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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Triangle District. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm. O'Malley's Irish Pub Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Joel's Birthday Bash, with Shillelagh Jack. 8 pm. Spar Cafe Olympia. Paul Mauer. 8 pm. NC. Forza DuPont. Tim McKamey. 7 pm. BLUES Buffino's Golden West Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma -
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Dave Berry & Friends. All Ages. 7 pm. Tacoma Farmers Market - Broadway Tacoma - Downtown. Elk & Boar. All Ages. 12 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. The Junction Sports Bar and Grill Lewis County.
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I've spent much of the last few weeks slapping mosquitos and wrestling with iambic pentameter, all in service to a murderous king and his conflicted, unpredictable stepson. I'm referring to Hamlet, the third Olympia offering from a young but dedicated troupe known as Animal Fire Theatre. It's probably the finest
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. The Lovely Drifters. All Ages. 7 pm. 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 Blues Jam. All Ages. 7-11
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Mandolin Cafe Songwriters Workshop. All Ages. 9 pm. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino Band rockin' blues. 8:30 pm. NC. Summit Pub
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic Couch Jam. 8:30 pm. NC. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium District. Tap Room Trivia. $50 cash prize for the winner of each round. 6-8
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. Jeriactric Jazz. All Ages. 11 am-1 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Open Shape Note Singing. All Ages. 5 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Beacoup Chapeaux. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Tacoma Pipe & Tobacco Tacoma. Erik Thomas, Gina Belliveau. 5 pm. Gig Harbor Farmers Market at Uptown Gig Harbor. Steve & Kristin Nebel. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Buffino's Golden West Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - South. Back Porch Band.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Andrew Landers Project, with Jeff Ross. All Ages. 6 pm. Tacoma Pipe & Tobacco Tacoma. Hank & Claire, Kathye Long. 5 pm. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Jennifer Lind. 7 pm. Forza DuPont. Megan Biegalski. All Ages. 7 pm. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Song Circle. All Ages.
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The latest show at the Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) is Best of the Northwest: Selected Painting from the Collection. Calling an exhibition "Best of the Northwest" is an exercise in hubris at best - an invitation for critics like me (and let's face it, everybody's a critic) to say, "They
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The Museum of Glass is celebrating its 10th anniversary with two days of festivities featuring food, music, and - get this - shattering glass. It's also celebrating the opening of a new exhibition featuring recent works by master artist Lino Tagliapietra. The celebration runs throughout the day and night on July 13
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For at least 12 years, Gig Harbor's Paradise Theatre has been molding today's youth into tomorrow's next generation of on stage performers. From musical theater summer camps to year-round Broadway performances, Paradise Theatre has made its mark on entertainment in the South Puget Sound. Introduce your child to the art of
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Metal has got to be the most A-D-D music on the planet. Crash, slam, fast, slow, throaty howls, speed it up, slow it down, drums, drums, crash, anger, love, guitar solo, do it again. But that's what makes it so interesting and successful. Murder Your Gods, recently voted "Best Metal Band" and
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Automatic Theory is a Tacoma based three-piece outfit made up Dave Hannon (guitar/vocals), Steve Albert (drums/vocals) and Ian Webb (bass/vocals). Hannon is from the gritty streets of Tacoma, Webb hails from the sunshine and palm trees of California and Albert is from New Hampshire. I'm not sure what one would
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A-Hyp's show "Hip-Hop Is Alive Part 3" is back this Saturday night. This is almost a monthly show Hyp plans, books, and promotes himself at the Taproom Underground. The venue has good food and drink and it has a smaller more chill-vibe than most spots in Tacoma. It's got a college
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This duo at B2 Gallery is a modern Vaudeville act in pastel, inventive, sometimes frightening and often moving. It's Ric Hall and Ron Schmitt, two artists who have now spent years collaborating on pastel paintings. I use the term "painting" because even though pastel is a chalk, a drawing media,
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"Hey, man, is that Freedom Rock? ... Well, turn it up, man!"-TV ad (1987) Remember LPs? Remember lying splayed on an overstuffed bean bag chair, aromatic substances hazing both your consciousness and the atmosphere of your room, eyes closed as your latest album purchase made sweet, sweet love to your earholes?
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Walking into the installation of Tacoma Art Museum's upcoming exhibit, Marie Watt: Lodge, the first thing I see is a woman rolling back and forth on a 6-feet high stack of flattened blankets. Her arms are folded as if she's on fire and she's trying to put herself out. "That's actually
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I don't understand why Tacoma Art Museum seems to be on a glass art jag lately. Their newest show is "The Marioni Family: Radical Experimentation in Glass and Jewelry" (watch for my review in this week's Volcano). The adjacent gallery in the museum is a Dale Chihuly show. I respect
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Midtown Grill, 20609 State Route 410 E., Bonney Lake Wa. 98391. Wednesday Night Blues Jam. All Ages. 7-11 PM. COMEDY/GAMES Pints & Quarts Pub Westside Olympia