The 29th annual Tacoma Home Garden Show opens today, and green thumbs around the South Sound couldn’t be happier.

This year, the expo at the Tacoma Dome features a “Vintage Market,” kitchen bath trends, spectacular gardens, how-to seminars and more.

It runs today through Sunday.

The state’s largest combined home and garden event is bigger than ever–introducing visitors to a huge range of products and services available to help with their home, indoor and outdoor decorating and improvement needs.

Organizers say the state’s largest combined home and garden event is grander
than ever. The lineup includes:

  • The “Vintage Market” shopping area, spotlighting repurposed and “shabby-chic” items for the garden and home offered by over 20 local vendors.  One-of-a-kind treasures-ranging from vintage furniture and signage to grandmother’s aprons, industrial metal carts–and that elusive chicken feeder light fixture-are among the fun and functional items for sale.
  • Two new idea-generating showcase kitchens will be created under the dome by the Puget Sound Chapter of the National Kitchen Bath Association. Sponsored by Viking, this display spotlights the latest generation of appliances, cabinetry and labor-saving features.
  • For those planning upcoming garden projects, around-the-clock seminars will be presented by top garden experts including Ciscoe Morris, Marianne Binetti, Marty Wingate, Melinda Myers and others. Gardeners will also be inspired by the feature gardens created by top area landscape contractors, including SK
    Landscaping, Marenakos Rock Center and the Washington Association of Landscape Professionals.
  • Great buys on plants are also part of the mix at the Plant Market, featuring hundreds of colorful and unique plants. Bark Garden Center, from Olympia, will be bringing rare miniature conifers, blooming daphnes and hellebores, house plants, trees and shrubs and much more.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: America’s favorite party boys are about to make bank, Fiona Apple returns, and Demi Moore pulls out.

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Remember The Hangover? It was that big bawdy comedy that made a bamillion dollars a couple years ago? And then remember The Hangover Part II, also a big bawdy comedy that made a bamillion dollars last summer? Well, it seems those wacky dreamers in Hollywood have seen it fit to put together a third one of these big bawdy comedies, because we all know everything’s better the third time around. But in order to make it work they really need the three (they don’t need the baby pictured above, we don’t think anyway) original actors — Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Ed Helms  — to come back, so they’re probably going to pay them $15 million each to do it, as per their agents’ request. Yup! While you get paid exactly nothing to actually stumble around in the morning wondering where your car keys are and bitterly regretting the night before, they get paid $15 million to pretend to do that for a few months. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it? Meanwhile, Ken Jeong has been offered $10,000 to not be in the third movie. We hope, at least.  [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Ohhh my gay god, you guys. It seems that music mogul L.A. Reid has tweeted something about Fiona Apple, long lost Fiona Apple, having a new album coming out this year. !!!! We were having a sweet fix of a daydream of an album and then it wasn’t a paper bag, it was a real dove of hope in album form! (Pretty awesome mangled Fiona Apple lyrics right there, huh?) That is very exciting, considering she hasn’t had a release since 2005, and that was the somewhat underwhelming (be honest, guys) Extraordinary Machine. So this is very exciting. It’s unclear when this year it’s coming out, but who cares! Fiona Apple! New music! At long last. [Time, via Vulture]

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In light of her recent troubles, Demi Moore has opted out of playing Gloria Steinem in the currently filming Linda Lovelace biopic. This sounded like a bad idea to begin with, so it’s probably good she now has an excuse to quit. (Demi Moore doesn’t exactly scream Gloria Steinem to us.) The good news for the movie is that while they’ve lost one actress, they’ve gained another: Chloë Sevigny! Nooo, not as Gloria Steinem, oh mercy no. That’d be a hilarious bit of miscasting. Sevigny, who is reuniting with her Big Love costar Amanda Seyfried here, will be playing a feminist though, a journalist who shows up to interview Lovelace at some point. Eric Roberts, Sharon Stone, and now Chloë Sevigny. This is kind of a grungy cast, isn’t it? Fitting for the movie, but definitely dark. (Adam Brody and James Franco are also in it, so there’s balance.) We’re intrigued! But prepared to be depressed. [The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline]

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Younger Hemsworth brother and future Gale Hawthorne of District 12 Liam Hemsworth has just landed the lead in the sci-fi romance Timeless, about a grieving widower who “enlists the world’s best minds” to build a time machine so he can go back and hang out with his wife while she’s still alive. Sort of sounds like The Fountain, doesn’t it? And also, really the first thing you think of when Liam Hemsworth is mentioned is “grieving widower,” right? That’s the natural progression: Heartthrob in Miley Cyrus/Nicholas Sparks movie, then dark heartthrob in YA fiction movie love triangle, then grieving widower. Makes total sense. You thought Robin Williams had the market cornered on grieving widower? You thought nobody could do it better than Liam Neeson? Well, now here’s Hemsworth, Liam Hemsworth, star of Arabian Nights, coming to blow them all away. [Deadline]

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Cinemax is moving ahead with a new action series produced by Six Feet Under/True Blood creator Alan Ball. It’s about a thief posing as a small town sheriff while hiding out from gangsters. That sounds kind of exciting! If their recent British co-production Strike Back is any indication, Cinemax knows its way around an action series. Not too serious, but not too dumb, sort of just right. (If a bit jingo-y in an off-putting way, but that’s OK.) We kind of like the idea of Cinemax becoming an action network! Just think of all the not-working-so-much action people who get whole series. Ving Rhames! Famke Janssen! (She’s not exactly an action star, but three X-Mens and a Bond movie have to count for something.) Barbara Hershey! Well, OK, Barbara Hershey isn’t an action star yet, but can’t you imagine her playing a tired old hitwoman who keeps going out on “one last job”? Maybe Matt Long plays her son-in-law, who’s also a contract killer? And she gets hired to kill him? Just spitballing here. Call us, Cinemax! We could make this work! [Deadline]

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Last Saturday, former All-Met player of the year, Oakland Mill’s Greg Whittington (below) contributed seven points and five rebounds for the George town Hoyas. In the closest contest this entire year for the tenth-
Rutgers’ guard Myles Mack, left, and Georgetown’s Greg Whittington fight for the ball before it goes out of bounds. (AP Photo/Richard Lipski)
ranked Hoyas, Georgetown managed to score the last seven points of the game which led them to a 52-50 win over Rutgers.

Paul VI Catholic graduate Erick Green posted a team-high 17 points along with five assists, three rebounds, and three steals against eighth-ranked North Carolina. Green’s Virginia Tech Hokies were up by five points at half, last Thursday, but UNC went on a 31-5 run in the second half to secure an 82-68 victory.

On November 20th, 201l, the Christopher Newport University Girls’ volleyball team finished as the runner-up at the Division III Girls’ Volleyball Championship. CNU lost 3-0 to Wittenberg University, but the entire roster sported girls from Virginia, most of which played for local schools. To see which girls are from this area and covered by the Washington Post, click here.

After being out for the first two weeks of the season, Montrose

Toronto Raptors forward Linas Kleiza, left, goes up for a shot as Los Angeles Clippers guard Randy Foye defends. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Christian‘s Linas Kleiza (left) played for a season-high 26 minutes for the Toronto Raptors. Kleiza recorded a season-high 16 points and he also had three assists and four rebounds. However, Linas’s points off the bench could not lead the Raptors to a victory as they fell 103-91 to the Los Angeles Clippers. Toronto’s lost on Sunday was their eighth straight loss of the season.

Last Tuesday, former O’Connell guard Jason Clark was given a lot of responsibility when he was told that he would be bringing up the ball for tenth-ranked Georgetown after his teammate, Markel Starks developed a stomach ailment. Clark did tremendously well with the pressure; he finished the game against DePaul with a career-high 31 points and tacked on two assists, five rebounds, and four steals. Georgetown managed to finish the game with an 83-75 victory to improve their Big East conference record to 6-2.

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The Penn State Extension — Montgomery County
office in Creamery will offer ServSafe, the National Restaurant
Association’s Food Handler Certification course, on Feb. 7 and
8.

In Montgomery County, each food service establishment is
required to have a Certified Food Sanitation Manager. After
attending the class and passing the proctored, multiple-choice exam
with a score of 75 percent or higher, participants receive a
ServSafe certificate.

The Re-Certification course is a review and update of food
safety principles covered in the initial certification course. In
Montgomery County, re-certification is required every three years
and a class is scheduled for Feb. 21.

Online registration for the courses can be found at the Events
section of the Penn State Extension — Montgomery County website:
http://extension.psu.edu/montgomery.

Information (times, cost and registration): 610-489-4315.

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The Call Sheet sifts through the day’s glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: A new music style gets its own movie, murder is as popular as ever, and Reese Witherspoon is an artist.

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You know dubstep? Oh you don’t know dubstep? Dubstep is not a kind of dance, even though it sounds like it’s a kind of dance. It’s a kind of beat, like a musical beat, that’s become its own genre of music. There is a guy named Skrillex (probably his birth name, we’re guessing, why wouldn’t it be) who makes dubstep music we think? Who really knows, but Skrillex sounds like this and it that is supposedly dubstep. It’s basically the music that bad teenagers listened to in movies about teenagers in the future from a while ago. Like this is maybe the cast of Hackers‘ favorite music? (That movie wasn’t about the future, not really, but it was close. Maybe this is the favorite music of the kid in Gamer, though you really shouldn’t know what that means, because hopefully you have not suffered through Gamer as some of us have.) ANYWAY. The point is that dubstep has become enough of a thing that a deal has gone down at Sundance for actors Jake Hoffman and Nikki “Rosalie” Reed to star in a movie that is “a psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep.” Oh gosh. “In the world of,” as if it is a known, real world. Maybe it is! But not to most humans. This is basically when the The Fast the Furious came along like thirty years ago (that movie is old, right?) and was like “Oh, hey, look it’s the world of underground desert street racing,” and we were supposed to go “Oh, OK, we believe that.” Only we really didn’t? So yeah, dubstep. And not just regular dubstep. Underground dubstep. The world of. A psychological thriller. Dubstep. Is disco finally dead? [Deadline]

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This is Giles Matthey. What a fairy, huh? Oh no no no, not that way, we’re not being jerks. (Though, if that is the case, Mr. Matthey, do call us.) No, “fairy” as in actual fairy, actual magic creature. And “actual” as in, “on True Blood.” Actor Giles Matthey has just been cast as a fairy on the next season of the show, a fairy who goes after Jessica. Goes after in a sexy way. Jessica has a new love interest, is the gist. And he’s a total fairy. [Entertainment Weekly]

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Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds have both been cast in an independent film called Big Eyes, which is about most of the actresses on the ABC Family network. Well, actually, it’s about the painters Margaret and Walter Keane who became famous in the 1950s and ’60s for selling paintings of kids with big eyes. Margaret did the work, Walter just took the credit. You know those paintings. They look like this and are totally not creepy nightmares that in no way inspired the mewling cat baby from The Grudge? Those are them, and that’s what the movie’s about. Hope they come to life in the movie! That’d be very unscary! [Deadline]

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Good news everyone! The Lifetime: Television for Women Obsessed with Murder movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable, about Drew Peterson, the suspected wife killer (not to be confused with Scott Peterson, wife killer — they’re two different [suspected] wife killers and confusing the two will just prove very… confusing, trust us), raked in almost six million viewers on Saturday night. Six million people, home on a Saturday night, watching a wife killer movie starring Robert Lowe. It earned the highest movie ratings for the net since The Craigslist Killer. So really Lifetime audiences just love movies about dudes murdering ladies. “Did you do anything on Saturday? Go to dinner, see a show, anything?” “No, I wanted to stay home to watch a guy murder a loved one or, at least, romantic date.” “Ah, fair enough.” Good Saturday, everyone. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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Starz has found an actor to play Italian genius and sexual mystery Leonardo DiCaprio da Vinci in their new series Da Vinci’s Demons. It’s just a mashup of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, probably? Or, it’s about the painter/inventor/whatever-else-er as a young man in Renaissance Florence. That young man will be played by Tom Riley, whom you may recognize from the British TV series Monroe or, judging by that photo at least, from one of the 8″ x 11″ sample model photos that hang at most Supercuts. [The Hollywood Reporter]

Here’s a trailer for the upcoming Jeff Who Lives at Home, the new film from former Mumblecore maestros turned increasingly mainstream directors Jay and Mark Duplass (Baghead, Cyrus). It stars Jason Segel and Ed Helms as brothers who are both stuck in various stages of arrested development and Susan Sarandon as their frustrated mom. It looks good! Kind of interestingly serious for Segel and Helms, and maybe a real genuine character for Susan Sarandon, who has seemed kind of bored of late. Plus the great Judy Greer and, whoa blast from the past, Rae Dawn Chong as Sarandon’s work colleague. We will see this, most likely.

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It’s hard to believe more than two decades have passed since the Oakland A’s won their last World Series Championship title. The 1989 roster was filled with the names of many of my all-time favorites, and I never get tired of replaying those great memories time and time again. With the way things are in 2012, that might be all that Oakland Athletics‘ fans to have to look forward to, at least in the near future.

Here is a look at what happened to three of those great players, and what they’re doing now.

Dave Henderson

Hendu, as Dave Henderson was often called, was the A’s center fielder. He spent time with the Seattle Mariners, the Boston Red Sox and the San Francisco Giants before being traded to Oakland in 1988. He spent six seasons on the team before going to the Kansas City Royals for his final year in MLB in 1994.

Hendu hit his career high batting average of .304 with the 1988 A’s, the year they went to the World Series but were defeated by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also hit 24 home runs that season. After retiring from the game, he went to work as a color commentator during Seattle Mariners radio and television broadcasts for nine years, leaving in 2006, but returned again to the Mariners’ radio booth in 2011. Hendu is also part of the Oakland Athletics Fantasy Camp, which offers baseball instruction to people of all types who have dreamed of playing the game.

Tony Phillips

Tony Phillips mostly played second base, but he was also utilized at left field, third base, short stop, and occasionally right field. He spent his first eight seasons in the major leagues with Oakland, and became their first player to hit for the cycle on May 16, 1986 against the Baltimore Orioles.

Phillips left the A’s in 1990 to go to the Detroit Tigers, and spent time with a variety of teams until returning to Oakland for his final season in MLB in 1999. Just last summer, Phillips , at 52 years old, joined his former teammate, Jose Canseco, to play for the Yuma Scorpions. General manager Jose Melendez remarked, ” Tony has the desire to play again. He is still going through some tryouts with us. He is doing very well and is in very good shape… I have a soft spot for ex-Oakland A’s. if they want to play, I have a hard time saying no. I am a huge Oakland A’s fan.”

Terry Steinbach

Terry Steinbach spent 11 years as Oakland’s catcher, from 1986 to 1996. He caught two no-hitters in his 14-year career, and he was selected to the All-Star team three times, and was named the MVP of the All-Star game in 1988.

Steinbach was born and raised in Minnesota, and returned home after he retired. Today he’s a coach for the Wayzata High School’s boys’ varsity baseball team in Plymouth, Minnesota. His youngest son Jake is also a part of the team.

K.C. Dermody grew up in the Bay Area of California, following the Oakland Athletics since the ’70s and attending hundreds of games over more than three decades. Follow her at www.facebook.com/KCDermodyWriter, Twitter @kcdermody, or www.kcdermodywriter.com.

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Saturday

LIGHT BULBS: Home Depot will host workshops on energy-efficient lighting options every Saturday in January. Lighting department associates will answer customer questions. 10 a.m. Home Depot locations. www.homedepot.com/lightbulb. Free.

Monday

GARDENING ESSENTIALS: Horticulturist Jerry Parsons will present a 12-month planting plan, followed by a program about worm composting at the Gardening Essentials class presented by Gardening Volunteers of South Texas. Noon-3 p.m. San Antonio Garden Center, 3310 N. New Braunfels Ave. www.gardeningvolunteers.org or 210-251-8101. Free.

Wednesday

ROSES: The Gardening Series kicks off with Robbie Will of Antique Rose Emporium giving tips on planting and maintaining roses. Rose questions are encouraged. 3-4:30 p.m. Wednesday. New Braunfels Public Library, 700 E. Common St., New Braunfels. 830-964-4494. Free.

Upcoming

JAMMIN’ JAMS: The Pearl Brewery Farmers Market will host the second annual Jammin’ Jams fruit and nut tree adoption. The city of San Antonio will give away 50 fruit and nut trees, including apple, peach, pear, plum and more. The event also will include a tree care class and a canning demonstration. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Jan. 28. 200 E. Grayson St. www.pearlfarmersmarket.com or 210-207-3108. Free.

FENG SHUI: Learn the principles of feng shui, clutter control and meditation with Allison Shockner, author of Feng Shui House Plants 9:30 a.m. Feb. 1. 3310 N. New Braunfels Ave. www.sanantoniogarden center.org or 210-824-9981. Free.

Email event notices to hgcalendar@express-news.net at least three weeks before the event. Fax: 210-250-3405. Mailing address: Home amp; Garden Calendar, c/o S.A. Life, P.O. Box 2171, San Antonio, TX 78297-2171.

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