Arts
Art entrepreneur Lisa Kinoshita, along with birdloft furniture (Jeff Libby and Adrienne Wicks) and rePly Furniture (Steve Lawler), have opened an exciting new shop on Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma. Called Matter: Tacoma made modern, the new shop is a showcase for furniture, woodworking and visual arts. For its inaugural
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Honestly, this one's really tripping us out. We swear (like TOTALLY swear!) we were just working on a one-year retrospective of the Tacoma Cult Movie Club. Now ... BOOM! The club is two. Kids these days; they grow up so fast. Originally created by the Tacoma-legendary Reverend Colin and Tobin
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National Beer Day - now there's a holiday we can get behind! It has everything we're looking for in a holiday ... mainly an excuse to get drunk. Thursday, Tacoma's Harmon Tap Room will celebrate National Beer Day ALL day by tapping some T-Town Blonde Ale, offering $1 beers during
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Look, we don't much care how you do it. But one way or another you should really try to set a few dollars aside for Japan and the massive, massive (damn near incomprehensible) relief efforts underway there. Not to make light of the situation, but perhaps one of the most
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In conjunction with the current Rockwell exhibition, and a slew of other Rockwell-related events throughout the duration of its stay, Saturday the Tacoma Art Museum will host the appropriately titled "Saturday Evening Sock Hop" - billed as a chance to "rock around the clock." Of course, the fine print indicates
Music
The indie music landscape has shifted quite a bit since Minus the Bear formed in 2001. "Indie rock," as a label, is murkier than ever with the dozens of subgenres and mashups that have sprung up from cracks in the cement like so many gangly dandelions. Chillwave, shit-fi, ghostly R&B,
Music
SAVE THE CHILDREN >>> Thursday, April 7 Thursday at the Royal Lounge some of Oly and Tacoma's best hip-hop acts will come together to play a benefit show for disaster victims in Japan. Hosted by Q Dot and featuring performances by the Weekly Volcano's own Josh Rizeberg, Thought Crime Collective, Collective Love
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The Lula Washington Dance Theatre - instrumental in creating the mesmerizing movements of the blue-skinned Na'vi tribe in Avatar - performs tonight in Olympia. Choreographer Lula Washington developed the tribe's signature movements, and for Avatar she and members of the company wore motion sensors so their movements could be translated
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One wouldn't need to know the names of some of Hightower's songs - like "Wizardhawk," "A Minute in the Hour of Man" and "The Party's at Lightning Rock, Bro!" - to get a whiff of that most distinct combo of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Mountain Dew and weed. Hightower's
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Months and months of rain. Bad traffic. A high suicide rate. The not-so-subtle odor of pulp hanging in the air. With all of this, is it much of a surprise that Tacoma spawns some damn fine blues? "Some of the best blues artists in the country come from the Pacific
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Thursday at the Royal Lounge some of Oly and Tacoma's best hip-hop acts will come together to play a benefit show for disaster victims in Japan. Hosted by Q Dot and featuring performances by the Weekly Volcano's own Josh Rizeberg, Thought Crime Collective, Collective Love Unlimited and Hollywood Kill Krew,
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The indie music landscape has shifted quite a bit since Minus the Bear formed in 2001. "Indie rock," as a label, is murkier than ever with the dozens of subgenres and mashups that have sprung up from cracks in the cement like so many gangly dandelions. Chillwave, shit-fi, ghostly R&B,
Nightlife It List
It's the good meat markets that are hard to write about. No matter how many bodacious adjectives or ripping verbs are crammed into a review, it's impossible to do the best meat markets justice. Speaking of good meat markets, The Swiss serves $4 house margaritas on Mondays. But you already
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Olympia's Le Voyeur often slips through the cracks. But for those in the know, this trendy little restaurant is a perfect spot to sip PBR and discuss obscure Soviet films. Le Voyeur doesn't offer too many specials, but they do have $4 sandwiches on Tuesdays. The cheap sandwiches are a
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It's a documented fact that good-looking members of the opposite sex hang out at concerts. Hell's Kitchen makes finding those babes a little easier on the wallet. Every Thursday night, Hell's Kitchen has a ton of $3 specials. Beers, well drinks and two hot dogs - each for $3. Now
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Let's talk about the Olympia Family Theater production. It's cute. Now, sometimes, when we say something is cute - a Reese Witherspoon rom-com, for example - we mean it's inoffensive and a few steps down the road toward being funny. Not so with Alexander. When I say this production is
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The apocalypse called the Permian extinction, aka the Great Dying, nearly vanquished the entire biosphere 251.4 million years ago. The planet didn't regain vitality for tens of millions of years - and no one knows what caused the event. But the real story is that evolution slipped through the bottleneck,
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Transitions in life and in art can be momentous. A historic building comes tumbling down and precious memories fall along with the rubble, yet in its place something grander may arise. There's an accident. Perhaps someone is disfigured, and his life is changed forever. For better or for worse? In
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Announcer: You may think of brunch as an exclusive Sunday affair, but in downtown Tacoma, brunch is as much a Saturday get-together as a Sunday event, and with bottomless Mimosas and Bloody Marys, it makes any weekend morning the launch point for a great afternoon (if not early evening nap).
Stage
Olympia Family Theater's A Year with Frog and Toad is so joyous that watching it should banish all thoughts of election season politicking. For more than an hour, all worries about war and poverty and climate change should go away. It is the show Olympia Family Theater opened its first season
