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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympic View Baptist Church University Place. Hazel & Vine, Lybecker. All Ages. 6:30 pm. $10. Engine House No. 9 Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Steve Stefanowicz. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Vashon Celtic Players & Knitting Group. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam,
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COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC Latitude 84 Tacoma - South. DJ Jacob. Hip-hop, R&B, Top 40, and dance. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Happy Days Casino Lakewood. DJ dance. Top 40. 21+. 9 pm. NC. O'Malley's Irish Pub Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Rebel Monday/Industry Night. DJ Jason Diamond
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympic Club Centralia. Frontier Ruckus. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Red Wind Casino Yelm. Comedy Night, featuring Dan Moore, Brad Upton. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Farrelli's Gourmet Wood
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. The guitarist, singer/songwriter performs during dinner. All Ages. 7-9 pm. Free. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. Open Mic. 8 pm. NC. Uncle Sam’s American Bar & Grill
Music
Tacoma and Olympia have raised a healthy crop of hip-hop/entertainment artists - from Criminal Nation and Wojack to High Performance, Black Anger, Black Caesar, DJ Hawkskee, Donald Glaude, DJ Dan, Slo Poke aka SP, Jay Barz and too many more to name in this humble column. Adding to the relatively long
Music
DARK TIME SUNSHINE >>> Thursday, April 15 Dark Time Sunshine (Onry Ozzborn and Zavala) celebrate the release of the group's highly anticipated sophomore album, Vessel, on Sake Four Records. The show will be your first chance to cop Vessel, featuring Aesop Rock, JFK, XP and more, as the record drops officially on
Music
Simon Calcavecchia is one of the endearing forces that makes Olympia so damn awesome. You know Simon - that good-looking man who cruises around Olympia in his wheelchair with his signature Hello Kitty backpack strapped to the back. Simon, with his dapper attire and plethora of beautiful women and tight
Music
Roxy Music taught us love can be a drug, but I don't think I've ever heard a song that depicts love and drugs coexisting together, and more or less equally helpful. "I couldn't make it without you-without you and codeine." So goes the chorus of "Codeine," one of six songs on the
Stage
What is community theater, and exactly what is it supposed to accomplish? Can it offer professional quality, or should we resign ourselves to watching Joe the Pharmacist and Mary the Bank Teller stumble through A Streetcar Named Desire? In other words, should it be entry level for adorably inept actors
Music
He sits on a stage - a stage that looks more like a wilting Southern front porch than the focal point of one of Tacoma's local music venues - playing a beaten acoustic guitar. It kind of sounds like the blues, but it's not. It kind of feels like you
Features
Bernie Garcia followed the action, so when we walked through the big front doors of Moctezuma's Mexican Restaurant, Tournament of Tacos championship plaque in hand, he wasn't terribly surprised - though he was happy to see us. "It was great. We had customers asking us all the time if we'd won,
Arts
Aaron J. Schmookler wants Tacoma to be a theater town. "Tacoma, I think, is having trouble in the theater realm. It always seems to be teetering on the brink of success or failure, as a place to do and see theater," he tells me. "I have this deep-seated sense, that I feel
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... Bobble Tiki is an adaptor, not an innovator. While Bobble Tiki's wife often looks at a situation and identifies ways things could be
Features
There are two major grocery stores near my house, Top Food & Drug and Fred Meyer. Friends, neighbors and even I have very strong feelings about which store we prefer. I find this interesting. Not interesting enough to do any major funded studies, but enough to write about it. As you
Stage
Fulcrum Gallery continues to mount shows that make old codgers like me realize how out of touch they are. Ed Matlock's new paintings at Fulcrum are from a series based on the Mexican game Loteria, sometimes referred to as Mexican bingo. I never heard of it. And I'm only
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Cafe Steilacoom. Gina Belliveau, Claire Anthony. All Ages. 10 am. NC. Gig Harbor Farmers Market Gig Harbor. Kel. All Ages. 11:30 am. NC. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. $2, NC for performers. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Steve Stefanowicz. All Ages. 1 pm. NC. D.A.S.H. Center for
Food Matters
COOKING CLASS Chef Thierry Liot prepares French cuisine with sophisticated flavor in a class titled "Simple Dining in Parisienne Style" April 15 at the Bayview School of Cooking in Olympia. The 6 p.m. class cost is $50. Reserve your spot at 360.754.1448. NONPROFIT RESTAURANT Chica's Café, MIJAS transitional restaurant, will serve a
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Urban Grace Church Tacoma - Downtown. Hazel & Vine, Lybecker. All Ages. 7 pm. $7. HG Bistro Puyallup. Lewis/Lane. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Russell Clepper. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Blue Heron Arts Center Vashon. Vashon Island Youth Chorus
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam Night. 21+. 8 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Evie Ladin. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Uncle Sam’s American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Jerry Miller Unplugged. 6 pm. NC. Liquid Soul
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Barbecue Inn Where: 8102 Maple St. SW, Tillicum, 253.584.0832 Hours: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Friday, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Kitchen opens at 4 p.m. on weekends Cuisine: Home style barbecue ribs, chicken and pulled barbecue sandwiches, burgers, salads, tacos, steaks, hot wings Scene: Casual bar and restaurant with pool, darts and all-ages