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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Triangle District. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Blue Creepers. All Ages. 6 pm. Seastar. All Ages. 8 pm. The Spar Olympia. Paul Mauer. 8 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Ronnda Cadle, Heidi Swan. All Ages. 7 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. YPN Holiday Party, featuring live music. 8 pm. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill
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If you follow the South Sound hip-hop scene by now you've probably heard the name Xperience a time or two. For the past 10 years XP has been solidifying his name as one of the best artists in our area, and he continues to make big moves for himself. Through
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The holidays are right around the corner, and yet you can't find that perfect gift. Why not make it yourself? Whether you've got the skills to paint the Sistine Chapel or can't even draw a stick figure, making a gift is possible, and local artists are here to inspire you. There are many
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Yes, the Olympia Film Society's Duck the Malls is a craft fair, but as the name suggests, it's a crafts fair with a decidedly alternative approach. "It's an alternative to the mall, but it's also an alternative to your conventional craft fair," says Ira Coyne, who organizes the event and runs
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Once upon a time, downtown Tacoma was a bustling place. A place filled with people - yes, real live people who went downtown for fun rather than business. This was especially true during the Christmas season. In the days of yore, before malls stole the show, downtowns were where the party
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It's hard to decide what to do this time of year. For many people, the holiday season is simple and routine. But for a growing number of people, plain old Christmas doesn't cut it anymore. People are slicing and dicing tradition in larger and larger numbers. Some are tired of
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The holiday season in these parts can be particularly frustrating. Twinkling lights and red/green motifs are typically betrayed by cruelly bitter winds and dismal rain. People hold their breath for snow, and continue to hold it if it sticks around for more than a day. Feeling the holiday spirit can
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A German winter holiday tradition you know about: the Christmas tree, serenaded in "O Tannenbaum." One you're not likely to know about: the springerle, a holiday cookie made by pressing dough into a carved board. The cookies are three-dimensional works of art, appearing like tiny sculptures. Learn to prepare this traditional treat
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Immigrants from Italy bonded throughout the K Street area neighborhoods in the late 1940s - now known as Tacoma Hilltop - with cultural traditions brought over with their families. My father-in-law, Joe DeRosa, was part of one of those families. "Oh we all roamed the area back then. It was me,
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Elf slippers What elves put on after work >>>Made from repurposed wool sweaters, elf slippers by Oakville designer Shari Trnka are cute, cozy and environmentally correct. The wool has been felted (meaning it's washed and dried so it shrinks and becomes softer and denser). The slippers, in sizes for all ages,
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Piers Chater Robinson's Peter Pan is adapted from the play by J.M. Barrie. The story strikes a chord with kids who don't want to grow up, as well as adults who wish they were responsibility-free like children. Or people who just wish they could fly. Having only experienced Disney's version
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Charles Dickens' Oliver! is why I'm in theater. It's not that I love the play to death or anything, but many moons ago my brother ran follow spot for a children's production of the musical through Tacoma Little Theatre, and my whole family was doomed. So it's always fun to
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JET CITY FIX >>> FRIDAY, DEC. 2 Why does The Jet City Fix still do a show every once in a while at Hell's Kitchen? Because Tacoma fucking loves the Jet City Fix, that's why. Perhaps it's because the band takes the town back to a simpler time - the early Bush
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One of the largest outdoor markets in the region, the Olympia Farmers Market operates on winter hours through Dec. 18 - open Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The market may be a little smaller this time of year, but there are still many vendors selling quality,
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The Foghorns sound exhausted. Like, physically exhausted. Delirious. They sound like they've been up for two days and the only way they've found to keep their eyes open is to have a series of sing-alongs that sound, at various times, punchy, wistful, embarrassingly forthright, spiteful, defiant, sorrowful and oddly exuberant.
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As the year draws to an end, local artists are really dropping some quality work, trying to finish the year strong. First up this week, we have the second release from Farid Xan - an MC from San Francisco who moved to Tacoma to go to college. Once here, Xan hooked-up
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This Monday, Dec. 5, is "fast becoming a national holiday," at least according to the people at the Olympia Film Society. But if you're wondering which holiday it is, you're not alone.It's the date Prohibition was repealed back in 1933, and Olympia bartenders and the folks at the film society will
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You'd think a gallery that's been open only a few months would not be able to mount a show featuring favorite artists from previous shows. But Flow (formerly Mineral) has done just that with a show called Remix + featuring prints, collages and sumi painting by Mary Bottomley, Bill Colby,
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Stardust Serenade is the 17th in Harlequin's series of annual World War II-era musical revues, and by all accounts, it's intended to be the last. This reprise of the 2002 version uses the departure of a flyboy (Ryan Holmberg, charming as ever) as an excuse to perform 22 numbers from