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This week I’ll be bringing you to a restaurant that’s very near and dear to me. It’s one that I’m proud of because it matches my ambition and dedication. It’s one that I’ll always adore no matter what people say. Indochine. First things first, for the official record it’s pronounced as Indo-“sheen,” not chine. And
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If you’re jonesing for some swing, Maia Santell and House Blend have the fix. For the past 20 years, House Blend has been injecting a potent, almost lethal, mix of jazz, blues and jump-jive into hardcore swing addict’s veins, and now Maia and company are peddling their remedy to swinging
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I have a new favorite thing: The Tacoma Rainiers. Last Friday, New Friend Geoff hooked me up with a couple of tickets to the season opener, and I was stoked to go because I’d never been before. I swear to you, dear readers, I’m the girliest of girls, but I also happen
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I confess: I play favorites. I review my favorite galleries over and over again while ignoring many others. That’s because I’m old and jaded. I’ve been around too long to subject myself to reworked Americana and calendar art and amateurish offerings of whatever stripe. This week I revisited one of my
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You have four weeks to party in a dance club with $4 Jägerbombs, smokin’ hot cage dancers, and crazies juggling fire balls, and then the DJ/freak show will disappear. It’s been ages since I’ve gotten my groove on, but back in the day my weekends were spent swinging between dance
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If they had to remake “Rear Window” — and it was inevitable — this is the way to do it: with an appealingly sullen teen hero, lots of nifty surveillance gadgets in place of James Stewart’s telephoto lens, and a romantic interest who looks like Gisele Bundchen’s younger sister. This
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Just when you thought “The Reaping” was the most convoluted and overwrought flashback-riddled thriller starring an Academy Award-winning actress in theaters, along comes “Perfect Stranger.” With her Oscar for “Monster’s Ball” fading fast in the rearview mirror, Halle Berry continues her string of earnest but mostly sub-par performances in mostly bad
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Aqua Teen Hunder Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters The creators of the television comedy use the big screen to reveal the secret origins of characters Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. Rated R for crude and sexual humor, violent images and language. – Bill White The Host A horror thriller, a political satire,
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Friday ROCK dirty bird A short visit to urbandictionary.com’s definitions of “dirty bird” tells me that this simple phrase means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. One thing is for sure, it’s a popular band name. A quick Google pulled up six bands with the same or
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It has to be rough to be the sibling of a legend, and may very well be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, musicians such as Sean Lennon, Jakob Dylan and Jason Bonham might have found it easy to get a recording contract, but the ever-looming comparisons with their
Food Matters
What browns do for me I'm sure we all agree about the gravitas of breakfast, but maybe for different reasons. For me, breakfast sets my course for each day. Where and how fast I consume my morning meal colors how I feel the rest of the day. Area breakfast menus
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Hey, McConaughey is coming to the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma! I wonder if he'll talk about his Oscar-winning performance in Dallas Buyers Club, or his role on the stunning HBO series True Detective. Wait, what's that? Matthew McConaughey is not coming to Tacoma? It's actually Dr. Lorraine McConaghy
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In 1991 I was working in Lynnwood, living in the U-District, and thoroughly wrapped up in the local music comings and goings, or at least as much as I could be while playing in a band(s) that had - for the most part - missed the first train leaving Grunge Station headed
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SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, (253) 627-TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, (800) 325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, (866) 468-7623, www.ticketweb.com on sale now Joyce, Dori Caymmi Seattle. May 1 7:30 pm. $22.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). Pretty Ricky, Meat N Bones, Butter Cream, 2XL Seattle. May 1 (all ages) 8 pm. $32 (Neumo’s, TW). Wallace Roney Sextet
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Every Sunday morning a crowd huddles around Bobble Tiki in a downtown Tacoma condo elevator (Bobble Tiki rather not get into it), waiting to push into a claustrophobic container. Nearby, a door leads to another option: a stairway. Nobody opens that door. But later that day, at the YMCA, these same
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When I first heard Lula LaFever I had no idea it was her burning up the fret board and was blown away by her tight riffs and red hot solos. A versatile artist, LaFever effortlessly bounces between light to jump jazz, sizzling blues, and rock and roll. No stranger to
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In the fall of 2002, two buskers met for the first time on Broadway Street in Seattle. Both were performing in order to raise money. Felicia Figueroa, originally from Arizona, was touring the country with her dog Tobin, and she was singing on the street corner to raise money to
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Olympia Family Theater continues to make amazingly high quality family theater with their latest production, 3 Tales with 8 Tails. Deanne Shellman directs, in collaboration with Mark Asbel Gerth, a phenomenally fun show that has the actors singing, dancing and puppeteering. While the puppets are one of the
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The Weekly Volcano's Tournament of Tacos has swept up the entire nation (read: general Tacoma area) for the last two and a half weeks, providing bracket addicts everywhere with something to fret over besides Butler and St. Mary's. On Monday, all the taco battling will come to a spicy
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As you may or may not know, I am true blood Tacoman. Those of us born and raised in this scrappy little town love our landmarks and support them in any way we can. This is one reason I've never left this "village." I call Tacoma a village because it
