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The 6th Avenue District is perhaps the most widely recognized in the Tacoma area as home to culinary masters. Several of the establishments that line the "Ave" have been nationally recognized on the Food Network for their compelling menus and flavors. While Primo Grill has not yet been among those
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It’s a noisy world these days — especially in America’s rapidly growing urban centers. In Tacoma, new residents and businesses are often at odds over normal, although sometime noisy, business activities such as live music and public events, which grate on the nerves of longtime residents and suburban refugees. City
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BECOMING JANE The Grand Cinema: Fri-Thurs, Aug. 16 11:45 a.m., 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:20. Aug. 10 no 11:45 a.m. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM: Run, Jason, Run. The Bourne films have taken chases beyond a storytelling technique and made them into the story. This time Jason hurtles through London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris,
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THINK AND DRINK The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts has extended its annual Fall Free For All events to a yearlong pow wow called Tacoma Free For All, which includes its Think and Drink series. This free event will encourage participants to gather, over beverages, and discuss
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In today's tech-savvy world of smartphones, iPads, laptops and even the antiquated colossi known as desktop PCs, almost everyone over the age of 5 is at least a passable typist. If you were born in the mid-1990s, your typing skills are likely coded into your DNA, occupying space in your
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Look, we may as well get this out of the way right now: Fang Chia describe their music as "sex prog." I know some record nerds may disagree but, in my experience, there is just nothing sexy about progressive rock. Bands like King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Yes are certainly
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I don't normally mention stuff like this, but it's worth noting that Dionvox have almost 67,000 "likes" on Facebook, which is by far on the upper end of bands I've covered for this rag. It's a frivolous thing to bring up, of course, but I think it's a nice demonstration
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He has a new video/single, he has a new line of clothing on racks and now he is celebrating the release of his latest album, Revelations EP (with MTK). "He" is none other than award-winning Olympia (to Seattle transplant) MC XP, aka Xperience. This weekend the Gary, Ind. native and
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A 25-year-old nurse from the Madigan Army Medical Center was killed Sunday along with three other soldiers by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Lt. Jennifer Moreno, who was on her first assignment to Afghanistan, was killed during an attack in the Zhari District of Kandahar. After graduating from San Diego High School
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude. 8 pm. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All Ages.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Triangle District. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Curtis Salgado. 8 pm. $15. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Hambone Blues Band. 9 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
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Short plays, like short stories, must be skillfully wrought to involve the audience instantly, delivering their substance with comparatively little development. So their goals tend to be more modest than those of longer works, and their action more obvious. Still, they can make powerful, lasting impressions. Back for another year,
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, the folks at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium pull something like this. They're allowing visitors to dive into the South Pacific Aquarium with more than a dozen sharks - including a 450-pound, 9-foot lemon shark. In
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Cantrells. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. BLUES Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Black River Blues Band. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Stagecoach Nettie & The Wolf Tones. 9:30 pm. NC.
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A proper burlesque show - in the vaudevillian sense of the term, not the hipster reclaiming sense - is all about excess and spectacle. It's a variety show, featuring not just the burlesque dancers, but music, costume contest, raffles and oddities. Tacoma's resident burlesque troupe, the Gritty City Sirens, will
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Bird lovers from far and wide will flock (get it?) to Tacoma for the 10th annual Bird Lovers' Weekend at the Museum of Glass. Events kick off Thursday with the opportunity to make your own glass bird from 5-7 p.m. in the Hot Shop, iittala master glassblowers Arto Lahtinen and
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Want to get the feel of Cuba? Go to Miami. Let's face it, with such a small Cuban population, Tacoma is typically deprived of the multitudes of cultural goodies that emanate from Fidel's little isle 90 miles off the Keys. But yearly, to the rescue comes the Tacoma-Cienfuegos Sister City's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Bill Staines. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$15. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday Jam. 5-8 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South.
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That big collective groan you may have heard or felt reverberating throughout Tacoma was for the loss of preeminent music promoter Ted Brown who passed away Sept. 25. He was 61. I can't remember the exact moment I met Ted because I feel like I've known him all my life.
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"Would you like a hand-washing and lotion treatment?" the Mary Kay representative asked me. Somewhat surprised as I stood in a sea of the fairer sex, I managed to say no. Undeterred, the woman continued to ask me if I would like the treatment. I gave in. My hands underwent a softening treatment,
