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DANIEL BLUE: ENVIROHOUSE >>> If you have ever visited the Tacoma Landfill, I'm sure you've noticed the conspicuous miniature house that sits on the little slip of land between the incoming and outgoing traffic for the dump. This is the EnviroHouse, the City of Tacoma's green building and natural landscape
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET KYLE BURNETTE >>> Kyle Burnette was born on Oct. 24, 1984 and moved to Tacoma at the lucky age of 7. This melancholy rocker has been playing tight stringy surf tones since I met him at Bob's Java Jive when he was a member of local math rock
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET ZACHARY MARVIC >>> Zachary Marvic was born in Denver, Colo., and moved to Tacoma when he was 2. A magical love child of 1979, the Rocky Mountains had no hold, and the coast drew his family like the autumn wind draws the leaves from trees to the
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET DREW SCHOT >>> Drew Schot was born in Orange County, Calif. Although he has lived in Washington since 1969, he didn't land in our fair city until 1983 where he was a part of the first arts renaissance that occurred in this town, much of which ended
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MEET JAMES JENKINS >>> James Jenkins was born in Saint Joseph's Hospital on June 22, 1985. He has been playing with local band Mama Loves Daddy for longer than you have been alive. James is responsible for the phenomenon known among the seedy rock underbelly of Tacoma as "The Gloom House." Aptly
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET ADAM HALL >>> Adam Hall was born in 1978 in beautiful Santa Monica, Calif., where he lived until he was 3 until his parents relocated to Tacoma. "I moved away when I was 14, and had to go to school in Puyallup, but I would always ride the
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET MIKE BALL >>> Mike Ball was born on Oct. 7 1983, in Los Angeles, Calif. He moved to Washington at the ripe old age of 10. He called Gig Harbor home until he moved to downtown Tacoma four years ago. I met Mike several years ago at The
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET JAMES SINDING >>> "I was born in TG! Ten-twenty-seven-eighty-six," says James Sinding. He's lived on Prospect Hill for the majority of his life. He claims to have attended Tacoma Baptist "for my entire life" but that's impossible because I know that currently he is enrolled in the University
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET JENA STEDTLER >>> Jena Stedtler moved here In February of 2005, from Marysville, Wash., "also technically from Auburn, Lynnwood and Bellevue," she says with a giggle that is very typical of her cute teddy bear demeanor. Currently she is attending Tacoma Community College, "just trying to learn
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DANIEL BLUE: MEET SAM PASCOE >>> Sam Pascoe was born in Tacoma in 1980, and is a true Tacoma Lifer. Educated at the Annie and Charles Wright's primary and secondary private schools, Pascoe is a gentleman and a scholar. "After School, I took a job in Denver reinsuring new construction projects,