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The third day after Christine of Avanti Spas had cut and styled my hair, I finally washed it. It made me sad to do so, just as it had alarmed me when she brandished the razor to start layering my hair. But she cut and styled me in such a
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Café Tacoma. Jam On My Muffin, AA, 6 pm. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma. Live Irish Ballads, with Oliver Mulholland & Friends 9 pm. Salty’s at Redondo Des Moines. Myles Crew 9 pm. COMEDY/GAMES/PARTY Cans Tacoma. Comedy
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Rhapsody In Bloom Tacoma. Pint & Dale, AA, 7 pm. NC. Shakabrah Java Tacoma. Open Mic Night 7 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Charlie’s Pub Tacoma. Battle Of The Boobs Wet T-Shirt Contest with cash prizes 8 pm. NC. Le Voyeur
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Blue Bottle Yelm. Open Mic, AA, 4 pm. NC. Café Luna Vashon. Russell Clepper, Mo Pair, AA, 7:30 pm. Forza Coffee Lacey. Paul Mauer, Robert Boyd, AA, 7 pm. Gig Harbor Farmers Market Gig Harbor. Dave
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Farrelli’s Pizza Parkland. Open mic, with Aaron Bigler 9 pm. NC. New Frontier Lounge Tacoma. Open Mike, hosted by Captain Rick 6 pm. COMEDY/GAMES The Brotherhood Olympia. Movie Night 7 pm. Mandolin Café Tacoma. Bodacious Ladyhood, AA, 3
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ACOUSTIC/CELTIC Broadway Farmers Market Tacoma. Sam Esecson, Colby Sander Trio, AA, 11 am. NC. Cliff House Restaurant Tacoma. Open Mic Night 8 pm. Mandolin Café Tacoma. Mike Fekete, AA, 7 pm. The Manette Bremerton. Chris Parker, Wes Parker
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Antique Sandwich Co. Ruston. Open mic 7 pm. Farrelli’s Pizza Parkland. Open mic, with Aaron Bigler 9 pm. NC. Mandolin Café Tacoma. Dave Randal, AA, 7 pm. Pierce College Puyallup. Centrevol, AA, 12 pm. NC.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Caffe Adamo Puyallup. Open Mic Night, AA, 7 pm. Dawson’s Tavern Tacoma. Open mic 9 pm. Farrelli’s Pizza Parkland. Open mic, with Aaron Bigler 9 pm. Hannah’s Olympia. Open mic 9 pm. NC. Malarkey’s
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blackberry bushes In Olympia, girls like to do things their way. Since the early ’90s punk rock girls and Washington’s state capital have walked hand in hand down the independent music highway. But the self-reliant female energy from punk music radiated into other things. In 2004, three friends noted that in
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Usually, when I write about house parties, I’m not talking about music and there’s a member of Top Heavy Crush involved. Usually, when I write about house parties, it’s something about who diddled who in the hot tub, who showed up with herbal jazz cigarettes, and who drank so much
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Evan Purcell’s new CD, Attachments, was scheduled to be released last month at Shakabrah Java, but alas, it was not meant to be. Tacoma’s longtime favorite acoustic music venue decided to be a little less shaka and a little more java and cancelled all of its music performances. But Sixth
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His mother was supposedly rushed out of a James Brown concert to give birth to him. That could be why, in one of his poems, Saul Williams says, “At that concert he sang, ‘Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud,’ and that shit came out in my bloodstream.” On
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From my college-days experiments and a tour through JD’s Wild West Saloon MySpace page I knew that many people at this place, especially the women, espouse a morally casual attitude worthy of further research. In the former Silver Dollar Casino location, JD’s houses DJ Omar spinning Top 40, hip-hop and
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It isn’t often that the newest brewpub in the South Sound is also one of its oldest, but that’s the case these days. Months after Alan McWain sold the landmark Spar Cafe, a 71-year-old Olympia hangout and meeting mainstay to the Portland-based McMenamins, the place is set to hold a grand
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You know it’s a good start to the week when you get to kick it into gear with an exclusive event. Last Monday was the Doyle’s holiday employee appreciation party, and everyone’s favorite Doyle’s ambassador, Russ, was kind enough to take me as his date. However, I do realize that he’s
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Anyone who pushes the boundaries while successfully creating her own distinctive sound is all right in my book — and the weirder the better. Self-described as dark jazz roots music, Myshkin is one artist who gets a high recommendation from me. With a moody timbre, the New Orleans native draws
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The latest location for the Original Roadhouse Grill is a killer. It's in the Federal Way retail bottleneck, at the back of some plaza that sits like a box canyon; shoppers, diners, and moviegoers alike all funnel into this zone off 320th and Highway 99, half blind from wholesale excess,
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I am pleased to announce that the Pup Room inside the Poodle Dog in Fife has been granted Most Favored Bar status by the Weekly Volcano staff. “This is my new favorite bar!” Suzy Stump pronounced after showing up late with her designated-driver boyfriend in tow and rejuvenating a crowd
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On sale now Daughtry Seattle. Feb. 6 (all ages) 8 pm. $20 (Neumo’s, TW). Shemekia Copeland Seattle. Feb. 8-10 7:30 and 9:30 pm, Feb. 11 7:30 pm. $23.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). “Tribute To Buddy Holly” Seattle. Feb. 13-March 4. $20-$73 (5th Avenue Theatre, 206.625.1900). Ernestine Anderson, Houston Person Seattle. Feb. 14 7:30 and 9:30
