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Let me get one thing straight. I love cheese. Cheesy, cheese, cheese. I like stinky cheese, gooey cheese, hard cheese, soft cheese, goat cheese, sheep cheese; even that crappy nacho cheese in the jar. You name it, I WILL LIKE IT! And what better time of the year than the
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Lewis County. Kate Power & Steve Einhorn. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Yenney Music Olympia - Westside. Kate Power and Steve Einhorn Uke & Song. All Ages. 7-8 pm ukuleles and instrument playalong 8-9 pm singalong. NC. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Abed El Kader. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Monday Night Blues. Featuring the blues band
Food Matters
NEW WINE BAR: A new wine bar called Pastiche will open Saturday in the second half of the former Il Fiasco space (Beyond the Bridge Café occupies the left side). The owners bring 20 years of wine experience with them to the 2715 Sixth Ave. spot, as well as tapas
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Open Mic, with Denny Foreman & Friends. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. BLUES The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin' Daddies. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 21+. 8 pm. Immanuel Presbyterian Church
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Acoustic Couti. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Lissa Schneckenburger CD Release Concert, with Bethany Waickman, The Canote Brothers. All Ages. 9 pm. $10. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Benny Gilbert & Friends. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. Paddy Coyne’s Irish Pub Tacoma - Downtown. Traditional Irish Music
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Harvest Moon Dinner, with Emily Kaye Peine & Friends. All Ages. 5 pm. $20. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Jennifer Lind. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Shain's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. All Of The Above. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Billy Stoops Acoustic Jam. 21+. 9 pm. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County. Blues Jam. Hosted by
Stage
When Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs wrote their first version of Grease (then called Grease Lightning) almost 40 years ago, they wrote from recent experience. The Day the Music Died was just 11 years gone. The T-Birds weren't the T-Birds yet; they were the Burger Palace Boys of Jacobs' Chicago
Reviews
The Office Bar & Grill Where: 813 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.3222Hours: 11 a.m.- midnight Sunday- Thursday, 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Friday- SaturdayCuisine: Classed-up American pub fare: Steak frites, ahi crostini, southwestern rolls, sandwiches, burgers, bruschetta, mushroom risotto, pastaScene: Relaxed casual lunchtime, dinner and bar crowd hangoutDrinkies: Full bar, microbrews, signature cocktails, wine listPrices:
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In a world full of ridiculous children's programming - and I mean RIDICULOUS - one show is perhaps THE MOST ridiculous of them all, and the only thing worth watching. I speak, of course, of the Day-Glo, retro, kitsch-crazy, cool band-approved Yo Gabba Gabba - which airs on Nick Jr, not
Food Matters
Thursday, Nov. 11 $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. Wine tasting, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Abby's on Broadway: A Wine Shop, 743 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.262.2902. Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925
Music
Mono in VCF towered over all others in the Tacoma music scene. As influenced by the '60s as other Tacoma mainstays, Mono in VCF careened into a wholly other dark territory. Slick and hypnotic, the band represented all of the music that seemed to never grow out of Tacoma's alcohol-infused
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THE ART OF SHOOTING >>> Friday, Nov.12 Do you ever get the sensation a band is manipulating you? Do you ever care? The Art of Shooting is an abundantly melodramatic band from Brooklyn; they want very badly for me to feel something when I listen to them. And I do. When those
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From Jay-Z to Tupac to Kanye West, hip-hop's most beloved emcees have found a balance addressing their hardships while maintaining a high level of charisma and charm. Hip-hop is rooted in the racial and economic struggles endured by New York City minorities in the late-1970s and the '80s, but it
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The year was 1983. KISS appeared in public for the first time without makeup, Nintendo was introduced to Japan and America's favorite bad girl, Amy Winehouse, was born. Ironically, her antithesis, the D.A.R.E. program, was also born. But, perhaps most notably for Olympia, 1983 is the year the historic Capitol Theater
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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 ... It's human (even Tiki) nature to take things for granted. No matter how hard we try, the things in life we've come
Stage
In last week‘s column I made a distinction between fine art and illustration. That distinction applies to Justin Hillgrove's paintings at Mineral featured in a show with a title both clichéd and appropriate: Black, White and Read All Over.As illustrations for books and movies, or homages to the same, the
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John Cariani's Almost, Maine is cheese.Now, there are plenty of different kinds of cheese. There is the plastic, homogenized, processed American crap, devoid of flavor, that barely deserves to exist. Then there's the excessively fancy, expensive, snooty cheese that spends way too much time trying to pretend that it wasn't
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In 1937, Orson Welles directed a production of Marc Blitzstein's Brechtian, pro-union operetta The Cradle Will Rock. It was meant to be an elaborate spectacle that climaxed on a stage that actually rocked back and forth; but after a disastrous dress rehearsal, the Federal Theatre Project (which financed the costly