Music
The Seattle Center Coliseum, as I've said, was where I saw almost all of the rock shows in my teens and early 20s. I am thankful I got into the habit of going to see concerts when I did and quite bummed I didn't start earlier. I missed some great
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Pacific Lutheran University's production of the bizarre Irish play The Cripple of Inishmaan begins with promise. From line one, Clare Edgerton and Anne Olsen are thoroughly amusing as a pair of tut-tutting shop owners, Eileen and Kate. Travis Tingvall is instantly irksome as the local crier of consistently boring news
Food Matters
MARCH MADNESS CHALLENGE If you eat two burgers and fries in 24 minutes or less at the Varsity Grill before April 6, you will receive the food for free. Drop by the sports bar at 1114 Broadway in downtown Tacoma for the challenge and its rules. FORAGE THIS Master forager Langdon Cook will
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cafe Luna Vashon. Benefit Concert, featuring Jon Whalen. All Ages. 7:30 pm. Donations. HG Bistro Puyallup. Chicks With Guitars. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Pantages Theater Tacoma - Downtown. Indigo Girls. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $36-$66. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Jam On My Muffin. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Rialto Theater Tacoma - Downtown.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Uncle Sam’s American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Jerry Miller Unplugged. 6 pm. NC. Liquid Soul Coffee Roy. Open Mic. Hosted by David Wayne. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Chehalis. Blues Jam. Hosted by Blues Attitude. 21+. 8 pm. O'Callahan's Pub & Grill Key Peninsula. Blues Jam. Hosted
Music
"We've got nothing to hide. We've worked that all out," Jeff Angell tells me. Of course, old school Tacomans know him as Junior, and they probably wouldn't be surprised to see him sitting in the back of a bar discussing rock ‘n roll as high art with me. Kyong Kim
Music
SCROLL DOWN FOR MATT DRISCOLL'S TWITTER LOG >>> The South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival held yearly in Austin, Texas is an absurd orgy. Every March a mind-boggling and ever-growing mob converges on SXSW: bands, managers, members of the press, record labels, PR people, booking agents, groupies, and even a
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Tristan Marcum and I met the way friendships are usually formed: He started dating my ex-girlfriend. Shouts were exchanged over unwise telephone calls, and I slowly sunk into a bottomless pit of self-loathing and despair. In the months after he and my ex parted ways, I suddenly found myself warming
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"There are hints of ‘it's all fucked up.' But it's not. There's hope." They tell you in journalism school never to start an article with a quote. Without context, quotes lack meaning. It takes the punch out of the punch line. What they also don't tell you, but probably should have told
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Jeff Southard Jeff Southard is one of those people who, without much recognition, quietly holds major influence on the scene around him. An avid member of the Tacoma music scene, Southard has contributed on a number of occasions by helping to record and mix albums by Makeup Monsters, the Nightgowns and
Reviews
O-bok Restaurant Where: 8600 South Tacoma Way, Lakewood, 253.582.6713 Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday,11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday Cuisine: Traditional home style Korean Scene: Casual, cozy, and family friendly with tabletop barbecue Drinkies: Beer and wine, tea, soda Prices: $7.95-$27.95. Most dishes over $20 serve two. ANNOUNCER: A bit
Live & CD Reviews
The first concert I ever attended was blues guitarists Johnny Lang and Buddy Guy at the Pier in Seattle. The second was The Who, on their final three-member tour-bassist Jon Entwistle passed a few days before their next attempt to play the Gorge on the band's subsequent jaunt. The third concert
Concert Alert
Only 30 minutes in length, Angelo Spencer's all-instrumental effort Et les Hauts Sommets floats happily between surf, afro-pop and noise rock. Spencer's MySpace declares, it "sounds like a soundtrack." Sure enough, the album's pulsing character pieces define an exotic tone that could have great cinematic effect. If this well-defined tone is
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I have, in my possession, rare video footage just waiting for the perfect blackmail opportunity. It involves Weekly Volcano co-publisher Ron Swarner and his oddly profound karaoke rendition of the B-52's "Love Shack." It's a scene many of you are probably quite familiar with, I'm sure: A group of friends
Arts
So, free money part two. Grant applications. If you've got your artist resume and general shit together, you're ready to apply for a grant or two. First, you need a well-planned idea. That means a series or project that requires the kind of money you'll be asking for. If you have a
Food Matters
Thursday, March 11 Wine tasting, five pours for $5, Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge, 1001 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.8215. Ladies Night featuring half off all wine flights and $5 house pours, Sip, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. N.W, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum
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GOING SHOPPING >>>Thursday, March 11 Music is art; or, at the very least, important music is art. Art comes in all shapes and sizes - from straightforward, to abstract, to downright bizarre - just like music. A person could take a poop in an Easy Bake Oven and call it art -
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Ah, the wedding singer. Every wedding has one (well, almost). Whether it's during the ceremony or the reception, and whether it's a live person or even a CD, weddings almost always include music of some sort. Tacoma Musical Playhouse brings music of the ‘80s to the stage with the musical
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The puns, oh god, the puns. If you can think of a pun that involves marine life, courtroom procedure, or marine life enacting courtroom procedure, you can bet it will be found somewhere in the Bryan Willis script of The Incredible Undersea Trial of Joseph P. Lawnboy - the tale
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Charles Willyard's paintings of roads at night now showing at Caffé Vita in Olympia look a lot like calendar art or postcard art, or maybe like story illustrations out of a 1950's Saturday Evening Post. Willyard's painting technique and his sense of design, color and - most notably -