Tag: Tacoma
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Frost Park: Red Hot Luck
Check out the art and find out the winner from this Frost Park Chalk-Off at FeedTacoma.com Background music: “Truth of the Legend” by Kevin McLeod.
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Frost Park: Good Friday
The Frost Park Chalk-Off kicks off it’s fifth year with a packed park and a proclamation from the Tacoma City Council. To see photos and the results of the voting, check out the official FeedTacoma thread. The background music in this video is “Emerge in Love” by Alex Beroza. The song is licensed under a…
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Frost Park: Four Years Later
Four years after the Frost Park Chalk-Offs began, the Tacoma City Council issued a proclamation officially declaring April 6, 2012 – the first day of the fifth year of chalk-offs – Frost Park Chalk Day. I decided to take the opportunity to reflect on how it all began. Follow all the latest on Frost Park…
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Keep the Alien in Tacoma
Last year, the Tacoma community and The Weekly Volcano awarded me with the title of “Best Filmmaker in Tacoma”. When I found out, I was floored. It was a huge honor, especially since I’ve been so focused on survival these last few years that I haven’t had much time to focus on filmmaking, especially outside…
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‘Hunger Games’ leaves readers hungering for more
I’m not sure when I first heard about the bleak, dystopian future brought to life by Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games, but I know I haven’t stopped hearing about it since. The Hunger Games follows the story of Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl living in the nation of Panem, the country that rose up…
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My gallbladder sucked at being a gallbladder
In late November of 2010, I woke up in severe pain. A hospital visit told me nothing, and the pain eventually faded, so I went home. In the months that followed, the pain returned only occasionally, and didn’t affect my life. In August 2011, the pain started returning every day. Another hospital trip, and a…
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The Tacomapocalypse Returns
With all the different end-of-the-world scenarios lately – we had two Raptures last year alone – it’s easy to forget that Tacoma had its own zombie apocalypse exactly one year ago. A frightful mess of blood, gore and science gone awry, the Zombie Tacomapocalypse was a huge success for the mad, world-ending geniuses at Treefish Studio. An art…
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Occupy Tacoma honors Martin Luther King, Jr.
“This is our opportunity to make his dream a reality.” Those words were spoken by Dennis Lucas, a member of Occupy Tacoma and one of the organizers of Occupy the Hood, at a candlelight vigil held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Occupation Park. The vigil began at about 7:15 PM on October…
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Norman Tweeter at First Night
First Night is easily my favorite event out of the entire year. Tacoma’s way of ringing in the new year surpasses any other in terms of sheer enjoyment, and this year was no exception. Every year, I try to drag more and more friends out, and this year I managed to get Paul Fleece of…