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Kelly Davenport Kelly Davenport
My life in T-shirts: Ask Me About My Cat - Legalize Frostitution - Death Before Decaf. You get the idea. I enjoy lint-rolling, bons mots, magazine launch parties (if I was invited), paying too much for groceries, and the occasional semicolon. I'm a copy editor at The News Tribune, but I won't correct your grammar at the bar. Contact me at kelly.davenport@thenewstribune.com.

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Laura Gentry Laura Gentry
...lives in Seattle (so you don’t have to) with her cat Peanut Zeta-Jones. The self-proclaimed “Webmeister” of TheNewsTribune.com, Laura spends her spare time driving on I-5, sifting through estate sales, writing songs about Miss Zeta-Jones and wishing she was somewhere else regardless of where she is. You can reach her at laura.gentry@thenewstribune.com, but it’s in your best interest not to.

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Niki Sullivan Niki Sullivan
...is a political reporter for The News Tribune. She likes sunshine, soup and puppies. Beyond that, it gets dicey. Contact Niki at niki.sullivan@thenewstribune.com.

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Brian Everstine Brian Everstine
...has a debilitating fear of children, horses, sauerkraut and mustaches, but an irrational affection for generic cereal. A recent college graduate (WSU) from Spokane, he is a news reporter for The News Tribune who is still adjusting to life on this side of the mountains. Contact Brian at brian.everstine@thenewstribune.com.

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You'll like Tacoma
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Posted by Kelly Davenport @ 04:03:10 pm

It's hard to remember when we had sunshine. But this week's GO cover story – you can read it Friday – on waterfront dining makes me think of my first blissful summer sunset dinner in Tacoma.

It's been almost four years now, if you can believe that.

It was August. It was 80 degrees. A heat wave, the front desk attendant at the Silver Cloud Inn assured me, the skeptical Midwesterner. Eighty degrees is a cold front in Illinois, I said.

But here I was, in the great Northwest, being seated on the deck at CI Shenanigans and ordering salmon – salmon, the novelty! I don't think I've had it since. There were sailboats skimming the bay and pink light over Browns Point. I could squint and imagine myself in the south of France, looking at those neat cottages on the hillside with the lighthouse turning on its spit of land. I had just been offered a job. All was well.

We will have that bliss on the bay again, I swear.

Even if it takes two more months.


Photo courtesy of solo.steve via Flickr

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