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The sprawling park, with its green grassy hills, where families picnic in the shade, or groups of friends share a smoke, where dogs sniff the air in anticipation, and where a rock band tunes up on stage. This is Music and Art in Wright Park, MAWP, Tacoma's annual summer event -
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Flower Drum Song at Tacoma Musical Playhouse is being touted as the most beautiful production ever to hit their stage. If all an audience was doing was looking at actors, costuming or lighting, or listening to a couple songs - the play might qualify. However, people go to the
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Live at the Aurice" The United States of Loop with Luke Smiraldo. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Charley's Pub Fircrest. Chicago Blues Thursdays. Real
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Like the residents of Yelm, Washington, United States of America, we're super-psyched for the big and annual "Yelm Prairie Days Parade" which strolls down Yelm Avenue and has all the great parade stuff, marching bands, drill teams, fire trucks, old cars, various community organizations, girls wearing white gloves, Joint Base
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(This contest is closed) For this week's Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're giving away four Tap into T-Town team scavenger hunt entries. In its third year, Tap into T-Town will be held Saturday, May 1 beginning at the Varsity Grill in downtown Tacoma. It’s a scavenger hunt. Teams
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Northwest jazz guitarist Michael Powers is a musician's musician whose work has continually progressed far beyond the standard jazz genre. Born in New York and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Powers took up the guitar to strengthen his wrist after a skateboard accident. After graduating from Berkeley High
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Cody Raymond. 8:30 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Kat Eggleston. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. South Bay Pub and Eatery Olympia - Northeast. Michael Coucoules and John Croarkin. All Ages. 8 pm. NC.
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Church or awesome garage rock? These are the types of dilemmas presented to you when Tacoma's Gold Teeth (now with seven members!) slithers out of the depths and decides to plug in for a rare matinee show at Top of Tacoma. OK, sure - technically you could probably attend
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Blanco Bronco is - easily - one of my favorite Tacoma bands. Messy, sometimes confused, heavily distorted - and with the gritty heart of a champion, there's not much not to like when it comes to Blanco Bronco's punk and new wave influenced take on ‘90s bred indie rock. When
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Chance Fashion is the Northwest's longest running monthly fashion show, providing accessible, hands-on networking resources to the Seattle fashion community - including designers, models, photographers, hair stylists and makeup artists. Chance Fashion participants will jump in their cars and head to the Lemay - America's Car Museum to bring Tacoma
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It's that time of year again. When beautiful white fluffy cherry blossoms cover the ground, hiding the cigarette butts and soggy leaves that normally litter the sidewalks of downtown Olympia. When the sun peaks through the clouds, promising days of more green and yellow and blue. When everyone seems to
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“amadeus” “Amadeus,” a play about one man’s internal battle when he knows he is in the shadow of greatness, ends its run at Lakewood Playhouse this weekend. [Lakewood Playhouse, through April 22, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, $14-$20, 5729 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd., Lakewood, 253.588. 0042] creepy theater The creepy movie that made
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THE FAIR Reptile World Oh, you said herpetology? Whew. See, touch and learn about captive raised turtles, frogs, lizards, snakes and insects from around the world this weekend at The Spring Fair in Puyallup. The main attraction at Brad’s Reptile World Show is the giant boa constrictors. After all, who doesn’t love
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In Tacoma, the roller derby Dockyard Derby Dames are smart, funny, and know how to have a good time. The combined toga party/Jell-O wresting match held at the South Sound Garage on Saturday night proved sticky, wet fun — kind of like Halloween on the cool side of the street.
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When I tell him who I am and what my purpose is, the man apologizes and says he’s tired. “My mind is like a fried egg,” he explains, apologizing that his rebuttals may not be witty. In my book, use of the word ”rebuttal” takes him out of the “fried egg
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by Doug McGrew. 7:30 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Sunday Blues
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To be blunt, Tacoma's quintessential Girl Trouble, with more than 25 years of surfy garage rock under its belt, and credited with Sub Pop's first full-length release, was DIY before DIY had an acronym. Coming from a shitty, dirty stepbrother town like Tacoma, you kind of had to be. You
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Dear little anarchist wheat pasters. Thank you for your contributions to several local buildings in the vicinity of my home. For those who don't know, wheat pasting is an old art used for centuries in bill-posting and poster-bombing circles. Most of you probably learned how to make wheat paste when you
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Bill Colby is a master of print media who works in intaglio, woodcuts and other media, often combining print media with watercolor and acrylic and typically using the natural grain of the wood in his woodcuts to create movement of water or other natural elements. Nature is his constant subject.
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There's a new gallery in town, and it's pretty cool. It's called The Brick House and it's in an old brick house on Fawcett between 11th and 13th. I had a hard time finding it because the only sign is neon and hanging in the window - not visible from
