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I’ve heard the rumblings. I know the word on the street. “Driscoll’s lost his touch.” “He became a dad, and Rock Rhetoric became a drag.” I have ears, Tacoma. I smell what’s cooking (besides the meth). To all the naysayers, I offer a big F. U. While you may have a point —
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Friday, July 13 R&B ebborah jordon Long before she released her radio friendly album, Private Dancer in 1984, Tina Turner was a hard rockin’ balls-to-the-wall front woman for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. With a mix of gospel, soul, blues and rock, the husband-and-wife pair re-defined a woman’s role in rock
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When I first ran across this band’s bio, I thought they’d be like KMFDM or Nitzer Ebb, but much to my surprise Bombs Into You is closer to Radiohead with a touch of Apex Twin. Combining organic textures with ambient soundscapes and electric jolts of energy, the Portland, Ore., quartet
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My life is nuts. Kid, mate, work, play life, work, social life, kid, work, extended family drama, kid, add a dash of mate, put all ingredients in a blender, and purée. I’ll own up to the fact that my job rocks, and is often fun, but while many of those around me
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Hipster Boutique Tour Adding exercise, Link rides and shopping to the docket, Love Tacoma’s latest event will tour Tacoma’s hipster boutiques today starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Tacoma Steps on the University of Washington campus. Tacoma hipster fashionistas will visit Junior Bizarre, Rocky & Coco’s, Dame Lola, and urbanXchange at 40-minute
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Because you have to love a hair place that uses the word “Lounge” in its name, because you love a fashion/hair show, and because you love altruistic work, you need to go to the Hair Lounge in Federal Way on Saturday, July 14, from noon to 5 for “Show and
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Home, clean home I guess I’ve rediscovered my inner domestic goddess, or I’ve just got past my dust denial, and I have to admit it’s made me a bit nuts. Maybe it has something to do with the Tacoma Health Department’s “Dirt Alert” campaign and the thought that little particles of
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ANNOUNCER: It’s easy to look at Tacoma Szechuan and laugh. Outside the Lakewood restaurant is a banner over the name of the former smoothie restaurant the Chinese restaurant replaced in the strip mall. Inside, there’s a smoothie counter, a glass display with crystallized rock formations, reviews of the restaurant matted
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O ut in the Park is going to be a real drag this year. In fact, there is going to be more drag than ever. Saturday’s event marks the 10th anniversary for Out in the Park, Tacoma’s annual Gay Pride festival produced by the Out in Tacoma organization. The event
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For the past two weeks I’ve been checking out the styles at club One3One, located in the shadow of the Space Needle in Seattle. With no clue what to wear on my first visit, I donned stilettos because that’s what all the girls danced in. By the end of the
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Desiree Flerchinger flashes a Miami-ready look as she wanders through Art on the Ave. Where’d it come from? “ROSS, baby!” — she later amended her announcement, “Well, ROSS, Costco, and the Bon.” That accounts for the skirt, shirt and shoes, while her undershirt was a hand-me-down from her mom. The sunglasses, too, came
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We’ve all had those days when we just really want — and borderline physically need — a beer. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s been a bad day — although the beer-wanting feeling is very common after a day when your fellow students and/or Hogwarts Headmasters make you want to
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Friday, July 13: Sparkling wines not from Champagne, France, 6 p.m., 21 Commerce, 21st and Commerce, 253.272.6278. Saturdays: Wine tasting, 2-5 p.m., Wine Bank, 7017 27th St. W., University Place, 253.564.1101). Tuesday, July 17: Ty Cline’s Tour of Washington, 5:30-8:30 p.m., complimentary, Pour at Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Tuesdays: Wine
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Salsa Showdown Bring your taste bud tingling, healthful, easy to prepare, intensely flavored mixture of vegetables, herbs and spices to the Salsa Showdown cooking contest at the Puyallup Fair Thursday, Sept. 13, 5-7 p.m. First place will grab $100 with second and third nabbing $50 and $25. Other Puyallup Fair cooking contests
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I have decided to dabble with a subject near to my heart: the unusual number of people who feel free to offer unsolicited advice to restaurant owners. For some weird reason, other trades don’t seem to get the well-meaning, know-it-alls we do. Think about it. Have you ever walked up
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Yellow brick fun Capital Playhouse’s Kids at Play musical offering these days is “The Wizard of Oz” — lions and tigers and bears and such. [Capital Playhouse, 7 p.m. July 12-15, $19-$25, 612 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.2744, www.capital playhouse.com] “Princess Ida” A fun show that is well worth the trip to the Emerald
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Tacoma Musical Playhouse is staging one of the most expensive gambles in the theater’s history. Everything about producing Disney’s stage version of “Beauty and the Beast” comes at a price. The royalties are costly. The costumes are pricey. The staging requirements are substantial. But any theater willing to stage the show
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THE JAZZ Moonlight rhapsody Pacific Lutheran University, home to the stellar jazz and NPR station KPLU, takes the rhythms to the outside hosting Jazz Under The Stars — an outdoor concert series in the Mary Baker Russell Amphitheater. The shows are free, and so is the Starbucks coffee — sweet. The fun
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Let me start by saying I really picked a great week to take off of work. I decided that on this vacation I didn’t need to go anywhere because I’m having too much fun discovering and re-discovering everything that’s fun about funkadelic Tacoma. Most of my vacation was spent doing things that
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This week I’m going to draw your attention away from just one establishment so you can have a look-see at the bigger picture. There’s a new Scene of the Crime that’s been emerging ever since I became a loyal Tacoma socialite, and it’s now requiring me to switch gears because this
