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Photographer Jim Oliver has hung 40 mixed-bag photographic masterworks for your enjoyment at the Tahoma Center Gallery. The loose collection of images under the title The Follies Return will range from the impressionistic to film noir to works influenced by Ansel Adams. Some have that lovely soft glow, others will
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You’ve probably heard. Russell Investments is moving on. There go 900 jobs, a nice chunk of taxes for the city, and a cornerstone of Tacoma city officials’ dream of turning part of downtown into an international financial services business district. We’ll get to Go Local in a minute.
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Oh man do I love Lyle Lovett. He’ll be at the Pantages Theater this weekend with John Hiatt, who is almost as awesome as Lovett. But Hiatt has never jumped in the sack with Julia Roberts, so he loses a few points there. Lovett, one of the great singer/songwriters of
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Portland-based beer-core metal maniacs Wehrmacht will be at Hell’s Kitchen this weekend, with a solid line-up following a series of band re-organizations. The remnants of the band’s original line up went on to form bands like Spazztic Blurr, Cryptic Slaughter, Drumattica and Tri-polar, and have played with rock luminaries such
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Time to break it down nice, slow and simple. Once and for all — Graffiti is art. There. I said it. Never ask again. Sorry. But the discussion surrounding graffiti as an art form is usually about that brief. Either graffiti is art or
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Take the modern alt-country blues sound of Drive By Truckers, throw in the fun loving attitude and riff-blues-rock of ZZ Top, mix them all together and you get close to the vibe of Too Slim and the Taildraggers. This is real, down and dirty rock and roll — a delightful
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Horn man Randy Oxford will be back at Jazzbones on Sept. 11. Surely, you’ve noticed Oxford’s break from Jazzbones Wednesday appearances. They became almost taken for granted until ceasing to be. This time Oxford is back at Jazzbones with a cause — firefighters. Fitting, no? Oxford is an award-winning blues
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Angela Jossy needs 100 artists with $100, some time to spare and a desire to sell some art. It doesn’t really matter what kind. All genres are welcome, within reason. Your work will have to be small enough to share space with as many as 27 other artists, but seriously,
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Angela Jossy needs 100 artists with $100, some time to spare and a desire to sell some art. It doesn’t really matter what kind. All genres are welcome, within reason. Your work will have to be small enough to share space with as many as 27 other artists, but seriously,
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We’ve all got plenty of dark and light to contend with these days. Everything seems distorted — the dark is deep and the light is almost blinding. Electro-pop duo The Story of Light and Dark know this all very well, and deliver anthems for an age of extremes, riding synth-heavy,
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It’s been 10 years since Jana Zimmerman decided to open a wine bar in Tacoma’s Old Town. Back then there weren’t as many museums in Tacoma, the University of Washington, Tacoma was still young, and there were about 1,000 fewer condos than there are now. Back then, Zimmerman didn’t know
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Oh man. It’s like Iron Chef, only with metal. Iron Iron? Nope. Iron Artists. At Tollefson Plaza no less. This Friday, artists from around the Puget Sound will don their armor, arm themselves with tools of creation rather than destruction, and put on their most viscous looking face paint before
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It’s time for The Grand Cinema to expand. That’s good news for local movie buffs, who will have an extra screen and some other amenities to enjoy if all goes as planned. But it also means that The Grand Impromptu Gallery, which occupies adjacent space at the Grand’s home, the
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Phillip Panagos would really like to recycle the 30- or 40-gallon containers full of glass that Matador produces every day. As general manager of the tequila bar chain’s Tacoma operations, Panagos is in charge of a lot of things. One of those things is making sure the restaurant stays profitable,
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It’s time, Tacoma, to celebrate the Pacific Northwest’s defining element, as South Sound Collective, Pacific Fusion Productions and United State of Consciousness present Drop of Water, July 18, beginning at 9 p.m. at the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum. If you’re out of the loop, this is the third show in
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King’s Books invites you to invoke your inner child and throw down on some triple word scores as it presents the next installment of Scrabble Rousers Tuesday. Unleash your desire with a game of Scrabble is the invitation — reclaim the innocence and power of shaping the word matrix. It’s
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Courtesy photo “A PIECE OF ART”: Odessa Christiana and other local fashion designers present a fashion show Sunday on Sixth Avenue. Art on the Ave Tacoma neighborhood summer festival adds fashion BY PAUL SCHRAG It’s time to take over Sixth Avenue again, Tacoma, as dozens of artists, vendors, musicians, merchants and crazies prepare for another
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Trash art has gone eco. We’re not talking the kind of trash art that emerged out of Baltimore in the late ‘80s, or the self-indulgent wallowing you’ll find in emo-goth basement dives. This is trash on a mission. Next time you’re headed to the Tacoma landfill, take a side journey
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Go into any gift shop in Tacoma and your selection of postcards is going to be pretty sparse. If you’re lucky, you’ll see a bunch of Mt. Rainier shots, maybe a shot of the Museum of Glass Hot Shop cone, and some generic nods to Tacoma produced by a company
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Unless you’re a political prisoner aficionado, you may have never heard of Silvia Baraldini. Political prisoners held by the United States government rarely get any airtime. Tonight, homegrown filmmakers Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas will tell Baraldini’s story at the Capitol Theater. If you’re proud of how the United States
