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Cool news from TLT and Northwest Playwrights

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This August, Northwest Playwrights Alliance is hosting a festival of new work at TLT. From their email: The festival includes both established and emerging writers with strong ties to the Northwest. At Tacoma Little Theatre, two of the commissioned full-length productions are plays most recently produced by the Working Theatre Collective, a new company based out of Portland, Oregon. The third, Convention, by recent Western Washington University graduate Dan Erickson, was recognized by The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The fourth production during Festival Northwest will be a night of short works written by six separate playwrights. Audiences at TLT will have Read more…

News Tribune mobile site!

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Catching up on Tacoma news from my iPhone in small town Wisconsin and I found the Tribune has launched a mobile site.  Not all the links work yet and some of the links take you to the full site. But still! This is a good step for local mobile browsing.  A few screenshots below. See the full gallery on Posterous

Two hotels and an office building for the Foss?

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Hollander Investments’ hotel construction plan could fulfill the Foss Waterway Development Authority’s long-held desire to bring guest lodging to the waterway. The authority has struggled unsuccessfully for five years with two developers to get a hotel built on the formerly industrial inlet of Commencement Bay. But while Hollander appears to have better access to money than prior developers and ample prior hotel construction and operational experience, much remains to be done before ground-breaking can happen. Hollander Investments built and operates downtown’s Courtyard by Marriott and two other hotels, both in Puyallup, in Pierce County. via blogs.thenewstribune.com The Hollanders are very Read more…

Just discovered that the Tacoma Library checks out audiobooks online. That’s an awesome service! Will eBooks soon follow?

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From the TPL site: “Available online 24/7, this library is always open! Explore our growing collection of downloadable Audiobooks. You can download selections to your to your computer, transfer them to an MP3 player, or burn selected titles onto a CD for listening on-the-go. Borrow up to 10 items for 21 days using your valid Tacoma Public Library card and PIN. It’s quick, easy and you can do it anytime! More at the Library. Via The Melon.