Concert Alert
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Stage & Visual Reviews
In his notes for Harlequin's production of Rabbit Hole, director Brian Tyrrell mentions his fondness for "well written plays." His phrasing leaped out at me - not just because playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is good at his job, which he clearly is, but because it echoes a phrase from my theater
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Lisa Sweet re-invisions and reinterprets medieval and early modern Christian iconography in a style borrowed from Jan Van Eyck and the Netherlandish artists, but makes it uniquely her own. There are certain artists whose works are instantly recognizable, starting with Van Eyck and leading up through Picasso and Pollock. Add Sweet
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Dude can sing - there's no doubt about it. James Caddell has proved this before, and Sunday at the Pantages Theater with the Tacoma Symphony, he's bound to do it again. Performing "Gershwin, Gospel & Motown, in never-before-heard, TSO style," according to Web hype, Caddell will bring his bigger (and
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The Women's League of University of Puget Sound Spring Flea Market will be awesome. Expect more than 50 booths of antiques, not to mention: collectible dolls, oversized calculators, his and hers chocolate mummies, little plastic models of 747 airplanes, a griffin's toe, three rectangular-block-shaped wooden Santa Clauses, bouncing ice cubes,
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If you're a total Ken Burns freak like most of the Volcano's staff, you know the work of Jay Ungar and Molly Mason - just think of Burns' The Civil War, and that old-timey, Americana composition that seemed to fade in and out of all 87 hours of it. That
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We're not out of March and already we find ourselves in need of a good purge. Enter seven piñatas of local interest, depictions of icons sadly missing from the Washington State History Museum's recent Icons exhibit. Nice, right? Even better, they're set to be auctioned off to the highest bidder
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The future can be scary. Or exciting. Or whatever. It's unknown. Or is it? Sunday at Crescent Moon Gifts, a whole slew of Tarot card readers and other mystics will take part in the Monthly Intuitive Psychic Fair. Actually, I don't know if they'd appreciate me calling them "mystics" -
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Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been doing it forever - dishing out folky rock as the Indigo Girls since 1985. Hell, they went to elementary school together in Georgia, so these two respected songwriters are certainly no strangers - even if their styles do differ. Saliers is the quieter,
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The word on the street is to watch the fuck out for Womberang - a surly troupe of SOTA-bred punk metal badasses. And I would never use the word "badasses" lightly. Trust me. A little like Scratch Acid with acne, Womberang has been kicking around many of the same haunts
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After pounding out more than 2600 words last week on Post Stardom Depression I'm not sure I've go much left to add. I think my two cents are already firmly on record. Do I think Post Stardom Depression is a rock band in the truest sense of the term? Yes
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Ask any true-blue Tacoman what's likely to be birthed when Dave Takata, Shawn Lanksbury, Sean Horst, Chris Roxx and Michah Hammer get together and the answer will be blatant: fucking rock. And lots of it. Formed from members of the late Brian Redman's Dirty Knockers and members of low-fi punks
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Ah, boys and girls. Something mysterious and beguiling happens when their voices come together in pairs. The boy's voice is anxious and searching, the salty to the girl's sweet; the girl's voice is simple, a warm embrace, the sweet to the boy's sour. With Catcher, the boy/girl dynamic is well
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Here we have a monster of a show. Calvin Johnson, godfather of Olympia music, will be bringing his Hive Dwellers to the Den. Joining him will be local favorites Basemint and Friskey. I don't feel like I need to tell you any more about this show, because the quality is
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Tune-Yards, aka Merrill Garbus, is a true original, and an apparent master of her medium: tape music. She's one of those people, like Hendrix was with the guitar, who can take her tool and bend it, stretch it, distort it, and reform it anew. Listening to her debut full-length, Bird-Brains,
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BASEMINT >>> Thursday, March 18 Here we have a monster of a show. Calvin Johnson, godfather of Olympia music, will be bringing his Hive Dwellers to the Den. Joining him will be local favorites Basemint and Friskey. I don't feel like I need to tell you any more about this show, because
Music Features & Columns
It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling. Yeah, sure, Bobble Tiki is a little jealous. Volcano editor Matt Driscoll is down in Austin this week, sucking up free beer at
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Whatever your viewpoint on Green Apple Quick Step, one fact is undeniable: The band struck a chord, and is still remembered. Aside from a handful of songs at a Caffé Vita employee party at the Showbox in December, Green Apple Quick Step - in any form - hasn't taken the
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Green Apple Quick Step. What does the name bring to mind? Some remember the band fondly. Green Apple Quick Step harkens back to a simpler time in local music - not pre-grunge simple, but still a time when it was easy to know what was cool and what was exciting, and
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It seems to me that, this far along in the history of music, the only boundary left to be broken is listenability. With people destructing nearly every sound and mashing them up, all you can really do to distinguish yourself is make your product unpalatable. Believe me, plenty of bands
