Listings
Live music and DJs in the South Sound ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC HG Bistro Puyallup. Andy Shofner. 21+. 7 pm. NC. The Villa Cafe Tacoma - Downtown. Dave Hannon, Chris Telfer. 8 pm. Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Poodlebomb. 21+. 8 pm. Cafe Luna Vashon. Robyn Landis, Mark Wells, Charles Reed. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. BLUES Matrix Coffee
Listings
Live music in the South Sound. ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC 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. Big Tony's Sports Bar Centralia. Steve Stefanowicz. 21+. 6 pm. NC. BLUES The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Chehalis. Blues Jam.
Reviews
Warthog Barbeque Pit Where: 4921 20th St. E., Fife, 253.896.5091 Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday Cuisine: Finger lickin' barbecue, specialty burgers, salads, slow smoked barbecue sandwiches, homemade desserts Scene: Log cabin filled with taxidermy animals and barbecue kitsch - casual and family friendly Drinkies: Beer, wine, soft drinks, sweet iced
Arts
It's tough out there. Making money is hard for just about everyone, especially artists. If you're among the thousands of artists who still have a day job, consider yourself fortunate. If you're among the thousands of artists who still have a day job and are still broke, consider using some
Music
I'd like to preface this list by saying that I totally wussed out. Love songs are a personal thing, you know? I couldn't assign numbers to these songs, no matter how hard I tried. I know some people would have chosen different songs - songs that tug at their
Features
The field has been set, the competitors narrowed. Sixty-four of the greater Tacoma area's best tacos are set to do battle in the Weekly Volcano's Tournament of Tacos. It's like March Madness, only with more indigestion. Every day through April 1 visit this blog and cast your
Listings
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. Farrelli's Gourmet Wood Fire Pizza Sumner. Team Trivia Night. 9 pm. The
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cafe Luna Vashon. Dustin Darnold. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Blue Heron Arts Center Vashon. Island Celtic Celebration, with Dan Brown, Geordie's Byre, Hillside Irish Dancers, Gordon Miller, Kat Eggleston, Julie Mainstone, Marita Ericksen. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $13-$15. Steilacoom Cafe Steilacoom. James Coates, A Leaf. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Salty's at
Food Matters
Thursday, March 18 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 Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday, March 19 Guardian Cellars wine tasting, 3-6 p.m., Water to Wine, 9014
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Peter Mayer. All Ages. 7 pm. $8-$12. 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
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BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Bill Barner & The Groove Gators. 21+. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. 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
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. All Ages. 7-9 pm. NC. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. Open Mic. 8 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Sax Unplugged. Tacoma bands
Music
It seems to me that, this far along in the history of music, the only boundary left to be broken is listenability. With people destructing nearly every sound and mashing them up, all you can really do to distinguish yourself is make your product unpalatable. Believe me, plenty of bands
Music
Green Apple Quick Step. What does the name bring to mind? Some remember the band fondly. Green Apple Quick Step harkens back to a simpler time in local music - not pre-grunge simple, but still a time when it was easy to know what was cool and what was exciting, and
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. Yeah, sure, Bobble Tiki is a little jealous. Volcano editor Matt Driscoll is down in Austin this week, sucking up free beer at
Music
BASEMINT >>> Thursday, March 18 Here we have a monster of a show. Calvin Johnson, godfather of Olympia music, will be bringing his Hive Dwellers to the Den. Joining him will be local favorites Basemint and Friskey. I don't feel like I need to tell you any more about this show, because
Stage
Lisa Sweet re-invisions and reinterprets medieval and early modern Christian iconography in a style borrowed from Jan Van Eyck and the Netherlandish artists, but makes it uniquely her own. There are certain artists whose works are instantly recognizable, starting with Van Eyck and leading up through Picasso and Pollock. Add Sweet
Stage
In his notes for Harlequin's production of Rabbit Hole, director Brian Tyrrell mentions his fondness for "well written plays." His phrasing leaped out at me - not just because playwright David Lindsay-Abaire is good at his job, which he clearly is, but because it echoes a phrase from my theater
Food Matters
Burgerama The history of the hamburger is fairly mythical. The Menches family of Ohio claims to have invented the hamburger at an 1885 fair in Hamburg, New York, when heat and humidity forced them to stop butchering pigs. In all probability, the hamburger was a good idea waiting to happen,
Features
It's been quite some time since I've ventured to the Westside of Sixth Avenue. As most of us know the hip happening part of "The Ave" is the Eastside between Union and Sprague. But something had been gnawing at me for a while. Calling me. Wooing me. Luring me