Arts
I love the Art Bus. I love Third Thursday Artwalk. I love our museums and galleries. But I also believe we can do more than put art on display for appreciation and gawking through the bottom of a beer or wine glass. Art has power, or it once did, to
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SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, (253) 627-TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, (800) 325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, (866) 468-7623, www.ticketweb.com on sale now Yard Dogs Cabaret Blitz, Femme De Fabrique Olympia. May 7 9 pm. $12-$15 (Capitol Theater, www.buyolympia.com). The Tierney Sutton Band Seattle. May 15-16 7:30 pm. $22.50 (Jazz Alley, TM). The Bravery, Test Your
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William Shakespeare's As You Like It opens thus: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." With Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, playwright Tom Stoppard addresses this philosophy on a deeper level: If all the world is a stage, then what happens in the wings? Where
Music
It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling. ... Bobble Tiki will be honest. It's a little weird writing to you today. As you know, Bobble Tiki's weekly column hits the
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Drum n bass currently enjoys not nearly as much of the fawning media attention lavished on it in the mid-‘90s, when magazines anointed Roni Size and Goldie the kings of rapid-fire jungle. Then the R&B-flavored two-step genre has proved more commercially viable, at least in the U.K. And with that,
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What does it mean to be naked? The Brick House Gallery encouraged artists to come up with their own definitions of the word with strong hints that they should feel free to interpret nakedness in ways other than the obvious (i.e., figures without clothing). But with very
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What does it mean to be naked? The Brick House Gallery encouraged artists to come up with their own definitions of the word with strong hints that they should feel free to interpret nakedness in ways other than the obvious (i.e., figures without clothing). But with very few exceptions the
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"It's supposed to be through the parking lot and past the hotel," I remarked to my designated drinker and co-pilot Sarah M. She looked at me dubiously, probably thinking I was dragging her to another mystery spot the Weekly Volcano editors had added to my scavenger hunt of places to
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My next iron-on homemade T-shirt will say, "Known for my clam chowder." This is funny for two reasons. The first being EVERY restaurant with clam chowder on the menu tends to declare their chowder the best. It's always "what they're known for." Even Tides Tavern. The second reason my next homemade
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Approximately 800 U.S. Army and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force personnel kicked-off Orient Shield 14 during an opening ceremony at Camp Higashi-Chitose, Japan, Oct. 27. The ceremony took place in a rain soaked field surrounded by a display of American Stryker and Japanese fighting vehicles and an array of
Music
EDISON ORANGE >>> Friday, July 30 Edison Orange's "Flour Shortage" starts out sounding sort of like Pixies if they made bubblegum pop - that ba-ba-ba-bass, stiffly rhythmic guitar and thudding drums sounding brighter than Black Francis probably would've liked. About a minute in, a certain No Doubt flavor (including horns) kicks in,
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Built to Spill is one of these bands - like Animal Collective and Interpol - where I feel like I just totally missed the boat. I missed them when they first hit the scene, and have been playing catch-up ever since. And you know what? I've really tried, guys, but
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So, I decided to go dumpster diving for this weeks Grocery Stories. My beloved boss Pappi Swarner threw the idea at me a few weeks back and I completely laughed it off, but then I got thinking - why not? They deserve a look-see, just as anyone else, so I
Arts
Olympia artist Pat Tassoni works on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. "My home office is a spaceship," says the artist, whose full-size command center - built completely from repurposed materials - will be on display Friday night at Matter Gallery's first Halloween celebration. And that's not even the strangest
Music
I can remember my very first mixtape. It was the summer of 1986 and my cousin went back to Harlem to visit his family. He returned with a cassette tape that would forever change my sister's and my life. It was a live radio mix from WBLS 107.5 FM's legendary
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Most musicians first get their feet wet by aping their favorite bands for hours in front of their mirrors, so it makes perfect sense that bands would dress up as their favorite acts for Halloween. To wit, Night of the Living Tribute Bands features Olympia's musicians and
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I'm crammed into a tight practice space in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, at Prospect and Elliott, down by the railroad tracks. They Rise, We Die's five members crowd the room, which is getting stuffier and sweatier the longer they jam. The walls are trembling from the force of their
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It's been a tough month. What this rain-soaked weekend calls for most is one awesome round of head-banging, guitar-thrashing, devil-horn-signing indoor entertainment, away from all those candy-crazed toddlers. Let there be rock! Aussie ensemble AC/DC is still touring even as they crumble like arctic ice, but I can tell you
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In every issue of this fine rag my hack team of wannabe journalists and I tackle some of the most laughable criminal acts that have recently happened in our area. Then - if we're doing our job- we write about those crimes in a way that makes you chuckle, or
