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Quick, name three sure ways to spot a Northwest jam band before having heard them play. ... If you said a) their band photo was shot in the woods; b) Tommy Chong is their number one friend on MySpace; or c) the bass player often wears an oversized Seahawks jersey
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cafe Luna Vashon. Gary Kanter. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Myles Crew. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Gig Harbor Farmers Market Gig Harbor. Rick Gonzalez. All Ages. 11:30 am. NC. HG Bistro Puyallup. Steve Stefanowicz. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music
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Portland indie band The Harvey Girls aren't girls at all - they're actually married couple Hiram Lucke and Melissa Rodenbeek. While it might not be the most accurate moniker in the world, their name does serve a distinct purpose (beyond the general band-name imperative of "sounding cool"): in its syntactic
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TAO production of Othello is an able retelling of one of Shakespeare's most plot-driven tragedies with a skilled cast in the hands of a smart director. It boasts technical polish worthy of a much larger, wealthier troupe. It's a nearly flawless production for people who are tired of Shakespeare's Othello. Read
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SUPPER ON A SHOESTRING Johnny's Dock (1900 E. D St., Tacoma) serves charbroiled sirloin, charbroiled "Jamaica Mistake" chicken breast or filet of Northwest salmon with green salad or clam chowder, garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables and New York style cheesecake for $16.95 Monday through Friday before 5:30 p.m. TIGHTWAD TUESDAY Every Tuesday Hell's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Wed night Irish Session. 7:00- 930. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade Community Center JBLM-Lewis
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Thursday, July 8 Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, 253.858.3982. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday, July 9 Fridays Uncorked, 5-7:30 p.m., $12, Bayview School of Cooking, 516 W. Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.754.1448. Wine
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It's been a couple decades, but third wave ska revival giants Less Than Jake have remarkably stuck around with essentially the same line-up. Even though they've kept up with releasing album after album, things haven't fundamentally changed about the band; the order of the day remains the sort of bright,
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Mudhoney, while beating its fellow flannel-powered pedigree to the punch - Sub Pop released vinyl anthem "Touch Me, I'm Sick" and Superfuzz Bigmuff 12 months before Nirvana's Bleach and three years before Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten - has never had a chart topper, but the group has a following
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Cool art and music aren't a bad start to a Saturday evening, but rather than your ex's mixtape and pasting together a photo collage, hanging out at "Some Things Don't Have To Make Sense" makes, well, more sense. Inspired by James Hume and the Dead Artists' Kulture Lab parties
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Oktoberfest is dead. Halloween is dead. The Day of the Dead is dead. Even Thanksgiving is dead. Well, at least to the Northwest Repertory Singers. The Tacoma-based organization has just nudged out the department stores in the race toward Christmas. The choral group is currently rehearsing for its annual December
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A guitar-and-drums duo, The Ax doesn't adhere to the classic three-chord punk progression. The band's songs remain two minute blasts of revved-up rock ‘n' roll, but the complexity they manage to fit in such tightly wrapped packages is impressive. The Ax's music is moody and dark, but never loses sight
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Now showing at Childhood's End Gallery in Olympia are paintings by Chuck Gumpert and Alfred Currier, plus a group of the very popular half-man, half-bird ceramic sculptures by the husband-and-wife team of John and Robin Gumaelius. Gumpert is showing a group of a dozen loose, organic, abstract paintings that appear
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Early 20th century life held great promise and jaw-dropping beauty for Charlie McCarver. He and his chatty, young, pregnant wife, Lisa-Ann, built a cabin next to the Pacific Ocean, with greenery and flowers surrounding their home. "The sun was warm, the birds did sing, and it was spring." Then the rains came. "That
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On the first day of autumn I sat with a dozen eggs to, once and for all, confirm or dispel the nagging question of whether or not eggs will stand unaided on the autumnal equinox. What I had was scrambled eggs for breakfast. What is guaranteed is that fall is
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Ali Marcus. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Myles Crew. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Shareef Ali & The Radical Folksonomy. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. The Diggers. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. BLUES O'Callahan's Pub &
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Mike Fekete. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Thursday Open Mic, hosted by Kim Archer, Nick Sandy. 21+. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Chehalis.
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Wood-fired pizza and goats: Do you need any more reason to drive to Orting? At Terra Organic's annual Harvest Fest, you can also pick the perfect pumpkin to carve. The crisp air of the fall in the country and the sunchoke maze are pretty good reasons for getting in a
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Beer! Lederhosen! Beer! Bratwurst! Beer! Yodeling! Beer! Manuela Horn and the Oktoburlesques! Beer! Oktoberfest Northwest has all of these fine things, but, most importantly, it has beer. The three-day Bavarian celebration at the Washington State Fair and Events Center officially kicks off at 6:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3 with the
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Take one step inside Peggy Walther's home and there's no mistaking what her favorite holiday is. "My granddaughter calls me the red, white and blue grandma," said the 82-year-old Walther, who taught elementary school in the Clover Park School District for 21 years. The Lakewood resident's white kitchen is filled with red,
