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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude. 8 pm. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Pantages Theater Tacoma - Downtown. Masters Of Scottish Arts: Celtic Pipers, Drummers, Fiddlers & Dancers. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $30-$45. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Fingertips. 9 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Hambone Blues Band. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy
Arts
Playwright August Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle" comprises ten plays about the African-American experience, each set in its own decade of the 20th century. It's a massive, multifaceted saga worthy of the best work from actors, designers, and directors. C. Rosalind Bell, a playwright herself, knew and worked with Wilson and Claude
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Fircrest Presbyterian Church Fircrest. John Denver tribute concert. 7 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Randal Bays, Suzanne Taylor. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Metronome Coffee Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Redrick Sultan. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Fingertips.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Sunday Blues Jam Night. Hosted by Remedy. 7-10 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma -
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino and Brooke Lizotte Experimental Jam. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District.
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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.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Harlequin Productions Olympia - Downtown. 1st Annual South Sound Improv Comedy Festival. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$25. Cascade Community Center JBLM-Lewis Main. Bar Bingo in Heroes Lounge. No cash prizes. 7 pm.
Stage
The latest show at Tacoma Public Library's Handforth Gallery features paintings, photography and mixed-media works by three artists, all of which investigate the effects of time as weather wears away urban and industrial buildings and machinery. What strikes me about these works is that they all seem to be crying
Arts
Sara Sparrow is an entertainer. She is a contortionist, an aerialist, a dancer, a master of acrobatics and a teacher. She has, as she calls it, "a circus background." Many of Sparrow's shows are performed in Seattle, where she does solo and collaborative work and is a member of the Aerialistas,
Critics' Picks
[FOLK ROCK] + FRI, JAN. 31 On a recent re-watching of the great Band documentary, The Last Waltz, I was once again struck by the sheer awkwardness of that final performance. As all of the film's guest stars come back on to perform "I Shall Be Released" together, what they end
Music
From the outside, nothing much seems to have changed about the world famous Bob's Java Jive. Still a dingy kettle nestled on South Tacoma Way, still the place where junkie William Hurt and junkier Keanu Reeves were hired to kill a man in I Love You To Death (seriously, go
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
Show And Tell
I was all set to review The Invisible Woman, just another of the many great films playing at The Grand Cinema. I spent the past week boning up on my Dickens so I could make a passable attempt at aping his writing style. Then, editor Pappi Swarner ran some ambitious,
Food Matters
SUPER BOWL SPECIALS We counted 246 South Sound food and drink joints offering Seahawks spirit specials this weekend. Elements Frozen Yogurt in Puyallup serves a Beast a la Mode, Skittles flavored fro yo. Little Jerry's in Tacoma serves a breakfast and dinner fit for the 12th Man with a Legion of
Music
The life and career of folk singer Judy Collins is almost too storied to get into without resorting to bullet points: her rise through the ranks of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early '60s; her discovering of Leonard Cohen (which led to her making the first recordings of
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. David Mallett. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Pantages Theater Tacoma - Downtown. Judy Collins, with Passenger String Quartet. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $28-$64. BLUES Little Creek Casino Shelton. John "Scootch" Cungo. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Hippieman. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Immanuel Presbyterian Church Tacoma - Northend. A Candle Lit Show, with Star Anna, Josiah Johnson, Carleigh Aikins, Bryan John Appleby. All Ages. 8 pm. $13-$17. DeLisio Coffee Co. Fircrest. Brian Kellogg and guests. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday Jam. 5-8 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