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House concerts - those intimate shows where people open their homes to musicians, friends and strangers for an intimate show like no other - are a regular occurrence these days. The trend got its start in 1997, when singer-songwriters Elizabeth Hummel and Cindy Lee Berryhill embarked on the Living Room Tour.
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You know that Facebook friend who's always sharing videos with such status updates as "SOOOO cute!" or "Fluff ball awww"? (Yes, these are real quotes from real Facebook friends.) Come Friday night, all of those people can go AFK and head for the Lacey Timberland Library, which will be hosting an
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IT'S OPENING DURING OLYMPIA ART WALK >>> After eight months without a space to call its own, the Olympia All-Ages Project has a new space for concerts, art shows and more. "We're going to be opening there on Arts Walk," said Mariella Luz, who spearheads the All-Ages Project. There'll be a group
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SNIPPET FROM OUR SUMMER GUIDE >>> Like those now-scarce restaurants where roller-skating servers deliver food to your car, drive-in movies had their heyday in the '50s. These days, most movies watched in the car are on computer or smart-phone screens. But while drive-ins.com lists only six open drive-ins
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FROM A MOVEMENT TO A MUSEUM PIECE >>> Remember when grunge was just everyday life? Flannel, long hair, not washing too often. It seems like that was only a few weeks ago. (Right now, it's too warm for the flannel.) The musical movement has now been relegated to history by the Experience Music
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SUNBURN RELIEF >>> Harry Shearer is best known for being funny. He voices Mr. Burns and a host of others on The Simpsons. He was a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live. He starred in This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind. But there is nothing funny about The
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AUDITION FOR A BUNCH OF SHOWS IN FIVE MINUTES >>> Actors experienced and aspiring alike can audition with efficiency at Olympia Audition League's general auditions set for Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, July 31. The third annual auditions are your chance to try out for roles with five theater companies -
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SING-ALONG THIS SATURDAY IN LACEY >>> There's something about "Grease," at least for the romantic. It's a story as old as time: Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Girl gets boy back via makeup, hair products, tight clothes and high heels. It's kind of like Romeo and Juliet, except instead of drinking
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SALE OF ARTS, CRAFTS, FOOD & MORE AIMS TO MAKE OLYMPIA >>> At first, I had a little trouble with Make Olympia, the market formerly known as Craft X NW, which starts up for the summer Saturday, July 16. I kept wanting to think of it as Olympia Made, or Made in
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SINGLE AND SAD? >>> So what, you might be asking yourself, is Josh Anderson up to this week? It's been a week or two since the Volcano has reported anything on this one-man entertainment dynasty. As your reporter on the Anderson beat, I can tell you that it's something new. It's "Oly
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HUMOR GETS LOST IN TRANSLATION >>> You know those jokes where a minister, a rabbi and a priest walk into a bar? These days, it's a bit more up-to-the-minute (and probably more relevant in Western Washington, where relatively few people attend church) to joke about the Dalai Lama. To wit, this example
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MONTHLY EVENT FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS >>> Olympia's New Moon Cafe is known for its breakfasts, its squirt bottles of blackberry jam and the blank books on the tables that inspire writing, drawing and games of tic-tac-toe. Wednesday, the cafe has something new on its menu - a monthly pay what
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ROCK MUSIC ABOUT STUFF IN BOOKS >>> When he and his brother founded wizard-punk band Harry and the Potters in 2002, Paul DeGeorge never imagined the band would be paying his bills. "I want to say I'm a professional wizard," says Paul, who'll be playing with brother Joe DeGeorge Saturday behind the
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CLOWN CAMP CURRICULUM INCLUDES JUGGLING & JOKING >>> Kids who want to run away and join the circus can get a head start at Clown Camp offered by Olympia's Jusby the Clown (aka Justin Wright). The camp, for class clown types ages 7 to 14, will be held from Saturday, June 25,
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PEOPLE LOVE PLANES >>> Somehow I can't hear the word "warbirds" without wanting to put the word "Romulan" in front of it. But "Star Trek" aside, the term is not a creation of Gene Roddenberry and company but a real-world designation for any aircraft that has served in a military capacity. And warbirds
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LAUGHS IN OLY >>> The Washington Center for the Performing Arts wraps up its season of comedy cabarets on Thursday, June 16. The headliner: Chris Alpine. Alpine won the Seattle International Comedy Competition in 1986 and has performed not only on HBO, A&E, Showtime and Comedy Central but on USO tours of
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Q&A GOODNESS >>> How much of an Olympia mainstay is former vaudevillian Saul Tannenbaum? Enough so that Tannenbaum (who made his Olympia debut just a year and a half ago) is performing Sunday, June 12, as part of Capital City Pride. The show, dubbed Saul Tannenbaum and His Friends of Dorothy, is the
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FATHER'S DAY GIFT IDEAS FROM OLY >>> One of the most unsentimental people I know, my dad has for decades hung onto precisely one of the gifts that I've given him: a glass paperweight that holds a school picture of me as a grinning second-grader. It's the photo he likes - although
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BLOSSOMING IN THE FORMER GRISWOLD'S OFFICE SUPPLY SPACE >>> This weekend, Evergreen Shakespeare's production of Romeo and Juliet is blooming in the former Griswold's Office Supply in Olympia, gutted by fire in 2004. Soon, there'll be much more growing in the long-vacant building - literally. Clifford Lee of Olympia, the building's owner,
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GREENER THEATER FUN >>> Dare I call it egg-citing news that Riot To Follow Productions, a student theater group at The Evergreen State College, is opening a production of Honk: The Ugly Duckling Musical? If they don't quack up, readers will cluck at me for making such a fowl pun, and I'll