about a mass murderer who sees a business opportunity in the otherwise useless stack of corpses he has created. I guess you could consider the
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THE EXHIBIT Bigfoot spotted in Olympia Fact meets fiction and then rubs noses with history, Native American lore and modern science as the story of Bigfoot plays out in displays at the new exhibit “Giants in the Mountains: The Search for Sasquatch” at the State Capital Museum in Olympia. This exploration of the
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Anyone who drives around in Tacoma’s Theater District has probably noticed some mysterious A-board signs that have popped up along Ninth Avenue and Broadway. They read "Haunted House Here: 745 St. Helens — Oct. 18 to 31." So who exactly are the freaks behind this upcoming trick or treat? The proprietors of
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Beer pong — the sport that melds the heart-pounding thrill of Ping-Pong with the gut-wrenching taste of warm beer chugged from a plastic cup — arrives in tournament form at the Diamond Lounge. It\'s crawled out of suburban basements, stumbled out of frat parties reeking of smoke and cologne, and will
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Thursday, Oct. 11: Become A Wine Connoisseur In Under Two Hours, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $59, Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.566.5020. Friday, Oct. 12: Wine tasting with food pairing, 5-8 p.m., $14, 21 Commerce, 21st and Commerce, Tacoma, 253.272.6278. Friday, Oct. 12-Saturday, Oct. 13: Smorgasbord tasting, 6 p.m., $5, Pairing’s
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A little solidarity never hurt any community, and nothing brings people together quicker than a good benefit. Chow down The Poodle Dog restaurant in Fife is raising money for community member Sue Burham’s double lung transplant with a series of events throughout October. Staffers recently donated 50 percent of tips Oct. 7
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After this one course of events happened to me over last weekend, I’m ready to talk some serious trash. Here’s what happened: I decided to dedicate my last Sunday to a task I’ve been putting off for far too long: cleaning out my garage. Unfortunately, the people who owned the house before me
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It was a Wednesday morning at the YMCA, and I was sweating at the elliptical machine in rare form, reveling at the shuffle iGods who placed Blur’s "Common People" after The Killers’ "Somebody Told Me." Such sublime pleasure couldn’t last, of course. There, in the midst of my revelry came the
