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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Forest Beutel & Friends. All Ages. 8 pm. Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Kurt Lindsay. 8:30 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Seth Hoffman. All Ages. 7 pm. $6. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Mineral School Mineral. Storytelling & Song: Eric Taylor, with The Drop Shadows. All Ages. 7 pm. $25. BLUES Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Bill Brown & The Kingbees. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Sarah Colonna. 8 and 10:30
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Washington Center for the Performing Arts Olympia - Downtown. Summertime Soiree, featuring Daven Tillinghast. 6:30 pm. An Evening With Joan Baez. All Ages. 8 pm. BLUES Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by Doug McGrew. 7:30 pm. NC. Dawson's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Monday Music, featuring James Coates. 7 pm. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Blues Night. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Bar Bingo. Cash
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Wed night Irish Session. 7:00- 930. Free. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade Community Center
Stage
Theater, no matter how hard we try, is nothing like life. It's amplified, focused, condensed and artificial. That's not to say we who craft it are unobliged to say anything about real life, but we needn't feel we must reproduce it photographically as if there were no audience members sharing
Stage
A day after opening night of The Cemetery Club at Olympia Little Theatre, my objective and subjective selves are still debating its merits. From a technical standpoint, the show has grievous shortcomings. It's blocked so we spend much of our time gazing at actors' hair instead of their faces. The
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The last show at Olyphant Art Supply in Olympia before they close their present location and move to another spot in the heart of downtown features six paintings and one ink drawing by Tavner Castle. The brothers who run Olyphant seem to have a knack for discovering talented new artists, or
Music
When the ParrotHeads of Puget Sound gather next month to raise funds for the USO Northwest, they'll be continuing a nearly 20-year tradition of "partying with a purpose." The local Parrotheads are among the most active and productive chapters of the national Parrotheads in Paradise network of Jimmie Buffet devotees.
Stage
McChord Field, get ready for a little song and dance to break up your week when Tops in Blue comes to you. The reviews from earlier performances this month are in and Tops in Blue, a traveling entertainment group that has featured more than 1,700 airmen in shows since 1953, is
Arts
The last time I wrote about Mark Rentfrow was because he played Porl Thompson in a Cure cover band. This time I'm writing about him because he and his comrades have come up with a cure - for how to display content from your tablet device. The product is Project Wedge. The
Features
Do you ever wish you could go back to your childhood and get a "do-over"? When I replay past events in my head, I often feel both regret and pride in the same emotion. I am proud that seventh-grade Stephanie punched eighth-grade bully Heather in the stomach at the bus stop
Critics' Picks
[ROCK] + FRI, JUNE 13 Friday night in Olympia is going to be crazy. It's a full moon, Friday the 13th and Evergreen State College graduation all rolled into one. It's a good thing this rock show is going to be at the 4th Ave Tav. The powerhouse bill will need
Music
I remember the first time I was exposed to the music of Shel Silverstein. This sort of raucous, barrelhouse rock coming from the beloved children's poet of my youth - it was eye-opening, to say the least. It was this crazy secret that my dad must have been giddy from
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as
Food Matters
EAT THEN GOLF Hotel Murano (1320 Broadway, Tacoma) welcomes the official start of summer with a golf themed shindig Swing into Summer from 4-7 p.m. June 20. Enjoy the downtown Tacoma fancy hotel's new summer menu and enter to win a round of golf for two at Chambers Bay. WINE BUS If you're
Show And Tell
A picture's worth a thousand words, or so the old adage goes; but who's to say, really? Maybe back in the Stone Age - when words were little more than inarticulate grunts and "Yabba Dabba Do!" - Og's cave paintings really were worth a thousand words as they were the
Listings
BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Charley's Pub Fircrest. Chicago Blues Thursdays. Real Chicago blues with Richard Molina. 8-11 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. All Ages. 9 pm. $5. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. Karl Thurmond. All Ages. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Steve Mazan. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Chris Jones Band. 9 pm. Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Kenny Rogers. 8 pm. $40.