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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Acoustic Couti. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Lissa Schneckenburger CD Release Concert, with Bethany Waickman, The Canote Brothers. All Ages. 9 pm. $10. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Benny Gilbert & Friends. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Harvest Moon Dinner, with Emily Kaye Peine & Friends. All Ages. 5 pm. $20. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Jennifer Lind. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Shain's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. All Of The Above. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by
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Pierce Transit is facing a large deficit - a deficit likely to result in a 35% cut in services unless Pierce County Voters pass Proposition 1 this February. Prop 1, which will be the only item on February's ballot, would increase the sales tax that funds Pierce Transit and consequently save
Food Matters
NEW WINE BAR: A new wine bar called Pastiche will open Saturday in the second half of the former Il Fiasco space (Beyond the Bridge Café occupies the left side). The owners bring 20 years of wine experience with them to the 2715 Sixth Ave. spot, as well as tapas
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There's a sport for everyone. Whether it's video football or dangling from great heights by little ropes, you have enjoyed at some point the principles of fair play, hard work, achievement, etc. Well, so did many folks in 1936. History professor Chad Moody wants to tell you all about the
Food Matters
Thursday, Nov. 18 $3 Thursdays: $3 beer, $3 wells, $3 for two hot dogs, 4 p.m. to close, Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003. Wine tasting, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Abby's on Broadway: A Wine Shop, 743 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.262.2902. Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925
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South Puget Sound Community College and Saint Martin's University have allied to mount a new production of Grease, but parents expecting a carbon copy of the beloved Travolta adaptation (1978) are in for a rude awakening. "In crafting our production," director Colleen Powers warns in the program,
Stage
When Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs wrote their first version of Grease (then called Grease Lightning) almost 40 years ago, they wrote from recent experience. The Day the Music Died was just 11 years gone. The T-Birds weren't the T-Birds yet; they were the Burger Palace Boys of Jacobs' Chicago
Music
I think we each have that friend who "discovers" Facebook memes that made the rounds two years ago. We think, "How can he just now be seeing this? Has he really never heard ‘The Bed Intruder Song?' Does he still think Rick rolling is funny?" Last month I was that
Critics' Picks
[RAP] + THURS, MARCH 12 If the catch phrases "The G-Funk, We Funk ... " or "Regulators ... Mount up" don't have you funked up for Warren G's show this week, then you must not know your '90s hip-hop/rap. Warren G is (and I don't know how this is possible) one
Features
Any holiday that encourages partaking in food and drink to celebrate is something I can get behind. Which, let's face it, for those who love food and drink, that's every holiday - save for maybe Martin Luther King, Jr. and President's Day. I don't think anyone celebrates those with more
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Moby Grape was one of the most versatile San Francisco rock bands to emerge out of the summer of love. While they were rooted in psychedelia, they injected elements of folk, blues and country. Unlike the jam bands of the time, Grape possessed a meticulously unique sound by way of
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In the late '60s and into the '70s, there was a sea change in the world of country music. Rather than drawing from the glut of radio-ready folk and country that dominated the airwaves, a new class of country singers came up through the ranks, bringing with them a more
Food Matters
STROOPWAFELS Tacoma bakery Hopboom Bakery is supplying local sipping spots with Stroopwafels. Get excited to nibble on this Dutch waffle cookie highlighting rich, spiced caramel sandwiched between two thin waffle slices. It's recommended you place this baked good atop your piping hot beverage to allow the steam to soften the snack.
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Diynosaur adorn themselves with lofty, contradictory descriptors like "pre-rhythm," "post-music" and "neo-analog," and the impression one gets is not one of self-aggrandizement, but more a sign that Diynosaur would rather throw their hands up in defeat than explain just what they are. Made up of three people apparently named Funkasaurus
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In a dismissive manner typical of the man, my dad used to say that anyone could sing a Neil Young song better than Neil Young. Personally, I've always been drawn to atypical voices such as Young's, as well as usual touchstones like David Byrne and Isaac Brock, but to each
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From the manic mind of comic Steve Martin comes the offbeat comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Set in Paris at a bar known as The Lapin Agile (The Agile Rabbit), Martin imagines a meeting between a young Pablo Picasso and a young Albert Einstein, two men who will transform
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Giving boaters and angelers an opportunity to see and touch, compare prices and features, and talk with experts about the newest technological advancements in boats and motors and fishing gear holds great appeal and utility in the Puget Sound area. Just before boat season begins, the Puget Sound Boat Show
