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Live Music and DJs in the South Sound ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Picoso. All Ages. 9:30 pm. $5. Forza Coffee Puyallup. Savannah, Nick Sandy. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Song Circle Open Mic. All Ages. 7 pm. $2, NC for performers. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Tamara
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Live music and DJS in the South Sound ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam Night. 21+. 8 pm. Uncle Sam’s American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Jerry Miller Unplugged. 6 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Open Mic,
Live & CD Reviews
We live in a land where surf rock was pioneered, where "Apache" is not a hip-hop song, and where Dick Dale is still a king. At the same time, Tacoma is home to hardcore bands such as Zeke (forget what Seattle tries to tell you) and South 11th -
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Poodle Dog Where: 1522 54th Ave. E., Fife, 253.922.6161 Hours: Open 5:30 a.m. daily, till 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and till 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday Cuisine: Classic American diner fare Scene: Small-town diner, family-friendly with separate bar/lounge Drinkies: Full bar, milkshakes, standard non-alcoholic beverages Prices: $3.95-$16.99 ANNOUNCER: The boys have decided its time to visit restaurants that are
Live & CD Reviews
I have this weird association in my brain. OK, I have many, but only one that's relevant today, wherein I connect Green Apple Quick Step with Green Day. I know, I know, they sound nothing alike. But that's why it's a weird association, and not just a normal one. Indirectly,
Food Matters
MARCH MADNESS CHALLENGE If you eat two burgers and fries in 24 minutes or less at the Varsity Grill before April 6, you will receive the food for free. Drop by the sports bar at 1114 Broadway in downtown Tacoma for the challenge and its rules. CHEF'S TABLE WINE DINNER Affairs Café &
Food Matters
Thursday, March 25 Brassfield Estate Winery 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, 50 S.E. Skookum
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Live music and DJs in the South Sound ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Cafe Steilacoom. Dave Hannon, Chris Telfer. All Ages. 10 am. NC. Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Poodlebomb. 21+. 8 pm. Harbor Greens Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Rick Gonzalez. 21+. 8 pm. NC. D.A.S.H. Center for the Arts Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. The Corner. Youth
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Live music and DJs in the South Sound BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 21+. 8 pm. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Mark Dufresne. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Randy Oxford's Blues Theatre Kid's Jam. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. City Hall
Music
Here's something that you never really see any more: the certifiably insane recording artist. Well, not technically insane (unless you're talking about Wild Man Fischer) but certainly wacky to no end. They are generally described as having a world all their own - usually a "weird" or "crazy" one. Arthur
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It's unusual for a band to have been around for as long as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and for me (and, I suspect, many people) to know next to nothing about them. I mean, this is a band that's been around since 1960 - 50 years! - in one form or
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Live music and DJs in the South Sound 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
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Live music and DJs in the South Sound ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC 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 Farrelli's Gourmet Wood Fire Pizza Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Team Trivia Night. 9 pm. NC. Farrelli's Gourmet Wood Fire Pizza
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Live music and DJs in the South Sound ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. All Ages. 7-9 pm. NC. Sax Unplugged. Tacoma bands playing acoustic sets. 21+. 9 pm-close. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma
Music
JUNE MADRONA >>> Thursday, March 25 Ross Cowman is a humble tour-de-force to say the least. He has been quietly spearheading a huge folk movement in the underground scene in Olympia. His upstart label, Bicycle Records, has been dropping phenomenal releases for the past five years, including such acts as Polka Dot
Arts
What's the saying? Dance with the devil, the devil don't change. He changes you. That's a quote for everyone who is trying to figure out how to sell art with out selling their soul. Good luck. It's becoming clear that the machine - you know what I mean by the
Stage
Despite my oft-noted vocabulary, I can't think of a word for ... What do you call a feeling of nostalgia for something you hated when it actually happened? The first time I saw Rent was in Los Angeles. Neil Patrick Harris played Mark the documentarian; Wilson Cruz played Angel the lovable
Food Matters
Tournament of Tacos With a week of voting behind us, what began as 64 of greater Tacoma's best tacos will be whittled down to 32 after today's Tournament of Tacos Readers' Poll battles. It's like March Madness, only with more indigestion. Every day through April 1 visit our blog Spew and cast
Music
In May of 1997, after a successful tryout, I joined my first ever "signed" band. The roller coaster ride up Rock Mountain had begun. I was hired, fully outfitted to be tour ready: new cymbals, cymbal stands, drum throne, pedals and cases, and a custom drum set of my own design. Then
Features
Believe it or not people, I don't mind being proved wrong. Clearly not all the time, because that would be horribly depressing, but when I have preconceived notions about someone or something, I will gladly take my lumps for it. I deserve them. We are all human. We judge others.