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The calendar tells us its winter. The W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory remains skeptical. It's true though. Facts don't lie. We still have to pound something strong to battle the biting chill we encounter when we step outside The Swiss to load up the parking meter. But, the Conservatory says the
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Tom Anderson is one of the most prolific and most popular artists in Olympia. He paints with chemicals, gold leaf, pastel, Graphite and varnishes on recycled metal and aluminum sheets. In the 26 years since I first saw his work I've observed an endless recycling of a
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Tom Anderson is one of the most prolific and most popular artists in Olympia. His public works include the Park of the Seven Oaks, paintings in the lobby of Providence St. Peter Hospital, Panorama City, St. Martin's University, Bates Technical and Olympia's City Hall. Childhood's End has been showing his
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Before Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein branded Portland, Oregon, Elliott Smith did the same - except his Portland was about self-loathing. He told stories about addicts getting off the bus at Southeast Powell Boulevard and 6th Avenue to cop, and chronicled the absurd ritual of the Rose Parade. After battling
Military Life
Carrie Daws and Kathy Barnett have walked different paths in their military lives. Although their personalities on the outside are quite different, the military spouses are nonetheless strikingly similar. Both are devout Christians, both home school their children, and both minister to military families. And last year, they authored a
Outdoors
Recently, my oldest and dearest friend came home for a visit. She's a fancy city slicker now, hailing from New York City. Not Brooklyn or another borough. NYC proper. Naturally, I usually trek up to Seattle and go to some hip, new restaurant for our annual catch up. But this
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Justin Timberlake is coming to the Tacoma Dome Saturday, and this presents a dilemma. Do I come out in favor of JT or not? It’s a heavy decision. There are plenty of reasons why throwing my support behind JT in the Weekly Volcano would be a risky move. He was in N’Sync,
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I have a bone to pick with Macklemore. Shortly after the Seahawks were crowned NFC champions in 2014, Seattle superstar rapper Macklemore took to the stage with no less than four Grammy wins and a live performance at the 56th annual Grammy Awards. He did not once even utter the phrase,
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On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m., where were you? If you were living in Washington at the time, chances are you remember your whereabouts all too well, as that was the morning quakes reduced the north face of Mount St. Helens to a cascade of free-flowing rock. The ensuing blast
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[DJ] + THURSDAYS As Tacoma nightclubs come and go, Jazzbones on Sixth Avenue remains a heavyweight. The music venue and dance club has recently added Thursday College Night, with DJ Pedro spinning, 75-cent drinks from 9-11 p.m. with bracelet or college ID and sexy patrons. {JOSE GUTIERREZ} THURSDAY COLLEGE NIGHT, 9 p.m.,
Music
I sometimes feel jealous of those with upbringings that were strongly rooted in tradition. As a child of your standard white parents with no particular ties to religion, all I had to influence my world-view and sensibilities was the passing presence of the ever-morphing popular culture that would beam into
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Jenny McCarthy and I go way back. Before I get started, let me admit this is one of those Hollywood yarns in which I know a great deal about a given celebrity, who in turn remembers squat-point-nothing about me. That's the thing about all my celebrity stories: they
Food Matters
SPECIAL DISH Stanley and Seafort's (115 E. 34th St., Tacoma) has a limited-time filet mignon scaloppini with lobster on their specials menu. For $29.95, you may enjoy a tender, breaded filet mignon topped with North Atlantic lobster, oven roasted mushrooms, smoky bacon and béarnaise sauce. Served with grilled asparagus spears and Yukon
