Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Morso Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Americana Music Series, featuring Antje Duvekot. 8 pm. $15. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia
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This is going to be one hell of a party. First, the stars of the night, we have buttrockers Hellbelly (think a more melodic Helmet) with their much-awaited CD release. After just one year together, local rock veterans Eric Breding, Brian Sparhawk, Tommy Byrnes and Ryan Mungia have pulled a
Arts
The show is called Shimmering Tree: A Projection by Jennifer Steinkamp. The single work in the show is a digital projection called "Mike Kelley," named after Steinkamp's teacher. It is, indeed, a tree that shimmers - a projected image on the back wall of the largest gallery in Tacoma Art
South Sound Cinema
Some days you just don't feel like paying for another Redbox rental, and the next movie on your Netflix queue takes FOREVER to arrive in your mailbox. And recession or no, who can pass up free, convenient entertainment? Every Tuesday, "Check This Out" recommends
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"His life plays out like an episode of VH1's Behind The Music," states the promo flier describing punk-rock/rap underground icon Mickey Avalon. Avalon, who will be in Tac-town Saturday to rock for the party people at Jazzbones, is a true rock star. Admittedly dabbling in the galaxies of drugs, sexual experimentation,
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Mirrorgloss is a very new band, having only played a handful of shows thus far. Even still, their sound is so clearly drawn out and natural, so well-defined and -the best part- relatively novel for Tacoma. With the exception of a couple bands, like Death by Stars, there isn't much
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To stand out as a man with an acoustic guitar takes some doing, as anyone who's been to a coffeehouse open mic can attest. Gabriel Wolfchild makes unapologetically somber music that somehow avoids the pitfall of maudlin naval-gazing. Gabriel Wolfchild's voice is clear and steady, devoid both of showboating and
Food Matters
SPARKLING WINE TASTING Tis the season for a little bit of sparkly and Morso Wine Bar (9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor) is celebrating with its Holiday Sparkling Wine Tasting at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22. Family dinners, parties with friends and the swiftly approaching new year means lots of raising
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Though they have a song that's explicitly called "Surf Rock Band," it would be a mistake to call them one. A Happy Death plant their feet firmly in the court of garage-pop madness, seemingly content to thrash away in blissfully psychedelic, noisy bliss, while never crossing the threshold into noise-rock
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET
Military Life
While military spouses play a key role within their families, they are also important contributors to and supporters of their local communities. Tuesday, Nov. 19, the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce recognized and honored one of these special people during a ceremony at Burs Restaurant. The Chamber's first annual "Military Spouse of
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If 103.7 FM The Mountain hadn't changed to the Top 40 crap, I'd totally send them a copy of Joe Rosati's new CD, The Candelabra Light, because it would fit in perfectly with Leonard Cohen, The Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen. Also because the recordings are perfectly
Features
With Black Friday deals now available well into Thanksgiving day, you may be asking yourself how to juggle a culinary masterpiece and the clean up that follows with waiting in lines with hordes of other conflicted but crazy shoppers seeking a good deal. Or maybe your family resides states away;
Guides
Franciscan Polar Plaza is the place to be once winter hits. Think you can find something better to do than busting out some ice skates? Yeah, good luck with that. Polar Plaza is on its third year of setting up an ice-skating rink decked out in wintery goodness at Tollefson
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Franciscan Polar Plaza is the place to be once winter hits. Think you can find something better to do than busting out some ice skates? Yeah, good luck with that. Polar Plaza is on its third year of setting up an ice-skating rink decked out in wintery
Stage
This seems to be one of those in-between-shows periods at Tacoma Art Museum when they trot out stuff from their permanent collection to fill the galleries. It's a good thing, too, because they have some outstanding art that we'd otherwise seldom or never get to see. One such show is
Guides
Not every ballet gets an entire year of treasure hunts and anticipation before it debuts. But The Nutcracker and The Tale of The Hard Nut is no ordinary ballet. This year, the show will grace the stage of the Pantages Theater for the first time. Each year, the Tacoma City Ballet
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Not every ballet gets an entire year of treasure hunts and anticipation before it debuts. But The Nutcracker and The Tale of the Hard Nut is no ordinary ballet. This year, the show will grace the stage of the Pantages Theater for the first time. But why is there a nutcracker
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As the orange flaming orb in the sky makes its exit, a delicious orange roundish-shaped gourd makes its appearance on doorsteps throughout neighborhoods around the country. It takes the moniker Jack and is in everything from lattés to pies. And though it sounds like a load of hyperbole to say
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>>> ART MINGLE WHILE YOU SHOP A recent dialog with a Seattle friend: Friend: "Hey, we are coming down to Tacoma and spending the weekend to see the sights." Me: "For real? Why?" Friend: "Uh, yeah. We are coming down for the art. Duh. You LIVE there - don't you know that?" Yeah, I guess I
