Tacoma, November 2010

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Behind the Scenes: The November 2010 Cover

Our creative director describes the journey behind this month's crafty cover design. (Read this story now in our Seattle edition.)

Featured Stories

Full Steam Ahead

Welcome to the strange new (yet old) world of steampunk, the Victorian sci-fi alternative scene that’s inspired bands, artists and prizewinning writers to throng Gas Works Park, Georgetown’s 1906 steam plant and this month’s nationally noted convention, Steamcon. (Read this feature now in our Seattle edition.)
The Chihuly Effect

Tacoma's Museum of Glass basks in a national honor and sweats at the prospect of the world’s biggest Dale Chihuly exhibit at the foot of the Space Needle.

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First Up

Around Town: Heineken City Arts Fest

The sights and sounds of the first-ever Heineken City Arts Fest. (Read now in our Seattle edition.)
Bridge Building: Collaboration Fuels a New Venue

Beyond the Bridge Café teams up with the Warehouse to turn the old Il Fiasco space into a new epicenter of art and music.

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Curator's Eye: Mighty Tacoma: Photographic Portrait 2010

Tacoma Art Museum’s Rock Hushka unveils the innovative new generation of digital photography masters in the seventy-fifth-anniversary show Mighty Tacoma: Photographic Portrait 2010.

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Disturbing Surface

Poetry by Nico Vassilakis (read now in our Seattle edition)
Editor's Note: Aloha!

Our editor welcomes new voice and bids farewell to two hard workers. (Read this story now in our Seattle edition.)
Fast Fact

Bizarre, obscure and entertaining trivia special to the cultural history of Tacoma.

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More than the Sum of Its Parts

Nico Vassilakis’s visual poems aren’t just inspired by the iPod, they’re created on an iPod. (View a slideshow of this artwork now in our Seattle edition.)
NOW

Your month in music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and literature.
Well Versed

This year Art at Work month puts the spotlight on Tacoma’s growing poetry scene.

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Weyerhaeusing the Arts: Filling the Mansion

The Weyerhaeuser mansion is on the market, and we think it would make a great home for the arts.

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