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OK, I’ll admit that in retrospect trying to show off to the ladies on the putt-putt golf course at Cassidy’s Pub & Outdoor Mini-golf wasn’t a good idea. I was feeling in a sporting mood and harkened back to my teenage years of picking up chicks at the Parkland Putters
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harlots! “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” is a cute little show about sluts who can carry a tune. Check it. [Capital Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. May 16-19, 23-26, 30 through June 2, 2 p.m. May 20 and 27, $19-$31, 612 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.2744, www.capitalplayhouse.com] bedroom farce! Centerstage Theatre is staging “A Flea
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There once was a time when up-and-coming playwrights, or those who think they are on the rise anyway, had the opportunity to showcase their works at a venue that tried to present theatergoers with new works while at the same time giving playwrights a chance to see their works on
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THE BIKE Ride today In your garage, behind the unused treadmill, golf clubs and Christmas lights, gathering dust, is your bicycle. Reintroduce yourself to it. Talk to it. Love it. Now jump on it and ride your ass to the Tacoma Farmers Market today on Broadway between Ninth and 11th. Bike to Market
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Every other month at the 100th Monkey Party there is a drawing, and the winner becomes the honored 100th Monkey at the next artist community critical mass party. The rules are simple: bring food and drink to share and introduce yourself to at least three people you’ve never met before.
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Being single is a choice. For me, it’s a very good choice, and it’s one that Natasha and I have decided we’re sticking to for the good of the order. I think it’s interesting that so many people spend their time trying to figure out what’s wrong with me since I’m not
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Normally on weekdays I stick to my guns so I can continue to churn out amazing accomplishments at my above-ground professional job. But this fine rag, my nightlife investigations, along with an ever-evolving city, has been keeping me underground all week long lately. I don’t mind, though, because I’m too young to
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There were no pompadour-coiffed hipsters present at the Rosewood Café Monday night. Instead, laid-back friends sat back to enjoy half-priced wine, hearty food (bacon blue cheese salad, num!) and conversation. The group of retro-bike (no lycra or titanium allowed!) riding chums meets at 6:30 p.m. on fair-weather Mondays at the UPS
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As a five-minute film at the 72 Hour Film Competition last Thursday, “Strander” stood out. Unlike most of the other film festival participants, “Strander” was not a lighthearted frolic. “I’m always striving to do something new and unique,” explained lab-worker by day Richard Acosta, who wrote and directed the movie
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Bob Gillis’ maturity is showing in his mini-retrospective, “Work After 70 Years,” at Art House Designs in Olympia. I’ve followed his progress over an almost 20-year period, and his latest works are the strongest yet. Gillis has always done wonderful things with intricately textured surfaces. His earlier works were all about
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Black Book Tragic love story set in wartime Holland as a young Resistance fighter uses her intelligence and sexuality to seduce a local SS commander whom she soon falls in love with. Paul Verhoeven (“Robocop” and “Showgirls”) directs. (R) – Bill White Delta Farce Larry the Cable Guy and two of his buddies
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Two months shy of her 21st birthday but already with enough partying in her past to give Keith Richards a hangover, Lindsay Lohan has more baggage than luisvuitton.com as she stars in “Georgia Rule.” And she’s playing a deeply troubled party girl. Is Lohan tapping into the continuing soap opera that is
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Director Danny Boyle’s edgy and very gritty 2002 film “28 Days Later” was an outstanding addition to the genre of “plague pictures” — films usually (but not always) set in a dark future world being overwhelmed by some kind of disease or infection that threatens to annihilate the planet. Now, Spanish
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on sale now 3 Inches of Blood, Book of Black Each, Darkness Stole the Sky, Left Alive Tacoma. May 19 (all ages) 5 pm. $10 (Hell’s Kitchen, TWeb). Benefit for Jana from Supernova with 3 Inches of Blood, Violence Unfolds, Severus, Mos Generator Tacoma. May 19 9 pm. $10 (Hell’s Kitchen, TWeb). Michael
Outdoors
This time of year in Washington is like magic. The rain has finally stopped, and the skies are clear and sunny. Lucky for us, we don't have to travel far to experience the beauty in our backyard. There are several great, easy hikes within a short drive of JBLM. With
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In the song "Sloop John B," Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys detail a catastrophic sailing expedition that erupts in a booze-driven saga of fist-fights and stolen corn. The protagonist just wants to get home, but first he must hoist the sails and turn the boat back toward where they
News Front
It's not often that reporters get to make dirty jokes (unless you're Jon Stewart), but in this case, the event being covered is one giant innuendo - which perhaps makes this a little more fun for both reader and reporter. And it should be infinitely more fun for those who actually
Arts
If you don't study them carefully, Jean Mandeberg's metal and mixed media assemblages at Salon Refu appear to be sweet wall decorations and little more, but if you make the effort to look carefully you'll see there's much more to them that meets the eye in a cursory glance. There is
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As I sit here, in the cozy darkness of a bar, and write about another band, I reflect on the possibility that my journeys through Tacoma today may have resulted in my first sunburn of this new summer. That yellow psychopath we call the sun got me. I've written many
