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"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act," M. F. K. Fisher opined, "that should not be indulged in lightly." If he's right, then the intimacy quotient in downtown Olympia is about to get downright freaky. On Saturday, Sept. 11, the Olympia Action Network and the Volunteer Center of
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1/2 Night: FIRST NIGHT >>> DEC. 31 Tacoma's annual safe, sane and (relatively) alcohol free New Year's Eve celebration is one of the coolest of its kind - combining music, gobs of art, and Tacoma's life and soul into one memorable evening each year. Fun for the whole family, from the
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21. OLEANNA >>> SUMMER 2011 David Mamet's Oleanna is one of those plays people holler about decades after it was written. It's a two-hander about a college professor, John, and his ongoing feud with Carol, a female student. Is John guilty of sexual harassment, or is Carol just wielding political correctness
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They're based in Tacoma, but every year the Northwest Sinfonietta logs a lot of miles - traveling up and the Interstates for regular performances in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland and Puyallup - not to mention stops in Port Townsend, Olympia, Kirkland and even Astoria, Ore. Led by renowned conductor Christophe
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17. JOHNNY CLEGG >>> APRIL 29 Think the fresh-faced, boat shoe-wearing Vampire Weekend was the first musical enterprise to imagine a combination of Western pop and traditional African vibrations? Not even close. Johnny Clegg, billed as "one of South Africa's most celebrated sons," is headed to Tacoma in April, bringing his
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14. KODO DRUMMERS OF JAPAN >>> JAN. 30 Being a theater critic has its downside. Personally, I wake up most Thursdays dreading the smackdown I'm about to inflict on someone's feelings. But at least we get free tickets, right? Well, yes and no. So let me take this opportunity to whine like
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11. THE COLOR PURPLE >>> NOV. 12 The Color Purple is a now-classic musical set largely in Georgia that will take to the Pantages in Downtown Tacoma on Nov. 12. But how can you put together a true Southern evening up here in the Northwest? Impossible, you might think, with our lack
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Somewhere out on the vast prairie, two strangers ride into a frontier boomtown. One spits a thick stream of tobacco juice into the sagebrush. "For the great desire I had to see fair Padua," he drawls, "I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy, the pleasant garden of great Italy." Hey,
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7. GERSHWIN AND GUITAR >>> OCT. 23 Leave it to Tacoma Symphony Orchestra to spice up their season opener, in the form of Gershwin and Guitar. The performance will mark Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovic's first time on stage in the South Sound, and will be an opportunity to see and hear
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Three years ago, my beloved girlfriend, then completely unknown to me, was at the Capital Playhouse's Live Theatre Week performance of Sweeney Todd I attended. Small world, right? A romantic "meet cute?" Nope, we didn't talk that night and wouldn't for several months, but Capital Playhouse has decided to
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4. MIGHTY TACOMA >>> OCT. 21 We don't yet know what photographs will be in the show Mighty Tacoma: Photographic Portrait 2010, but the title tells us they will reference Tacoma and will be mighty. Billed as an "interactive celebration and creative exercise in commemoration of Tacoma Art Museum's 75th Anniversary," the show
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Remember Dead Artists and Kulture Lab? Remember James Hume and the hair metal band Roadrunner? Every wonder what Hume is up to nowadays? Well, according to artist and curator Lynn Di Nino he's Not Painting Flowers - the title of his new show curated by Di Nino and opening
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1. ILLUSION/ALLUSION >>> SEPT. 22 For the many years I've been writing art reviews I've been singing the praises of Ron Hinson. They just don't come much better. I've also been known to praise Barlow Palminteri, a self-taught artist whose large self-portraits and paintings of his studio are absolute knockouts. What
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Thursday, May 3: Alexandria Nicole Wine Dinner, 6:30 p.m., $85, Sea Grill, 1498 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.272.5656. Every Saturday: “Taste,” Pacific Grill’s wine and cheese tasting, after 9 p.m., complimentary, Pacific Grill, 1502 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.627.3535. Saturday, May 12: Seventh Annual Wine Classic, 5:30 p.m., $125 per person, Tacoma Community College,
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The spring and summer of 1999 was (finally) what I had always dreamed of: touring and getting paid to be in a working rock 'n' roll band. Honestly, the images in my head I chased with a deaf, dumb and fevered tunnel vision were never of selling out stadiums
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Before you put on your Sunday best to go do some heavy drinking at the Sea Grill, heed this warning: You will go broke at the bar at the Sea Grill. The booze is top-shelf stuff and comes in all varieties. I love it when I get to ask the
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Ah, Fall. When your morning commute is suddenly a maze of yellow school buses. It also means it's time for the Weekly Volcano's annual Fall Arts Calendar. The following are arts-related events sent to us my the local arts organizations through spring 2011. To be frank, it's easier if you go
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The legend of immortalized hip-hop revolutionaries Dead Prez spans more than a decade. Voices of vision, afro-centricity, revolution and healthy eating, Dead Prez has always been just under the radar in terms of popular success. Even today, they're synonymous with power, motivation, empowerment and forward thinking
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The legend of immortalized hip-hop revolutionaries Dead Prez spans more than a decade. Voices of vision, afro-centricity, revolution and healthy eating, Dead Prez has always been just under the radar in terms of popular success. Even today, they're synonymous with power, motivation, empowerment and forward thinking (revolutionary but gangsta,
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The show is called Access Denied, but it should be Access by Invitation Only or Access at Your Own Risk. It's the follow-up to Mineral's popular chastity belt show from a year ago. The walls are lined with artist-designed chastity belts displayed on female-form mannequins. They express 21st century takes
