Cup Check
STRIKE ONE Oh, for eff's sake. Must I really devote another column to the booster-funded clusterfuck taking shape at THEE Ohio State University? It seems so. It seems, on the heels of Jim Tressel's disgraceful exit last week, Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor decided to become former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor
Military Life
Air Force veteran and military spouse Virginia "Ginny" Krause keeps her hands full as a foster parent while raising three children. Since arriving at Joint Base Lewis-McChord three years ago, the Krauses have fostered two long-term children and one emergency placement and provided respite care for other foster parents. "My wife
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TAM has glitz. The new show called “Sparkle Then Fade” at Tacoma Art Museum is cool. Not necessarily great, mind you, but cool. There are some great artworks in this show, but also some that are downright stupid. It’s all about glitz, glamour, celebrity, the media — and how all of
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“Show us where babies feed!” More than anything, these are the words that come to mind when I think of Doug Stanhope — the brutally opinionated, smoke-tinged comic set to play Jazzbones this Tuesday, June 5. More than his stint with Joe Rogan hosting “The Man Show” (Stanhope and Rogan replaced original
Music
It all started with the DJ. This ain't a Hip-Hop 101, class, so I'm not going to break down the history, but when hip-hop started in the South Bronx, the DJ was the most important element. Fast-forward 30-some years and it's not quite the same. A lot of shows nowadays don't
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You’ll want to do one of three things after you see “Waitress”: eat a pie, bake a pie or sing a song about pie (because you won’t be able to get a certain pie ditty out of your head for about a day and a half). Whichever way you go,
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Tacoma Art Museum tries to cater to every taste and every demographic by mounting exhibitions that range from the traditional and historic to today’s most revolutionary and idiosyncratic art. It seems the museum tries very hard to balance a need for catering to popular taste — that is, bringing in
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The device of a “play within a play” is hardly new, of course. Theater has always been meta. A Midsummer Night’s Dream incorporates Pyramus and Thisbe, and Hamlet directs a loaded performance of The Mousetrap. Cyrano berates a ham actor, Montfleury. Actors love finding excuses to overact, and portraying a
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Kimya Dawson is (and has been) an icon in the Olympia music scene since the mid-1990s. Although Dawson has come and gone, she has now been back in Olympia for about five years and says she's here to stay. The folk singer, who gained notoriety with the Moldy Peaches and
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I don’t feel at all guilty about the pun above. They’re fun to write, puns, not to mention de rigueur in entertainment review titles. They’re scattered throughout Riot to Follow’s production of Honk! The Ugly Duckling Musical like chicken feed in a barnyard. Kids enjoy puns. They also like hummable
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How much of an Olympia mainstay is former vaudevillian Saul Tannenbaum?Enough that Tannenbaum (who made his Olympia debut just a year and a half ago) is performing Sunday, June 12, as part of Capital City Pride.The show, dubbed Saul Tannenbaum and His Friends of Dorothy, is the highest profile gig
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"It definitely doesn't hurt being an out performer," says Jade Jericho, "when you enjoy playing for a queer audience." Jericho will be singing for gay-positive folks of all stripes this weekend, as she's among the featured performers at the 20th anniversary Capital City Pride Festival in Olympia. She's a five-foot-tall
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According to hype, the Trampires (of Dockyard Derby fame) are going to get "a little dirty for a good cause," (settle down, pervs) when the roller derby team participates in the annual "Car Star ‘Soap It Up'" fundraiser Saturday at Hi-Tech Collision in Spanaway. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Hilltop Artists is a nonprofit glass arts program created by the iconic Dale Chihuly designed to use "glass art to connect young people from diverse cultural and economic background to better futures." The program boasts more than 500 students a year, and each year its Spring Glass Sale acts as
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Let's be honest. You're young. You were born in 1980-something, maybe. You don't really KNOW much about Hüsker Dü, except to nod in knowing coolness when someone more musically seasoned brings up the band during a party or coffee shop conversation. It's time to stop faking it. Grant Hart is
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As far as local blues vocalists go, Seattle's Greta Matassa is about as acclaimed as they come. Throughout a renowned career the singer, who's been described as a "vocal chameleon," has won countless honors and awards, though the admiration of fans is probably more heartwarming - and she's got plenty
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The Malcolm Clark Band has been together 10 freakin' years! Doing anything for 10 years straight is tough ... we know firsthand, seeing as this is the 10th year of the Weekly Volcano. Saturday, Clark, Mike Couloues and crew celebrate 10 years - blues style, of course - at the
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What is it with brilliant mathematicians, seemingly ALWAYS misplacing both their brilliance and sanity in later years? Gee whiz. Like brilliance and sanity are that hard to hang on to. Either way, Proof opens this week at Tacoma Little Theatre, billed as a story about a woman named Catherine and
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TIN MAN >>> Friday, June 10 Honestly, Bobble Tiki feels like he's been getting promotional messages about and Facebook invites for Tin Man's CD release show for Somewhere in the Middle since 1987. That can't be, of course. Tin Man founder Rusty Parrish created Tin Man after years spent in punk bands,
