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There are few places more miserable than the DMV, but the department of licensing may be one of them. Waiting in a line full of unhappy people, only to have a power hungry mutant call your number and try at all costs to give you a double chin in your
Music
Skoo-b Ru is a new artist on the scene making some headway. He's been rocking local shows and networking around and he just released his first official video, "We Taking Over." You can find it on YouTube. The video features hometown grind king $krilla. The song starts off with Skoo-b
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Gramping her style My girlfriend of almost a year recently moved in with me. I'm 42; she's 29. The week after she moved in, her friends made fun of our age difference and my supposedly looking too old for her. She's undecided about much in her life, and this increased
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Gramping her style My girlfriend of almost a year recently moved in with me. I'm 42; she's 29. The week after she moved in, her friends made fun of our age difference and my supposedly looking too old for her. She's undecided about much in her life, and this increased her
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El Gaucho Where: 2119 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.1510 Hours: Monday-Thursday: lounge 4 p.m. to midnight; dining room 5 p.m. to midnight. Friday: lounge 4 p.m. to 1 a.m.; dining room 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday: lounge 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., dining room 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday: lounge 4:30
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El Gaucho Where: 2119 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.1510 Hours: Monday-Thursday: lounge 4 p.m. to midnight; dining room 5 p.m. to midnight. Friday: lounge 4 p.m. to 1 a.m.; dining room 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday: lounge 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., dining room 4:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday: lounge 4:30
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These days a simple phone text is all it takes to get Pappi Swarner out on the town. With his six month sabbatical and all, I'm kinda diggin' his new appointment calendar. It's like a McDonald's drive thru: Open all the time. This, to me, means nothing but pure fun. Fun
Food Matters
Sometimes change at the neighborhood level can start with a conversation over a casserole dish. That's the aim of National Potluck Week. National Potluck Week is a brand new event, founded by Tacoman and president of Go Local, Derrick Rhayn. The event is already in about 20 states, and Rhayn hopes to
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When Army Ranger Nate Trodahl witnessed a female arguing with a male Soldier, he saw an opportunity to impress a pretty girl. It was 1995 and they were at a party during a deployment to Cuba. But this wasn't just any pretty girl - it was Spc. Leighann Durke, and she
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Thursday, Jan. 29 Wine tasting, 5-7 p.m., complimentary, Cork!, 3012 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.212.1492. Friday, Jan. 30 Wine tasting, 6-8 p.m., $7.50-$10, WineStyles Wine & Gifts, 2665 N. Pearl St., Tacoma, 253.756.1922. Anything but Chardonnay (or Cabernet) tasting, 5-7:30 p.m., $40, Bayview School of Cooking, 516 Fourth Ave. W., Olympia, 360.754.1448. Saturday, Jan. 31 Winter in
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Thursday, Jan. 29 Wine tasting, 5-7 p.m., complimentary, Cork!, 3012 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.212.1492. Friday, Jan. 30 Wine tasting, 6-8 p.m., $7.50-$10, WineStyles Wine & Gifts, 2665 N. Pearl St., Tacoma, 253.756.1922. Anything but Chardonnay (or Cabernet) tasting, 5-7:30 p.m., $40, Bayview School of Cooking, 516 Fourth Ave. W., Olympia, 360.754.1448. Saturday, Jan. 31 Winter in
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For close to two decades, the Geneva Foundation has been supporting and promoting the advancement of military medicine. The Tacoma-based nonprofit has more than 200 employees across the country who do research at most major military medical centers, plus a majority of federal laboratories and locations in Germany and Thailand. Since
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Juried art exhibitions are almost always rife with problems. They usually try to cram in way too much, and the selections are usually inconsistent at best. But not this time. The fourth annual Juried Art Show at South Puget Sound Community College is the best they’ve had yet and may
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Juried art exhibitions are almost always rife with problems. They usually try to cram in way too much, and the selections are usually inconsistent at best. But not this time. The fourth annual Juried Art Show at South Puget Sound Community College is the best they’ve had yet and may
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One thing audience members can expect from Harlequin Productions is that its plays will be a journey of some sort. The Olympia theater’s current travel log takes the audience to the town of Gloucester, Mass. The town is dead as the fishing industry has long fallen into the sea, and
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One thing audience members can expect from Harlequin Productions is that its plays will be a journey of some sort. The Olympia theater’s current travel log takes the audience to the town of Gloucester, Mass. The town is dead as the fishing industry has long fallen into the sea, and