Housing
While the real estate market is a bit tight here in the South Puget Sound area, there are still homes available - some of which are open this weekend for tour, and/or, just came open on the market. The following are a few worthy of your time. ROY Sandy Bicheray has a
Food Matters
FALL BREW FEST After paying $10-$15, the Varsity Grill (114 Broadway, Tacoma) will serve you nine fall beer samples, a variety of appetizers and all sorts of fun from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28. Plus, 950 AM KJR sports radio will be broadcasting live until 7 p.m., and the always-awesome RockBot
Sipping Out
Thursday, Oct. 27 Holiday wine tasting and sale, 5-7 p.m., $15, 437 29th St. NE, Puyallup, 253.864.8600. Ladies Night half-off all wine glass pours, lounge only, The Melting Pot, 2121 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.535.3939. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., $1 a taste, Stina's Cellars, 9316 Lakeview Ave. SW, Suite B, Lakewood, 253.227.9748. Half-price
Features
Summer, summer, summer time has finally arrived! Festival season is in full effect luring the masses to local parks and sometimes the streets to stroll, shop and (my personal favorite) eat! While some festivals add foodie fun to elevate the festival experience, others embrace our love of all things culinary fully,
Military Life
Before Joan Shalikashvili met her husband nearly 45 years ago, she knew almost nothing about the military lifestyle. When she met her future husband John, he was a major in the Army. "I thought a major was one of the most senior ranks there were," Joan recalls with a laugh. A lot has
Scene It
There's something inherently American about pieces of fried chicken in a salad. It's Jenny Craig meets KFC. It's blatant excess coupled with green modesty. It's iPhones, Simon Cowell's X Factor and economic worries all rolled into a single, delightful meal. Well, maybe not. But this is where my mind wanders as
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As the cliché goes, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." And such is the case with Margaret Cho, who somehow parlayed the poignant failures of her early career - namely, the cancellation of '90s sitcom All American Girl, a gig that, literally, almost killed
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You likely remember those word-association games we all had to take in high school during those seemingly endless barrages of standardized tests. Here is a flash back of those days. Washington is to beer what California is to wine. So an event this weekend is therefore a blue-collar version of
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High Tea Tea isn’t just hot water splashed on some dried leaves. It’s little Muffy in a frilly dress pouring teeny cups for teddy bears. It’s ancient Chinese doctors blending the fruits of the earth to cure flesh, and British nannies sneaking behind the shrubbery snatching a few minutes for themselves.
Arts
As the cliché goes, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." And such is the case with Margaret Cho, who somehow parlayed the poignant failures of her early career - namely, the cancellation of '90s sitcom All American Girl, a gig that, literally, almost killed her - into
Stage
Editor's Note: Last week, Alec Clayton previewed the opening of Lysistrata. This week, Adam McKinney offers his review. The battle of the sexes has been a trope, in fiction, for practically as long as there has been fiction. Along the way, it's been approached with varying levels of humor, tragedy, righteous
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I have to say that I just couldn’t picture Tacoma Little Theatre staging “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.” It just didn’t seem like a show the theater could pull off, or since it’s a play about a brothel, pull down might be a better description. Anyway, I’ll eat crow on
Cup Check
I tried. Oh sweet Jesus how I tried. I wanted nothing more than to find something else - anything else - to write about this week. But I couldn't. It was unavoidable. It's that goddamn Tebow Thing. Perhaps you noticed - the Broncos' polarizing lefty made his first start of the season last
Features
A new archetype is emerging, one with a curious appetite and a penchant for handheld tech-gadgets. Enter the Food-Geek, a discerning foodie fluent in app usage and online navigation. There's an app for everything these days, from the mundane to the exciting. And fans of handy apps will welcome the
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Fans of restaurant apps will welcome the launch of Foodcaching in Tacoma. Modeled after a treasure hunt with a geocaching vibe, Foodcaching is a mobile app for Android and iPhone smartphones designed to connect consumers with deal-driven, specific dining options. Looking for gluten-free, vegetarian, Thai or other specific dining options?
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Since her days on The Tonight Show in the 1970s, Joan Rivers has been a comedic icon. Now 78, Rivers, as captured in Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (last year's film documentary about her life) seems to fear just one thing: a blank calendar. Co-host of E! Entertainment TV's
Arts
Since her days on The Tonight Show in the 1970s, Joan Rivers has been a comedic icon. Now 78, Rivers, as captured in Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (last year's film documentary about her life) seems to fear just one thing: a blank calendar. Co-host of E! Entertainment TV's
Music
NIGHT OF THE LIVING TRIBUTE BANDS >>> Saturday, Oct. 29 For the past 11 years, in honor of Halloween, the Olympia Film Society has hosted an event simply known as Night of the Living Tribute Bands. These shows are rare windows into the musical lives of local performers whom we may know
