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Making babies, not trash

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

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Making babies, not trash

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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Welcome to Active Culture

It would seem that there are a pretty fair number of active types who may be just like the average Joes outside local bars. Rather than filling their calendars with coffee shop and cocktail outings and stretching their budget for a non-generic cigarette, these people consider outings to gyms and

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Welcome to Active Culture

It would seem that there are a pretty fair number of active types who may be just like the average Joes outside local bars. Rather than filling their calendars with coffee shop and cocktail outings and stretching their budget for a non-generic cigarette, these people consider outings to gyms and

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Step in to the Man Parlour

Robb Manke’s addictions started with just one. He cashed in some baseball cards around 1993 and got his first taste. “It became addictive,” he recalls, “very addictive.” From there, though he took a break for a while, he felt the compulsion to collect more. Now his collection of original arcade-style video games

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Step in to the Man Parlour

Robb Manke’s addictions started with just one. He cashed in some baseball cards around 1993 and got his first taste. “It became addictive,” he recalls, “very addictive.” From there, though he took a break for a while, he felt the compulsion to collect more. Now his collection of original arcade-style video games

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Are you curious?

Jennevieve Schlemmer, sipping coffee while we eat at the Mandolin Café, mentions something Lynn Di Nino has told her that’s resonated: when Di Nino was learning massage therapy, a tenet was “always leave one hand on the body.” It’s a tenet Di Nino has been employing both with her work on

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Are you curious?

Jennevieve Schlemmer, sipping coffee while we eat at the Mandolin Café, mentions something Lynn Di Nino has told her that’s resonated: when Di Nino was learning massage therapy, a tenet was “always leave one hand on the body.” It’s a tenet Di Nino has been employing both with her work on

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Twinkling, Sparkling, and fizzing

At the Tacoma Art Museum on Friday night, Twinkling felt so right! The evening of Twinkle! Pop-Crush-Fizz high culture included art in the “Sparkle then Fade” exhibit, music by Lushy and DJ Vodka Twist, entertainment antics of some scantily clad (but fabulously accessorized) Derby Dames from Femme Fianna, and live art

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Twinkling, Sparkling, and fizzing

At the Tacoma Art Museum on Friday night, Twinkling felt so right! The evening of Twinkle! Pop-Crush-Fizz high culture included art in the “Sparkle then Fade” exhibit, music by Lushy and DJ Vodka Twist, entertainment antics of some scantily clad (but fabulously accessorized) Derby Dames from Femme Fianna, and live art

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Preparing for Maui

Toys for tots, Maui style Put the significant one, our daughter, and me into a three bedroom condo on Ka’anapali beach with two other couples and a 1-year-old, and you have the Hawaiian vacation I’m about to embark upon. It’s going to be fun, I have no doubt, though I’m a little

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Preparing for Maui

Toys for tots, Maui style Put the significant one, our daughter, and me into a three bedroom condo on Ka’anapali beach with two other couples and a 1-year-old, and you have the Hawaiian vacation I’m about to embark upon. It’s going to be fun, I have no doubt, though I’m a little

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Paint the Hilltop fun

It’s time for another free festival centering on art. But wait. “It is not just another festival — there are important twists,” explains Drew Ebersole, fund development officer at the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, who will be presenting the family-friendly Music & Murals event set to happen Sept. 8,

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Paint the Hilltop fun

It’s time for another free festival centering on art. But wait. “It is not just another festival — there are important twists,” explains Drew Ebersole, fund development officer at the Martin Luther King Housing Development Association, who will be presenting the family-friendly Music & Murals event set to happen Sept. 8,

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Manhattan Blowouts

Hairstylist Denise Francis finessed a couple of Manhattan Blowouts at the Biella Launch Thursday night: one set of the curls graced the head of spa owner and operator Ruth Soukup, while the other frolicked atop the head of Women of the Military Makeover winner, Jennifer Nagle, whose husband, newly home

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Manhattan Blowouts

Hairstylist Denise Francis finessed a couple of Manhattan Blowouts at the Biella Launch Thursday night: one set of the curls graced the head of spa owner and operator Ruth Soukup, while the other frolicked atop the head of Women of the Military Makeover winner, Jennifer Nagle, whose husband, newly home

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It\'s all good

Not quite, since all three shops will have totally different outlooks: Super Supplements, set to open Sept. 1 in the space next to the recently opened Tight Cuts on Sixth and Pearl in Tacoma, will offer all manner of healthy goodies — vitamins, minerals, organic beauty aids. Willow, a new

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It\'s all good

Not quite, since all three shops will have totally different outlooks: Super Supplements, set to open Sept. 1 in the space next to the recently opened Tight Cuts on Sixth and Pearl in Tacoma, will offer all manner of healthy goodies — vitamins, minerals, organic beauty aids. Willow, a new

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DJ Mauro’s Latin night

DJ Mauro has had a problem with his phone lately: it won’t stop ringing. People keep calling the DJ/Latin music promoter asking to be put on his VIP list for the show he’s bringing to Oh! Gallagher’s in Lakewood Saturday, Sept. 1. But DJ Mauro’s fretting that there may not be

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DJ Mauro’s Latin night

DJ Mauro has had a problem with his phone lately: it won’t stop ringing. People keep calling the DJ/Latin music promoter asking to be put on his VIP list for the show he’s bringing to Oh! Gallagher’s in Lakewood Saturday, Sept. 1. But DJ Mauro’s fretting that there may not be

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