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Issue #10: Tollbooth Gallery Interviews, Year One

Cover by Rachel Carns
-Jared Pappas-Kelley
-Bill Daniel
-Denise Smith
-Vanessa Renwick
-Delta Camshaft Collective
-Tim Sullivan
-Wynne Greenwood (Tracy + the Plastics)
-Bridget Irish
-Fionn Meade and Rob Millis
-The Start of the Tollbooth
-Plus an interview with Seattle artist Scott Fife

Issue #9: Scattered Ephemera
Artist in Residence: Jessica Spring
-Official Scattered Ephemera guide
-Woolworth Building Retrospective
-Woolworth's Takes to the Radio
-A poem from NPR commentator and author, Andrei Codrescu
-The racially radical Woolworth lunch counter in the south
-An intimate look at Tacoma's featureless features

Issue #8: No More Words
Artist in Residence: Chauney Peck
-Official First Night Tacoma 2003/2004 guide
-At the Cakewalk
-Tollbooth Gallery Kick-off
-Lauren Steinhardt: Don't Bite the Pavement film/video series with Kitty Pr0n
-No More Words: drawings, comics, and photos
-An art therapist’s Inner Essence
-Stadium Video Turns 10!

Issue 7: Becoming Active
Artist in Residence: Mystery Artist
-Olympia Experimental Music Festival and its founder Arrington De Dionyso
-Bridget Irish: Don't Bite the Pavement film/video series with Bryan Connolly (part II)
-Building a new Tacoma Art Museum, reviews and highlights
-A celebration of Black History and Labor featuring Al Sharpton, Yolanda King, and Nikki Giovanni
-Beautiful Angle

Issue #6: Day/Night Jobs

Artist in Residence: Elwit
-Our first unofficial survey on jobs
-I, Projectionist
-Kaitmoon Talks to Ladytron
-That Actually Is My Day Job: making money making art?!
-Bridget Irish: Don't Bite the Pavement film/video series with Bryan Connolly (part I)
-The drama that happens off the clock
-How Tracy and the Plastics earn their cash

Issue #5: The Dream Issue

Artist in Residence: Elwit
-Dream Interpretations from our phone psychic
-Studio Systems
-Denise Smith: Don't Bite the Pavement film/video series with Christopher Chase
-Tour Diary for Liarbird
-Local jazz legend, Red Kelly says goodbye
-Greyhound Diaries
-Review of Indivisible: Stories of American Community at Tacoma Art Museum

Issue #4: The Literary Issue
Artist in Residence: Thin Ice
-Official First Night 2002/2003 guide
-Fantasy writer Robin Hobb relearns her craft
-Bridget Irish: Don't Bite the Pavement film/video series with “Jack and Virginia”
-Book Art with Appolina Vargas and ExLibris Anonymous
-Holiday Survival Tactics of the South
-In Paris with Shakespeare & Co.
-Celebrity Cities of the Northwest

Issue #3: Taking Notes from the Underground
Artist in Residence: Thin Ice
-From Snipers to Beats
-Taking Notes from the Underground
-Art Car Culture Underground
-The Intima: A Tour Diary
-A review of Oliver Doriss at the Mark
-Making Babies Revisited

Issue #2: Tacoma Shot Andy Warhol (down)
Artist in Residence: Mattie Matt, Pt. 2 of ‘Making Babies’
-How Andy Warhol almost created his largest work for the Tacoma Dome
-Russian paper architects envision the future of Tacoma
-Denise Smith: Don't Bite the Pavement film/video series with Jason Gutz
-Studying the Skybridges of Tacoma
-Al Larsen's newest public audio installation in Olympia

Issue #1: Please Take Care of My Baby
Artist in Residence: Mattie Matt ‘Making Babies’
- Denise Smith: Don't Bite the Pavement film/video with Phoebe Owen’s Tammy Town
-Art In The Land of Indie Rock
-Deconstructing Denny's
-The opening of the Museum of Glass and its inaugural exhibition “Sounds of the Inner Eye”