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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Yenney Music Olympia - Westside. Kate Power and Steve Einhorn Uke & Song. All Ages. 7-8 pm ukuleles and instrument playalong 8-9 pm singalong. NC. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Dave Roberts. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Monday Night Blues. Featuring the blues band HipBone.
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Last week, Latosha Curry sent out an email through change.org urging readers to sign a petition. Curry, who has been in the Army for 12 years and hoping to become a recruiter, was sexually assaulted while serving in Korea. Like many victims, she never reported it. "I was too afraid of
Nightlife It List
The Weekly Volcano recognizes the need to keep ourselves young by occasionally going out and assaulting our livers and the sensibilities of other Tacomans - and that's exactly what we do during Doyle's monthly St. Practice Day parties. Doyle's is a great pub on any given day, but every 17th
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Here we go again. Vanity, the third Tacoma nightclub to open in the last three weeks, will swing its doors wide Friday night with the über-popular local cover band Just Dirt. Housed in the former Station 56 spot off South Tacoma Way, Ali Mehdizadehkashi - who owns Cheers Bar &
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More stuff you'll never learn from VH1's "I Love the '80s": Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's pioneering 1982 cut "The Message" was the first (and only) hip-hop record ever inducted into the United States Library of Congress - not that it makes up for being screwed over. The inventor
Nightlife It List
She'll hit the Tempest Lounge's dance floor Sunday night in celebration of the Tacoma Hilltop lounge's fifth anniversary. Dressed in a tight red hooded top with red-bra-clad cleavage popping out the top, she'll pull a girlfriend out to the floor, where they will grind to DJ Tracy, Bobby Galaxy, Mr.
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Gardens and Villa hail from sunny Santa Barbara, Calif. They have brightly-colored vinyl deckchairs for a MySpace background. Band photos feature them dressed hella casual in bright tones, hangin' on a porch. A year ago, these incriminating aesthetic details would have led uninspired critics to quickly label these guys "chillwave"
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The early years of this millennium's musical landscape were confusing. As is the case with the beginnings of any decade, bands began to shake loose the musical bloat of the mainstream and reach back into the past for influences, all while introducing new inspiration. Born out of this confusion was
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Infinite Love, the new record from guitarist Dustin Wong, may not be literally infinite, but it sure as hell is ambitiously epic. Clocking in at 1 hour, 20 minutes, Infinite Love is a double LP of visionary instrumental loopage in the Mark McGuire mode. A DVD with deeply psychedelic accompanying
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Do you ever get the sensation a band is manipulating you? Do you ever care? The Art of Shooting is an abundantly melodramatic band from Brooklyn; they want very badly for me to feel something when I listen to them. And I do. When those sweeping guitars come in at
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Straw Hat String Band. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. The Righteous Mothers. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. BLUES The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. 7 On 7. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Rhythm & Brews Tacoma - Downtown. Back To Beale Street Blues 2011
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. A Leaf. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Eddie Spaghetti. 21+. 9:30 pm. NC. Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma - Downtown. Erik Steighner's Mighty Tacoma Saxophone Recital, featuring Daniel Goodrich, Fred Winkler, Karen Ganz. All Ages. 2 pm. Cafe Luna Vashon.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cafe Luna Vashon. Greg Dember. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Mad Silence. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Tommy Castro Band. 21+. 8 pm. $15-$18. COMEDY/GAMES Big Whisky Saloon Tacoma
Music
Infinite Love, the new record from guitarist Dustin Wong, may not be literally infinite, but it sure as hell is ambitiously epic. Clocking in at 1 hour, 20 minutes, Infinite Love is a double LP of visionary instrumental loopage in the Mark McGuire mode. A DVD with deeply psychedelic accompanying
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Oh for God's sake. Get your mind out of the gutter, Tacoma. Night Blow isn't some bizarre sex act, or that stuff you were addicted to in the ‘80s, it's a party Saturday night at the Museum of Glass sure to feature lots of dancing, lots of drinking, lots of
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The biggest show coming up at Museum of Glass is a three-part installation by Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman called Glimmering Gone. (What a great title!) The three parts are: Landscape, Mementos and Artifacts. Landscape will be a 12-foot-high by 25-foot-long by 18-foot-deep installation of mountains, trees, rocks and a
Food Matters
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Asado Cucina Argentina (2810 Sixth Ave., Tacoma) celebrates its fifth anniversary Thursday, Nov. 11 at 10 p.m. They will host a DJ spinning old school and Latin lounge, drink specials, $5 skewers and cake. SUNDAY SUPPER: Toscanos Café and Wine Bar (437 29th St. NE, Puyallup) serves a three-course
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Have you ever thought of a tattoo as a story? Most of us realize that tattoos are art, but they are also symbols with meaning. Every tattoo, from the simplest "Mom" or anchor to the most intricate 3D design - is selected for a reason. Tattoos can reflect our religion
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Thursday, Nov. 11 $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
