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Spew sifts through the Internets for local arts stories so you don't have to.

Artist Marsha Glaziere spent three years sipping coffee around Puget Sound. She painted 12 of her favorite eclectic coffee spots, and then organized them into a 2012 calendar for sale. Included in the calendar are paintings of the Olympia Roasting Company in Olympia and Tully's Coffee in the historic Bostwick building in downtown Tacoma. Take a gander at her awesome work here.

Weekly Volcano scribes previewed the upcoming holiday productions Christmas Revels and Saul Tannenbaum's Claus for Celebration in our Holiday Guide Three here. Also, the Volcano theater critics reviewed five local holiday theater shows.

The UPS-based Toy Boat Theatre ends its Spaceworks Tacoma residency with a winter solstice-inspired original production combining music, theater and poetry. The News Tribune's Rosemary Ponnekanti previews the show here.

Speaking of Spaceworks Tacoma, the entity's blog reviewed the installation The Atlas of Here & There: Making This Day Out of Many created by artists Lauren McCleary and Mary Rothlisberger. The Spaceworks exhibit at 912 Broadway is, according to the review, "literally a window into the artists' internal landscape, a playful yet intricate vision of the things that make their world tick. This teeming work explores ideas of abiding friendship, memory, transience, place, shelter, and environmental sustainability." Read the full review here.

If you haven't read Tacoma artist Lynn Di Nino's review of the Art Basel Miami Beach art trade show, check it out here. It has garnered quite a few comments.

LINK: 2011 South Sound Holiday Happenings