Music
Most of my friends have become relatively settled people, growing out of endless partying and incredibly long nights - I know I have. It's just a natural process of getting just the right amount of restlessness out of your system as you age into your late ‘20s. But, there were
Arts
First impressions upon entering a gallery are often misleading. Art that might dazzle at first glance often turns out to be flashy but without substance, and works that may be off-putting could be too new or too outside the ordinary to be appreciated until you've had time to study it
Music
GUN OUTFIT >>> Thursday, March 31 There's nothing funny about Gun Outfit's music - they're a melodically gifted, rightfully acclaimed band with a flair for melding the clean guitars and drawling vocals of post-punk and '90s slacker rock with the aching, whiskey-soaked world-weariness of country music classics. Dylan Sharp and bandmate Carrie
Music
There are so many things going on with 253 hip-hop that I'm actually having to choose what goes in here every week. These are tough decisions, but it's a good sign that we have lots of things bubbling. Probably the most fun thing to do this week would be for you
Music
There's a cliché in popular music about a band member getting too big for his britches and dramatically and huffily announcing that he's "going solo!" It's become a running gag, this idea that a musician would be so cocky as to quit a successful band to go and do his
Features
This week ... Thing: Tacoma Pride Where: AMOCAT Cafe Obvious: AMOCAT = TACOMA Sells: Coffee and local goodies Run by: Morgan Alexander Morgan Alexander is: A community zealot He's also: A real estate agent and guru of local projects If you were to poke AMOCAT Cafe with a huge hypothetical (and hypodermic) needle, the streets of downtown Tacoma
Stage
German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was one serious dude. He called for a new form of live entertainment: "epic theater," in which empathetic identification with the characters was downplayed in favor of sociopolitical reflection. The characters represented movements, not individuals. The audience was meant to feel distanced from the action,
Benefits
Pacific Medical Center's (PacMed) new Lakewood clinic will be opening May 2, and its US Family Health Plan Program will change the way servicemen and women utilize healthcare. John Ellis, the Manager of Marketing Enrollment and Member Services has been with PacMed for 11 years and was eager to share
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A.Madman follows in the same lineage of sample-heavy electronica as groups like the Avalanches - groups that value texture and ambience in equal proportion to hooks and dancey grooves. On the remarkable "Lotus Eater," A.Madman mixes and matches classic soul elements and stuttering breakbeats with an oppressive sense of gloom
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If you haven't heard Stone Axe yet you are missing out, my friend. They are the greatest classic rock band to come out in our lifetime. They have perfect riffs, well-timed harmony and storylines rivaling Rod Stewart or Black Sabbath. Stone Axe is truly climbing the stairway to heaven. The
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Pickwick succeeds almost entirely on the basis of Galen Disston's commanding lead vocal. The band is tight and in the pocket, propping up and supporting Disston, but the show is all ultimately all his, and if his voice faltered in the face of their '60s soul style, the whole thing
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There's nothing funny about Gun Outfit's music - they're a melodically gifted, rightfully acclaimed band with a flair for melding the clean guitars and drawling vocals of post-punk and '90s slacker rock with the aching, whiskey-soaked world-weariness of country music classics. Dylan Sharp and bandmate Carrie Keith write, sing and
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Tacoma Musical Playhouse's production of Nine was everything Director and Choreographer Jon-Douglas Rake announced. Based on Fellini's film 8 1/2, it was indeed beautiful - the women, the acting, the set, the songs, the orchestra, the casting, all of it. TMP did a wonderful job producing a spectacle worth seeing.
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There's a cliché in popular music about a band member getting too big for his britches and dramatically and huffily announcing that he's "going solo!" It's become a running gag, this idea that a musician would be so cocky as to quit a successful band to go and do his
Military Life
At the Tacoma City Marathon May 1, most runners will shed their backpacks before the starting line to lighten the load they carry through the 26.2 miles. One person, preparing to run his first competitive marathon, will do the exact opposite by hoisting a 22 kg (48.5 pound) rucksack onto
News Front
First Lt. Erico Sanchez pushed a dirt roller around some playground equipment at the Harry Todd Park. Doing so only strengthened the community connection between the City of Lakewood and the 2nd Infantry Division. "I wanted to come out and help," said the newest officer to join the 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry
Nightlife It List
We're not going to lie to you and say fried chicken night at the local dive bar brings out many hotties. We would never do that. We would also never suggest a fried chicken night unless the tavern knew how to prepare a damn fine bird. On Wednesday's, the Mountain
Nightlife It List
Ever wonder what pubs in Ireland are like on Friday nights? Are they filled with cheerful revelers celebrating a long week of work? Does everyone take shots of Jameson; down pitchers of Guinness? Do the bartenders nod at the regulars? Do members of the opposite sex flirt shamelessly? Are the
Scene It
The first thing I notice when walking into the nightclub at El Tenampa Mexican Restaurant is that everyone speaks Spanish. Everyone. The guy checking IDs at the door, the lady taking my entrance fee, the bartender, the band. Each time I talk to someone, I'm forced to utter one of
News Front
Under a heavy gray sky threatening of rain, two special teams squared off on Gordon Field at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds last Saturday for a battle of heroes as men and women representing the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines traded in steel-toed boots for soccer cleats for the 2016
