Subject: Tacoma

• Bottomfeeder: Comfort, Grease, History, Tacoma

  June 3, 2009

• Afternoon Edition: We'll Buy You a Case

  May 21, 2008

• Soldier of Misfortune Returning to the U.S.

  November 26, 2007

• CG What? Walking With Dinosaurs, Wednesday

  July 11, 2007

• The New Fusion

  October 8, 2007

• Cosa Rangostra

  November 30, 2006

• Thanks For The Hypocrisy

  January 10, 2007

• Fall Out Boy Fans Play the Waiting Game

  June 27, 2007

• Bringing the Sexy and Satanic to the Northwest?

  March 28, 2007

• Weekend Review: Wine, Tacos and Joe Biden

  October 20, 2008

• Snow Globe at Tacoma Art Museum

  October 31, 2008

• Afternoon Edition: It's Britney, Bitch

  -- That's right, she's coming to the Tacoma Dome. -- Perhaps we saw you walkin' 'round Greenlake.-- Or at the Metallica show last night.-- Or at that meeting of like-minded political associates.-- Don't ever let it be said that this city doesn't love fatty pieces of swine.-- If you don't think the 0-Everything UW football boosters can pay their own stadium renovations, raise your hand.

  December 2, 2008

• Ranger #2 Gets 11 Years for Bank Heist

  Ex-Army Ranger Chad Palmer this morning was sentenced to 11 years for a military-style bank heist in Tacoma, the same crime that netted another Ranger a 24-year term last week. Palmer, 22, got a break after he cooperated with prosecutors and laid out details of the robbery that he and other Rangers rehearsed on a hill overlooking their Fort Lewis barracks. Though prosecutors and his attorney didn't want to talk about Palmer's insider role, sketchy court records mention he apparently met with a

  December 16, 2008

• Afternoon Edition: Pregnant With Pissed-Offedness

  People are pissed at having forced cases of cabin fever, but has the city really been shut down? People are pissed about the roads not being cleared, but do they have shovels in their own garages? People are pissed about the crappy bus (and garbage) service, but have they tried hailing a cab (or ordering pizza)? An Oregon Coast gawker who'd hoped to get a killer view of a dead-whale explosion is pissed because a glob of flying blubber totaled his car. And Rocket Queen's just pissed at hers

  December 24, 2008

• Neko Case in the Sunday NYT

  While it's becoming increasingly difficult to classify Neko Case as a local artist, in yesterday's NYT Mag she identifies Tacoma as her hometown. Also in the lengthy profile, it's revealed that she's moving to Vermont (from Arizona), thinks Juno should have had an abortion, finds dilapidated pianos to record with on eBay, and that T-Bone Burnett is a huge fan.

  February 16, 2009

• AC/DC Comin' Back to the Tacoma Dome

  Jenny JimenezWatch a slideshow of AC/DC's Tacoma Dome set on Nov. 30.AC/DC When: Aug. 30 Where: Tacoma Dome On an unrelated note, I saw an AMAZING Billy Joel show at KeyArena in high school. Apparently the Piano Man's previous local gig had been at the T-Dome and he quipped, "Even hockey sounds bad in there."

  April 7, 2009

• Ride the Britney Train to the Tacoma Dome!

  What's better than seeing Britney Spears in concert at the Tacoma Dome? Getting smashed and seeing Britney Spears in concert at the Tacoma Dome. Sound Transit will be shuttling fans back and forth from the show--a ride that's certain to be either incredibly fun or obnoxious. Check the schedule so you know when and where you can drink and ride tonight!

  April 9, 2009

• The Sonics

  October 29, 2008

• Unpackaged Presence

  October 30, 2002

• The Elephants

  Saturday, April 26

  April 23, 2008

• Mono in VCF

  Saturday, February 9

  February 6, 2008

• Funk-fudge

  December 12, 2007

• Rilo Kiley, Jonathan Rice, Grand Ole Party

  A sexy L.A. band is your JT alternative

  September 5, 2007

• TAG TEAM

  February 14, 2007

• Visual Arts

  An opinionated guide to new and ongoing gallery and museum shows.

  August 2, 2006

• Visual Arts Listings

  January 25, 2006

• Anime and Animals

  Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2005

  August 31, 2005

• Figurehead

  December 29, 2004

• Federal Cuts Hit Home

  July 21, 2004

• Domicile of Dysfunction

  May 14, 2003

• Please Post, Posthaste

  January 1, 2003

• Cone of Plenty

  July 3, 2002

• Number of the Week

  March 13, 2002

• Action's action

  February 20, 2002

• The start of something big

  August 8, 2001

• Life in the carpool lane

  August 16, 2000

• The phantom anarchists

  April 19, 2000

• Gadfly Soup: Baker's flaky recipe for defeat

  October 27, 1999

• Notorious namesakes

  October 6, 1999

• A bridge too far

  September 2, 1998

• We Can Now Finally Say That Men's Professional Basketball Has Left the Puget Sound Area...

  ...since Tacoma police will no longer be paid to ball in charity events. TNT reports that a "whistleblower" (not a referee) revealed that officers were paid to play in the Hilltop Challenge, a charity basketball game benefitting youth programs, and other officers paid overtime to take their shifts. The officers were paid for 10-hour shifts for the event, which lasted only a few hours, and were also paid to practice. (We in here talkin' about practice?! Click on that link--it's amazing.) The De

  June 25, 2009

• Who Loves the Jonas Brothers? You Do!

  The ridiculously popular boy band graced the Tacoma Dome with their adorable presence last night. But it was the fans who really stood out; they got decked out in cocktail dresses, made signs, and dropped way too much money on t-shirts adorned with the Jo Bros' faces. Here's some photos of you crazy kids.

  June 29, 2009

• From One Smoke-filled Room to Another?

  Would you throw a smoke bomb through this man's window? Someone did. He's John Hathaway, rascally publisher of The New Takhoman, a website devoted to Tacoma politics and civic disputes. He regularly takes swipes at Tacoma's city leaders, often in cartoon form, but has never seemed dangerous enough to provoke an attack. Hathaway's website is so far silent about the window-breaking smoke-filled sortie, but the News Tribune reports that that someone arrived in the dark, armed with both a rock and b

  July 8, 2009

• Olson Out, Ry-Ro In

  The Mariner pitching rotation inched a bit closer to its preseason projection with today's announcement that Ryan Rowland-Smith will end his epic rehab stint in Tacoma to replace Garrett Olson, who got shelled by the Tigers last night. Carlos Silva remains sequestered in a bunker, whereabouts unknown.

  July 22, 2009

• Music That's Worth an Hour Long Drive

  ​In this heat, a band has got to be fucking good, to want to sit in congested traffic for an hour to just to watch somebody perform. Hell, you could be in traffic for more than an hour today considering the Mariners just played a home game. But I'll be honest, heading down to Tacoma this evening to watch Shook Ones play is well worth it. Every time I hear their music I'm blown away at how good these guys are at soaking up the essence of pure early '90s punk and spitting it back at audience

  July 29, 2009

• The Fucking Eagles

  September 2, 2009

• Tonight: SDRE in Tacoma, D. Black, the Drones

  The Drones​Sunny Day Real Estate is playing Tacoma tonight, and since Seattle is their last stop on the reunion tour, I'd consider leaving work early and heading south, since as far as we know, there aren't advance tickets for this show. Closer to home, the Tractor Tavern's got a great bill this evening: the Drones, Eugene Wendell & the Demon Rind and Mike Jaworski's new band, Virgin Islands (it's the band's first show), are all playing. It starts at 9 p.m. and costs $10. D. Black's al

  September 16, 2009

• The Long Nightmare is Over: Tacoma Bans Smokers from Public Parks

  Little Mike often wonders how his life would have turned out had the ban been approved a month earlier​Double shots of espresso. Emotional repression. A bygone, but defining epoch in popular music. And a weakness for unconstitutional public safety measures. These are just a few of the things that this here burg is known for. But here comes the upstart Tacoma, stepping into the futile gesture game with a recently passed ban on smoking in all public parks. By a count of 6-3, the Tacoma ci

  October 23, 2009

• Tacoma Tugs Win World Series For Second Time in Three Years

  Forget the Yankees and Phillies; the Tugs have already clinched the World Series.​While the Yankees and Phillies brave crappy Northeastern weather in a duel to determine the best team in the Major Leagues, the Tacoma Tugs quietly steamrolled through a massive field in steamy Phoenix en route to their second Men's Senior Baseball League national title in three years, avenging last year's quarterfinal loss with a 10-2 victory over the Venice A's in the deciding game. The title clincher cappe

  November 2, 2009

• Man Wearing Spiderman Mask Robs Tacoma Pizza Joint

  Even Hollywood A-listers aren't immune from the recession.​If something deep in your bones is telling you you're about to hear about a stupid criminal, congratulations: Your Spidey sense is officially more in tune than the Tacoma bandit who robbed a pizza joint last night. The News Tribune reports that a man wearing a Spiderman ski mask walked into a Papa Murphy's around 7 P.M. and robbed the employees at gunpoint. By the time Tacoma police arrived the suspect had fled. Besides a vague d

  November 17, 2009