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Seattle’s classic rock radio station, KZOK 102.5 FM, has a highly-rated morning show host named Bob Rivers. Rivers is known for his intelligent and humorous satire on his talk radio program, but he also has a deep affinity for music. Rivers has recorded several records of what he calls Twisted
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The summer calendar is already cluttered with festivals and daylong events, so what's one more to cause you paroxysms of worry about how to manage your free time? And trust us, the Downtown Block Party will have you begging Siri to clear your weekend calendar. Primarily because it's about connectivity
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The Tacoma Round is back in its 10th installment, featuring The Head & the Heart, Ritchie Young and Shenandoah Davis along with painters Dan Martin and Glory Cancro, poet Danny Sherrard, and dancer Joel Myers. If you're unfamiliar, picture three musicians and songwriters sharing the spotlight, swapping tunes and stories
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Friday Jason Michael Carroll If you attend this show, close your eyes for the first couple of songs, otherwise you might think Jason Michael Carroll is lip-syncing to an obscure deep-voiced country artist from the 1970s. The 28-year-old singer/songwriter looks like an ‘80s heavy metal singer — complete with long blonde locks
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The kid has been biting her nails pretty much since she’s had teeth. Recently I was helping her wash her hands after she made dirt castles out of the soil from the holes the dogs have been digging in the back yard, and I noticed she actually had soil under her
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Listen up, Tacoma. The death of electronica in the South Sound has been greatly exaggerated. Come get smacked upside the head with evidence of its vibrancy on Friday, April 20, when Ocean Grooves celebrates its Eighth Anniversary at the Swiss. Headlining will be native DJ-gone-global Donald Glaude, DJ dAb and
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We live in stressful times. And stress is a creativity killer. I'm not talking about the economy or wars or crime. Sure, macro-madness adds to our stress levels - lends a sort of ambient, draining buzz, like the hum of fluorescent lights. But that kind of stress is easy to deal
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You probably know the drill. You may even be sharing in the contemporary-indie ritual with me Saturday morning; packing up functional, concert-tested clothing, saying a little prayer that your piece-of-crap car will make it over the pass one more time, and figuring out which nook of your backpack or crotch
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AU is a band shrinking in the aftermath - having recently been hotly engorged. Ballooning from a solo bedroom pop act to a remarkable 20 members, the band became an experimental chamber pop collection that utilized every hand and voice in creating thickly orchestrated arrangements. As of their 2008 recording,
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Would you like to see why Jeremy Mangan won the 2009 Foundation of Art Award from The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation? A peek at his show at Fulcrum Gallery might provide a good clue. Mangan's paintings are inventive, thought provoking, humorous, technically marvelous and beautifully composed. What more
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I can question like: What is it? If you just chanted, "Verb, you're so demanding," then you're probably in your late 30s or early 40s. I'm referring, of course, to a lyric from the most dynamic installment of Schoolhouse Rock!, a series of edu-taining cartoon shorts aired between
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I can question like: What is it? If you just chanted, "Verb, you're so demanding," then you're probably in your late 30s or early 40s. I'm referring, of course, to a lyric from the most dynamic installment of Schoolhouse Rock!, a series of edu-taining cartoon shorts aired between Saturday morning commercials
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Pioneer Park Pavilion Puyallup. NoonTunes at Pioneer Park, featuring The Gothard Sisters. All Ages. 12 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and
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The Lacey-based duo of LA Swagga is comprised of the thin and dark chocolate-toned lyricist and MC battle champion, LA White, and the thicker businessman-turned-MC, caramel-colored personality, Swagg. Both in their early twenties, they attended high school in Lacey and grew up together. The fact both LA White and Swagg
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Gangstas. Hipsters. B-Boys/Girls. Juggalos. The Skinny Pantsers? Who knows? There are so many different sub-genres and clicks stemming from hip-hop culture right now. It's hard to keep up with who's who, and it's even more difficult to nail down the specific characteristics that accompany these newly emerging contingents in hip-hop.
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RAIN FEST 2010 >>> Friday, May 28-Sunday, May 30 One of the Viaduct's crowning achievements has been the annual Rain Fest, a massive hardcore music festival spanning three days. Since its inception in 2007, Rain Fest has served as a magnet for big names in the hardcore scene from the past and
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Avant-garde musicians Ben Paris, Phil Harty, Lucas Webster and Nicholas Hartzell will mess with time, space and dimension via ethereal soundscapes and minimalist tones while Kris Crews' abstract video commands the wall space. "I plan to screen a mixed bag. Several of the featured artists are providing video to accompany their
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Wed night Irish Session. 7:00- 930. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade Community Center JBLM-Lewis
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I've always known that Washington wasn't normal. After all, this is the state where it can rain and then be sunny and then snow all within minutes of each other. We're home to such oddities as a giant coffee pot by the side of the road; a garbage-eating goat sculpture
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There's a show at B2 Fine Art Gallery called "Evolution of Line & Form: Exploring Jackson Pollock Inspirations." Six painters and one photographer are featured, including former Tacomans David Noah Giles and Catherine Swanson whose abstract paintings lift the show to a higher plateau. I'm tempted to say everything else
