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Sister Spit all-girl spoken word road show drops in on the Olympia Timberland Library on Tax Day. If you're envisioning a bunch of gray-haired professors reading Dickinson and Shakespeare in low, expressionless tones, drooling, you've it wrong. Whew! This tour features half a dozen or so, 20-something queer female writers,
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[FUNK JAM] + THURS, APRIL 2 Award-winning Olympia-based funk rock band Brown Edition wants you to join their band. Hold on - don't get your hopes up. The band, led by the charismatic Miguel Pineda, will host a jam session inviting all to join them on stage Thursday night at the
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RED HOT RAINIERS The Tacoma Rainiers welcome The Red Hot to Cheney Stadium (2502 S. Tyler St., Tacoma) for their 2015 season. Beginning on Opening Day, 7 p.m. Friday April 17, The Red Hot will be among the home plate side dining options offering compelling hot dog concoctions in the name
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One of the most popular attractions in the city of Olympia, the historic and active Olympia Farmers Market opens its main season April 2. The market has been serving locals and visitors for 40 years and can see upward of 400,000 visitors during the market season. A vast variety of
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Comedy hasn't evolved much since the glory days of ventriloquist and puppet. Every so often, there's a Gallagher smashing watermelons or a musical funnyman like Jack Black, but for the most part, comedy is a dude on a stage with a microphone, plodding through a joke-punchline-new-joke routine. Boring! Well, that
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The circus is a dying art - and the circus-lifer is a dying breed. Bearded ladies just don't go as far as they once did. Sure, someday there may be an iPhone app replicating the experience only achieved by rings of fire, balancing acts, crappy peanuts and captive wild animals.
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Piano man Charlie Saibel is a superb musician, a versatile jazz/swing pianist and composer with an innovative sense of texture. He seems to have a lifelong fascination with genres, easily fitting in with honkey tonk, boogie woogie, blues, Latin, jazz, classic rock, plus seasonal and special occasions. He also morphs
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Like lots of college grads, Daniel Seddiqui was having a hard time finding a job. But in spite of more than 40 rejections, he knew opportunities had to exist. He then set out on an extraordinary quest: to work 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks. And not just
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From the anthemic rage of Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible to John Lennon's weary look into the unknown on John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, musicians confronting their feelings on religion can often be a harrowing experience. Italian duo Father Murphy take this spiritual struggle to its next logical, roaring step.
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[COUNTRY] + SAT, MARCH 28 Oakland five-piece Halcyonaire approach the genre of country music from a roundabout way. Much like bands like Phosphorescent, the music is less about approximating the sound of country than it is about creating a hazy mirage of what country feels like. These are drifting songs that
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HAGGEN HUG The little Bellingham grocery chain Haggen is moving into the scores of Albertsons, Pavilions, Safeway and Vons stores in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Nevada it bought last month. Haggen is connecting with Thurston County community members during a public forum at 5 p.m. Friday, March 27 in the
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The South Sound is a lit-lovin' book-readin' type of region. We welcome authors, and we support them. We read their books and we go to events where they read their books to us. And a bunch of these authors even live here, which means we probably sit next to them
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Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House, presented by Theater Artists Olympia, takes place 20 years after the summer that set the course for two estranged brothers lives - reunion to uncover the secrets and lies that have shaped them into the men they've become: One a hand-to-mouth blue collar
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Whether you're a science fiction nerd, a fantasy geek, a comic book dork, or any one of a dozen types of dweebs, King's Books always has your back. Month after month, the Stadium District bookstore caters not only to high-minded literati snobs, but also to all manner of geek. Did
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Admirers of the written word and lovers of the literary will gather, as they have for the past year, at B Sharp Coffee House for the monthly Creative Colloquy session. Founder Jackie Casella invites the South Sound to imbibe in libations or sip on roasted bean concoctions and "watch storytellers
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Gypsy is an origin story, as blunt and deliberate as you'll find in any comic book. Super-stripper Gypsy Rose Lee gets her full powers when she finally stands up to Mama Rose, who pushed her daughter into vaudeville first and then into the seedy bump-and-grind world of burlesque. Supposedly, Lee
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On National Walking Day, why not get up off your booty and commune with Tacoma on foot? Downtown On the Go hosts another Walk Tacoma event. At lunchtime, the organization will lead a walk through Tacoma's Stadium District. Participants will join Melissa McGinnis from Metro Parks, former Tacoma mayor Bill
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[CLASSICAL] + SUN, MARCH 22 You may not know it yet, but you are going to love Kaitlyn Lusk. She first sang with the Baltimore Symphony at age 14. A year later, she was chosen as featured vocal soloist for composer Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings Symphony suite. If you're
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CHEF'S DINNER The Social Bar and Grill (1715 Dock Street, Tacoma) will host a chef's dinner Thursday, March 19 starring hops from Harmon Brewing perfectly paired with four courses concocted by Chef Tram. Start it off with Irish Sausages and Portobello Mushrooms paired with Harmon Eagle Point
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Before there was Howard Stern, before there was Rush Limbaugh, before there was Tom Leykis, before there was Mike Malloy, there was ... Barry Champlain, the fictional protagonist of Eric Bogosian's 1987 play Talk Radio, the story of Cleveland's controversial late-night radio host infamous for slinging insults at callers. Now