Pet Dish
It's rubber-boot, black-tennis-balls, hog-fuel season at the dog park.
Heavy rains have created slime fields and muddy walkways only a dog
could love. Some stewards are getting proactive by spreading wood chips
to make the shoe-sucking sludge a little more navigable. (If you're
curious, I was, wood chips are called hog fuel after the wood grinding
machines known as "hogs.")
By Lisa Wogan | January 21, 2008
Daily Find
Northwest jewelry designer Lisa Kinoshita recently moved Mineral, her studio and retail shop, to new digs, and the small space is a gem of a jewelry store in downtown Tacoma. Painted a brilliant persimmon, and featuring two display cases that showcase jewelry, mounted insects and animal skeletons, the store exudes a mixture of avant-garde chic and life-science class.
By Kathy Schultz | January 21, 2008
Convergence Zone
Monday: Local band Throw Me The Statue is kind of awesome. Their chunky, distortion-heavy indie pop, built on sequenced drum tracks, is reminiscent of Magnetic Fields before they went Broadway and They Might Be Giants before they went ... well, before they went. They're joined this evening by singer-songwriter Damien Jurado, whose innate folkiness provides nice balance to the bill. Check out a great gig tonight at Chop Suey, for just six measly bucks.
By Geoff Carter | January 21, 2008
About three years ago, Dona Penfold capped a surprise baby shower for a friend with the gift of a lavender rhinestone collar. The party wasn't in Europe, where some tots troll the streets on leashes. It was in Billings, Mont., and the "baby" in question was a sweet little Yorkshire terrier.
By Lisa Wogan | January 21, 2008
