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Class half empty My wife and I are newlyweds. We went to breakfast, and I ordered coffee, and she said she wanted only water. The waitress kept refilling my coffee. A couple times, my wife took sips. The waitress asked if she wanted coffee, and she declined. The manager also asked
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If there has ever been a better bill for punk rock and beer drinking, I don’t remember one. Chances are, after this show, I won’t remember it either. That’s because San Francisco’s the Bar Feeders and Portland’s Lopez — two of the drunkest and rowdiest punk bands you’ll ever find —
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Best Cheap Date Cheaper than a roofie and much easier to find, some good cold beer from The Red Hot will do the trick just fine when it comes to getting your date to pass out. No need to waste the time and money on a steak dinner and fine wine,
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Best Spot To Buy Jeans Jeans are the most un-fun thing to shop for next to bathing suits. Judging your butt in the mirror, jumping up and down just to pull on what feels like an extra pair of skin and doing a hundred squats to stretch them — only to
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Best Advocate for Food Charlie McManus rolled the dice as the ’90s closed and invested his talents in Tacoma opening the area’s first bistro-like, artsy, finely crafted restaurant — Primo Grill. He gave us a reason to eat well again, ushering in the next decade of upscale restaurant explosion in the
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Best Visual Artist The son of a gun went and closed his gallery, so we may not get so many chances to see his work around T-town, but David Goldberg remains, in my humble opinion, the best visual artists working in Tacoma today. There’s nothing flashy about his work. He’s not on
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El Gaucho at 1953 prices A significant part of my childhood consisted of sitting with my family in front of a large, wood-enshrined television watching shows like I Dream of Jeannie and Get Smart while eating TV dinners on TV trays and drinking Grape Nehi. As I sat on the yellow
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The fabulous city of Tacoma is known for its enthralling and captivating music scene. Local venues open their doors to the talent of this town by providing stages and opportunities for musicians to perform almost every night of the week. Brent McCann, a recent graduate of Gonzaga University, was visiting
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In all the memories gathered together in Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, there was one subject I found conspicuously missing: the fact of the man’s misery. Did he never have a hangover? The film finds extraordinary access to the people in his life, but not
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For a foodie like myself, mid summer has to be the best time of the year. We are fortunate to have some very accessible farmers markets in our area and several Metro Parks do-it-yourself pea patches dotted throughout the city. With all these opportunities for fresh bounty, I rarely have
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The Here Today public project art sponsored by the City of Olympia features temporary art installations in various locations throughout downtown Olympia and along the boardwalk at Percival Landing. Including visual, performing art, literature and music, these works by local artists “celebrate a sense of place through reflection and response
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Tollefson Plaza is a much talked about piece of Tacoma — only usually, it seems, the talk is less than complimentary. “I can’t believe they put this huge piece of concrete s*** in the middle of Tacoma,” the conversations usually start. “Look at that one miserable bastard sitting all by himself. He
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Lately I’ve been really trying to be a good girl so I can drop some pounds and prepare myself for what will be a lame social existence when I go back to school at the end of September. Each day last week my body appreciated the fact that I was eating
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The Wallace and Crump show Being environmental educators as well as jewelry design partners, it is no surprise that Michele Wallace and Jennifer Crump are inspired by nature, plants and water and colors. Yet, nature flows through them in very different ways. Crump thinks about the person the item is for
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As an artist Brooklyn’s Joseph Arthur can be called a lot of things. Gentle. Yearning. Prolific. Atmospheric. Haunting. Spiritual. Often shirtless. As a promoter Joseph Arthur can only be classified in one way: genius. Later this year Arthur will release his latest full length CD, Temporary People. Instead of just being happy
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hen deciding who we’d have as our Night of the Living Best of Tacoma Legend, we wanted to go with someone who is not so mainstream, who doesn’t always get the spotlight, yet is so very truly Tacoma. The natural choice for me was to grace these pages with
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Bobble Tiki loves a good island. It’s part of his heritage and part of what makes him such a dedicated island themed souvenir. If Bobble Tiki had his way, the whole world would be an island, and everywhere you looked people would be dancing in grass skirts. Of course,
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Developing topics on Korean food, I recently sent out e-mails to local organizations and people I thought could help me with their insights. Imagine my surprise when Sunnie at the Olympus Spa in Lakewood returned my message inviting me to meet with her chef, Hyekgoung Simpkins. The Olympus spa is
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What a time to begin the Weekly Volcano’s new hip-hop column Live From I-5: The 25360. The Hip-Hop nation is in a state of confusion and amnesia. The state government has just passed an anti-gang bill that casts an incriminating umbrella upon a multitude of people — some likely NOT
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If you weren’t concerned before about the private immigrant detention center on the Tacoma tide flats, a recent report from Seattle University and human rights advocates One America should give you pause. The report —Voices from Detention: A Report on Human Rights Violations at the Northwest Detention Center — confirms
