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BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Annual Night After Christmas Dance Party, with The Randy Oxford Band. 8 pm. $8. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andrew Rivers. 8 pm and 10:30 pm. $15. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Red Wind Casino Yelm. Brian Green. 8:30 pm. NC. Half Pint Pizza Pub
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BLUES Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Jim Page & Orville Johnson. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Rhythm and Rye Olympia - Downtown. Mudcat. 9 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andrew Rivers. 8 pm and 10:30 pm. $15. Dave's of Milton
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Prosperity Grange Hall Olympia - Westside. Breaking Up Christmas Concert and Appalachian Country Dance with Carl Jones and Erynn Marshall. 6 pm concert, 7 pm dance. $5 kids/students; $8 adults. BLUES Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by Doug
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Chris Stevens & The Surf Monkeys. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Bar Bingo. Win $100 in cash prizes. 6-8 pm. Harmon Tap Room
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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.
Stage
Grab a seat in one of the vintage school desks scattered haphazardly about Tacoma Art Museum's spacious Weyerhaeuser gallery and prepare to be immersed in desolate beauty as Mary Lucier's five-channel video installation "The Plains of Sweet Regret" takes you to another time and place not so far away -
Food Matters
SANTA BREAKFAST Metro Parks Tacoma presents Breakfast with Santa from 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20. Enjoy hands-on crafts, breakfast and an opportunity to meet Santa at the Portland Avenue Community Center (3513 E. Portland Ave., Tacoma). Tickets are $25 for the family, or $7 per person plus $3 for photo opp
Reviews
"If it tastes good, it must be bad for you." Although Americans are eating better than we once did, the old idea that healthfulness and taste are inversely proportional is still around. Maybe Tacoma's Happy Belly can help to finally put it to rest. On a couple of recent visits, the casual eatery
Arts
Oftentimes, some of a community's greatest assets are organizations that may not get a lot of buzz. Such is the way with the Arts and Culture Coalition of Pierce County (ACCP). You may not have even heard of it, but the Coalition consists of a team of arts and cultural
Critics' Picks
[ACOUSTIC INDIE POP] + SAT, DEC. 20 Olympia's Wauby usually play plugged-in, sunshiny indie pop, but this Saturday they'll be going acoustic. Still, as much as the vibrancy of their synths will be absent from their Le Voyeur set, there isn't much that can dampen the enthusiasm that Wauby bring to
Music
In the late '70s, a record label was born in London called Stiff Records. Among the prominent voices in the label were the prolific and pop-minded likes of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and Wreckless Eric. What these artists had in common was a love for pop structure, albeit informed by
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW The Roots, Lion Babe Seattle. Dec. 28 8 pm. $65-$75 (The Showbox, axs.com) Martin Taylor Seattle. Jan.
Arts
Did you know the 1892 debut of Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker was not a huge success? It was originally paired with Tchaikovsky's final opera, Iolanta, a fictionalized biography of Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine. Critics found The Nutcracker's dancers "amateurish" and "corpulent," then dismissed the piece itself as "insipid"
Stage
Tis the season for the playhouses to be rolling out their family fare in the hopes of spreading cheer and hooking the next generation of potential theatergoers. Instead of choosing a straight up Christmas tale this year, Lakewood Playhouse chose to go the more reflective route. A Year with Frog
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Slade Ham. 8 pm. $15. Little Creek Casino Shelton. Comedy Night, featuring Andrew Rivers, Nate Jackson. 8 pm. The Ram Restaurant and Brewery
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Temple Theatre Ballroom Tacoma - Stadium District. Geoffrey Castle's Celtic Christmas. All Ages. 8 pm. $15-$25. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Tingstad & Rumbel. All Ages. 8 pm. $15-$22. BLUES Little Creek Casino Shelton. Randy Linder. 9 pm. NC. Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Arbutus Folk School - Olympia. Jack Dwyer, Sara Jane Scouten. All Ages. 7 pm. Treos Tacoma - Old Town. Michael Coucoules. All Ages. 7-9 pm. NC. The Gig Spot Gig Harbor. Stephanie Anne Johnson, with Regan's Rock School students. All Ages. 8 pm. Traditions Cafe and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by Doug McGrew. 7:30 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Sunday Blues
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Brian Lee Trio. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Bar Bingo. Win $100 in cash prizes. 6-8 pm. Harmon Tap Room Tacoma -
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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. Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Ha Ha Tuesdays, featuring