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Yeah, more Bike Month stuff. Saturday The Grand Cinema will host a free screening of Pee Wee's Big Adventure, described in promotional materials as "a fun family film about bikes!" The - once again FREE - event starts at 10:30 a.m. and, well, will be a "fun family film about
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As we've mentioned ad nauseam, May is Bike Month - also hyped insufferably by Pierce Transit, Pierce County and the city of Tacoma. More specifically, May 17-21 (or this week) has been the Bike to Work Week Commuter Challenge where teams and individuals have competed to see who can ride
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There was a time in Bobble Tiki's life when he'd down a half rack of beer and zip around local waterways drunk as hell on a jet ski blaring Ronnie James Dio. Those days are over - and not just because Dio's dead. No, Bobble Tiki has learned to respect
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We're really fucking happy the swing revival petered out. It was getting ridiculous. If our girlfriends asked us to take swing lessons one more time, we were afraid we might go postal. No joke. We hated that shit. That said, there's still excitement circulating T-town with the return of Cherry
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The sad, drooping vegetable season is over. Bring on the local farmers markets! Specifically, bring on the Broadway Farmers Market, which opens for the season today. This year marks 20 years of the Broadway Farmers Market. In a town like Tacoma this is quite an accomplishment - and certainly one
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As the Volcano mentioned in October, PLOP - or the Performance Laboratory for Objects and Puppets - opened in late 2009, bringing the world of innovative puppetry and object theater to downtown Olympia. In a matter of months, PLOP, orchestrated by Dan Luce and Ariel Goldberger, has gained speed and
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Holy Komodo and the Feelings pull off the impressive trick of feeling intrinsically Northwest while at the same time appealingly worldly. Their embrace of some of garage rock's tropes is cozy, while their subtle incorporation of things like Latin rhythms or zydeco flavor expands the music into something far more
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Is it possible to create party music that doesn't inspire the urge to dance? How about party music that makes you long to stand in a stairwell, clutching a red keg cup and making awkward passes at that girl you see around sometimes? Or what about music to be hastily
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Since the implementation of the Army's Total Force Policy in the early 1970s, the active U.S. Army has worked and trained closely with their counterparts in the U.S. Army Reserve and Army National Guard. The 3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, has been on
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Everyday I get a renewed sense of hope when it comes to the success of small business. As we are all very aware, this economy had forced us to make some tough decisions by cutting back on our expenses. Groceries come to the top of that list and right now
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Jamie Laval, Zac Leger. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. The guitarist, singer/songwriter performs during dinner. All Ages. 7-9 pm. Free. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 21+. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Ha Ha Tuesdays, hosted by Ralph Porter, with guests
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BEST BEDROOM POP BAND Coma Figura It's hard to pin down what's so effective about Coma Figura. They've only been performing in earnest since September, but they really seem to have their s--- down. Part of the appeal is Kyle Gootkin's vocals, which can bounce from a Bryan Ferry-esque croon to a
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For the most part, the readers' poll in these Best of Tacoma issues vacillate between fairly predictable and completely out of left-field. No more so is this represented than in the music poll, I've found. In the past few years, winners have been as diverse as the wall-of-sound punk of
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How many kinds of folk music can you name? There's Appalachian folk, Irish folk, Czech folk, Southern folk, '60s folk and modern indie folk. Anywhere there are folk, and there is music, there is folk music. "Folk", as a genre description, is about as useful as "rock" or "pop." But
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To intentionally misspell a word makes me very uncomfortable. For a band to utilize a misspelled word is, to me, almost as bad as creating an unpronounceable name (!!!, for example). So, it's with a slight cringe that I write to you regarding Makeing Tents. And just now, Microsoft Word
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As popular music moves into the future and becomes drenched in drones, break beats, intrusive synthesizers and various other ephemera, there will always be a contingent of musicians who will push to bring it back to its roots - or closer to them, at any rate. The Marrying Type, Canon
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Night Beats, originally from the Lone Star State, have carved out a niche for themselves in Seattle's garage rock underbelly. And while the song titles on their Street EP may inspire a sense of menace, violence and devastation (with "H-Bomb" and "Stampede" complemented by the creepy, enigmatic pronoun of "They
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Get ready to party down, 25360! The Bay Area's own Mystik Journeymen (Sunspot Jonz and Luckyiam of Living Legends), A+ (Hieroglyphics), Bored Stiff, Z-Man and Equipto visit Olympia's Royal Lounge for an early show tomorrow night. Just added are Tac-Town's award-winning MC Wojack, and fresh off the release of his
