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Listen up here people - locate Sept. 9 (Thursday) in your day planner, bitchin' phone thingy, sticky note collection or photographic memory and flag it as the day you are going to plan a night out. In fact, it's the day you'll plan many nights out. That's right, YOU are
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Miles & Karina. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Gig Harbor Boat Shop Gig Harbor. Eli West. 5-7 pm. $20, or $15 for Boat Shop members; $10 kids 12 and younger. BLUES B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Richard
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Velocity will come forth onto Doyle's Public House and there bestowed unto their faithful fans a glorious bounty of fusion and funk, powered with Galactic grooves and Latin spice. And the people will be thankful, and there was much rejoicing, for Velocity - lead composer/pianist Peter Adams, drum maverick Brian
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Olympia producer Smoke M2D6 raided the archives of legendary alternative record label K Records to put out an album of Pacific Northwest MCs rapping over K Records artists. The resulting compilation, All Your Friend's Friends, is gearing up for an album release show in Olympia. "(Eprhyme and I) got to
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It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling. ... Bobble Tiki has been called many things in his life - a scrub, a scab, a waste of space - but
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 TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Stanley Jordan Trio Seattle
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(CONTEST CLOSED) For this week's Weekly Volcano Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're headed back to Paddy Coyne's Irish Pub - voted Best Place To Forever Imoortalize Your Alcoholism in our Best of Tacoma 2010 issue – giving away a whoppin' $50 gift certificate to Paddy
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Page St Café Olympia - Westside. Lowest Pair - Music is the Bridge - The Affordable Uke Act, the first annual fundraiser for OlyEcosystems. 5-8 p.m. $10-$20 on a sliding scale. BLUES Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted
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Fools are quick to throw around adjectives like "swag," "journalist," "playboy," "MC" and "legend." However, one of the few performers who embodies all of the adjectives and can simultaneously wear the adjectives as titles is one Sir Too $hort, also known as Todd Shaw. The Oakland by-way-of South Central Los
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Fools are quick to throw around adjectives like "swag," "journalist," "playboy," "MC" and "legend." However, one of the few performers who embodies all of the adjectives and can simultaneously wear the adjectives as titles is one Sir Too $hort, also known as Todd Shaw. The Oakland by-way-of South Central Los Angeles MC
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Nearly ten years after I had located, been accepted, and been labeled by the first in a lifelong quest for surrogate families, I took a job aboard a commercial crabbing vessel working out of Dutch Harbor on the Bering Sea. The vessel was called the Pavlov. Growing up in the
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Here's the setup: A dozen members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming at the turn of the millennium to research the murder of Matthew Shepard in October 1998. Shepard, openly gay, had been robbed, beaten into a coma, tied to a fence and
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The 7th North American Sculptural Wood Invitational at American Art Company is an audacious show. How these artisans do what they do with wood boggles the mind. The media is turned wood, which, strictly speaking, means carving forms out of wood that is turned on a lathe. But these artisans
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It's a musty old theater saw that even catastrophic plays can be saved at the last minute. As Shakespeare in Love shrugged, "It's a mystery." Frankly, I'm not a fan of this belief. I always wonder how good the show could have been if it were rehearsed properly all along.
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Once upon a time in Tacoma, Cinco de Mayo meant heading down to the local Mexican establishment and quaffing a grande margarita, on the rocks, no salt, while munching on stale tortilla chips. By now, those stale chips may be a stale memory amid all the other, better activities to choose
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Baby Gramps is a complete enigma. Who is this man behind a wide brimmed hat and long gray beard? He looks just as comfortable busking on the street corner at Pike Place Market as he did performing on David Letterman’s stage. He could be a homeless beggar or a renowned
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"I was typecast as a lion," Bert Lahr once said of his post-Wizard of Oz career, "and there just weren't many parts for lions." If actors have one universal gripe, it's typecasting, the process by which actors are limited to a single kind of role. Actors with limited range sometimes
News Front
In every issue of this fine rag my hack team of wannabe journalists and I tackle some of the most laughable criminal acts that have recently happened in our area. Then - if we're doing our job - we write about those crimes in a way that makes you chuckle,
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The Donald Cole and Francie Allen show Women Concealed and Revealed at Blue Heron Gallery is worth the drive and the ferry ride to Vashon Island. Read my review here. Women Concealed and Revealed through Aug. 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and noon to 5 p.m. SaturdayBlue Heron Gallery, 19704 Vashon
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The Donald Cole and Francie Allen show Women Concealed and Revealed at Blue Heron Gallery is worth the drive and the ferry ride to Vashon Island. I first became aware of Cole a few years back when I reviewed his show at ArtXchange in Seattle for another publication. I was tremendously
