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When he was a child during World War II, Dieter Dengler had an attic room on a German hillside overlooking a valley. One day an American fighter plane roared past “only feet away,” he recalled. The plane’s canopy was down, he made eye contact with the pilot for a moment,
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The Simpsons are fairly surprised to find themselves in a movie; they can’t believe “anyone would pay to see what we did on TV for free.” But I suspect a lot of people will. Here is a feature-length version of what Time magazine, no less, called “the 20th century’s best
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I Know Who Killed Me Tough to know if star Lindsay Lohan’s recent DUI and coke bust will help or hinder this week’s serial killer/torture movie opening of the week. My guess is she will be pointing to herself in the mirror by Monday saying, “I know who killed my career.”
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In the helter-skelter of the modern world, sometimes Bobble Tiki needs nothing so much as the chance to retire inside, close the bamboo shutters and take a break. But Bobble Tiki is the nervous sort, cursed with the inability to just sit and daydream. For some reason, and in less than
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Bobble Tiki is your average American. Average in every way. Bobble Tiki has two parents. They’ve been together since the ’50s, and they hate each other. Bobble Tiki was blonde as a baby Tiki, but as he grew up his hair slowly changed to brown. Now it’s just sparse. Bobble Tiki liked
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Trevalyan Triangle is the solo project of Leanne Trevalyan (of Junkyard Jane) accompanied by Junkyard Jane bassist Barbra Blue. The songs in Trevalyan Triangle are mostly country/Americana ballads that don’t fit into the more rambunctious Junkyard Jane set list. “Junkyard Jane is mostly the music of Billy Stoops and myself,”
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A battle is raging in Washington, DC. No, I’m not talking about the war on terror; I’m talking about the war on Internet radio. The gatekeepers of the music business like record labels, music publishers, broadcasting conglomerates and all their cronies are mad as hell, and they aren’t going to take
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Tacoma likes to believe that in the last 20 years it has grown more socially tolerant. The economic downturn has blended many communities in financial equality. The city's numerous festivals have started to resemble a certain 1971 Coco-Cola commercial. And much of the intermediate neighborhoods of the New Tacoma and
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Sleater-Kinney played its final two shows at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom. Those who’ve been there know, not only is the Crystal Ballroom owned by the McMenamins who redid the Spar in Olympia (and own about a gazillion other bars around Oregon and Washington), but the venue is known for it’s energy-transferring
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Friday, July 27 COUNTRY ronnie milsap Some artists, whether you love them or not, you just can’t find anything bad to say about them, and Ronnie Milsap definitely falls into this group. I first discovered the country crooner in the late ’80s at the height of the “Urban Cowboy” craze; yes I
