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BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Captain Dick & The Portholes. 21+. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC 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 spinning roots reggae,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Gina Belliveau. All Ages. 1 pm. NC. O'Callahan's Pub & Grill Key Peninsula. Tammy Faye & The Thrill Billies Family Jam. All Ages. 4 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Straw Hat String Band. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Back Porch Swing. All Ages. 8 pm. $8-$12. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Phil O'Sullivan, Paul Christensen, Leon House. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Steve Stefanowicz. 21+. 9 pm. NC. D.A.S.H. Center for the Arts Tacoma - Upper Tacoma.
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It took Susan Sontag over six thousand words to describe "camp," so I probably shouldn't even try. She viewed it as a "disengaged, depoliticized" aesthetic "sensibility" skewed toward "artifice and exaggeration," with a "spirit of extravagance" and "glorification of [exaggerated] ‘character.'" Even in 1964, she recognized that homosexuals "constitute
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Island Women Showcase, with Kiki Means, Allison Shirk, Kelsey Bernheisel, Kat Eggleston, Kate McLeod, Sarah Christine. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Song Circle Open Mic. All Ages. 7 pm. $2. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Becki Sue & Her Big
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Abby. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Uncle Sam’s American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Jerry Miller Unplugged. Plus it's Taco Thursday. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Open Mic, hosted by
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Marzano Italian Restaurant Where: 516 Garfield St. S. Parkland, 253.537.4191 Hours: Lunch: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and dinner: 4-8:30 p.m., 4-9 p.m. Saturday Cuisine: Italian and Italian inspired Northwest seafood, salad, pizza, pastas Scene: Comfy, elegant, relaxed Drinkies: Extensive wine list - domestic and Italian, beer, Italian sodas, Lavazza espresso, Seattle's Best coffee, and interesting sodas Prices:
Live & CD Reviews
A few weeks ago I wrote a bit on Green Apple Quick Step, and the place they occupied in my own musical development. Living in a very similar place is Sweet Water. As yet another Seattle band signed to a major label in 1992-Nirvana's Nevermind was released in late
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With a lineup featuring accomplished jazz organist Joe Doria and saxophone legend Skerik, "The McTuff Quartet," as the group formally calls itself, promises some world-class virtuosity. Volume 1 delivers. The songs average about eight minutes each, and every song is, unsurprisingly, mostly soloing. But it's thanks to Doria's composition that
Concert Alert
If Ultraman decided to take a stab at the rap game, his beats would probably sound something like this. The Golden Handshake is an EP of tracks made separately by electronic music producers Lando Kal and Low Limit, who usually work together under the name Lazer Sword. Though futuristic,
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. ... Wow. Just wow. Bobble Tiki long ago established himself as a self-promoting whore, so this pitch should come as no surprise, but
Arts
Dear Tacoma. I've spoken to a lot of artists lately who feel a little underappreciated. Well, underappreciated is the wrong word. More like taken advantage of. I know Tacoma sells itself as an arts town. We have several "world class" museums, whatever that means; one hard-working arts council; a few struggling non-profits
Music
We woke up at Shelly's place. The boy wanted to go swimming - again - and his Godmother's daughter lived two blocks away with an amazing pool. He got even more daring this time out, doing bobs in water just over his head with little to no assistance. The
Food Matters
DINING OUT FOR LIFE Restaurants in Pierce and Thurston counties will donate 25 percent of their food revenue to local AIDS service organizations as part of tonight's Dining Out For Life. More details here: diningoutforlife.com. MOMMY DAY The Vault will hold its 10th Annual Mother's Day Brunch inside Varsity Grill on Sunday, May
Food Matters
Thursday, April 29 Europe on $11 a Bottle wine tasting, 5:30-8 p.m., complimentary, Pour at Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery,
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In the 1970s, a Canadian folk-rocker named Bruce Cockburn released almost an album a year for the entire decade. He missed 1977, but this was most likely due to a shortage of notebook paper he suffered after penning seven albums worth of material - so get off his back. My
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This Saturday night at Olympia's Royal Lounge, some esteemed members of Los Angeles' hip-hop royalty will make their impact on stage when Murs and Psycho Realm's Sick Jacken headline a show flanked by Olympia's award-winning Afrok and Junkyard Gang. The show, put on by Growing Pains Entertainment, features one of the
Food Matters
Amocat Café The big heads in the windows on St. Helens Avenue in downtown Tacoma have tongues wagging. The bloggers are blogging. Soon to open next to The Mix is Amocat Café - owned by the Tacoma Improvement Club, LLC, of which Morgan Alexander is a part. For drinks, Amocat will feature
Arts
When I asked Lisa Fruichantie what the word "retrograde" meant, she didn't know. The word was delivered to her in a horoscope, she tells me, in regard to some business with the planet Saturn. Upon discovering the meaning of the term, the complexity delighted me. You see, "Retrograde" is the name
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What a wonderful find! An unheralded and untrained artist with innate talent, guts and sincerity is discovered, and you can see his paintings and sculptures at Tacoma Art Supply. Don't miss this. Tyrone Patkoski is half Polish and half Native American. He has survived homelessness and mental illness, has never studied