Viva South Sound
Steel Creek American Whiskey Company knows how to celebrate a one-year anniversary. The downtown Tacoma country restaurant and bar is going big with three days of celebration, new menu items and bourbon (naturally). The bull is released Thursday, June 12. Enjoy drink specials, but practice moderation so you can partake in
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[ROCK] + FRI, JUNE 13 Friday night in Olympia is going to be crazy. It's a full moon, Friday the 13th and Evergreen State College graduation all rolled into one. It's a good thing this rock show is going to be at the 4th Ave Tav. The powerhouse bill will need
Music
I remember the first time I was exposed to the music of Shel Silverstein. This sort of raucous, barrelhouse rock coming from the beloved children's poet of my youth - it was eye-opening, to say the least. It was this crazy secret that my dad must have been giddy from
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Barbecue Inn Where: 8102 Maple St. SW, Tillicum, 253.584.0832 Hours: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Friday, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Kitchen opens at 4 p.m. on weekends Cuisine: Home style barbecue ribs, chicken and pulled barbecue sandwiches, burgers, salads, tacos, steaks, hot wings Scene: Casual bar and restaurant with pool, darts and all-ages
Arts
The last time I wrote about Mark Rentfrow was because he played Porl Thompson in a Cure cover band. This time I'm writing about him because he and his comrades have come up with a cure - for how to display content from your tablet device. The product is Project Wedge. The
Arts
Don't despair. There is hope for the artist who wants to sell art without giving up their sovereignty, their uniqueness, their artistic soul. Sure it's true the machine manages to absorb, transform and reproduce every trend, innovation and movement within the aesthetic realm. And yes, there seems to be no
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as
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My poor, poor sister-in law. The phrase, "Come have a few drinks with me" has come out of my mouth quite often when in her presence, and I'm not quite sure if she loves me or hates me for it all. Just about every family event ends in frantic
Food Matters
EAT THEN GOLF Hotel Murano (1320 Broadway, Tacoma) welcomes the official start of summer with a golf themed shindig Swing into Summer from 4-7 p.m. June 20. Enjoy the downtown Tacoma fancy hotel's new summer menu and enter to win a round of golf for two at Chambers Bay. WINE BUS If you're
Show And Tell
A picture's worth a thousand words, or so the old adage goes; but who's to say, really? Maybe back in the Stone Age - when words were little more than inarticulate grunts and "Yabba Dabba Do!" - Og's cave paintings really were worth a thousand words as they were the
Scene It
It's March 26, 2010, somewhere around midnight maybe, and I'm clumsily trying to manipulate a Hula Hoop into making a full rotation around my beer gut. Standing in front of Chopstix's dueling piano bar, I take off my suit jacket to allow full range of motion. The shot of
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If I asked you to guess what type of music The Electric Magpie make, no points for saying "neo-psychedelia." Still, The Electric Magpie go a bit of a way in terms of exploring the less explored corners of those '60s nuggets. Dashes of Canned Heat peak out from underneath the
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Sometimes it's hard to think of how to describe a group, other than by saying that they're a fucking solid rock group. Dude York is so adept at making ridiculously catchy, wiry indie rock that it's enough to make one tongue-tied. The heavy pop of Dude York has remained steady
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Lena May, founder of The NW Hip Hop website and #iBelieveInHipHop, celebrates her birthday at Sampan Saturday night. The celebration will also act as a benefit to raise money for her medical costs. Open to the public, May's party will feature musical performers Miz, Zikki, Ill Defined and others, as
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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 Chicago blues with Richard Molina. 8-11 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. All Ages. 9 pm. $5. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy
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A lot of folks still consider the 1939 film Gone With the Wind to be the best loved and most iconic American movie of all time - a classic national story of struggle and perseverance. Others might call it an American icon for less flattering reasons, i.e., how blithely it
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness... It's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Karl Thurmond. All Ages. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Steve Mazan. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Chris Jones Band. 9 pm. Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Kenny Rogers. 8 pm. $40.
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Olympia actor Morgan Picton has an easy, authoritative knack for comic timing, which made sense given his night job as a standup comedian. We saw him riffed on economics and ancient Rome for a dozen people, killing with insights that were probably too smart for most rooms, including that one.
