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5 Things To Do Today: Victorian Country Christmas, curator chat, The Cloves, Sounds of the Season ...

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3 2014 >>> 1. Puyallup Fair and Events Center will be turned into a Christmas lover's wonderland for five days when the Victorian Country Christmas festival opens at 10 a.m. Holiday music will fill the air as live musicians stroll through a festive array of Christmas

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5 Things To Do Today: "One Chance," Number 6 Cider, Nathan Watts, Banff Mountain Film Festival ...

TUESDAY, DEC. 2 2014 >>> 1. One Chance is a dramedy about the unlikely rise of Britain's Got Talent breakout Paul Potts (played by James Corden, who just replaced Craig Ferguson as host of The Late Late Show).

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5 Things To Do Today: Banff Mountain Film Festival, 24 Beers of Christmas, SHUT IT, Gin Creek ...

MONDAY, DEC. 1 2014 >>> 1. The outdoors is our neighborhood playground for growth, introspection and escape. Since the time of George Vancouver and Peter Puget, the South Puget Sound has been and will always be an adventurer's region. For that reason, the Banff Mountain Film Festival's

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5 Things To Do Today: White Christmas Sing Along, Little Women, 6th Ave Dinner Tour, Michele D'Amour and the Love Dealers ...

SUNDAY, NOV. 30 2014 >>> 1. Suave Bing Crosby and fleet-of-foot Danny Kaye star as workaholic Bob Wallace and playboy Phil Davis, successful 1950s vaudevillians who discover the lovely Haynes sisters, then accompany them to their holiday gig at an inn in Vermont that turns out to be

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5 Things To Do Today: SweetKiss Momma on Ice, Mr. Scott's Hot Vinyl Party, Sister's Christmas Catechism, The Deleted ...

SATURDAY, NOV. 29 2014 >>> 1. Once, in college, you fell while ice-skating, and sliced open your left shin with the blade on your right foot. It was bloody and embarrassing but kind of farcical - the EMTs

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5 Things To Do Today: Hang The Old Year, Zoolights, Junkyard Jane, Still Caves ...

FRIDAY, NOV. 28 2014 >>> 1. Over the course of their 30-minute, three-song, self-titled album, Hang The Old Year take you on serpentine, eminently listenable journeys through every musical peccadillo the members possess. The massive sounds of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and King Crimson, in particular, resonate

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5 Things To Do Today: Ugly Holiday Sweater Party, Vicci Martinez, Movember Mustache Party, Kim Archer ...

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26 2014 >>> 1. You knew there was a reason to hold on to the Christmas-light-laden and obscenely geometric printed green-and-red sweater. You once thought even the one with reindeer had potential. Now it’s time to explore your closets because, ladies and gentlemen,

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5 Things To Do Today: Michael Moore, Harmon dinner, Neil Diamond tribute, comedy open mic ...

TUESDAY, NOV. 25 2014 >>> 1. Combining investigative reporting with a sometimes-mischievous sense of humor, documentarian Michael Moore shined a light on social ills that were otherwise ignored. Although rightly acclaimed for films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling For Columbine, his television work provided many indelible moments. The Grand

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5 Things To Do Today: Hip Hatchet, Creative Colloquy launch party, Greta Jane Quartet, Blues County Sheriff ...

MONDAY, NOV. 24 2014 >>> 1. Hip Hatchet is the project of alt-country singer-songwriter Philippe Bronchtein, who has a uniquely gifted sense of setting a melancholy mood. His songs are drenched in loneliness, without ever quite dipping too deeply into the well of sadness. On record, accompanied by

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5 Things To Do Today: Alice Cooper, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, Flamenco Casa Patas, Pampers ...

SUNDAY, NOV. 23 2014 >>> 1. Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, pretty much invented live heavy metal spectacle. Long before Britney Spears draped a serpent awkwardly about her neck, Cooper was welcoming us to his nightmare by tossing a live chicken (not, as press reports claimed the

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5 Things To Do Today: The Cottonwood Cutups on Ice, found object class, Bruce Leroy, Marty O'Reilly ...

SATURDAY, NOV. 22 2014 >>> 1. The Cottonwood Cutups were conceived by the many campfire jams held in the Hoh Rain Forest of the Olympic National Park. A mix of influences meld country, old-time, ragtime, punk, bluegrass, rock and jazz to bring about their sound.

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Broadway Center announces Bill Cosby cancellation

This just in from the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts in Tacoma. ...  Tacoma, WA - Since October 27 of this year, the Broadway Center has been in discussion with Mr. Bill Cosby's management regarding the possibility of canceling his scheduled April 18, 2015, performance in Tacoma. Today, the Broadway

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5 Things To Do Today: Jeff Bridges, Adult Swim, Hip-Hop History Jam, Feels ...

FRIDAY, NOV. 21 2014 >>> 1. Sure, you know actor Jeff Bridges from his performances in The Big Lebowski, Starman, the outstanding 2010 remake of True Grit, and so many other unforgettable films. You may also know he won an Oscar for playing country singer Otis "Bad" Blake in

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5 Things To Do Today: Fleetwood Mac, John Keister, comedy battle, Barleywine Revue ...

THURSDAY, NOV. 20 2014 >>> 1. It shouldn't be necessary for us to tell you why Fleetwood Mac is one of the greatest bands of the rock era, but we love our young readers so here goes: if the only album Fleetwood Mac ever released was 1977's

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5 Things To Do Today: Vince Brown, nutrition class, jazz big band, Vomity ...

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19 1. Vince Brown is no stranger to string swing fans in the Northwest. He plays western swing style take-off guitar with Red Brown & the Tune Stranglers; strums guitar and tenor banjo with the gypsy swing band Hot Club Sandwich; he's half of Red and

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Foo Fighters to bring "Sonic Highways" to The Gorge Amphitheatre Sept. 12

It's official: Foo Fighters are following up the release of the band's most ambitious album with its biggest ever North American tour to date, including a stop at The Gorge Amphitheatre Sept. 12. The voice of sanity in a laughable world, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and

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5 Things To Do Today: "Rich Hill," Dennis Hastings Quartet, cartoonist MariNaomi, hypnotist ...

TUESDAY, NOV. 18 2014 >>> 1. The former coal mining town of Rich Hill, Mo., is one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it towns that litter the byways and highway exits of the American landscape, a reminder of past economic growth

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5 Things To Do Today: Teenage Moods, St. Practice Day, Josh Hoyer and The Shadowboxers, Kim Archer, Twin Vision ...

MONDAY, NOV. 17 2014 >>> 1. Minneapolis band Teenage Moods describe themselves as, interchangeably, "flower punk" and "floral rock." There's a fine difference between those two descriptors, but that little bit of distance is actually a bit of a gulf. The latter self-assigned genre may be the

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5 Things To Do Today: The Lacs, Christmas carols, Hari Kondabolu, open movie shooting ...

SUNDAY, NOV. 16 2014 >>> 1. Clay "Uncle Snap" Sharpe and Brian "Rooster" King are The Lacs (Loud Ass Crackers), a hip-hop duo from Georgia who proudly tout redneck ideals - blacking out on Wild Turkey, kicking

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5 Things To Do Today: Tacoma Art Museum Western party, No Turning Back, All Your Friend's Friends, Little Donuts ...

SATURDAY, NOV. 15 2014 >>> 1. It's here at last - the brand new Haub Family Collection of Western American Art in the new galleries designed by Olson Kundig Architects - open to the public at the grand opening celebration today. The new wing doubles the museum's gallery space

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