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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC South Tacoma Farmers Market Tacoma - South. Critter, Doug Deems. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Hi-Fidelity Lounge Bremerton, WA 98312. Open Mic. 21+. 8:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Talisman. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Garth Reeves. All Ages. 9 pm. NC. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Jennifer Lind. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Gig Harbor Farmers Market Gig Harbor. Steve Stefanowicz. All Ages. 11:30 am. NC. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music Session. Leo MacNamara &
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Jam On My Muffin. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Mike Fekete, Julia Marie. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. HG Bistro Puyallup. Steve Stefanowicz. 21+. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Carrie Cunningham. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Deaf Lester. All
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic Jam, featuring Leanne Trevalyan. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Daniel Adams. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Mark Ikler. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm.
Arts
A year ago Gregory Fricker was damn near on his knees dealing with life. If you told him last September that not only would the former Army soldier become an artist, but this Wednesday's 100th Monkey Party tile artist, he would have laughed in your face. He's laughing for a different
Stage
Let's face it; we have to admire the self-confidence of any group willing to call its production BOMB, even if it is a clever acronym (Best of Modern Broadway). Such faith in a production directed, choreographed, and performed by kids-including the band!-borders on foolhardy. I've stated my reluctance to dump
Food Matters
ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT Happy Days Casino (11521 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood) offers all-you-can-eat chicken on Tuesdays, pasta on Wednesday and barbecue ribs on Thursdays for $9.99 with purchase of a drink (non-alcoholic or alcoholic). TWILIGHT DINNER Mercato Ristorante (111 Market St. NW, Olympia) offers a $17.95 twilight dinner. For more details, call 360.528.3663. TAKE OUT HG Bistro
Food Matters
Thursday, Aug. 19 "The Best of Jed Steele" wine tasting, 5:30-8 p.m., complimentary, Pour at Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. 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,
Food Matters
Big Wheel Steakhouse and Lounge I've been watching for signs of life below the Big Wheel Steakhouse sign in a strip mall off Steele Street for months. Building owner Steven Kang took over the endeavor after the original would-be restaurateur defaulted, leaving the restaurant and lounge unfinished. Kang went looking for
Music
Ten years ago, a then-17-year-old Jonathan Deschamps started recording songs at home, experimenting as he went along, pushing himself to learn a variety of instruments. In a move worthy of L.A. weirdo Ariel Pink, he let the unreleased material pile up, resulting in a vast back-catalog of unheard compositions. "For years,
Music
Choices are some of the only real power individuals have in this small world. Choosing to win, lose, take risks, lay back; these choices determine our many different routes in the short lives we're offered. For Hill-B, aka Hillary Butler, a native of Lakewood by way California's Bay Area and a
Music
JAPANTHER >>> Friday, Aug 20 When you think of art rock, bands like King Crimson and Genesis or Sonic Youth and latter-day Talk Talk tend to come to mind. The common thread that runs through most these bands is a deadly seriousness. It's, you know, "art." It needs to be serious. And
Reviews
Morso Wine BarWhere: 9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor, 253.530.3463 Hours: 5 p.m.-10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, noon to midnight Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m.-9 p.m. Sunday Cuisine: Internationally-inspired, Northwest, small plate shareable dishes Scene: Comfort meets swank with a view, 21 and older Drinkies: Wine and beerPrices: $3-$13 ANNOUNCER: If the innovative Morso
Stage
Grit City's upcoming theater season is cram-packed with interesting shows, so with no further - (See what I did there?) Tacoma Little Theatre opens the year Aug. 27 with Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth, an ingenious two-hand thriller in which an aging mystery writer and an ambitious Casanova match murderous wits. Tacoma playwright
Stage
I checked out a few more installations from the Spaceworks Tacoma Artscapes project starting with The Blood That Runs Through Us...an Ongoing Dialogue by Mary Coss, June Sekiguchi and Pamela Hom at 950 Pacific Ave. It is fabulous. It obliquely addresses the theme of lifecycles, leaving much for the viewer
Music
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... As they say, some like it hot. Bobble Tiki on the other hand, well, he doesn't like it hot. In fact, Bobble
Music
When you think of art rock, bands like King Crimson and Genesis or Sonic Youth and latter day Talk Talk tend to come to mind. The common thread that runs through most of these bands is a deadly seriousness. It's, you know, "art." It needs to be serious. And it
Music
I had known Kelly Wheeler for less than five minutes when he saddled me with the nickname "Meat." It was Valentine's Day, 1999. I was trying out for Jimmy Paulson's new outfit, New American Shame. Paulson always seemed to end up with record deals, and NAS had already been making
Features
I sense a theme forming here. Small, independent, neighborhood grocery stores are getting my undivided attention these days, so as not to abuse the genre, this will be the last in my unintentional "series" for a while. It's clear these little stores fascinate me and wield more power than you might
Arts
There's heavy metal, and there's heavy metal. And then there's heavy metal that's meant to be written with a capital H and M and a jagged Halloween font with scary skulls as the a's and a devil hanging off the y - all circled 666 times with some sort of