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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Camille Coldeen, Mark Graham, Orville Johnson. All Ages. 8:30 pm. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Kendl Winter. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Treos Tacoma - Central. Nolan Garrett. All Ages. 6-8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Broken Tapestry, Light The Fire. All Ages. 7 pm. $6. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Climate Change. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Jim Page. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Pantages Theater
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Peter Mayer. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$15. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. With Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino rockin' blues jam. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Grit City Comedy
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Centralia. Kendl Winter. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Oly Songwriter Circle. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat
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BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan Tyack. 7:30 pm. Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Crazy Texas Gypsies Open Jam. 8 pm. Midtown Grill Bonney
Music
OK, South Sound. I've noticed five annoying trends while attending all-ages shows. I feel the need to discuss them now on the eve of The Redroom's final show. Standing at the front but not dancing In case you hadn't noticed, we like to dance in Tacoma. Cases of young music fans in
Features
I'm going to just go ahead and say it. Some holidays serve the sole purpose of giving folks an opportunity to let their hair down and whoop it up. One such holiday is Cinco de Mayo, for those who didn't pay attention in Spanish class that is the 5th of
Music
"The fact that children can make beautiful music is less significant than the fact that music can make beautiful children." - Cherly Lavender, composer Ted Brown Music Outreach (TBMO) was introduced in 2007 by Ted Brown Music store in Tacoma, with the mission to provide children throughout the South Sound access
Music
Brittany Kingery and her music have both found a home on the beach, and the tide is coming in to Olympia, just in time to kick off the Cinco de Mayo weekend. The Grays Harbor-born singer's concert in Olympia Friday, May 3 will be her first U.S. performance since the
Stage
Peter Sheesley is a talented and prolific painter. His previous show at Fulcrum, paintings from photos taken in Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry, was excellent. But his latest show fails on many levels. The show is called ¿What is Truth? And it consists of 10 paintings, each depicting a naked
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I hope Lakewood Playhouse Artistic Director John Munn won't mind me telling you this, but a week before his company's production of The Rainmaker opened, we had an earnest conversation about "dated" play scripts. John lamented the fact that critics are often dismissive of 20th-century scripts audiences know and love.
Show And Tell
Athletes are often honored as heroes for their speed, agility or skill on the field. They become legends with each record they break or title they lead their team to win. But sometimes in history their actions off the field are more heroic than on it. Such is the story of
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American Voices: Invisibility, Art, and Educational Justice is a three-part series presented by Puget Sound University's Race and Pedagogy department. The series features educators, scholars, artists, and activists whose work stimulates critical intellectual engagement about issues of racial justice and educational reform. Thursday, April 25, the series culminates in a collaboration
Critics' Picks
>>> Friday, April 19 HANDS IN The first time I saw Hands In, it was in a basement in South Tacoma. All I knew about what I was going to see was that it was a one-man band from Portland. In practice, Hands In is made up of one guy, a series
Features
Readers were asked to name the best, the tastiest, the most fantastic sandwiches in the South Sound to compete in the Tournament of Sandwiches, sponsored by Subway. Sixty-four sandwiches and three weeks of tournament-style voting later, it was a showdown between STINK's Stinker sandwich and Oliver's Sandwiches' lobster sandwich. The
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I need to get my hot little hands on the upcoming split 7-inch release by Mos Generator and Ancient Warlocks. If they can put all the power and straight fucking rock they pull at their live performances onto a little piece of vinyl, then I'm sold. I apologize for dropping the
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Longbranch Improvement Club. Blame Sally. All Ages. 8 pm. $15 adults, $8 teens and younger. Little Creek Casino Shelton. Paul Davis. 7 pm. NC. Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Songwriter's Circle, featuring Bobby Pinson, Jamie Paulin, Trent Tomlinson. 8 pm. $15. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Tommy Dean. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma -
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Little Creek Casino Shelton. Paul Davis. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. James King & The Southsiders. 8 pm. $6. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. 4:20 Comedy Showcase, with Travis Simmons, Nigel Larson, Fred Bowski, Boe Blast. 8:30 pm. $15. Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Shane Mauss.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Mark Iler. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner