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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Uke & Singalong, hosted by Steve Einhorn & Kate Power. All Ages. 7 pm. $10 donation, nobody turned away. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Jerry Miller.
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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. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool
Stage
When English playwright Caryl Churchill debuted Cloud 9 in 1979, it landed like a flashbang. In the mid-'90s, when I was in grad school, her work was still buzzed about in feminist theater circles. Top Girls made a similar splash in 1982. Then as now, a great deal of breath,
Food Matters
NOUVEAU BEAUJOLAIS TIME Morso (9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor) will be celebrating the end of the harvest season with the release of a French vino. Six week young Domanine du Vissoux Primeur Villes Vingnes is a French varietal and will arrive at Morso Thursday, Nov. 15. The Gig Harbor restaurant
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According to the Washington Center, "Bert Wilson is one of the underground legends of the jazz world - and he lives right here in Olympia. He is a survivor of polio in the 1940s (although it has left him confined to a wheelchair), the New York jazz scene of the
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For those of who haven't seen Hell's Belles perform, you are missing something that transcends novelty. The band's raucous antics and hard rocking assault has attracted numerous admirers, but none more important than Mr. AC/DC himself, Angus Young - who named Hell's Belles the best AC/DC cover band he has
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For about 13 years now, the Riffbrokers have quietly been making some of the most sophisticated Southern-rock-tinged power pop around. Led by Nick Millward's distinctive vocals - reminiscent of storytellers like Elvis Costello and Craig Finn - and lyrics that manage to balance hook-y immediacy and blue-collar poetry, the Riffbrokers
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Pretty Old take cues from the delicately driving and melancholy pride of bands like the National as well as the spark and verve of punkier groups like the Weakerthans and Jawbreaker - from whom Pretty Old derived their name. The Seattle three-piece is one that was clearly raised on punk,
Music
>>> Friday, Nov. 16 BERT WILSON According to the Washington Center, "Bert Wilson is one of the underground legends of the jazz world - and he lives right here in Olympia. He is a survivor of polio in the 1940s (although it has left him confined to a wheelchair), the New York
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To celebrate and honor the Pierce County AIDS Foundation's 25 years of service, South Sound artists created pieces in every medium - mixed media, pen and ink, acrylics, charcoal, and more - with one common thread: the red AIDS awareness ribbon is woven into the artwork either
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El Gaucho at 1953 prices A significant part of my childhood consisted of sitting with my family in front of a large, wood-enshrined television watching shows like I Dream of Jeannie and Get Smart while eating TV dinners on TV trays and drinking Grape Nehi. As I sat on the yellow
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El Gaucho at 1953 prices A significant part of my childhood consisted of sitting with my family in front of a large, wood-enshrined television watching shows like I Dream of Jeannie and Get Smart while eating TV dinners on TV trays and drinking Grape Nehi. As I sat on the yellow
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If there has ever been a better bill for punk rock and beer drinking, I don’t remember one. Chances are, after this show, I won’t remember it either. That’s because San Francisco’s the Bar Feeders and Portland’s Lopez — two of the drunkest and rowdiest punk bands you’ll ever find —
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If there has ever been a better bill for punk rock and beer drinking, I don’t remember one. Chances are, after this show, I won’t remember it either. That’s because San Francisco’s the Bar Feeders and Portland’s Lopez — two of the drunkest and rowdiest punk bands you’ll ever find —
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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED: Elegantly mounted and well-acted version of the Evelyn Waugh novel, but not the equal of the (much longer) 1981 TV miniseries. Matthew Goode plays the middle-class youth who falls in love with both a son and a daughter of the wealthy Marchmain family — and also in love
Arts
If you've ever watched Frasier or Top Chef Masters, you're familiar with the concept of a TV spinoff: it's when a popular character is given his or her own show, usually in the same vein as the original program. Frasier Crane, for example, was a regular on Cheers before moving
Liquid
Dear de León, Here is the thing. Everything is changing. Everything is changing at a gray Ford Explorer Interstate 5 trooper chasing pace that excites and petrifies almost everyone involved until you want to hold your head in your hands and shriek and drink and sob. Mostly drink. The change I refer
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Thurston County District Court Judge Susan Dubuisson called it the pinnacle of “psychic drama.” Never, she said, had she seen a clearer example of people using the Internet and blogosphere to cause harm, a trend Dubuisson admitted “never ceases to amaze me.” However, Dubuisson also noted there’s nothing she can do
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Thurston County District Court Judge Susan Dubuisson called it the pinnacle of “psychic drama.” Never, she said, had she seen a clearer example of people using the Internet and blogosphere to cause harm, a trend Dubuisson admitted “never ceases to amaze me.” However, Dubuisson also noted there’s nothing she can do
