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The Weekly Volcano will join all those who worship Thor, Odin and other Norse gods Sunday at the Sons of Norway's annual Lutefisk Dinner hits Normanna Hall. While loaded with vendors selling clogs, sweaters, Sigvat jewelry, Viking ships in bottles, ABBA records, pewter Norse gods and Kongetinn wine goblets, we attend
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In your desperation to design your Walter and Jesse Halloween costumes, you might overlook Dia de los Muertos. The Day of the Dead, Nov. 3, is seen by many as Mexico's most important holiday, a time to honor family members, friends and mentors who have passed on in a loving,
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Picture if you can sculpted figures with the strength and sensuality of a Rodin, but not idealized in any way - realistic sculptures of people who may be a little overweight or less than movie-star beautiful, in natural but perhaps awkward poses with faces that register pain. Now imagine they
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Steve & Kristi Nebel. All Ages. 7 pm. donations accepted. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm. NC.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Uke-Olympians. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Dean Reichert. 8 pm. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino
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The Tacoma Cult Movie Club hosts another Sunday night screening at Tacoma's Acme Grub Cage. Appropriately, this month's theme is vampires. While Rev. Colin doesn't release the titles of the gems he'll screen, if we know Rev. Colin, he'll bust out the British Vampyres, the story of a lesbian pair
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Old Town Music Society Tacoma - Old Town. Old Town Music Society Presents Stephanie Anne Johnson. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Puget Sound Music For Youth Association Performance. All Ages. 2 pm. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside.
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The Northwest Playwrights Alliance has once again teamed with Prodigal Sun Productions to present short new plays in the Midnight Sun, An Improbable Peck of Plays II. I'm a fan of zero-budgeted evenings like this. They're easy to produce and digest, plus a much-needed venue for writers both fledgling and
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When the hamburger revolution happened in the 1950s, it wasn't all about the taste or affordability of burgers, it was about place. Burger joints were a place to eat, sure, but they were more a place to just be, to be seen. Alfred's Café and Bubble Room serves several tasty
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For some, running can be an excruciating experience. To many others, it's what they live for. But however you feel about running, there's no doubt the experience can be improved by the donning of a ghoulish costume or vampire teeth and a cape. Enter the Black Cat Fun Run, a
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What would all this Halloween talk be without perhaps the most classic (and bloodiest) Halloween-y performance of them all? Head over to see Tacoma City Ballet performance of Haunted Theatre: Backstage Tour and Eerie Dances Saturday and Sunday inside the Merlino Arts Center. Walk behind the scenes in an old
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. John McCutcheon. All Ages. 6:30 pm. $20-$25. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Hambone Blues Band, Seth Freeman, Jerry Miller. 9 pm. Fife Community Center - Fife. The Witches' Ball: A Black & White Masquerade, with Nora
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When's the last time someone read you a story? If it's been a while, check out the Broadway Center's Free For All featuring the play reading of Southbridge, written by playwright Reginald Edmund. Actors will transport you to Southbridge where a young woman has been brutally killed and an angry
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They danced before mammoth floating neon dragons and grand desert sculptures and hissing Mad Max-ish art cars shooting flames 396 feet into the air, and every single thing around them smelled like some combination of body odor and sand and bud and urine and fire and rum and glue. And
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Jo Elless. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Sarah McQuaid. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Junkyard Jane. 8 pm. $10. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian
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The Plastards have been a staple of the local bar scene, pounding out frantic sets of rowdiness, for around 13 years. Bill Schlanbusch, Rich Bundy and the boys churn out punk 'n' roll with doses of swirling fuzzy garage and a savage beat. Besides wildly grandiloquent stage antics and volume,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. St. Practice Day, with Ethan Tucker Band. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude.
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Oh Kylesa, how you reek of sludge and doom, yet co-mingle with the heaven of drums, riffs and vocals hammering down a mighty force of pleasure. How your psychedelia and metal create a blistering twist of emotion on the soul. This is why tens of thousands of people flock to
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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 TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB
