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Who is Sylvia? Well, she's a goat. There are no spoilers there. Edward Albee's play is titled The Goat or Who is Sylvia? So I'll just lay that out. Sylvia is the goat. And Christopher Cantrell plays Martin, and Martin is the man, and the man is having sex with the
Hip-Toss
Brett Favre's dong. Sure, there are other ways I could have started this article. I could have taken the high road, I suppose, and stuck to my initial intention of examining the often strained and awkward relationship between sports and art, perhaps offering some sort of thesis to that effect, but
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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's not certain, but he suspects Hell has officially frozen over. Or, at the very least, there's frost at Glen Frey's house.
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In the summer of 2011, Tacoma witnessed genuine culinary overachieving when Jaime Kay Jones and Chef Kyle Wnuk opened Sixth Avenue establishment Marrow. Jaime and husband Jason already owned T-town staple Top of Tacoma Bar and Cafe and ventured forward with a more finessed approach at Marrow, which featured gourmet-styled
Music
Soul music has been a genre that's evolved steadily and uniquely, over time, with shining stars picking up the mantle of those who came before them, and then subsequently adding their own bit of unique energy to the form. Since blues, R&B and rock synthesized sometime in the '50s, there's
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For Richard Baker the line between life and death is very thin, almost transparent. He served in Vietnam; he came home with PTSD; he tried suicide twice; then a Veterans Administration doctor suggested Baker return to Vietnam. He did. "I fell in love with the place and the people and never felt
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Two students in Bea Geller's photography classes at Pacific Lutheran University were finalists in the 2010 West/Southwest Collegiate scholarship competition. PLU art students "rarely have an opportunity to see how well their work does in relation to the work of students at other colleges and universities," Geller said. "By sending their
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Anton Chekhov once famously opined, "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there." In Henrik Ibsen's 1890 classic Hedda Gabler, a pair of loaded pistols have indeed been introduced into the
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Now, you listen here, hombre. You and me, we done rode through all that "talk like a pirate" bosh, but all that balled-up palaver didn't hold a candle to talkin' like a cowboy. And you might think such frontier lingo wouldn't rightly fit into the flannel-mouthed Elizabethan purty-talk of one
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Frankly I'm growing weary of recycled art, even if I do admire the underlying environmental consciousness. It's not a new thing; it's as old as Picasso and Duchamp. And most of it is cute or clever at best. There are exceptions, notably some of the artists represented by Matter in
Music
Green Apple Quick Step had finished up a show in Portland with Ten Minute Warning - bar closed, gear all packed up in the van. The Ten Minute Warning crew was long gone, but we were still there. With us, there were a few stragglers. Drunk stragglers. Which is certainly
Music
BLOODDRUNK SHENANIGANS >>> Friday, Oct. 15 The band's name implies intoxication via the metallic red stuff, but the sound is that of pure, trashy beer and whiskey. Blooddrunk Shenanigans are part of a long-standing tradition of drunken UK blokes and the fiery punk they create. (Even though they appear to be from
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Fashion, art and music just fucking go together. They always have. Ask Mick Jagger’s crotch tight-pants from back in the day. In Tacoma, the fantastic collision between art, music and fashion happens at urbanXchange … or at least it usually happens at urbanXchange. Saturday, the Fall Fashion Lore Runway Show
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"It's more important than Joell Ortiz coming to Hell's Kitchen; it's more important than my album dropping; it's more important than City Hall's album dropping," says Tacoma-based veteran MC, Josh Rizeberg. "El Potrero (on Tacoma's Eastside at 4314 East Portland Ave.) is the only venue in Tacoma right now where
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Being a native Olympian, I'm no stranger to Jake's on 4th. Jake's is like that buddy I call up after I fail a test or have been stood up by a date. He's there when I need him, feeding me shots and blasting music so loud I forget my problems.
Music
There's a universality to puppy love. This global understanding has fueled decades of lovesick pop songs, and the main thing that can be gleaned from this rich history of broken hearts is that everybody hurts in more or less the same way. Regardless of the oceans-wide separation of culture and
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The Outfit Theatre Project made its debut a year ago being silly in public, producing Joe's Diner as a fundraiser for Lakewood Playhouse. Billed as an "improv sitcom," the event was, by all accounts, an unprecedented success. Extra rows of seats were added, fire codes were flexed and
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It's been a few weeks since financial experts decided the recession was officially on its way out, and times are still hard all over. Jobs lost, homes devalued. And when everyone is struggling to make ends meet, the urge to spend money to watch three hours of depressing drama, however
