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ART AND WINE WALK The Stadium District Art and Wine Walk will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 throughout the district. Tickets are $25, and that money will go toward the Mary Bridge Children's Hospital. This event will feature local artists, original artwork, Washington wines, tasty hors
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Holus Bolus. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. The guitarist, singer/songwriter performs during dinner. All Ages. 7-9 pm. Free. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Centralia. Mimicking Birds. All Ages. 7 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.
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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 Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Movie Night. 21+. 7 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC Latitude 84 Tacoma - South. DJ Jacob. Hip-hop, R&B, Top 40, and dance. 21+. 9 pm.
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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. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Loose Gravel & The Quarry. 21+. 5 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium District. 253Heart Music Festival Acoustic Stage, with Christopher Day, Gina Belliveau, Jenson Charnell, Annie Lockwood, Hannah Mendenhall, Jeremy Silas, Joe Rosati, Heidi Vladyka, Michael Oniell, Rane Stone. Proceeds benefit the American Heart Association and Pierce County AIDS Foundation. 21+.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Daryl Redecker, Kiki Means, hosted by Steffon Moody. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Jam On My Muffin. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Klondike Kate. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Beyond the Bridge
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cedarwood Dome Milton. Biker BBQ Open Mic Night. 21+. 6 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm. Tacoma Farmers Market - Broadway Tacoma - Downtown. Deborah Page. All Ages. 10:30 am. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma -
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Sage's Brunch House Where: 903 Rogers St. NW, Olympia, 360.352.1103 Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday Cuisine: Pacific Northwest cuisine, breakfast, samosas, salads, pancakes Scene: Local hangout, casual, family friendly Drinkies: Coffee, tea, juices, some alcoholic beverages Prices: $8-$12 Sage's is a neighborhood restaurant nestled between residential streets and lovely green trees, just steps from the Olympia
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. ... Please excuse Bobble Tiki. He's got an extreme Hall & Oates hangover going this morning. Normally, Bobble Tiki pumps out his columns
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Thursday, Sept. 23 $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. Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, 253.858.3982. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E.
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Brewpub4u owner Duane Woytonik has built a rather stellar contraption that can brew and then serve eight different beers on tap and hold a 60-gallon pot of chili. I know! Crazy. On his website he refers to it as the "8th wonder of the world." Here's the part that makes beer lovers
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SAD MR. ROBERT ANOTHER COWARD OF LOVE>>> Friday, Sept. 24I wrote sometime back that one of my favorite Tacoma love songs was “Commitment Chant” by Alexander and the Optimistics, AKA local artist Sean Alexander. A simple line, repeated over and over atop a chugging beat box, it kind of perfectly
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When we think of Washington rock legends - if we ignore the Sonics, which you never should - then we tend to think of bands like Green River, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, blah blah blah. Before then, it gets a little hazy. Before then, it was the Melvins. Hailing from a town
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There is such a thing as a once-in-a-lifetime concert, packed with show-stopping artists. If ever one of these shows has hit the Puget Sound area - Soul Fest is it. Hailing from the early- and mid-1990s (what I would argue was the last era of soul music), several R&B crooners
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The sad fact is my memory isn't as good as I remember it being, so take it with a grain of salt when I say last year's installment of Lord Franzannian's Royal Olympian Spectacular was described, in Oly theater circles at least, as "the talent show." Lord Franzannian is, in
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There is a quiet and dignified exhibition of photographs in the small entryway of The Gallery at Tacoma Community College. The photographs are pretty traditional and not very exciting, but they're nicely done. One in particular, Lake Washington Bridge by Jim Oliver, does wonderful things with water and shadows. These
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In the fall of 1999 I got a call from Duff Mckagan. Our paths had crossed a few times when he came back to Seattle to record a Ten Minute Warning record for Sub Pop. He said he was doing a project with Mark Lanegan, and wanted to know if
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The history of the musical Hairspray is a convoluted one. It's based on a 1988 film comedy by noted oddball John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom), in which drag artist Divine plays mom to Ricki Lake. The young, pre-diet Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, a bright-eyed teen-age girl in 1962 Baltimore
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OFF THE VINE Vinum and Vehrs, in addition to El Gaucho sommeliers, will be showcasing 14 wines - including a Leonetti Cab and Merlot - for tasting 4-6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24 at El Gaucho, 2119 Pacific Ave. in Tacoma, The cost is $10 per person(!). BEERMAKING UNION Amateur and professional beer makers