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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Mike Connelly. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Six House Radious, The Olympics. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Mr. Fusion 9 pm. NC. Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. St. Practice Day, with Ockham's Razor. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Paddy
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. 41 Miles. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Ian McFeron, Picoso. All Ages. 9 pm. $10. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Shain's Jam Night & Musician's Workshop. All Ages. 8 pm. $2 suggested donation. BLUES Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Cory Wilds Band.
Music
It's a cliché, at this point, that there is no counting for taste. This much is true. Still, for many parents, out there, there is still the urge to mold the minds of their children, so that their musical taste may pass down through the generations. And so, we have
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Austin Jenckes. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Katherine Alderette. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Chehalis. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude.
Food Matters
DIP IT The Melting Pot in downtown Tacoma (2121 Pacific Ave.) offers three courses and a bottle of wine for $35 a person, through July Sunday through Thursday. AFTERNOON TEA Affairs Restaurant & Catering in University Place would like to host your afternoon tea party. Their tea menu includes cucumber sandwiches, ham and
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Calling it a bittersweet moment, Lt. Col. Steven Sattinger said goodbye and thank you to the 557th Horizontal Engineer Company today. The company, first activated in 1944 during World War II, was deactivated in a 20-minute ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. "This is truly a bittersweet moment for me and many in
Stage
One of my earliest memories is reading to my three-years-younger brother Richard. His favorite book was Roald Dahl's 1964 classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, so I must've read it to him four or five times cover to cover. Yet we didn't see the 1971 movie adaptation in theaters. Almost
Food Matters
HARVEST CRUSH EXPERIENCE Stottle Winery (2641 Willamette Drive Southeast, Lacey) is celebrating harvest season with their "Harvest Crush Experience" from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. Witness firsthand the winemaking process and sample varietals at different stages of the fermentation process. Nibble on small bites paired with the vinos and
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A little goes a long way when it comes to psych-rock. This can be a hard lesson for a lot of bands to learn. When the Sex Pistols came around to bring music back to basics, they were reacting to the bloat of bands like Pink Floyd, who had taken
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Admittedly, anymore, it's a little silly to think of an entire record label as having one defining sound. There's too much influence getting divided and spliced by new generations of musicians. Still, when I think of ANTI- Records, I think of the junkyard nightmares of Tom Waits' latter-years output, not
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The 85th Support Command hosted a two-day orientation brief informing active-component brigade commanders, currently working in a Army Total Force Policy implementation between First Army Division-West, and the 85th Support Command, of Army Reserve processes and systems, here, Saturday and Sunday. "I'm very excited about the brigade command teams
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. A Sea of Glass. 7 pm. NC. B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Ryan Heffner EP Release Party. All Ages. 8 pm. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES
Food Matters
Thursday, July 15 Morgan Winery tasting, 4-6 p.m., Water to Wine, 9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor, 253.853.9463. Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, 253.858.3982. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday, July 16 Fridays
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What goes into the production of a quarter pound burger? According to J.L. Capper in The Journal of Animal Science, 6.7 pounds of feed, 52.8 gallons of drinking water, 74.5 square feet of grazing, and the equivalent amount of energy it takes to run a microwave for 18 minutes. The
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Acoustic Minefield. 8 pm. Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. An Evening With Greg Brown. All Ages. 7 pm. $28-$32. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Crude Awakening Oil Train Tour, with Dana Lyons, Matt Krogh. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$20. B Sharp
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Many of us have daydreamed about one day carving out a space that's specifically set aside for our creative projects - a special happy place where the mundane must not enter and the fanciful roam free. While some only imagine it; others have actually done it. We guess you could
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Back in the day Bobble Tiki wrote a weekly music column in the Weekly Volcano. The HBO series Deadwood killed the column. The series' opening fiddle summoned Bobble Tiki to a dirty 1870s town (barely) built in the Dakotas territory by colorful outlaws and lowlifes, (barely) held together by its
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. John McCutcheon. All Ages. 5 pm. $20-$25. BLUES The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Billy Stoops & The Rectifiers. 8 pm. Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Monday Music, featuring James Coates. 7 pm. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Hambone Blues Band. 8 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm.
