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Tacoma Children's Musical Theater at Tacoma Musical Playhouse has the golden ticket for a musical for all ages. The stage version of Willy Wonka hits town, formatted for children. At an hour and a half (including intermission), it's the perfect length for young children. The play is
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The Olympia All-Ages Project finally has a permanent home, and its name is northern — 321 Fourth Ave in downtown Oly. And the space is being used for the kind of shows that inspire the audience: both local and touring bands, music and art. The latest show lineup is no
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In the years since teaming up, Todd Sykes and EvergreenOne have added DJ Hanibal to the lineup and have started going by the name CityHall. In this time, the amount of output created by these three has been remarkably substantial, with Sykes and EvergreenOne producing songs as a duo as
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GABY MORENO Thursday, June 4 How’d you learn to speak English? Probably the usual, American boring way, huh? Your parents probably repeated words like potty, diaper and teddy bear over and over and over — and eventually you caught on. One day you put the bear on the potty and said something
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Oscar has quite the history (and for 84 he looks pretty good). So does The Capitol Theater. This year the Olympia Film Society continues its tradition of mixing cinema with live spectacle in a big way. For starters, guests at this year's Capitol Theater Oscar Party will walk down a
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In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit to some confusion upon receiving this week’s Metal-Urge story assignment. Doesn’t my editor realize there are far better people than I to write about music? And doesn’t he realize that I am a bit more disposed toward classical music — despite
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You’ve already seen all the latest shows at Tacoma Art Museum and Museum of Glass, at Robert Daniel, Fulcrum, Grand Impromptu and all the others — although the fetish art and Tacoma Erotic Art Show are yet to come. So where do you look to satisfy your craving for visual
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I have written about the challenges and opportunities Lakewood Playhouse directors face when they stage shows in the theater’s in-the-round performance space. The staging has to be sharp since the actors have to keep members of the audience on every side of them engaged and entertained even when at least one
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The Tacoma Main Library deserves some props. Not only does it perform all the requisite library duties while also making sure vagrants don't shit and piss all over the bathroom, but the powers that be also line up some pretty solid events - like Sunday's screening of Miss Representation: A
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My first encounter with local Olympia rapper Afrok was in 1999 while he was DJ-ing under the name Spoons. Afrok's weekly hip-hop night at Le Voyeur was catching a buzz around town because it was the only all ages hip-hop night in Olympia at the time. DJ Andrew James and
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Breaking the nice Can you help a nice guy become a bad boy? Being nice is a curse, and not just with women. I do volunteer work, and always hear stuff like "You're the only one we can trust, so stay and guard the door while we're at a party with
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Christian Mistress is so hot right now that I found myself fantasizing about the perfect interview with the band. In my mind, I envisioned it being after hours at Olympia's iconic Old School Pizzeria, where each member of this metal militia has worked. I pictured each of the members donning
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It's all about personality when it comes to Chris Crayzie: part MC, part comedian, part father and hustler. Crayzie is from the original 206. Now it's the 253, and when you're on Hilltop you will hear Chris Crayzie's music. It's in the barbershops. It's in cars rolling by. Crayzie is
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I think I had the same introduction to Todd Sykes and EvergreenOne as a lot of people. One day, I stumbled across the video for a song called "90's Shit," which features two normal-looking guys wandering through the streets of Tacoma, taking turns calling out familiar touchstones for people who
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The Midnight Sun has been an exceptional music, art and performance venue in downtown Olympia for the past 21 years. It has always been accessible, affordable and all-ages. Now, The Midnight Sun is on the verge of closing, and Olympia wants to do something about it. Thanks to the efforts of Elizabeth
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Recently, at a show, local rock 'n' roll person Spencer Kelley and I aided in fulfilling a young gentleman's wish to crowd surf. We watched for a while, waiting for the right opportunity to achieve his goal (it is very important to not force the crowd surf), and when the
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Ads for Theater Artists Olympia's A Bucket of Blood pose the question, "Who is Walter Paisley?" It's unlikely you've ever seen Roger Corman's 1959 B-movie original, so I'll fill you in. Walter Paisley is a miserable busboy in a late-‘50s Beat club called the Yellow Door. He's not the sharpest
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Spc. Cody Lance gently nudged the throttle of his Humvee as the vehicle inched up the steep ramp guiding it into the cargo bay of the C-17 Globemaster III. With Tech. Sgt. Jeff Austin, a loadmaster with the 10th Airlift Squadron, giving the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Soldier visual commands, Lance carefully
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For a couple of hours every Sunday, junior enlisted Airmen from McChord Field get the chance to impact lives at the Tacoma Rescue Mission. From serving food to cleaning up, members of the base's Rising Four group are giving back to the local community outside the gate. "Airmen like it a lot
