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Olympia's Washington Center for the Performing Arts is kicking of its 25th season in style, with a whole weekend of entertainment and celebration planned. Friday, the Culture Vultures, a proudly under-40 comedy group, will throw a bash billed to include plenty of music, snacks, comedy (of course) and (drum roll
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Leave it to liberal academia to romanticize soft-ass Europe and the continent's history of thinking and talking and stuff. And we don't mean thinking and talking about who got kicked off of Survivor, either; we mean intellectual stuff. It's so un-American. Thursday, University of Puget Sound Prof. Laurie Frankel, fast
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There is such a thing as a once-in-a-lifetime concert, packed with show-stopping artists. If ever one of these shows has hit the Puget Sound area - Soul Fest is it. Hailing from the early- and mid-1990s (what I would argue was the last era of soul music),
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There is such a thing as a once-in-a-lifetime concert, packed with show-stopping artists. If ever one of these shows has hit the Puget Sound area - Soul Fest is it. Hailing from the early- and mid-1990s (what I would argue was the last era of soul music), several R&B crooners
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The uninitiated may best know the Melvins by their creation of the dubious sub-genre known as sludge-rock. Marked by its definitional sluggishness, sludge-rock favors hard, plodding, perfect-head-banging metal over all else. It's the kind of music where you either commit to the possible whiplash that may
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When we think of Washington rock legends - if we ignore the Sonics, which you never should - then we tend to think of bands like Green River, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, blah blah blah. Before then, it gets a little hazy. Before then, it was the Melvins. Hailing from a town
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OMYGOD! COLLEGE! WOOOOO! Did you hear the new Bigwheel Steakhouse is starting a College "Nite" on Tuesdays? That totally, like, rocks! It's, like, the best place to go party and drink $2 beers and $2 wells and get SOOO wasted, and omigod. And calling it $2 All Vinyl Study Hall
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Lady Luck's Cowgirl Up in Parkland is decorated in a style somewhere between Vegas strip joint and Old West Saloon ... and packed Friday and Saturday nights. We've seen a table full of middle-aged women celebrating a bachelorette party. We've seen Army men in baseball hats eye the scantily clad
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SAD MR. ROBERT ANOTHER COWARD OF LOVE>>> Friday, Sept. 24I wrote sometime back that one of my favorite Tacoma love songs was “Commitment Chant” by Alexander and the Optimistics, AKA local artist Sean Alexander. A simple line, repeated over and over atop a chugging beat box, it kind of perfectly
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After a couple years of being stranded in the wilderness of Alaska, Saucy Yoda is once again gracing the Pacific Northwest with her presence. For those who haven't had the pleasure of catching her live, Saucy Yoda is a whirling dervish of gonzo party energy. Combining a garage punk aesthetic
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Orden Mundial do not fuck around. The Spanish hardcore outfit lay everything out on the line in their recent LP, Obedienca Debida, with 10 tracks that almost never make it past a minute and a half. Still, within these unfathomably tight structures, Orden Mundial find compelling melodies and enough crunch
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For Christians the world over, Christmas Eve means being trapped for endless hours with the family while listening to Hall and Oates sing Christmas carols. But for everyone else, Christmas Eve is a pony of an entirely different hue. People of all faiths and no faith are invited to celebrate Christmas
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COMEDY/GAMES Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. OFS and Temple Beth Hatfiloh Present: Fiddler On The Roof Sing-Along. All Ages. 3:30 pm. $5-$8. WORLD BEAT Emerald Queen Casino Tacoma - Eastside. Christmas Asia Fest, featuring Don Ha. 7 pm.
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You know you're already humming "If I Were a Rich Man" in your head. If you aren't, we are. Once again, Olympia's Capitol Theater screens the classic musical film Fiddler on the Roof Christmas day. But beyond simply watching, you will be immersed in the total If-I-Were-A-Rich-Man experience - you
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It's not easy to labor in purposeful obscurity for more than a decade, cultivating an atmosphere of secrecy and hard-line artistic weirdness, but Olympia's Dead Air Fresheners have been going strong (and going secretive) for nigh on 13 years now. The creatively-uncontained, nominally-instrumental band (sometimes joined by spoken word performers)
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This show, featuring Hunting Hat, Psychic Handbook, Via and Last Eyes is being advertised as "The Night of the Living Loop." Not entirely sure what that means. I'm hoping it indicates that these bands utilize the loop pedal, which I think is one of the more delightful gadgets to see
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BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Annual Night After Christmas Dance Party, with The Randy Oxford Band. 8 pm. $8. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andrew Rivers. 8 pm and 10:30 pm. $15. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Red Wind Casino Yelm. Brian Green. 8:30 pm. NC. Half Pint Pizza Pub
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More than ever, the power to coordinate and organize youth-centered events is being put in the hands of young go-getters themselves (the Redmond Fire House, WhAAM up in Bellingham, et al.). The Olympia Film Society's seventh annual What You Got? Festival aims to provide local kids with a 48-hour arts
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I wrote sometime back that one of my favorite Tacoma love songs was "Commitment Chant" by Alexander and the Optimistics, AKA local artist Sean Alexander. A simple line, repeated over and over atop a chugging beat box, it kind of perfectly summed up the fear and sadness that come with
