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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC 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 - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 21+. 9 pm. NC. Kerby's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Puyallup Fair & Events Center Puyallup. Gaelic Storm. All Ages. 7 pm. $25-$35. O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 21+. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar
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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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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Open Note Shape Singing Group. All Ages. 5 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Phil Hansen. All Ages. 1 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Straw Hat String Band. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Maren Christensen. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. The Whateverly Brothers. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Blue Heron Arts Center Vashon. Tingstad & Rumbel. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $14-$17. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music Session. Leo MacNamara & guests. 21+. 7
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC The Charleston Bremerton. Acoustic Night, with Randall Kimball, Sunset Johnson, Blues Bellied Dante, Meliassa. All Ages. 7 pm. Cafe Luna Vashon. Boyd & Wain. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Glenn Johnston. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm. Tacoma Farmers Market - Broadway Tacoma - Downtown. James Coates. All Ages. 10:30 am. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Mad Silence. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm.
Reviews
The Buttered Biscuit Where: 1014 North St. Suite 1000, Sumner, 253.826.6099 Hours: 5 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays with $5 dinner specials Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Cuisine: Down-home cooking with international ingredients makes for some damn fine breakfast, lunch and dinner. Scene: Solo diners reading the newspaper, families wrangling kids, senior citizens splitting
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.. Honestly, Bobble Tiki is too old for this kind of thing ... this kind of weekend. When he was younger,
Music
The 253 has been deep with MCs and hip-hoppers since the ‘80s, and this humble paper does its best to re-introduce the pioneers you need to know if you rep the 253. However, one legend we haven't mentioned yet, one of the bosses - E-Dawg - is on deck with
Food Matters
Thursday, Sept. 30 $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.
Features
Here, in a nutshell, is the conversation that created the Tacoma Craft Beer Festival: "We should put on a beer festival here in Tacoma," said Red Hot proprietor Chris Miller. "Why?" asked his cohorts, Bennett Thurmon and Roxanne Wolfe. "Because there isn't one." At least, that's how it was told to me, over a
Arts
The weather report for this Friday calls for 74 degrees and sunny with a zero percent chance of precipitation. Ah, the wonderful days of a South Sound Indian summer: strolling around town enjoying the coming of autumn - evident in the colorful leaves and passing school busses - yet still
Stage
In any Sherlock Holmes story, there is a set of core elements the common viewer has come to expect. I intend common to mean those like me, who have never read one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original novels, and knows Holmes the legend, Holmes the detective archetype, more than
Arts
There is not enough hyperbole in my language arsenal to tell you how impressed I am with Illusion/Allusion: Paintings by Barlow Palminteri and Ron Hinson at the Minnaert Center Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College. This is the most impressive art exhibition I've seen this year. To those who have
Arts
Sometimes the best galleries are not in big fancy buildings downtown, but tucked away into awesome little spaces. This is exactly the case with Proctor Art Gallery, located right in the Proctor District in North Tacoma. Started by owner Carolyn Burt in January 2009, this gallery has an amazing variety
Music
TOO SLIM AND THE TAILDRAGGERS >>> Friday, Oct. 1 Take the modern alt-country blues sound of Drive-By Truckers, throw in the fun loving attitude and riff-blues-rock of ZZ Top, mix them all together and you get close to the vibe of Too Slim and the Taildraggers. This is real, down and dirty
Music
My first memory of The New Frontier Lounge was in 2008. At the time I was underage and was trying to trick someone into letting me in for the first year of the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival. I was yelled at, and walked away in shame. Now, I can proudly
Music
OK, OK. So you're sick of the 253 Heart. I understand. Like it or not, the 253 Heart has basically become one of the defining images of Tacoma, but I've always been of the opinion that the design just doesn't really feel much like Tacoma to me. It seems too
Features
There is an evil lurking all around us, and you don't even know it. I certainly didn't know because I try my very best to surround myself with the warm light of goodness, grace and whole-wheat flour. This evil wears a clever disguise and blends into society without ever being