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LISTEN >>> The 40th Bumbershoot Festival is done and gone. I'm sure no-one will mind terribly if I abandon my pointless blurbs of randomness and make an effort to actually say something. I mentioned after the first two days a sense of disappointment in this year's festival. Not for want of good
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TODAY'S PICKS >>> Bumbershoot, day two: survived. Albeit slowed down a bit. Having played a three-hour show of my own Friday night, it's felt from minute one like I was one day deeper than I ought to be into the festival. So today felt like the tail end of day three,
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WINNERS AND MEHS >> Bumbershoot, day one: down. I even saw-or at least listened to - most of the bands on my preview list.Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin' Daddies? They sure can play. Wail, even, on their respective instruments, from guitar to harmonica to a stand-up bass with flames painted
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PRINT OUT AND SHOVE IN YOUR POCKET >>> So as your official Weekly Volcano tour guide to this year's installment of Seattle's biggest and best weather-scoffing arts festival, let me say this: I will have very little to say about most of these bands. There are a fare share of bands
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PARK IT AT THE PARKWAY TODAY >>> The Parkway Tavern's fifth annual IPA Festival has one very important added feature this year: a second day. Important because it might thin some of the crowds in desperate search of hop-monsters to drink, and because day one drinkers like myself can do
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HOMETOWN GEEKHEROES UNITE AS ONE! >>> A sculptor. A poster artist. A film critic, and a team of filmmakers. Eight women on roller skates. What do all of these things have in common? Not a whole lot. And that's just how Comic Book Ink owner John Munn likes it. "All these different
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BIFF! POW! WOW! >>> Word has been floating amid the circle of regulars for the past week, but today it is official: Comic Book Ink will no longer be Tacoma's largest comic retailer. Proprietor John Munn this morning signed a fresh lease on a new storefront in the Lakewood Cinema Plaza (2510
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SCREW OUR FALL ARTS GUIDE, LET'S DO THIS NOW >>> Tacoma Little Theatre's recently finalized mainstage roster for 2010/11 brings a wide range of style, from mystery to drama to rock opera, leaving behind the current season's all-comedy mandate. SleuthAug. 27-Sept. 26, 2010 Described as "the ultimate game of cat and mouse," Anthony
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WHAT THE %@&*! HAPPENED TO COMICS? >>> Ask 12 serious comic book fans what their favorite stories are, and you're likely to get 12-or more-different answers. But ask the same dozen for the works that truly elevated the medium, in content, scope and respectability, and you'll land on a few. Watchmen.
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Dateline Saturday, Feb. 13 >>> You know what's lame? In multiple senses of the word? Lower back and hip pain. My point being that I wasn't able to stay at Hell's Kitchen as long as I ought Saturday night, and only managed to see Seattle's Otherwise. And that my brain is
