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As the new school year kicked off at Clover Park Technical College, a familiar face in a new role greeted students at the Veteran Resource Center. Shawn Durnen, who was previously in their shoes, assumed the position of Veteran Navigator at the college and got the seat behind the desk. Durnen went
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Her friends and family may call her Chan Marshall, but the music-loving world knows her better as singer-songwriter (and actor and model) Cat Power. I first encountered Power opening for Liz Phair in the mid-'90s, then crushed on her 2003 album You Are Free. I even followed her excursion into
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There's a thunder on the horizon, Gritty City, and it's not our inevitable return to a gray autumn rainscape. No, that ominous rumble you hear, pitched way, way down in the basso profundo hum of a gathering tremor, is nothing more than the return of the Dockyard Derby Dames: Tacoma's
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A former Navy SEAL stood thigh deep in the dark waters of Lake Washington. He was displeased. "We'll do this until you all get it right - we've got all night," he said in a measured, uncompromising tone. In front of Cadre Geoff stood and shivered 30 individuals engaged in a GORUCK ABSOC,
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This Sunday at the Swiss the South Sound Blues Association (SSBA) is hosting a fundraiser to help send The CD Woodbury Band to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January. As readers may recall, guitarist CD Woodbury and his band emerged victorious earlier this year at the SSBA's Back
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Everyone knows at least one annoyingly perfect woman who not only bakes her own cakes and blends her own icing from scratch, but also decorates desserts like a trained professional. Well, the Martha Stewart reign of terror is officially over: Bayview School of Cooking's Hands-On Cake Decorating 101 class is
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"Metal-Urge" is a massive celebration of all things metal-art forged by 80 artists holding firm in 20 venues all around Tacoma through the month of October and November. Tacoma Arts Administrator Amy McBride created the event, her first large-scale project for the cultural tourism program, nearly 15 years ago. Then,
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Olympia painter Barlow Palminteri tops the list of Juror's Choice Award winners in the 12th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition at Tacoma Community College with his painting "Trailblazer Landscape." Palminteri has made a big splash in the area art scene with his realistic interior scenes (part Phillip Pearlstein and part
