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TIDBITS TO CHEW ON TODAY >>> The Tacoma Rainiers unveiled a P.O.W./M.I.A. seat during yesterday's Salute to Armed Forces Day. Tacoma Link light rail will resume its normal nighttime operating schedule beginning today. TNT Diner reports a group is raising money to reopen the Goldfish Tavern. Flags are at half-staff today in honor of
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MONDAY, JUNE 10 2013 >>> 1. It's appropriate Bill W. - a documentary that recalls the life of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder William G. Wilson - skips the eight gazillion dollars special effects and 3-D action of modern-day films. Wilson's story - one of heartbreak, recovery and heroism - is
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SUNDAY, JUNE 9 2013 >>> 1. The Tacoma Comedy Club presents Comics Under The Influence where five comics perform a set each sober, and then while the other comics are performing they pound booze and return to the stage wasted to do another set. Jubal Flagg from Movin
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LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> 2nd Cycle Tacoma - Hiltop.Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Ainga, MTNS, DJ Urine, the Nadines. 8 pm. $5. If Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa is a mouthful of a name, then his music does well to invade every other one of
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SATURDAY, JUNE 8 2013 >>> 1. If Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa is a mouthful of a name, then his music does well to invade every other one of your senses. For years, de Dionyso has been making a name for himself as one of the premier practitioners
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FRIDAY, JUNE 7 2013 >>> 1. What Tiny Tim was for Tin Pan Alley-era singers, Tommy Dean is for rambling folk of the '50s and '60s. Like Tiny Tim, Tommy Dean is a self-stylized revivalist, an encyclopedia of long-forgotten tunes. He's a jukebox - pop a quarter in him
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FUTURE THINGS ARE COMING >>> Remember how excited you were when you learned the Tacoma Craft Beer Festival was moving to Cheney Stadium? TCBF co-organizer Bennett Thurmon has been so overwhelmed with joy he had to be forcibly removed from Cheney Stadium. Every day, for the last two months, he's hung
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TIDBITS TO CHEW ON TODAY >>> Within the week Shake Shake Shake, the burger joint in Tacoma's Stadium District, will sport a grassy backyard with picnic tables and a fenced area for alcohol consumption. Old Mliwaukee Cafe on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue has water heater issue and is closed until Friday at 6
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THURSDAY, MAY 6 2013 >>> 1. Professional storytelller Elizabeth Lord's original The Swimsuit Area stage play "explores reproduction in today's modern age. What it means to be a parent, and more importantly what it means to choose not to be a parent." Apparently Lord will explore the hard
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TIDBITS TO CHEW ON TODAY >>> Swing Wine Bar - voted "Best Wine Selection" by Weekly Volcano readers in the 2013 Best of Olympia issue - is opening a sandwich shop next to Olympia Coffee Roasters and Spud's Produce in the Wildwood building. The New Moon Café, Olympia's breakfast and lunch spot,
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 2013 >>> 1. The Tallhouse Arts Consortium aerialists, whose Facebook profile states, "Farting rhinestones since... ah, we can't even remember," will delight audiences with its strong and sturdy flips, flying and artistic trapeze for the last time this season at 8 p.m. in The Brotherhood
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TIDBITS TO CHEW ON TODAY >>> Recently as Rev. Colin and his karaoke system were bring joy to the masses at engine House No. 9, a roughian brazenly snatched Colin's beloved Cthulhu fez and quickly staggered down the street. Because Colin is a true professional he wasn't about to leave Chad
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TUESDAY, JUNE 4 2013 >>> 1. About a decade ago, Cody ChesnuTT expanded the language of bedroom pop albums with his Headphone Masterpiece, a 36-track album that showed the breadth of one man's peccadilloes in an environment where he was fully able to explore every fleeting notion. Lo-fi
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TIDBITS TO CHEW ON TODAY >>> Blues keyboardist Arthur Migliazza won best solo/duo act at the South Sound Blues Association's Back to Beale Street Blues Competition last night at Jazzbones. Migliazza, an awesome boogie-woogie blues musician will represent Washington state at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January 2014. In
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MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2013 >>> 1. The first thing to catch the eye upon entering the gallery is a large, two-part print project created as a collaboration by printmaking students. A series of black and white prints - they look like etchings or woodcuts - fill two good-sized,
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LIVE MUSIC TONIGHT IN THE SOUTH SOUND >>> 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday Jam. 5-8 pm. NC. Jake's on 4th Olympia - downtown. Nail This benefit show for Rusty Nails featuring Dirty Malkovich, Jeremy Serwer, Hellbelly, Glass Elevator, The Hard Way and Full Moon Radio. 6:30 p.m.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 2 2013 >>> 1. It's become tradition in our area - a yearly blues-blowout local music fans look forward to for the quality it draws. And, like clockwork, it's back. From 4-10 p.m. at Jazzbones, the preliminary contest of this year's South Sound Blues Association sponsored Back
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CONTEST BASED ON HIDDEN NUTS >>> By now you know the Tacoma City Ballet is in the midst of a yearlong scavenger hunt for Golden Krakatuk Nuts. The nuts tie into the company's highly anticipated Dec. 7, 2013 performance, Prequel to The Nutcracker. Here's a refresher: TCB hides
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SATURDAY, JUNE 1 2013 >>> 1. Even though Steve Madden has a spring 2013 glam line, and parody bands such as Steel Panther are making their way into mainstream, there is one band who perfectly embodies the spirit of sleaze rock - the Tacoma/Olympia band Prophets of Addiction (POA). Former
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FRIDAY, MAY 31 2013 >>> 1. Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 expedition across the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft never quite settled the point he set out to make - that South American voyagers settled the Polynesian islands - but it did motivate a generation of young dreamers to embark on improbable adventures.
