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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Female Singer-Songwriter Night, featuring Kim Archer. 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
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Oly Songwriter Circle. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The
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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. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. NC. The Mix Tacoma - Downtown. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 21+. 9 pm. NC. Le Voyeur
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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. City Hall Saloon and Eatery Enumclaw. Rockin' Blues Jam Session. 21+. 6 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Morso Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Singer/songwriter Kevin Montgomery. 21+. 9 pm, meet the artist at 8:30 pm. $15. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Seth Martin CD Release Party, with Dylan Morrison. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. Paddy Coyne's Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music Session. Leo MacNamara &
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cafe Luna Vashon. Brian Ellefson, Chris Marshall. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Wounded Mic. 21+. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Washington Center for the Performing Arts Olympia - Downtown. Ruthie
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Heidi Vladyka. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic, featuring Dan Carrigan. All
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With all of us Generation X and Yers who used to listen to Offspring now having offspring, it's important that we have an alternative to the usual Barney or Bob the Builder ditties. Good thing there's Caspar Babypants. Caspar Babypants is fun. Caspar Babypants rocks. And Caspar Babypants is Chris
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Candy and sweets are as synonymous with Halloween as ghosts and goblins. Notoriously frugal, I decided to make my own Halloween candy this year. After reading a few recipes and seeing all the ingredients needed, I moved on to my next brilliant idea - searching out locally made candy and
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Burs Restaurant Where: 6151 Steilacoom Blvd. SW, Lakewood, 253.588.4844 Hours: 5 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday- Saturday, 6 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. Lounge is open till 1 a.m. Sunday-Thursday, Friday and Saturday till 2 a.m. Cuisine: Mainstream Midwest Aunt Mae classic American diner fare like pot roast dinner, prime rib, grilled Rueben sandwich, hamburger, Cobb salad, Monte Cristo and country
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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. ... Bobble Tiki is, quite possibly, one of the least productive island themed souvenirs you'll ever meet. If there's a way to put
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In January of 1999 I got this killer job working at Amazon.com. Customer service. On the phones. It started out with a 10-week full time training course. I was the only person in my 30 person training class without a four-year degree. I had an in, though, and I am
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LOVERS >>> Saturday, Oct. 23 There are few things more powerful (not in a sissy way, but in a gut-twisting, heart palpitation-causing kind of way) than some well-placed synthesizers and cracking handclaps. Lovers are synth peddlers and handclap manufacturers. Dark electro-pop accompanied by badass chick vocals, the songs vacillating between lovestruck declarations
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The Tacoma hip-hop scene is an ever-evolving community. Artists and supporters come and go on a yearly, sometimes almost monthly, basis. Walls are painted and covered (and then sometimes painted again). Emcees rise to prominence only to vanish (paging Can-U). And venues and boutiques the scene has called home rise
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Chatting with Miss Lily Verlaine, ballet-trained burlesque artist extraordinaire, two things become instantly clear. First, she and her partner, Jasper McCann, have exceptional phone voices. Seriously, these folks should moonlight (daylight?) on FM radio. Second, they're about to give Oly one hell of a show. They've reimagined Lewis Carroll's 1871 classic,
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Musicals are hard. Let's acknowledge that first. They take so much more work than most "straight plays" (the jargon, by the way, has nothing to do with orientation) that it's impossible not to root for them. We've taken heat here at the Volcano for being less than overwhelmed with recent
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Race + Education = Art. That is how local artists see the controversial issues of race and education - matters they consider too important to leave solely to those in the halls of power. During October, a selection of artists will present their own creative interpretations of how race impacts
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OK, look: Here's what happened. As I do every week, I sought out the biggest and most exciting show happening between Thursdays. When I saw the flyer for a Hell's Kitchen show featuring a rare appearance by veteran Tacoma band Post Stardom Depression, I knew immediately that was my show.
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Haunting music permeates the space of the gallery at The Evergreen State College during the exhibition It's Complicated - Art About Home. The music comes from Jason Lujan's video From One Dream to Another, which is eerily beautiful and mysterious, and which sets the mood and theme of the show. The
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My fat little fingers are having a tough time typing this morning, all due to a morning run that left them swollen and slightly numb. All thanks to Jenny Fab and her long-legged boyfriend who kicked my ass all the way down Ruston Way this fine, foggy day. So to