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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tempest Lounge Tacoma - Upper Tacoma. Live Music Wednesday, featuring Brooke Parrott. 7 pm. NC. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. Tumwater Farmers Market - Tumwater. Robert Richter. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tacoma Farmers Market - 6th Ave. Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Dave Hannon Band. All Ages. 3 pm. NC. O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Kent Station Plaza Kent. Kent Summer Concerts: Reilly & Maloney. All Ages. Noon to 1 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. The Rod Cook Band. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Beer Pong. 9 pm. $15 for 2 person team. Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. Jeriactric Jazz. All Ages. 11 am-1 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Mark Dufresne. 7 pm. NC. City Hall Saloon and Eatery Enumclaw. Rockin' Blues Jam Session. Hosted by
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Jeff Ross. All Ages. 6 pm. James Coates. All Ages. 8 pm. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Jeff Ross. All Ages. 6 pm. Gig Harbor Farmers Market at Uptown Gig Harbor. Open Mic and Acoustic Jam with Billy Farmer. A live CD recording of performances are available.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Spar Olympia. Blue Ribbon Tea Company. All Ages. 8 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Dave Randel. All Ages. 6 pm. Josiah & Sam Bogle. All Ages. 8 pm. BLUES Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Billy Mac. 9 pm. NC. Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. James King & The Southsiders. 8 pm. $7. Stonegate
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tacoma Farmers Market - Broadway Tacoma - Downtown. Double Barrs. All Ages. 10:30 am. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis
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A short trip up Interstate 5 North and a brief jaunt west off the South 320th Street exit, the Federal Way Farmers Market springs up each Saturday morning at 9 a.m. As is to be expected when the sun shines, people come out of the woodwork for this weekly happening.
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Hello from the City of Destiny! Some of you may know me as your loveable bearded doorman at Hell's Kitchen, or as the manic frontman for Tacoma's infamous punksters I Defy. But did you know that before I was a singer or a bouncer I was a music journalist!?! True
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Once upon a time in the early 2000's there was a backpacking/skateboard/delinquent hip-hop crew in Olympia called Hostalion that reigned supreme in the South Sound. For many years they were untouchable, whether it was battling poor fools that had no idea what they were getting themselves into or consistently releasing
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Tacoma Musical Playhouse saved its most visually stunning production to close out the season. Cats opened to a packed house and earned a standing ovation from the majority of the patrons, despite some sound difficulties. Cats is based on T.S. Eliot's collection of poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and
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Revengers were on a roll before things nearly fell apart. In 2009, the band dropped Scraps on the Badlands, an ambitious and often downright lush sci-fi concept record that swept aside conventional notions of what rap-rock could be. Thus armed, the Revengers crew went about rocking local music joints with the
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At this point in humankind's evolution, the televised singing competition - aided in no small part by American Idol - has abstracted to the point of a never-ending, sensory-obliterating series of lights and sounds. Contestants have had all personality (if, indeed, they ever possessed any) drained, vampire-like, from their bodies.
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Culinary-grade certified organic spices and botanical herbs: my heart leaps at the words. Offering these and therapeutic blends (not casual sipping teas) at Organic Spice Traders, owner Michael Marx told me before he opened his downtown Tacoma shop that he'd also be selling the Organic Coffee Co.'s (out of San
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It's been two years and one month since instrumental rock band Waves and Radiation played its farewell show at Bob's Java Jive. On Saturday, the band will reunite for a special one-off return performance at the same coffee-pot-shaped venue where they called it a day back in 2009. Fans of
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Have you seen Midnight in Paris? You should. Without giving too much away, the film's central theme revolves around people being nostalgic for times they never knew - for ages they weren't alive to experience. Owen Wilson, as the Woody Allen substitute, feels he missed out by not being alive
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EARTH >>> Thursday, July 14 When I booked Earth for a college show some years back, I made off with a hand-written note that Dylan Carlson had left in the cafeteria. It read: "DO NOT PLACE ANYTHING especially BEVERAGES on or near this amp & equipment. You will be stabbed repeatedly and
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On Sunday, June 26, I dropped in on two of three partners of The Social Bar and Grill, Jason Bailey and Rodel Borromeo. Though still in full remodel mode, they gave me a quick tour of the soon-to-open noshing and drinking spot on the Foss Waterway, describing the layout as
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The exhibition of photos by Virna Haffer at Tacoma Art Museum is a marvel. I had no idea what to expect heading into the gallery to see these works by an artist I had never heard of, and it was like wandering into a studio shared by the greatest photographers
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Oh, how people get wiggly for A Midsummer Night's Dream! They get truly excited when they hear of an upcoming production; it's like the return of an old friend. It was a crowd-pleaser in Shakespeare's lifetime and in every age since. It's been reimagined for discos and acrobats and massively