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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Rod Cook & Toast. 8 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Greg Parke. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Jef Ramsey. All Ages. 8 pm. $8-$12. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Marc Annan. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Spar Cafe Olympia - Downtown. Amanda Navares. 8 pm. NC. Forza Coffee Company - Fircrest. Brandon Pratt. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Jay Wendell Walker. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15.Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Travis Simmons. 8:30
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Jay Wendell Walker. 8 pm. $15. ROCK/POP The New Frontier Lounge Tacoma - Dome District. Apricot & The Beginners, Si Si Si. 9 pm. NC.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Little Creek Casino Shelton. Wine Wednesdays Acoustic. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Crazy Texas Gypsies Open Jam. 8 pm. Midtown Grill Bonney Lake. Wednesday Night
Food Matters
NOUVEAU BEAUJOLAIS TIME Morso (9014 Peacock Hill Ave., Gig Harbor) will be celebrating the end of the harvest season with the release of a French vino. Six week young Domanine du Vissoux Primeur Villes Vingnes is a French varietal and will arrive at Morso Thursday, Nov. 15. The Gig Harbor restaurant
Features
Olympia Coffee Roasting Company is one of Olympia's Godsends. The roasting house helps state workers crank through Excel files, it adds bounce to college students' steps and it puts a smile on everyone's face that comes through its front door. A staple in the downtown community since 2007, OCR has been
Music
>>> Friday, Nov. 16 BERT WILSON According to the Washington Center, "Bert Wilson is one of the underground legends of the jazz world - and he lives right here in Olympia. He is a survivor of polio in the 1940s (although it has left him confined to a wheelchair), the New York
Music
Wreckless Offensive Leaders of the Free World, or W.O.L.F. Gang, is a new group consisting of MC Coo Beanz and Joey Moody. These two are close friends who released a four-track EP this May at coobeanz.bandcamp.com/album/w-o-l-f. It is only $2 and it is well worth it. With the semi break-up
Features
I have a confession to make. Thanksgiving is not my most favorite holiday. Sigh, I know, I know. While I love the autumn season and Thanksgiving is a rare opportunity to gather with my extended family, it's not one I'm looking forward too. Stuffing and mashed potatoes are the boxed version,
Arts
The hum of reels and ribbons in the movie theaters will soon disappear. By 2015, film will slip to niche status; venerable old 35 mm film will be mostly gone. Digital is the way now, and while that makes life easier for distributors, the cost for small cinemas across the
Arts
If you've ever watched Frasier or Top Chef Masters, you're familiar with the concept of a TV spinoff: it's when a popular character is given his or her own show, usually in the same vein as the original program. Frasier Crane, for example, was a regular on Cheers before moving
Stage
B2 Fine Art has opened the third installment of their international youth art exhibition Beyond Crayons and Finger Painting 3.0. featuring work from young artists 7-19 years old from Bethlehem, Canada, China, Cuba, Korea and the United States. Compared to previous incarnations of this show, this one has more work that
Stage
According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Twelfth Night is "the evening of the fifth of January, ... the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking." Medieval and Tudor England celebrated Twelfth Night as the end of a
Music
Growing up in Olympia, I hit up the Backstage, heard weird little bands come out of garages and had an ear on ska, but it wasn't until I lived a stint in northern California that I got the stroke of true reggae against my soul. Maybe it was the connection
Stage
When English playwright Caryl Churchill debuted Cloud 9 in 1979, it landed like a flashbang. In the mid-'90s, when I was in grad school, her work was still buzzed about in feminist theater circles. Top Girls made a similar splash in 1982. Then as now, a great deal of breath,
Listings
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. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Uke & Singalong, hosted by Steve Einhorn & Kate Power. All Ages. 7 pm. $10 donation, nobody turned away. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Jerry Miller.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. Paddy Coyne's Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Celtic music with Martin Nyberg and friends. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South.
Music
Welcome to the first installment of the Weekly Volcano's all-ages column, The Rockford Files! You read right, dear readers. After many years in the local music scene - on stage and in front of it, from Louie G's and Hell's Kitchen to Tacoma basements - I'm ready. I'm steppin' up