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Hailing from Eastern Washington, 25-year-old Jolene Renee Green has been a part of Tacoma for the last three years. Without trying too hard to sound like a cheesy singles ad, I'll also point out she has a dog named Bodi with an ancestry from the "mutt" breed, almost always picks
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This girl-girl duo - who rose to prominence through 2008's EMP Sound Off! Competition - deserves better than the "folktronica" label and the Tegan & Sara comparisons that are typically lobbed in their direction. The band's marginally-twee electro is totally economical, with no wasted sonic space; the beats are heavy
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Selkie, AKA Jack Doyle Smith, will be playing his first show (ever, apparently) at The Den on Saturday. A self-described player of experimental pop, it's hard to know what you'll see when he's at The Den. All I know is that "I've Never" - one of only two Selkie songs
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To the joy of underage girls everywhere, Paris Spleen announces they are still a band. Despite a dramatic onstage breakup last fall, they will continue to deliver the goods. The goods being bass-driven disco punk, bad attitudes, and a multi-racial mélange of shirtless guys who can dance. Paris Spleen's Brooke
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PARIS SPLEEN >>> Friday, May 7 To the joy of underage girls everywhere, Paris Spleen announces they are still a band. Despite a dramatic onstage breakup last fall, they will continue to deliver the goods. The goods being bass-driven disco punk, bad attitudes, and a multi-racial mélange of shirtless guys who can
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Director Pug Bujeaud stages a riveting revival of Inherit the Wind in the wonderfully intimate Evergreen Playhouse (no relation). It's one thing to assess this spin on the "Scopes monkey trial" through a distant proscenium; it's another to be right in the middle of the courtroom as bombastic Matthew
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Riot to Follow, a student group at The Evergreen State College, is offering a free production of the beloved Ashman/Menken musical Little Shop of Horrors. If you know the movie or the WPA production it adapted, then this incarnation will come as a surprise. At first you might even
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"You take yourself far too seriously ..." "You seem to have a personal vendetta ..." "judgemental [sic] and unhappy ..." "usually negative in tone and often times [sic] downright mean ..." "cranky and nasty ..." "mean people suck ..." Gosh, what did Joann Varnell do to earn those character assassinations? Did
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. St. Practice Day, with That Irish Guy. 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 Chicago blues with Richard Molina. 8-11 pm.
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This week's grocery musing is not focused on any particular store, however it's more about educating you on how to navigate around the store for the best deals. I will use Fred Meyer as an example because that is where I do the bulk of my shopping. Most grocery stores
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Athens, Ga., band The Winter Sounds are beyond slick, as recorded. Layers and layers of churchly harmonies, chiming guitars and driving rhythms, dominate the band's songs. It's all a little too sterile for my taste. But when you get up close and personal to see the band live, they allow
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I've been involved with hip-hop radio since 1989 when I was invited to visit KAOS 89.3 FM in Olympia - where I host a show to this very day. I was intrigued by the smooth voice of hip-hop radio pioneer Nancy G. Plus, I never forgot about KDAY in Los
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COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andy Woodhull. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Urban Onion Restaurant and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. New Queens on the Block Drag Show. 9 pm. $6. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Clay Chambers & The Last Ride. 9 pm. NC. Red
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Mere weeks after their last Tacoma appearance, Seattle's Wild Orchid Children are set to return to town, where, presumably, they'll dole out mind-melting jams with typically persuasive pizzazz. The six-member band has perfected a recipe for psychedelic rock that's wholly unique - and derives, at least in part, from the
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Allow me to set a scene. Having just departed Algebra II, I hustle to Starcade IV, the blinking, bleeping console-game paradise across the street from Fortuna High. Lunch will be a burger and rings from Pam's mom-and-pop burger shoppe around the corner. First, however, I have an appointment with Pole
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Dean Reichert Band. 9 pm. Lacey Timberland Library Lacey. Four Shillings Short. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Rickshaw, Michael Shohan. All Ages. 7 pm. $6. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andy Woodhull. 8
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It took Susan Sontag over six thousand words to describe "camp," so I probably shouldn't even try. She viewed it as a "disengaged, depoliticized" aesthetic "sensibility" skewed toward "artifice and exaggeration," with a "spirit of extravagance" and "glorification of [exaggerated] ‘character.'" Even in 1964, she recognized that homosexuals "constitute
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Have you longed for the quirky emotionalism of Jonathan Richman to careen headlong into noise-rock? Sure you have. You just never knew it. Now, once those two sounds have been precariously welded together, how would you prefer them to be thrown at your head? If you said, "By way of a
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Monday Music, featuring Kurt Lindsay. 7 pm. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. AEK Band. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Bar Bingo. Cash prizes.
