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The last few weeks have been rough for hello, cupcake owner Tina Miller. She just opened hello, cupcake in downtown Tacoma. Not only did she have to rush to get everything ready so the shop could open last Thursday, but then the doors opened. The flood came in. The shop had to
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Tacoma-based theater company Studio 21 is currently making final preparations for its performance of Sebastian Barry’s “The Steward of Christendom” at Commencement Bay Coffee Company, opening today, Sept. 6. “The Steward of Christendom” is about a retired senior officer in the Dublin Metropolitan Police named Thomas Dunne. The story takes
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Robb Manke’s addictions started with just one. He cashed in some baseball cards around 1993 and got his first taste. “It became addictive,” he recalls, “very addictive.” From there, though he took a break for a while, he felt the compulsion to collect more. Now his collection of original arcade-style video games
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While most folks around these parts think of the Western Washington Fair as a place for kiddie rides and photos with Dora the Explorer, there are still a lot of things to do for adults that don’t involve getting scone jam smeared on their pant legs. Some of the things are
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ANNOUNCER: There’s nothing the boys like better than eating among throngs of farm animals hooting and hollering in their pens. Give them some fried onions on a hamburger and a 500-pound pig named Daisy, and they are in heaven. So, it’s easy to understand why most of September you’ll find
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THE SPELLING Bee there Spelling bee for adults? Sweet Jesus! There won’t be a brainy kid who gets his glasses stomped by knuckle-draggers on the playground after tonight’s spelling bee. Well, maybe a wedgie might be administered. Weekly Volcano scribe Jessica Corey-Butler and Amanda Morstad will return to defend their crown as Tacoma’s
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Ah, Labor Day weekend. The gateway to fall and three glorious days of relaxation before we all have to take life seriously again. I’ve eaten my fill of fun, and now I must get serious. At least that is how I try to rationalize it, and this renewed dedication reminds
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This Olympia barbeque house has plenty of parking and a décor of “working man’s farm” with antique farm hand tools hanging on the walls next to nicely framed black and white photos of old farm land and barns. Sliding barn doors make up most of the back wall of the
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Thursday, Sept. 6: Tacoma Singles Wine Tasting, 7-9 p.m. Mountaineers Club House, 2302 N. 30th, Tacoma. Saturdays: Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101). Thursday, Sept. 13: Tacoma Singles Wine Tasting, 7-9 p.m., Vino Aquino’s, 2607 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.5511. Tuesday, Sept. 18: Intro to French Wines, 5:30-8:30
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Cowgirl Up’s Bahama Mama will make you warm in places I am not allowed to mention. Served in a tall glass, this coconut rum concoction helps you forget it’s already becoming colder at night. Add a shot of the Captain, some pineapple and orange juice, and a splash of grenadine.
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Good beef I have been reading the “Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan. Anyone who has read this book will understand when I say I don’t want to look at another mainstream burger again. It’s shocking how much petroleum, disease and genetic engineering goes into beef. I’ve always been aware of food
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The fashion industry gets its millions only when it knocks current trends into traffic. More simply, drastic trend changes require that fashion slaves make repeat purchases toward new wardrobes to stay up to date. Just when you thought you had every color and length of layerable tunic/shirt/dress for random mix
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Rhiannon Dooly went to The Spar in Old Town Tacoma last Saturday to see Anthony Simmons cause a ruckus. Since he plays the drums in The Scuzztones, the bar was cool with it. Rhiannon turned many heads with a daring cleavage accentuating dress and mischievous smile. “I’m originally from California,
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Jennevieve Schlemmer, sipping coffee while we eat at the Mandolin Café, mentions something Lynn Di Nino has told her that’s resonated: when Di Nino was learning massage therapy, a tenet was “always leave one hand on the body.” It’s a tenet Di Nino has been employing both with her work on
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ANNOUNCER: There are things in this life that make the boys believe in a higher power: Sipping Silver Oak Cabernet on a beach at sunset; Jeff Buckley records; Fender guitars and women’s orgasms; Sofia Bistro’s lemon crème, just to name a few. They’re made from scratch — the lemon crèmes, that
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Shiny at Dragonfly Like a magpie after a candy wrapper in the wind, I am uncontrollably drawn to all things that sparkle and shine, so it’s easy for me to admit that I’m a jewelry junkie. When I heard about Dragonfly Imports opening a few weeks back in the Dome District,
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It would seem that there are a pretty fair number of active types who may be just like the average Joes outside local bars. Rather than filling their calendars with coffee shop and cocktail outings and stretching their budget for a non-generic cigarette, these people consider outings to gyms and
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Pappi Swarner won’t be happy with me this week because today I’ll be reporting on a wonderful place that is no where near the South Sound, but it’s worthy of the attention from all of you 253ers. The Tav — a name that’s so simple and perfect. When your humble Natasha was
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Who would’ve ever thought that a city girl like me could aspire to such a hootin’ hillbilly, buckin’ belt-buckle, sagebrush sass, carefree country kind of life? If you read last week’s column (it was at www.weeklyvolcano.com — stupid ad replaced me in the rag!), you know that little lady Natasha
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urbanXchange once again proves they are about way more than cool clothes by announcing the release of a Local Music Only compilation CD and an end of summer event Friday, Sept. 7. The idea for the CD came to store owner Julie Bennett mid-summer while talking about the local music
