Food Matters
Thursday, Dec. 3 Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215. Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon
Food Matters
WINE DINNERThe Dockside Bistro and Wine Bar in Olympia hosts a wine dinner with Washington winery Anelare Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. Reserve your space at 360.956.1928.STEAK NIGHTPaddy Coyne's in downtown Tacoma serves a $3.99 steak and chips dinner every Monday.ANOTHER BIKINI BARISTA SHACKThe Foxy Lady Café has opened
Grocery Stories
Man, do I miss summer. Don’t get me wrong. Fall is my most favorite season, followed by winter and then summer. Ah hell, I like them all and I try to find something good in each season and usually it involves food. There’s a shocker. One of my favorite
Better Living Through music
JONATHAN RICHMAN Thursday, Dec. 3 Oh, reader, I am all atwitter. Do you want to know why? Good, because I will tell you. Jonathan Richman is coming. He is. He really is. He’s coming to Olympia, and do you know what he’s going to do when he gets here? He will
Food Matters
Basilico Ristorante Italiano Basilico Ristorante Italiano stands in the top tier of Italian restaurants in the South Sound. The service is better, the knowledge deeper, and the care and attention given to each ingredient can be identified a mile away. And yet Basilico still feels like a special place meant just
Columns
It’s a new week, which means it’s time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki’s South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let’s get rolling… Matt Coughlin. He’s been around, he’s played a ton of shows, he rarely gets the credit he deserves, and he’ll be
Columns
The first time I was able to control my functions after having all but the most essential nub of my rectum yanked out as a result of a bout with col-rectal cancer was at a show the Cult played at the Showbox Market in March 2008. It wasn't fully clear
Features
I couldn’t be happier that sunny, optimistic pop is coming back into favor. What’s worse than a world of music that collectively decides to celebrate the dour? I guess it’s all cyclical. Sunny pop, just like the mopey stuff, eventually reaches a breaking point. At that point, it’s struck down
Features
The temptation is obvious, at least to someone who’s put together more than his fair share of articles such as this one — attempting to be thoughtful, insightful, fresh and — well — base enough to move papers. It’s a balancing act, and that last part makes it particularly tricky.
Restaurant Reviews
McNamara’s Pub and Eatery Where: 1595 Wilmington Dr., DuPont, 253.964.9200 Hours: 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday and Saturday Cuisine: Irish favorites and classic American comfort foods — ribs, burgers, seafood, sandwiches, salads. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily Scene: Casual, kid and family-friendly, separate full-service
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Capitol Theater Olympia. Casablanca, Dec. 4 6:30 pm, free. Blue Velvet, De.c 4 9 pm, free. Olympia Mountaineers Club Presents The BANFF Mountain Film Festival, Dec 5-6, Sat 7 pm $12, Sun 6 pm $10, both nights $20. (206 E. Fifth SE, 360.754.6670). Museum of Glass Downtown Tacoma. The Time of
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Borders Books, Music & Cafe Puyallup. Children’s story time, every Wed and Sat 11 am (3829 S. Meridian, 253.845.8751). Children's Museum of Tacoma Downtown Tacoma. Soar Into Story: The Adventures of Raven and Coyote, literacy development for young children. Becka’s Studio, inspiration through textures, colors, materials and patterns. Learning Lounge: Bank
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DANCE BareFoot Studios Tacoma. Nutcracker Brunch, Dec. 6 1-4 pm, potluck, $5 (Jan Collum Studio, Merlino Arts Building, 508 Sixth Ave., 253.272.4219). Dance Theatre Northwest Downtown Tacoma. The Nutcracker, narrated by Melanie Kirk Stauffer, Dec. 5-6, Sat 2:30 and 7 pm, Sun 4 pm, $11-$26, tickets also on website (Mount Tahoma High
Features
As the election map unfolded in the hours and days after the polls closed on Nov. 3, many in Pierce County were mortified to see what at first looked like a mistake. On the Secretary of State Web site, county after county in the Puget Sound region turned green in
Columns
In every issue of this fine rag my hack team of wannabe journalists and I tackle some of the most laughable criminal acts that have recently happened in our area. Then - if we're doing our job- we write about those crimes in a way that makes you chuckle, or
Stage
I have never seen the film version of A Christmas Story. This puts me, I think, in a pretty exclusive club, having somehow managed to avoid the 75,329 airings of the film on cable TV every Christmas season - Christmas season being approximately October to February these days. This is relevant
Columns
No last name needed, I assure you. If you live in Tacoma and have never heard of Franco the Tailor, then you might as well just frickin' move the hell out of here. Your kind's not wanted. Go to Seattle or something. Nah, I'm just kidding. But really - you might
Columns
This Tuesday past, as I was perfecting my coffee mixture and watching the boy spell out wooden words on the table with a jigsaw type letter board toy he always chooses first when we're waiting for our food to show up at the Meel Wo-Kay (Old Milwaukee Café on Sixth
Features
Tonight, Tacoma’s legendary Girl Trouble will celebrate Christmas a little early in the City of Destiny, with a show at The New Frontier Lounge – joined on the bill by the always swanky and cool Lushy, not to mention The Dignitaries (a band I secretly love more than creamy peanut
Food Matters
SANTA SILVIAOnce again, El Gaucho bartender Silvia Tapia will be holding a toy drive to benefit the children at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. Drop by El Gaucho at 2119 Pacific Ave. with toys for the kids. Tapia will deliver all the toys Christmas morning.BURGERS ARE COMING BACKLittle Holland Drive-In will
