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For the second year, The Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center will be home to an event aiming to help businesses, individuals and communities discover ways to aid sustainability and promote healthy LOCAL business practices. Go Local Tacoma's Shift Happens daylong extravaganza will feature seminars, food
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FILLING YOUR DREAMS TO THE BRIM WITH FRIGHT >>> Time to give them something fun they'll talk about for years to come, let's have a cheer from everyone. It's time to party. Making Christmas. Making Christmas. Snakes and mice get wrapped up so nice with spider legs and pretty bows. It's
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THE LOWDOWN ON WHAT'S UP THIS WEEKEND >>> WEATHER REPORT Friday: Sunny to partly cloudy, hi 64, lo 44 Saturday: A couple of showers possible, hi 64, lo 51 Sunday: A couple of showers possible, hi 65, lo 52 >>> THURSDAY, SEPT. 15: PRINCESS BRIDE OUTDOORS If there is one thing that binds
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DONATE TO A LOCAL CHARITY >>> It's difficult to avoid the holiday hype with carols, gifts, greeting cards, Christmas tree and menorah lighting ceremonies and the other hullabaloo that fills our calendars. Black Friday came and went, kicking off your shopping spree for friends and family. But what about the less
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THE NOSH PIT >>> The Nosh League's first gathering was a wine and cheese tasting last night inside Cork! A Wine Bar on Sixth Avenue. Besides the sweltering heat and a cranky bicyclist who threated a lawsuit over our sandwich board on the sidewalk, it was quite a lovely evening. Cork! opened
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BLASTOFF >>> There are superior doughnuts with beautifully textured interiors, rolled in the perfect quantity of powdered sugar or chocolate glaze. There are stale donuts whose half-eaten remains lie forgotten in a grease-stained cardboard box on the conference table in the Weekly Volcano World headquarters' lunchroom. There are doughnuts that may
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RON SWARNER: GOOD TIMES >>>Sometimes, when I'm really tired, and the couch is calling, is when I have the most fun in Tacoma. Here are eight things I ran into last night. Pearl Django kicked off Maxwell's Speakeasy new Saturday night live music series. The gypsy jazz band fit like
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RON SWARNER: WE NOW HAVE A FREAKING BELLA BALL! >>>When the City Club of Tacoma announced it was putting on a show to celebrate its first 25 year of existence, it wasn't hard to predict how the party would go down. The club brought in artist Lynn Di Nino to
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RON SWARNER: TACOMA FILM FESTIVAL >>> Film buffs are faced with an embarrassment of riches in upcoming days - and, no, we're not talking about release of High School Musical 3: Senior Year and Saw V later this month. Two whopping film festivals touch down in the area soon, one
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So it's 6/6/06 and Tacoma's Temple Theater celebrates with 3 Inches of Blood, Angelsdevilsghosts, Beautiful Mothers, Beltfed Weapon, Durango 95, Feral, I Defy and Sarah Connor tonight. The Weekly Volcano represent although it's production time for this loser (which is kinda like Miller Time). So while Matt Driscoll hangs from
