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It’s a new week, which means it’s time for another installment of Bobble Tiki’s South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let’s get rolling … As you may have noticed, Bobble Tiki was on vacation last week. He spent five and a half days sitting in
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As a fan of music, what attracts you to a band? Don’t be afraid; it’s just you and me here. Well, if you ask me (which you didn’t) it boils down to two criteria: exuberance and innovation. We’ll get to exuberance in a second, but first I want to talk
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STONEGATE OPENS SATURDAY Stonegate Pizza – a new spot on South Tacoma way that we’ve been hearing rumblings about for some time – will officially open on Saturday, Sept. 26. The Fabulous Wailers will release their new CD, Roster Rock, opening night at Stonegate in its upstairs Rock and Roll Bar.
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The new theater season is here, and with it comes a bit of all things new, some classics and quite a bit of re-treading. First up to the stage at Lakewood Playhouse as it begins its 71st season is The Mousetrap, by the maven of murder mystery, Agatha Christie.
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Ask any of the minds behind the first ever Tacoma Craft Beer Festival — a one-day only event, Saturday, Oct. 3, at Foss Waterway Seaport (705 Dock St., Tacoma) — and they’ll give you the same answer. Ask them why they devoted their time, believed so adamantly in
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Last week Lynn Di Nino and a group of Tacomans staged a mega-scale chess game at Tollefson Plaza. Chess pieces made from recycled 5-gallon buckets and discarded household appliances were spray-painted day-glow pink and green and pushed around a human-scale chessboard that had been chalked over the plaza floor. Color
Jobs
Jason Hansman remembers the anticipation of leaving then Fort Lewis to enter the civilian world, go to college and get a good paying job. Things started on the right track -- after a yearlong deployment to Mosul, Iraq, with the 448th Civil Affairs Battalion, he was
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Lele Where: 4747 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W., Gig Harbor, 253.514.6382, lelerestaurant.com Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday Cuisine: Vietnamese and Thai Scene: Mid-scale, casual dining Drinkies: Full bar, Asian beers, specialty martini list, 99 percent West Coast wines Prices:
Visual Edge
Rick Allen makes amazing spaceships out of steel and glass — mostly glass that looks like steel (or perhaps pewter). What’s fascinating about them is that they look like spacecraft from a future world as envisioned in the early to mid 20th century. I’m talking early sci-fi spacecraft: Buck Rogers,
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I remember watching the Kingdome come down. That was awesome. The Kingdome was atrocious. Watching the historic Luzon Building in Tacoma, on the corner of 13th and Pacific, come down on Saturday and Sunday, however, won’t be nearly as enjoyable. In fact, I’d go as far as to say it’s going
Health
SAVI DAY SPAI expected Savi Day Spa inside Hotel Murano to be elegant, soothing and decadent. I was right on all counts. What I didn’t expect was the sensation of the amazing Vichy shower. I was lying on a cushioned table in a tile room. Jessica Glaser had just massaged
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NEW FACES Friday, Sept. 25 Let’s consider, for a moment, all the odd bands that seem to come from nowhere and, inexplicably, become a sensation. These anomalies get a lot more play than the bands that were destined for stardom from the very beginning, but they’re equally weird to me. Example:
Operation Family Support
One parent has been deployed to Afghanistan for a year, during which time the other parent has to play the role of mother and father. Though it’s tough they make it work. But then halfway through the one year deployment, the parent returns home for two weeks, and finds a
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Our story begins a long, long time ago in a land far, far away. It was November 2008 when Puyallup citizens approved an “annexation” of the City of Puyallup’s fire department into Central Pierce Fire & Rescue. So what was to become of all the old used Puyallup Fire Department
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On Friday night the sidewalk outside Doyle’s Public house will fill with bicycles. Many of them will be unusual bicycles. On Friday night the tables inside Doyle’s Public House will fill with people. Many of them will be unusual people. One of them will be TW (T-dub to
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The new theater season is here, and with it comes a bit of all things new, some classics and quite a bit of re-treading. First up to the stage at Lakewood Playhouse as it begins its 71st season is The Mousetrap, by the maven of murder mystery, Agatha Christie.
Focus
Staff Sgt. Kevin Renuart embraces the upcoming challenge of being a team leader as well as the responsibilities, which come in tow. To the five-year Army sergeant, it's a big deal. Completing the certification training for explosive ordnance disposal team leader brings him one step closer
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Rick Allen makes amazing spaceships out of steel and glass — mostly glass that looks like steel (or perhaps pewter). What’s fascinating about them is that they look like spacecraft from a future world as envisioned in the early to mid 20th century. I’m talking early sci-fi spacecraft: Buck Rogers,
Veterans
On any given day, more than 150 homeless veterans wander along the streets and highways near Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Some stand on the off-ramps outside the bases' gates, holding signs asking for money. A common scene for commuters passing through the Madigan Healthcare System Gate is a homeless veteran who
