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The drawing power of the mecca that is Forks, Wash., pulses through the veins of any self-respecting Twilight fan. Luckily for us, it's a mere three hours from Tacoma. Things you will not find here include: Edward, Jacob, possibly any hot men at all (although, as with anywhere, hot men can
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What is creativity? Why are there people like Leonardo Da Vinci, and then people like that dude in the apartment downstairs who spends his days picking lint out of his belly button? May 1 at 2 p.m., a panel of Tacoma artists aims to answer this question as part of Tacoma
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Linda Jacobus is a local oil painter. She's an oil painter with a show going on at Morso Wine Bar in Gig Harbor until April 24. If you haven't checked out Morso before, it's a beautiful harborside restaurant with tasty food and an array of wines. If you haven't checked out a
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Linda Jacobus is a local oil painter. She's an oil painter with a show going on at Morso Wine Bar in Gig Harbor until April 24. If you haven't checked out Morso before, it's a beautiful harborside restaurant with tasty food and an array of wines. If you haven't checked
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If you haven't heard of the Edible Book Festival, you are likely not alone - even though it's an international festival held at libraries worldwide, including Tacoma's own Collins Memorial Library on the University of Puget Sound campus. And while you may be thinking an edible book festival must surely
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If you haven't heard of the Edible Book Festival, you are likely not alone - even though it's an international festival held at libraries worldwide, including Tacoma's own Collins Memorial Library on the University of Puget Sound campus. And while you may be thinking an edible book festival must surely
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The 253 Collective is an artist cooperative located in downtown Tacoma - right across from The Swiss in the Jet/Tioga building. The co-op‘s space is small, but features pieces that range across many media. I sat down with member Megan Kilen to check out what's new and happening with the
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The Puget Sound Book Artists are new booking-making kids on the block. While book arts groups do already exist in the region, they largely have events in Seattle. And sometimes that's just too far away. Luckily, Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA) is here to focus specifically on the South Sound
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You could whip out your wee digital camera if you want to capture your image, but, let's face it, digital cameras are a flash in the pan. The real way to record the essence of you is one that kings and queens of old recognized - sit your booty down
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Whatever you may think of downtown Tacoma, you likely haven't thought of it as a forest. But it will indeed morph into a metaphorical forest in late March as a part of Tacoma's Arbor Day festivities. The Urban Forest Project will deck out downtown with banners - banners with images
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Tacomans carry on about their lives as if nothing were amiss, but all the while two artists plan our demise in the month of February with the Zombie Tacomapocalypse. While stores stock up on chocolates in heart-shaped boxes, Kendra Breeden and Stuart M. Dempster of Treefish Studio in Tacoma plot
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Tacomans carry on about their lives as if nothing were amiss, but all the while two artists plan our demise in the month of February with the Zombie Tacomapocalypse. While stores stock up on chocolates in heart-shaped boxes, Kendra Breeden and Stuart M. Dempster of Treefish Studio in Tacoma plot
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Jared Abwawo is both a math teacher at Tacoma Community College and a photographer. Where many mathematicians may consider solving the Rubik's Cube an artform (or, worse, solving an equation) Abwawo is a master at combining calculus with composition, algebra with art. As such, he has succeeded in defying nerdy
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The Vetri and Traver galleries are located next to the Museum of Glass on Dock Street in Tacoma. The original Traver Galleries were founded in Seattle about 35 years ago, and the Tacoma versions have been around for about eight years. What the general public may not know is that
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What better to do with an evening out than see an oft-banned musical? Spring Awakening follows a group of German students as they come of age and explore their sexuality - providing an afternoon or evening of entertainment for you. The content is explicit as it chronicles
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The Tacoma Poet Laureate program has been headed up by Urban Grace Church for the past three years-shining a bold poetic light over many of the cultural events in venerable T-Town. But now, the bird that is the Poet Laureate program is going to fly free to a larger nest,
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Urban Grace Church is an ecumenical church in downtown Tacoma and it is anything but your average place of worship - this church, headed by pastor Tad Monroe, is intrinsically intertwined with the arts. And just like the Catholic Church patronized the Renaissance greats and filled the streets of Rome
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On the stairs on 12th Street in downtown Tacoma leading from Pacific Avenue up to Commerce Street, there is a new piece of large-scale public art called Projecting Drop, which was part of a larger renovation of the area next to the Pacific Plaza building. Projecting Drop was designed by
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While the City of Tacoma could fight vandalism with a series of electric fences, 24-hour guards or good old-fashioned centurions with cat-o'-nine-tails, the creative people at the Tacoma Arts Commission decided to combine art and community instead. The result was the Tacoma Community Based Mural Program - a project featuring
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The Proctor Art Walk brings together a whole bunch of artists and a whole bunch of Proctor businesses, all within a three-block area. On one cold and rainy day, I ventured from my warm and cozy apartment to meet with Carolyn Burt (owner of the Proctor Art