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Mixing jazz elements with hyperactive synth-rock, Heatwarmer create unpredictable music that doesn't so much jostle with its time changes and flights of fancy so much as it fervently sprints to wring every little bit of inspiration possible out of a song. In doing so, they command the attention of their
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Yonatan Gat was recently voted "Best Guitarist of 2013" by the Village Voice. There. Now go to the show. More? Formerly of the Israeli garage rock powerhouses, Monotonix, Gat has turned his eyes to the far corners of musical expression. Incorporating a dizzying variety of cultural influences - tropicalia, Middle
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Manx hail from Portland, and their music is the kind of blazing, no-frills rock 'n' roll practiced by the likes of Fox and the Law. Though tinged with glam rock swagger, Manx don't pretend to be anything other than a dopamine-soaked delivery system of sick riffs to your brain parts.
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The Parkland-Spanaway area is found on the south side of Pacific and houses all kinds of "stuff." I say stuff because there is really a diverse mish mash of services available in the area. In the past, we've covered the Garfield Street nook and highlighted a walkable, charming business district
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The Brick House is now showing a retrospective of drawings and paintings by longtime (retired) University of Puget Sound art professor Robert Vogel. If you have ever studied in a university art department you will recognize the style of Vogel's art. This is not meant as a put-down but merely
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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. COMEDY/GAMES The Ram Restaurant and Brewery Tacoma. Geeks Who Drink pub quiz. All Ages. 8 pm. NC.
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In a manner of speaking, Lakewood was made for getaways, beginning with the founding of a number of country estates in the 19th-century by Tacoma area business leaders. And although the then-bedroom community has since grown up, some of those estates remain, clustered around the local lakeshores. One such estate on
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"What's funny is that Bremerton started this tradition two years prior to it actually being named a holiday," said Frank Gentile, operations manager for the Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce and retired Air Force master sergeant. "Back then it was ‘Bud Hawk Day' to celebrate his Congressional Medal of Honor.
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If you ask anyone who knows her, Elisa Sukenick is a woman on a mission. Within minutes of a first introduction, you know that patriotism is something she takes very seriously. You also know that she stands behind every word she says - literally. In 2003, on the day the troops
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BLUES Port Plaza Olympia - Downtown. Music In The Park, featuring Blues Power Revue. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Ryan Singer. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Bill Carter, Scott MacDonald, Peter Pendras. All Ages. 8
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Last year, Lakewood Asian Film Fest kicked off its very first event to much success. So much success that the event is back this year with more foreign films, more special events and still - best of all - completely free to the public. Kick back, relax
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The show is called Flow, and the drawings by Andrea Erickson and Maureen McHugh at mineral do present a nice flow of contrasting and blending styles. Their art is billed as calligraphic, which is highly descriptive of Erickson's sumi paintings, but McHugh's abstractions in ink are not so much
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"What's your deal?" one wounded character asks another in Israel Horovitz's Six Hotels, currently making its West Coast premiere at Harlequin Productions in Olympia. It's an apt tag line for Six Hotels, a disparate collection of one-act plays. If this anthology has any single uniting theme, it's the exposure
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Nashvile Pussy is a band built on only a handful of elements, the most predominant ones being whiskey, sweat, sex and fire. The band, by design, is your oily, stoned, horny, high school brother's favorite rock band. Believe it or not, it's a brilliant premise. Read the full story here. <h3>Nashville Pussy</h3> Parental Advisory
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Rhythm and Rye Olympia - Downtown. Acousta Noir. 8 pm. BLUES Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Roy Danger & The Rectifiers. 9 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Mud Bay Coffee Company Olympia - Westside. Fool's Play Improv Comedy Troupe. All Ages. 8 pm. $5. Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
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Before each gymnastic meet of the season, 13-year-old Mallory Husfelt would gather her Grace Gymnastics Center teammates in a tight circle and say a quick prayer. "It's a prayer and motivation circle," said Husfelt, an eighth-grader at Curtis Junior High School. "We'd just pray that everybody does their best." That was certainly
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(446th AW PA) - Working in subzero temperatures - check. Experiencing a ride on a dogsled - check. Bringing medical professionals and vital medical care and supplies to residents in remote villages in Alaska - priceless. These were just some of the tasks aerial porters from the 86th Aerial Port Squadron
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(446th AW PA) - Above and beyond. That's one of the proud slogans for the Air Force Reserve. It also accurately describes the recent accomplishments of Staff Sgt. Terri Schmidt, an aviation resource manager with the 728th Airlift Squadron. The accolades keep piling up for Schmidt. Earlier this year, she was
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Summer has put us in a serious doggie mood, which is why our ears are all perked up over the canine events at the Proctor Arts Festival. This is no snooty American Kennel Club affair, populated by overbred humans with overbred dogs sporting names like Major Buffington Blue Shropshire-Cronenberg; instead,
