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As mentioned previously, local institution Tacoma Little Theatre recently parted ways with their Artistic Director David Duvall after 17 months of ups and downs (mostly downs). The latest news is that TLT has brought in Doug Kerr as an interim AD. Kerr spent a number of years as the head of the theatre department at Pierce Community College, and his wife is a former TLT board member. Recently

izenmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196583962256309122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691280350773308675.post-30622867177458391262008-07-17T14:45:00.000-07:002008-07-17T14:59:10.912-07:00

Received this bulletin in my e-mail a few minutes ago. The City of Tacoma is working on revising the Downtown Element of their Comprehensive Plan. It hasn't been revised in nearly seven years, and is looking to integrate the changes that have occurred, as well as the Economic Development Plan developed with AngelouEconomics. INVITATION TO AN OPEN HOUSE July 30, 2008 5:30 – 7:30 pm Tacoma City

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I fail at ample notice. Almost always. Between getting sick, and flying to Chicago, and whatever else, I have once again failed to tell anyone at all about the Out of Sight, Out of Mind gig at A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist on 6th Ave tomorrow, July 10th and 7PM. If you saw us a couple months ago (and I know a few of you did), you have at least some idea what to expect. Don Izenman and Goodwin

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Word on the grapevine today is that local institution Tacoma Little Theatre's board has voted to release Producing Artistic Director David Duvall. Duvall was hired back in February of 2007 after a national search to replace Judy Cullen. The last national search they had netted them utter failure Tom Jones (not the singer), so you have to wonder if "national search" is the way to go at this

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I totally should have been promoting this show like a week ago. But instead I am doing it now. What was supposed to be a performance of my acoustic duo Mr. Fusion has morphed into two solo acts, myself and Jake Westhoff, splitting the show (Mr. Fusion cohort Erich has been called away on family business, alas. However, I promise that Jake is very good, and I'm sure the show will be great fun. A

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I don't read the Trib with any regularity these days, but I spied on the Grand Cinema website that they have decided to stop printing movie times in the daily Soundlife section. You can still get the times for the week out of Friday's Go section (not that it helps if a movie opens on a Wednesday, or if weekend showtimes are different than weekdays), but no more opening up the morning's paper to

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After getting home from practice yesterday, I spent much of the afternoon reading in Wright park, followed by a stroll and some pictures taken on the new cam:

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There's been much talk of biking over on jcbetty's blog, and I've start to get back into it myself, so I figure I can use it as one more excuse to write. So I shall attempt to cover my expanding bike horizons through the summer, and my attempts to actually get in shape a little (I'm in good walking shape, but walking shape and actual fitness can be pretty drastically different things) So Sunday

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...a camera. It being sunny, and Friday, guess what I photographed? Chalk. Chalk. Chalk. Oh, and some people, too.

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On February 27, 2007, after 29 years of existence, Tacoma Actors Guild officially shut its doors, citing lack of foundation grants leading them further and further into debt. It took with it professional theatre in Tacoma. Now, more than a year later, professional theatre is on its way back to Theatre on the Square, in the form of the Theatre Northwest Group. Theatre Northwest began as the

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It's no secret that I like mass transit. I ride the Link 2-4 times a day (I live at one end and work at the other), and I would be very happy to see it extended into other areas. Most months I buy a bus pass to cut down on my need for quarters (I'd rather hoard them for laundry, anyway) and to get me to out of range locales (comic book store, clothing stores, parental homes, etc). If it weren't

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It's probably because I'm a bit of a bad person. But ever since RR Anderson made this post back in February, I've had this desire to... alter it. At the time I had no means, without Photoshop or related tools. But for an upcoming project I needed something, so I finally downloaded and started playing with Gimp. Newly inspired, I hunted the image back down, and spawned something unholy... That

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Dan Burden, in case you didn't gather from the eleventy billion posts on feed>>tacoma yesterday, is the founder of a consulting firm called Walkable Communities. The city of Tacoma brought him in for a couple days to look around, and give a talk this evening at UWT. I'll be writing in more detail on some of his points and my own thoughts over the next couple days, but I thought I'd do a quick

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As the weather gets nicer and Downstairs Man continues to be annoyed by any and all music goings-on, Mr. Fusion is starting to amp up the frequency of its outdoor practices. We headed out yesterday after work to the Sitting Tree in the Northwest corner (I don't have any pictures, but if you've ever seen it you probably know what I'm talking about), guitars and doumbek in hand. Last week when we

izenmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196583962256309122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691280350773308675.post-1385601285101454442008-05-09T10:00:00.000-07:002008-05-09T10:00:27.330-07:00

I've been having a lot of fun at Frost Park these last couple months. It's a great chance to just get outdoors, especially as the weather gets nicer, and put some faces with all the names and blogs we see. I've heard a lot of interesting discussion about all the issues that people are writing on, seen new friends made, and seen the group grow and grow. But the fact is that we started doing this

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After reading about the community walkability lecture happening at UWT on Monday, I got to thinking about what does make an area walkable, and how well we're doing at it. While he says it to be a "generally flippant dude" (a cause I can get firmly behind), Mr. Driscoll brings up a valid point: in a car-based culture, it is easy for those with cars to ignore what makes an area walkable. To me,

izenmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196583962256309122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691280350773308675.post-48423969047071834542008-04-29T00:01:00.000-07:002008-04-28T23:10:29.426-07:00

So in the fall of 1997 I started 8th grade at Curtis Junior High. The year before I had been introduced to the two-disc Best of the Doors and The Who's Tommy, and so I was at this point hip deep in Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and the like. Why does that matter? Well, it's the reason why I wasn't one of those kids who listened to Whatever And Ever Amen over and over. I heard Brick on the

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Yesterday afternoon I was fortunately able to make it out to the Broadway Center Community Dialog on hip hop. I wasn't sure what to expect, going in, but I came out of it feeling like we were at least starting to step in the right direction. Time will tell how much we actually accomplished. The format caught me off guard a bit. I walked into Theatre On The Square sort of expecting to sit in the

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I met up with the squirrels in Kevin's attic today and they spotted me an interesting tidbit. Admittedly I haven't been following the Tacoma/Russell negotiations in detail, so it's possible that this has already been blogged about, but I feel it's worth mentioning anyway. Word on the street is that part of Russell's counter-offer (I don't know if it's a formalized counter-offer or just something

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There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about "taking back" parks. But in all our grand plans, I think we've made some really startling omissions. And so it is with this belief in mind that I announce the next step in our municipal green-space takeover: taking back Riverton Mini-Park. The Tukwila Parks & Rec website has this to say about the Riverton Mini-Park: This small .1 acre park site

izenmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196583962256309122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691280350773308675.post-83579505344810583292008-03-26T16:44:00.000-07:002008-03-26T16:57:35.194-07:00

This press release just came out over the Tacoma Arts Listserv: With Immediate Response to Community Concerns Broadway Center Will Host A Hip-Hop Community Dialogue Hip Hop music is at risk of being marginalized in our society as solely focused on violence and the degradation of women. The Broadway Center will host a community dialogue to challenge those assumptions and discuss ways in which Hip

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I know I already mentioned this yesterday, but I thought I'd give it the spotlight today, because... well, because I can. And because it's been a while since my last Excuse. It used to be that if you asked me what my favorite bar was, I'd have an easy answer: the Parkway. Great selection, great atmosphere, friendly people, entertaining bartenders... a worthy replacement for NPCC, my beer vendor

izenmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196583962256309122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691280350773308675.post-85834921068589123072008-03-25T13:00:00.000-07:002008-03-25T14:11:08.721-07:00

It's a full week here in Izenmania territory, so I'll just jump right into it... Tuesday (that's today!): Go Local Or DieSince the majority of my readership come via feed»tacoma, this probably isn't news to anyone, but tonight at 6 PM the Local Life folk will be hosting the second of their Go Local Or Die charrettes, this one featuring Derek Young (Exit133), Amy McBride (City of Tacoma Arts

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We'll kick them right out. And then do you know what we'll do? We'll invite them back in, as politely as possible. We'll even hold the door for them. Just so we can kick them out a second time. Out of Sight, Out of Mind is, primarily, Don Izenman and his longtime collaborator, bassist Goodwin Trent. As you may or may not recall, I recently stepped in with them for a couple gigs, inspired by

izenmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11196583962256309122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691280350773308675.post-36604952072945114212008-03-21T00:05:00.000-07:002008-03-20T23:52:46.182-07:00

(The above statement evaluates to boolean true) I spent the evening out at ArtWalk tonight. Started off at The Helm for the opening of their Children of Nature show. I generally fail at art criticism, largely because I just walk through, experience the art, and leave, without really absorbing artists, titles, etc. So let me just tell you that I really liked some of the pieces, and was rather

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