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Remember back in the day when you were in your first apartment and spent a memorable Saturday night with your friends just blaring the record player and singing along to random selections from your album collection? Toss in a pitcher of PBR and extreme lighting and that is karaoke at Bob's
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The no-frills neighborhood joint Lakewood Pub and Grill attracts a fair number of easygoing regulars to its Sunday night bingo game. It's a great way to end the weekend with a beer and food while trying to win stuff you don't really need. Previous prizes have included Stanley screwdrivers
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At a typical trivia night one sits around drinking beer, occasionally feeling really smart, and mostly feeling pretty stupid. It's like your average night of drinking, but you can blame the game instead of your social skills. Every Tuesday night, Farrelli's Wood Fire Pizza on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue draws a
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Having moved from its corner spot inside Malarkey's to the massive space at 933 Market St., the Tacoma Comedy Club is ready to amp up the yucks. With all but one Saturday sold out at its former 150-seat location, the club needed more space after just five months of operation. The
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Beyond the Bridge Café on Tacoma's Sixth Avenue is the extended living room for musicians and musicians-in-the-making every Friday night during its all-ages open mic. People - ranging from members of the silver haired set to tweenies - read, surf the Net, chat or kick back
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Jeanne Hopkins, the singer and songwriter better known as Jeanlizabeth, hosts an open mic at 8 p.m. every Sunday in the Steilacoom Pub and Grill. The night's entertainment can include poetry readings, original songs and rock covers from Pink Floyd to modern hits. Past crowds ran the gamut of age
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Paddy Coyne's is a traditional Irish Pub with a Northwest spin. Its Tuesday night fair includes dark ales flowing from the tap on a regular basis and emceed trivia courtesy of Joe Korbuszewski. For the last two years Korbuszewski has tossed questions to the Coyne's crowd that
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You are holding a bit if history, albeit a small one, in your hands. This is my last theater column. The Weekly Volcano wants to take the column in a new direction, and that direction doesn’t involve me. So I had a bit of time to reflect on my almost
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The last time I saw Tuesdays with Morrie I shuttled down to Olympia Little Theatre with a great friend and ended up with some wet eyes because the show was so moving. I took my mom this time, to Lakewood Playhouse’s production, and the same thing happened. Darn allergies.
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I'm all about getting the bejesus scared out of me, so much so that I have very little bejesus left in me these days. That lack of bejesus comes courtesy of two shows on South Sound stages for Halloween. I wrote about Woman in Black last week, a
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Tacoma Little Theatre is doing all the right things when it comes to striving to bring ticket buyers through the doors. Not only is it staging shows folks want to see during the regular season, but it’s bringing off-season shows during its wee hours to tap into the after-hours energy
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I have to start out this column by writing that I got one of the best note from a theater insider I have received in years, and the note came after I panned the show the writer represented. I liked the note because the writer, who I won't name out
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I have to start out this column by writing that I got one of the best note from a theater insider I have received in years, and the note came after I panned the show the writer represented. I liked the note because the writer, who I won't name out
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Curtain should drop on this show earlyBy Steve DunkelbergerTacoma Musical Playhouse is marking its sweet 16th year with its season opener, Curtains. The show, which is centered around Boston’s Colonial Theatre as it stages a new Broadway bound work — if only there were a few revisions. One of those
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I make an extra special effort to view original works by local playwrights and theatre troupes. It seems like the least I can do after they have spent so much time to create new vision for the stage. More often than not I get rewarded with great shows,
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The new theater season is here, and with it comes a bit of all things new, some classics and quite a bit of re-treading. First up to the stage at Lakewood Playhouse as it begins its 71st season is The Mousetrap, by the maven of murder mystery, Agatha Christie.
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The new theater season is here, and with it comes a bit of all things new, some classics and quite a bit of re-treading. First up to the stage at Lakewood Playhouse as it begins its 71st season is The Mousetrap, by the maven of murder mystery, Agatha Christie.
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The regular season for most theaters in the South Sound starts this week, so prepare yourself for a steady stream of theater now that the summer slump is over. Cue the sound of rejoicing. Also in the works is host of short-run shows at some of the smaller theater
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The regular season for most theaters in the South Sound starts this week, so prepare yourself for a steady stream of theater now that the summer slump is over. Cue the sound of rejoicing. Also in the works is host of short-run shows at some of the smaller theater
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Zealot readers of this column already know the absolute high regard I have for Tacoma Little Theatre’s new Managing Artistic Director Scott Campbell. I have gushed about him so much that one would think I owe him money. I don’t, by the way. Campbell has that golden touch TLT needs