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Last week, Latosha Curry sent out an email through change.org urging readers to sign a petition. Curry, who has been in the Army for 12 years and hoping to become a recruiter, was sexually assaulted while serving in Korea. Like many victims, she never reported it. "I was too afraid of
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Have you ever thought of a tattoo as a story? Most of us realize that tattoos are art, but they are also symbols with meaning. Every tattoo, from the simplest "Mom" or anchor to the most intricate 3D design - is selected for a reason. Tattoos can reflect our religion
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My first time listening to the Dirty Projectors was a bewildering and dizzyingly delightful experience. David Longstreth was clearly a madman, constantly stretching his vocals beyond the boundaries of good taste and engaging in musicianship that seemed less like a good time and more like self-flagellation. The Dirty Projectors were
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[PUNK] + FRI, FEB. 27-28 Setting aside any of the other qualities that I'll be billboarding about Nasalrod, the one thing that you need to know is that they're a lot of goddamn fun. The punk rock Portland foursome create impossibly energetic music that doesn't so much pummel as it grabs
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She goes around with a big black bag, asking businesses for bubble wrap. This strange habit has actually gained her Web site design services, though at times it also gains her odd looks. Diane Kurzyna doesn’t use this bubble wrap for her own shipping. She uses the addictive-to-pop plastic to stuff “babies”
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In its third year, Saturday’s Community Kid’s Day at Lakewold Gardens is geared toward preschool and grade school-age children and their parents. Becky Roger from Lakewold Gardens’ Program Services says the word is about the fun, educational annual event at this historical 10-acre garden estate. Now the kids probably aren’t
Food Matters
LUNCH AT MARROW Marrow Kitchen & Bar (2717 Sixth Ave., Tacoma) has been concocting compelling eats and drinks for the dinner crowd. We're happy to announce the Sixth Avenue seasonal eats and drinks sensation now serves lunch beginning at 11 a.m. Tuesday-Saturday. SIDE DISH There's still time to take advantage of Stanley
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I spent last week in the skin of a monster. I'm playing Roy Cohn, the very real attorney who guided the knife point of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Red Scare, then adamantly denied his own homosexuality even as he was dying of AIDS. He's a character in Tony
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Portland's There Is No Mountain is a husband-and-wife duo that seems to set itself up to be just another cutesy, folk-pop duo before sharply and forcefully shifting gears into restlessly experimental trajectory. Kali Giaritta and Matt Harmon bring effortlessly lovely harmonies to the table. Musically, though, their adventurousness is evident. Read
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Setting aside any of the other qualities that I'll be billboarding about Nasalrod, the one thing that you need to know is that they're a lot of goddamn fun. The punk rock Portland foursome create impossibly energetic music that doesn't so much pummel as it grabs you by the shoulders
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San Francisco duet the Classical make concise descriptions quite a task. The easiest way to sum them up is to call them baroque art-rock, though that doesn't quite cut it. "Shovel & Bevel" combines clinically mesmerizing drums with odd phrases repeated over and over with darkly expressive strings to create
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A single, light blue handled shovel stuck into the ground caught my eye. The color was apt; light blue is the color of the infantry, the Army's oldest branch. As to shovel, its purpose was to turn a piece of earth marking a sacred place for the construction of a memorial honoring
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It's been a little more than 64 years since the Battle of Chipyong-ni. If you don't know the details of this conflict off the top of your head, you're not alone. While it doesn't have the same name power as, say, the Invasion of Normandy or the Battle of the
