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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Tim Hall Band Blues Jam. House band set followed by an open jam. 21+. 9
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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. BLUES Red Wind Casino Yelm. Alice Stuart. 21+. 6:30 pm. NC. Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 21+. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Yenney Music Olympia - Westside. Kate Power and Steve Einhorn Uke & Song. All Ages. 7-8 pm ukuleles and instrument playalong 8-9 pm singalong. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Susan McKeown. All Ages. 7 pm. $8-$12. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Hip-Bone. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Open Mic, with Denny Foreman & Friends. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 21+. 8 pm. Tides Tavern Gig Harbor. Breakfast Jam, with Billy Farmer. All Ages. 9 am. NC. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Abi Grace. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Damon Buxton. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music Session. Leo MacNamara & guests. 21+. 7 pm. BLUES Big Wheel Steakhouse and Lounge Tacoma - Parkland. BND. 21+. 9 pm. Little Creek
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Rebecca Reddin. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Gina Belliveau. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. The Diggers. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Little Creek Casino Shelton. Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin' Daddies. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Rhythm & Brews Tacoma - Downtown. Black River Blues.
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BLUES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Moby Grape's Jerry Miller. 21+. 9 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. DJ Switch. 21+. 9 pm. NC. WORLD BEAT Emerald Queen Casino Tacoma - Eastside. Asia Fest, with live music & fashion by Jacky Nguyen. 21+. 6 pm. NC. Muckleshoot Indian Casino Auburn. Asian Entertainment
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Maurice The Fish Records Showcase. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Tim
Music
It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and note column. Without further ado, let's get rolling ... To be honest, Bobble Tiki is having a hard time wrapping his head around the idea that it's nearly Thanksgiving - that
Food Matters
Thursday, Nov. 18 $3 Thursdays: $3 beer, $3 wells, $3 for two hot dogs, 4 p.m. to close, Hell's Kitchen, 928 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003. Wine tasting, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Abby's on Broadway: A Wine Shop, 743 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.262.2902. Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925
Food Matters
Gifts for the tongue and beyond This fall I received two favorite gifts (a tin of huckleberry tea and bottle of huckleberry vinaigrette) from Priest Lake, Idaho. Having never been to Priest Lake, it was a fun, sensory way to experience something the area is known for. The folks at the Pacific
Music
SWEETKISS MOMMA >>> Friday, Nov. 19 The last time I saw SweetKiss Momma frontman Jeff Hamel I told him he needed a championship belt - something to signify his band's current standing as the reigning champs of Puyallup. He was modest, naturally, brushing the suggestion off, but I stand firm. SweetKiss Momma
Music
"I had been into Built to Spill for a little while," says Casey Deligeannis, as we speak over the phone. "I went to one of their shows - I mean, it's been about a year ago. The last time they played at the Showbox. And you always see (guitarist) Doug
Music
The demise of the Black Water Café undeniably left a hole in the hip downtown coffee scene. For a long time, one could count on finding some of the cooler people around town hanging out in the sequestered comfort of Black Water, laptops or sketchbooks open. Once it left ...
Features
As with all good stories, the one about Thanksgiving should start with Once upon a time. ... But it doesn't, and there isn't a whole lot of solid fact linking the annual late-November feast we celebrate today with the pilgrims of the past. The credit really should go to Honest Abe.
Music
In true underground tradition, Broken Water is a band that deliberately smears the boundaries between various genres - garage, punk, shoegaze, s***gaze - and in doing so, generates something wholly unique, exciting and loud as hell. Their recent West Coast tour was an ambitious undertaking, including stops in Montana, Arizona,
Arts
While the City of Tacoma could fight vandalism with a series of electric fences, 24-hour guards or good old-fashioned centurions with cat-o'-nine-tails, the creative people at the Tacoma Arts Commission decided to combine art and community instead. The result was the Tacoma Community Based Mural Program - a project featuring
Stage
The perfect show for winter, Glimmering Gone is the new three-part exhibition by Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman at the Museum of Glass. The three parts are Landscape, Mementos and Artifacts. Upon entering the gallery viewers browse, as if window-shopping at exclusive gift shops or jewelry stores, a series of
Stage
Tracy Letts' psychodrama Bug has enjoyed a squalidly sexy reputation since its 1996 London premiere. It's sometimes viewed as unstageable due to naturalistic technical demands, nudity, foul language, drug use, violence, and a spiraling level of intensity beyond the tolerance of ordinary theatergoers. I attended an early tech rehearsal of
Arts
Imagine a 2,500-square-foot space filled with nearly 40 tables. Now imagine those tables teeming with rare records, lost VHS classics, band merchandise and memorabilia. Imagine you could swap, sell or purchase any of these precious items while listening to kickass bands and mingling with other connoisseurs. Well, quit thinking about it