Features
If I had to pick a favorite food genre, Asian cuisine would right up there. It has everything I love: noodles, tofu, vegetables and lots and lots of salt! The only thing missing is cheese, which is why it will never be my absolute number one. Also, ingredients for Asian
Food Matters
Thursday, Jan. 21 Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215. Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum
Features
Located on Market Street in downtown Tacoma, nestled quietly beneath the colorful Villaggio Apartments lays a gateway to an alternative to Tacoma's commercial nightlife. The Villa Caffe & Imbibery is a discreet little coffee house and bar that opened last week across the street from the Bicentennial Pavilion. The Villa
Stage
They'd none of 'em be missed. So sings Ko-Ko in Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado - and the house music to Olympia Little Theatre's droll production of Murderers, which closes this weekend. Co-directors Toni Holm and Kathryn Beall (with an assist from AD Julia VanDerslice) do a fine job of punctuating Jeffrey Hatcher's
Music
Hip-Hop 4 The Homeless will be held Saturday, Jan. 30, 4-10 p.m., at The Loft on Cherry in Olympia. It continues to thrive as an annual event that focuses on the increasing numbers of the homeless nation and raises food, clothing, resources and funding for the homeless and needy of
Music
Once your band has been together for a while, after you've worked up a bit of material, the next logical step is to put it all on record. But it's a big and kind of scary step. Even at relatively cheap studios, you're going to be throwing down a
Food Matters
FRIED CHICKEN DINNER TUESDAYS When choosing a place to eat Tuesday nights, I will stick to my New Year's resolution. Fortunately, my resolution is to eat more fried chicken, which is a pretty easy promise to keep.Pacific Grill has introduced Fried Chicken Dinner Tuesdays: wedge salad with blue cheese, Coca-Cola brined
Stage
The Kids Design Glass exhibition at Museum of Glass should not be reviewed in any critical way. It should, however, be applauded with gusto. This is a delightful show and a wonderful program. Sponsored by KeyBank /Key Foundation and the Muckleshoot Charity Fund, the program invites children 12 and younger
Arts
As artists, we often cordon ourselves off from the world in the name of creativity. It's easy to do - to pass off our own, deeply ingrained alienation as some sort of heroic individualism. When contrasted against the sort of pap that passes itself as "community", or "leisure," the dandyism
Music
You've seen one. If you're lucky enough to have been psychoanalyzed at length, you may have seen plenty of them. A Rorschach Test. The inkblot thing - "Look at this image and tell me what you see, feel, sense. ..." A butterfly? A bullwhip? A butthole? A bag
Music
No matter how jaded I sometimes feel about music, there's always something that comes along and takes me completely by surprise. I think the last thing to have that effect on me was St. Vincent - known for jarringly jumping back and forth from pop to folk to crunchy space-funk.
Music
It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling. ...Bobble Tiki has never been called a minimalist. He's been called lazy, unproductive, uninspired, unmotivated and unbecoming to Tikis everywhere, but no
Reviews
BLAZING ONIONWhere: 4701 Point Fosdick Drive N.W., Gig Harbor, 253.514.6703 Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. dailyCuisine: American diner fare on steroids Scene: Casual, order-at-the-counter, family-friendly dining room and 21+ bar area with table serviceDrinkies: Microbrews, wine, bottled beer, cocktails. Fountain, Henry Weinhard's and Jones sodas, Citavo organic coffeeDamage: $2.99-$14.99ANNOUNCER: Lit up
Music
EMPTY SPACE ORCHESTRA >>>Thursday, Jan. 14Orchestras are fucking big, which is why it takes a certain amount of balls to reference one in your band name - unless, of course, you're being ironic. And chances are, that's what you're doing - especially if you're still wearing that godforsaken "KISS ME
Features
What do you get when you cross Top Foods with the Dollar Store, Big Lots, Cash and Carry, Metropolitan Market and that weird little convenience store with bars on the windows? I bet you are wondering what I’m smoking as I write, but really there is such a store and
Food Matters
Thursday, Jan. 14Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215.Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020.Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum
Food Matters
WINTER BREWERS DINNERSalty’s At Redondo Beach and Widmer Brothers Brewing Company present a Winter Brewers Dinner Friday, Jan. 22 at 6:30 p.m. The menu will be a collaboration of Chef Gabriel Cabrera's cuisine and Beverage Manager Scott McDowell's palate for pairing. They will discuss how and why they selected each
Features
There are restaurants I have to ease into slowly, coming around to their flavors or unique takes on cuisine by the end of the meal. There are other restaurants that win me over quickly - love at first bite, or damn close to it. Typically, the latter has to due
Live & CD Reviews
I like this job. It makes me do stuff that I want to do, but never get around to without a kick in the pants. I started a blog of my own a few years ago, and said to myself, "OK, now you've got a reason to get off your
Music
So you think that you and your fledgling band can practice on some kind of a street corner or maybe in a park or on a bus or rooftop? Untrue! Your band is required to convene in a small room of some sort. But where to find such a room?I