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For more than 75 years, tales featuring that adventurous teenage sleuth Nancy Drew have captivated the imaginations of young girls. From the original books penned by Toledo Blade reporter Mildred Wirt Benson (writing under the pseudonym of Carolyn Keene) to the 1930s films starring Bonita Granville, to the more recent
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Eighteen different directors come together to pay cinematic homage to the City of Light. Gus Van Sant, Alexander Payne, Wes Craven and the Coen brothers are among the participants, each one presenting his or her story with a unique style, cast and location. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elijah Wood, Steve Buscemi and
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28 WEEKS LATER: Britain is again plagued by the “rage virus,” now even more dangerous and deadly than before. An extremely frightening, but very compelling horror film, with blood and guts aplenty. With Robert Carlyle and Catherine McCormack. (R) HH1/2 – BZ South Hill Mall: Thurs 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9. Fri-Thurs,
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On sale now Vicki Randle Seattle. June 17 8 pm. $20 (Tractor Tavern, TWeb). 13th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival featuring Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Acre, M.E. & Me, Alps of New South Wales, L.A. Lungs, Hans Grusel’s Krankenkabinet, Midmight, Mattress and many more Olympia. June 21-23 7 pm, June 24 5
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The next time you roll into Masa you might notice something a little different beneath those hipster shoes of yours. The proprietors have installed a dance floor in one half of their formal dining room. Tables will sit on the dance floor for lunch and dinner, but once the eating
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Bobble Tiki was born in 1966. Lyndon Baines Johnson was President. The Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and talking about it in Evening Standard. Bobby Hull was setting the NHL single season scoring record. The United States had 250,000 troops in Vietnam. The Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. Richard
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I met Alethea “Butterfly Beats” Eichhorn and David Miller of Beehive about two years ago at the Premiere (now the Phoenix) in Seattle. We were both hired to entertain at a Microsoft Gaming Conference. I was performing in an acoustic duo. They were an electronic duo using laptop-generated break beats
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“Timing is everything.” Of all the clichés I frequent, it’s certainly my favorite. As you have probably picked up on, I don’t work very far in advance. Deadline here at the Weekly Volcano is Tuesday night, and I typically turn in my columns at the last possible moment. Usually this approach
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Thursday, June 14 ROCK jonny smokes If Randy Oxford is the hardest working man in blues, then Jonny Smokes has the honor of hardest working musician in rock. Playing five gigs a week, if not more, Smokes never rests, and since moving to Seattle in 1997 he has become a staple on
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Gwen Stefani and her band No Doubt gave us a new appreciation for “Sunday Mornings.” She gave us a nice way to say shut up and kiss me (“Don’t Speak”). She gave us a new anthem for feminism (“I’m Just A Girl”). She gave us a song to play loudly
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The words “night” and “blow” together might evoke different things for different people. But since this is a family rag, more or less, we’ll go with the innocent, more or less, and focus on that. The Museum of Glass (yes, they dropped all that other stuff that used to be in the
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Coffeezaun Espresso manager Mary Powell shows off a look that incorporates financial-savvy smarts; she mixes a classic, quality item with trendy, non-spendy pieces to come up with a fun and functional outfit. The quality item of the outfit is a pair of boot-cut Earnest Sewn jeans from Dame Lola, which skim
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I needed an even tan line to match my bright, sun-shiny new hair color before a formal event. See, my dress was a low cut, strappy thing, while my existing tan was a field-workin’, T-wearin’ thing. Together, they were not pretty. And I had less than no time to remedy the situation,
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Spankin’ cute, no pink What to do when the boss tasks you with getting a co-scribe a baby gift? Admittedly, I offered to get said gift, since I think shopping for babies ranks up there with pleasures like “long walks on the beach” and “watching a sun set while sipping a nice
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Last September there was a Florida invasion that planted some seeds. Sound nebulous enough? It gets better. Richard Florida came to Tacoma last fall, teaching his Creative Communities Leadership Project (CCLP), which seeks to give emerging leaders the tools they need to generate greater economic prosperity in their region, since cities are
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(Cue chamber music group, “Pomp and Circumstance.”) Ah, commencement, when hallowed traditions of bygone times surface once again. When silly hats are de riguer, when speeches are long and reverent, and when anything but a certain pensive sobriety is déclassé. Or not. While silly hats, long gowns, and the observation of tradition were
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Rhapsody in art Denise Smith, owner of A Rhapsody in Bloom Florist and Caffe Latte on Sixth Avenue for 17 years, is in a constant state of reinventing her shop. Currently, she’s morphing her combination coffee shop/florist/live music venue into a space where local artists and artisans can sell their work. But
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You likely remember those word-association games we all had to take in high school during those seemingly endless barrages of standardized tests. Here is a flash back of those days. Washington is to beer what California is to wine. So an event this weekend is therefore a blue-collar version of
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High Tea Tea isn’t just hot water splashed on some dried leaves. It’s little Muffy in a frilly dress pouring teeny cups for teddy bears. It’s ancient Chinese doctors blending the fruits of the earth to cure flesh, and British nannies sneaking behind the shrubbery snatching a few minutes for themselves.
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I have to say that I just couldn’t picture Tacoma Little Theatre staging “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.” It just didn’t seem like a show the theater could pull off, or since it’s a play about a brothel, pull down might be a better description. Anyway, I’ll eat crow on
