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    2012 Sewing & Stitchery Expo

    Posted @ 12:04PM on 02/21/2012 by Lauren - Home Garden
    The 2012 Sewing & Stichery Expo will take place March 1 – 4 in Puyallup. The largest consumer sewing expo in the country, this year’s event will feature Quilter’s Night Out, a sewing extravag
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    Centerstage Presents What the Butler Saw

    Posted @ 10:35AM on 02/21/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
    Centerstage! Theatre of Federal Way brings to life a farcical, groundbreaking comedy starting Friday, Feb. 3. What the Butler Saw tells
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    Buffalo Soldier Museum Now Open for Tours

    Posted @ 10:27AM on 02/21/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
    The Buffalo Soldier Museum, a private collection located in the cottage of late Tacoma resident William Jones, is now formally open to the public. Formally known as the 9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers Museum, the museum aims to educate
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    One of the World's Biggest Openings of 2012

    Posted @ 11:14AM on 02/16/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
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    LeMay, America's Car Museum (ACM) was recognized by USA Today as one of the world's "8 big openings of 2012." Anticipation is growing as the museum prepares for its grand opening June 2. The 165,000 square-foot space will feature more than 500 vintage cars and a view of Tacoma's city landscape.
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    A Sitting Place for Change

    Posted @ 10:57AM on 02/16/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
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    Chair Affair, the main fundraiser for Northwest Furniture Bank will auction off chairs of every dimension on March 20 at the Museum of Glass. From delicately painted rocking chairs to modern desk chairs with cutting-edge design, the Chair Affair doesn’t discriminate on style but stays exclusive to excellence. Last year 75 artists made one-of-a-kind chairs and helped raise more than $58,000.
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    Ellen Donates To James Sales Elementary

    Posted @ 10:47AM on 02/16/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Target Corporation gave James Sales Elementary of Tacoma $100,000 on an episode of Ellen that aired Jan. 5. The school was awarded that check after DeGeneres learned about the 12 Days of Hope program Principal Kristen Schroeder developed after watching Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways.
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    A Floating Surprise

    Posted @ 10:39AM on 02/16/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
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    Bella Balls in Tacoma makes glass floats, also known as Japanese fishing floats. But artists (and best friends) Lesli Jacobs-McHugh and Diane Hansen think of them as little bits of wonder. Used by the Japanese for centuries to hold up fishing nets, they would sometimes come loose and float among the waves for thousands of miles.
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    South Sound Editor's Pick at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show

    Posted @ 02:45PM on 02/15/2012 by Lauren - Home Garden
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    The Northwest Flower and Garden Show presented a remarkable variety of show gardens. But the displays that impressed us the most were the ones that portrayed powerful messages about how life, leisure and garden
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    Help Preserve a Piece of Tacoma

    Posted @ 11:00AM on 02/15/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
    As our world becomes increasingly high-tech, it can be difficult to maintain special historic places. Tacoma is full of sites with historical significance, and Historic Tacoma aims to preserve them all. The group maintains a WATCH List of buildings a
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    Blue Nile jewelry on Gossip Girl

    Posted @ 10:14AM on 02/01/2012 by Lauren - Arts Entertainment
    Seattle-based jewelry company Blue Nile didn’t just make it onto one of the CW’s television shows— it made it right onto Blake Lively’s finger. A ring produced by the local jeweler was wor
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