Music
Sometimes I think about all of the music I've heard in my life. Hundreds upon hundreds of hours of sounds drifting into my head - albums, radio, live performances, passing someone on the sidewalk as they hum a tune to themselves. It's almost incomprehensible how much music I've been actively
Stage
The latest works by Ron Hinton (not to be confused with Ron Hinson) at Childhood's End are more dynamic than anything of his I've seen before. At least the wall-hanging sculptures. The free-standing pieces on pedestals are more of the same stuff I've seen from him in the past -
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The closer you look at any fractal shape, the more complex and beautiful it gets. In fact, there's a point at which you suddenly find yourself presented with an exact duplicate of the original, albeit at a much smaller scale. So it is with history. Look deeply into any particular
Features
When Festivals Inc., the force behind the Bite of Seattle and Taste of Tacoma, approached TV Tacoma's own Amanda Westbrooke, big changes were set in motion for a more Tacomacentric festival than in past years. Westbrooke couldn't have been more gung-ho. "I was overwhelmed and excited to be a part of
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Food Matters
SEASON BREWS Some breweries celebrate the summer season with light citrus blondish hops. Tacoma Brewing Company (625 Saint Helens Ave., Tacoma) takes seasonal brew to a whole new level. From 5-9 p.m. Thursday, July 18 and 3-9 p.m. Friday, July 19, brewmaster Morgan Alexander will feature limited beers infused with locally
Music
Several weeks ago, I received a package at work. I had been given a heads up that I should be expecting a CD to arrive for me for a possible review in my column. However, I had not been properly notified about the incredible quality of the aforementioned CD, or
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Katherine Alderette. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Heritage Park Olympia - Downtown.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Climate Change. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium District. Kurt Lindsay. 6 pm. The Embers at Indian Summer - Olympia. Tarik Bentlemsani. 6 pm. NC. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. John Nemeth, Ayron Jones &
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Wind Rose Cellars - Sequim. Gil Yslas. 7 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Augie Smith. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Kane Holloway. 9 pm. $15. Dave's of Milton Milton. Comedy Night, featuring Dylan Avila, Jonas Barnes,
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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. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Puget Sound Music For Youth Association Performance. All Ages. 2 pm. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday
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BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Blenis Ely. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino rockin' blues jam. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Lewis County. Kendl Winter. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Pioneer Park Puyallup. Noon Tunes featuring 5 Bit. Noon. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic
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BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan Tyack. 7:30 pm. Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Jim Page. All Ages. 7 pm.
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[HIP-HOP] + FRI, JULY 12 Will Farrell, Tom Hanks and Ernest Hemingway are born under the sign of cancer. In Olympia, Mark Bowen, of AKA and the Heart Hurt Goods, is a cancer too. Time to celebrate his 32nd orbit around the sun with an all out bash at The Royal featuring performances
Music
I had seen live music before, of course: "Weird Al" Yankovic from the nosebleeds at the Puyallup Fair; suffering through a migraine at a Jethro Tull concert; Paul Revere and the Raiders (I think), once more at the fair. But I had never been blown away by a live performance
Features
Art on the Ave Festival, Sixth Avenue Tacoma's annual street fair celebrating art and community with music, live art exhibitions and local vendors, is hosting its second annual Grub Crawl 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, July 14, with $6 special appetizer-sized menu items from participating restaurants. "Grub Crawl is a
Arts
Is there any more vexing wee-hours quandary than "What is art?" According to Teller of Penn & Teller, "Art is anything we do after the chores are done." By that reasoning, most things we do can be art, as long as we enjoy them. (Ideally, someone else enjoys them, too.)
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Leonardo Lanzolla's swimmers (La Bagnanti) are making a big splash at B2 Fine Art Gallery in Tacoma's Triangle District. If you saw Lanzolla's paintings in his last show at B2, that was just a warm-up. The paintings in this show are far superior. The lyrical forms, the ways in which he
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster,