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June is Pride month throughout the land. Except for Tacoma, where Pride blossoms a month later in July. Pride month means more than parades and festivals. It means businesses and community organizations celebrating and affirming all during the month. Rainbow flags and banners fly from downtown buildings long before the actual
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For children bitten by the acting bug there are opportunities galore in the South Puget Sound region to learn and to perform with summer theater camps and classes. Starting with Olympia Family Theater in Olympia, a relative newcomer among area theaters that produces fantastic theater geared toward children and performed by
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Don McClean said the day Buddy Holly died was "the day the music died," but Buddy's music will never die. I first saw BUDDY at the Tacoma Little Theatre in 2009 and then at the Capital Playhouse in 2012. And now it's going to rock the big stage at the
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The wartime love story Time Stands Still by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies, is now playing at Harlequin Productions in Olympia. It is an intense and intimate portrait of a pair of lovers - Sarah Goodwin (Jenny Vaughn Hall) and James Dodd (Matt Shimkus) - whose passionate devotion and equally
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Art Chantry is Tacoma's most famous graphic designer, known worldwide, or at least USA-wide, for his rock concert posters and album covers. He's done work for Nirvana and Hole, and his art has been shown in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum,
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Centerstage's For All That is a phenomenal show. I left the theater wondering how I could possibly review it when it left me speechless. In many ways, this performance is the best thing I've seen on stage in years, and the marvel of it is that it was written by
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It's getting ridiculous. Everything good nowadays is called sexy. However, it may not be so ridiculous to call the path around Olympia's Capitol Lake or the boardwalk at Percival Landing sexy, not if you consider watching walkers and runners of all shapes, sizes, ages and genders a sexy activity, especially
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After a too-long hiatus, Salon Refu is back with a vengeance with "Strangely Familial," painted mixed-media constructions by Nathan Barnes. What a strange, exciting and beautiful show! The show consists mostly of "pop-surreal" portraits of the artist's close friends and family. (I put "pop surreal" in quotes because I've been told
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The latest show at the gallery at The Evergreen State College is a two-person show with longtime and recently retired TESC art faculty members Susan Aurand and Lucia Harrison. Each has taught both art and science classes, and each brings meticulous observation of nature to their
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The latest show at the gallery at The Evergreen State College is a two-person show with longtime and recently retired TESC art faculty members Susan Aurand and Lucia Harrison. Each has taught both art and science classes, and each brings meticulous observation of nature to their work. Stylistically they are
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For its 50th anniversary Tacoma Community College features works by current and former art instructors and alumni, and it's one of the better shows I've seen there in quite some time. Entering the gallery, you're faced with a wall of circular shapes in shades of white and brown that looked to
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I've been keeping up with Susan Christian's art for well over 20 years. The nine little paintings she has on display at Batdorf and Bronson's flagship coffee house in Olympia are among the best of her works I have ever seen. Here's the thing about Susan Christian: Based solely on her
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I've been keeping up with Susan Christian's art for well over 20 years. The nine little paintings she has on display at Batdorf and Bronson's flagship coffee house in Olympia are among the best of her works I have ever seen. Here's the thing about Susan Christian: Based solely on her
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The title of the smaller show in the back gallery at Kittredge Gallery is "Between Chance and Control." That title well describes the main show as well: "Process Drawings: Recent Works by Makato Fujimura." I'm tempted to say Fujimura's drawings are dull, and in a way they are - dull in
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The latest art exhibit at South Puget Sound Community College is a group show called "Her Story." As described in the show announcement, this exhibition "contributes a verse to the volume that is the creative feminine. The works of six invited artists ... consider the multiple
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The latest art exhibit at South Puget Sound Community College is a group show called "Her Story." As described in the show announcement, this exhibition "contributes a verse to the volume that is the creative feminine. The works of six invited artists ... consider the multiple facets of the creative
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I have always thought Dale Chihuly's drawings were more impressive than his glass creations, but I have never seen enough of his drawings to say so until now. "Chihuly Drawings" at Museum of Glass makes the case quite emphatically. One hundred and eighty-six drawings fill the
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I have always thought Dale Chihuly's drawings were more impressive than his glass creations, but I have never seen enough of his drawings to say so until now. "Chihuly Drawings" at Museum of Glass makes the case quite emphatically. One hundred and eighty-six drawings fill the main gallery at MOG,
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"Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-Life Art in New Mexico" is a major coup for Tacoma Art Museum. This major national touring exhibition featuring 22 of O'Keeffe's paintings and 42 paintings by her contemporaries who lived and worked in New Mexico for a while. Over a period of approximately 30
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You have only a few more days to see Aisha Harrison's collaborative installation at South Puget Sound Community College and only until Saturday to see the big Hart James exhibition at The Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia. So get moving. I'd hate for you to miss either
