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Chances are you've heard enough quotes about hard work and persistence that if you followed half of them you could have achieved most of your life's dreams by now. But who does that, right? Every once in awhile, though, you meet someone who proves all those motivational sayings aren't just
Music
I normally don't make it a point to ask about their band name. For the most part, it's nonsense anyway. No one takes the time to ask Steely Dan or Pearl Jam or the Flaming Lips about their vaguely gross names. (Incidentally, I wonder if Steely Dan all shouted "F---!"
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In this day and age, it's rare to find someone who didn't have the three R's drilled into them all the way through grade school. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Third graders across the country know it like a prayer. How about adults? Do they know their three R's? Tacoma Eco-Hour has
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Sarah Bostelle walked into the party. People stopped talking, not in an exaggerated Hollywood way, just in quick quiet admiration. Bostelle looked smashing at Viva La Rose, Saturday’s birthday celebration for North Tacoma resident Rose Peterson. Bostelle’s 1920s-inspired backless, vintage satin dress was handmade, as interior stitching and utter lack
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Sister Spit all-girl spoken word road show drops in on the Olympia Timberland Library on Tax Day. If you're envisioning a bunch of gray-haired professors reading Dickinson and Shakespeare in low, expressionless tones, drooling, you've it wrong. Whew! This tour features half a dozen or so, 20-something queer female writers,
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As Tom Lehrer immortally said, "Spring is here! Su-pa-ring is here! Life is skittles and life is beer!" We've made it through the terrible wasteland of the temperate winter, and we've lived to come out on the other side: spring. How do we show our benevolent gods that we are thankful
Food Matters
RED HOT RAINIERS The Tacoma Rainiers welcome The Red Hot to Cheney Stadium (2502 S. Tyler St., Tacoma) for their 2015 season. Beginning on Opening Day, 7 p.m. Friday April 17, The Red Hot will be among the home plate side dining options offering compelling hot dog concoctions in the name
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While four-piece Pile from Massachusetts named themselves a single, indistinct word, there are thousands of pages to be written with that one little word. Standing out amongst the English language, "pile" is a word that rarely denotes something good. I guess you could have a pile of delicious donuts? More
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Chicago quartet the Boxers start out their most recent LP, The Blue Pool, with washed-out snippets from Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet," distorted and sinister, before segueing into a sort of anthemic, melancholy rock. It's reminiscent of the days when the Flaming Lips were transitioning from stoned punks into the glorious
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Portland trio the Woolen Men carry with them a number of easily identifiable influences that mix together in delightful ways. They bring the '50s rock by way of Violent Femmes, the stately indie pop of Guided By Voices, and the shambolic lo-fi rock of Pavement. It's ear candy for a
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Award-winning Olympia-based funk rock band The Brown Edition wants you to join their band. Hold on - don't get your hopes up. The band, led by the charismatic Miguel Pineda, will host a jam session inviting all to join them on stage Thursday night at the Rhythm and Rye venue
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Chris Ballew, lead singer for mid-'90s Seattle alt-rock outfit The Presidents of the United States of America, has a pair of Grammy nominations under his belt. His hit singles "Lump" and "Peaches" are fixtures on rock radio. So it's amusing that Ballew reentered the public consciousness,
