Pierce County resident receive an early Christmas present from Santa Fischer and the Broadway Center elves:

• BROADWAY CENTER PRESS RELEASE: In honor of the many years of continuous funding by the Pierce County Government, Broadway Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to offer a Pierce County Resident Rush Ticket Program. Through this program, residents of Pierce County may purchase $15 tickets to specially selected performances: Striking 12, The Wonder Bread Years, Dying to Be Thin, Glenis Redmond and David Sedaris’ Santaland Diaries and Other Stories. This discount opportunity rewards the community with high quality theater for a reduced price, encourages residents to partake in Downtown activities and discover exciting events in the heart of Tacoma.

THE DAILY WORD
Learn it, use it, spell it

Supine \soo-PYN; SOO-pyn\, adjective:

1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward.

2. Indolent; listless; inactive; mentally or morally lethargic.

USAGE EXAMPLE: Though she takes it in many positions, Britney’s favorite position is lying supine.  That way she doesn’t have to do much work, and she can drink Starbucks from a straw all the while.

THE MORNING NEWS

SOUND TRANSIT: Swims with the fishes.

CALIFORNIA: Wind eases in fire zone.

NEBRASKA: Well, beer is beer.

PERTH: Crushing blow.

HUSTLER OF CULTURE
You can stand atop the mountain and scream your naked desires to the universe or shed that synapse epilepsy and hug the South Sound today with your fellow man:

MUSIC: Getting excited about a show at Le Voyeur is nothing new for Bobble Tiki. The venue regularly brings a smile to Bobble Tiki’s aging mug. However, when Tacoman’s Mama Loves Daddy head south for a show at Le Voyeur today it will make Bobble Tiki even more giddy than usual. Le Voyeur is the bomb. When they invite a great pop/’60s psychedelic band from Tacoma down to Oly, they’re even bomber than bomb.

MORE MUSIC: What's on tonight.

EVENTS: Scary stuff.

EAT: Meatless in Tacoma.

BOBBLE TIKI’S THREATS AND PROMISES COLUMN
Bobble Tiki loves all holidays â€" or most of them anyway. Bobble Tiki loves Christmas because he loves getting presents. Bobble Tiki loves Thanksgiving because he loves stuffing his face. And Bobble Tiki loves Halloween because he loves dressing up like a damn fool.
While Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, and that may be enough to curb some people’s enthusiasm on the 31st, not Bobble Tiki. Here’s what he’s doing on Halloween.

Please be Bobble Tiki’s friend here.

Breakfast with Bobble Tiki runs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.  Deal with it.

The word "bingo" usually conjures up visions of nursing homes and church gymnasiums. But when "B" stands for "baby lotion factor 30" and "I" is for "ink pens,” it can only mean one thing: Bingo at Linda’s Green Pup.

In a Broken News Team exclusive, I was allowed to examine Linda’s prizes for today’s bingo at 2:30 p.m.  Lucky winners will receive furniture polish, liquid soap, Thanksgiving table cloths, stone wheat crackers, Halloween ceramics, bleach, oven mitts, Men’s Aqua Velva aftershave, Kathy Smith aerobics VHS tape and much, much more.

Linda’s hosts bingo every Thursday at 2:30 p.m. and Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. It's free to play. â€" Suzy Stump

Our Broken News Team brings you headlines and follow-up whenever we please on the stories our community couldn’t care less about. Broken news is posted on this blog several hours or days after it happens, with unusual updates.

Last year I saw Death â€" nattily attired in his customary black robe, jazzed up with spiky shoulder pads and heavy Frankenstein boots â€" skulking around the Capitol Theater in Olympia. Sure, it was Night of the Living Tribute Bands Halloween costume party, and Death had Madonna, two Grouchos and Sid Vicious waiting for him in his Mini Cooper parked by the curb, but I figured, hey, maybe it was just a busy day. 

I’m headed back to this annual Halloween blowout held this year on Saturday, Oct. 28 inside the Capitol Theater.  Local musicians will dress up and perform Cheap Trick, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, The Smiths and Wire. â€" Brad Allen

[Capitol Theater, Saturday, Oct. 27, 9 p.m., $5, 206 E Fifth Ave., Olympia]

The Olympian wrote a lovely story about it.

We snapped photos last year.

ROCK
No Quarter

With Halloween upon us, No Quarter â€" the locally famous Led Zeppelin tribute band set to hit Jazzbones tonight â€" must feel unusually normal. Most of the year, playing shows all around the country, the members of No Quarter find themselves in venues packed with normally dressed drunks, while they strut around like Plant, Page, Jones and Bonham â€" complete with package-revealing dungarees and wigs from the ugly women section of Wigs-R-Us.

However, around Halloween, as people everywhere dress in strange and peculiar get-ups, No Quarter looks silly like the rest of us â€" bell bottoms and all.

But No Quarter’s shtick is only partially about the look. Most of their appeal is in the tunes. While almost anyone can pull a Zeppelin number or two from their musical bag of tricks (most likely mutilating it at the same time) No Quarter has real-deal chops. They can legitimately call themselves the “ultimate tribute to Led Zeppelin”â€" and they do. â€" Matt Driscoll

[Jazzbones, 9 p.m., $10, 2803 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.396.9169]

CHAMBER POP
Arch Enemies
Want another sub-genre of rock music? Thought so.

Chamber pop.

Chamber pop incorporates orchestral movements with catchy hooks and lo-fi rock. Some of the best known Chamber poppers are Flaming Lips and Thievery Corporation. Some lesser known groups who fall into this elite category are Stars, Saint Etienne and the artist I’m profiling now â€" Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies.

Utilizing the endless benefits of the studio, Arch Enemies creates music akin to the Beatles’ Revolver or the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, complete with grand scale production. â€" Tony Engelhart

[4th Ave Tavern, 9 p.m., 210 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.786.1444]

MORE MUSIC: In the clubs tonight.

DANCE
Ballet Déjà vu, only new
When the Tacoma City Ballet brings Hallowed Dances to the stage at the Pantages tonight and Saturday, Oct. 27, they’ll bring classical Ballet and a mash-up of arts, culture and energy that will feel simultaneously hauntingly familiar and bright and fresh.

The music for the program features familiarity. A familiar maestro, Christophe Chagnard, will conduct the Lake Union Civic Orchestra in the evening’s music, of which Bedrich Smetana’s “Moldau” may actually be the most obscure, for the opening piece titled “The Dead Summer’s Soul,” homage to a local felled walnut tree, followed by Camille Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre for the piece “No Bones About it” choreographed by Travis Goldman, which will bring a visual affect akin to a 1930’s cartoon.

The entire flow of the evening of Hallowed Dances will incorporate elements of that tradition, with all the dances except for “No Bones About It” being original classical ballet works choreographed by TCB Artistic Director Erin Ceragioli. â€" Jessica Corey-Butler

[Pantages Theater, Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., $15-$30, 901 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.591.589, www.broadwaycenter.org]

MORE STAGE: What’s on local stages.

The Red Hot blog announced that Ryan from the Parkway Tavern ate the entire Red Hot menu of hot dogs in two-and-a-half hours.  Check it here. â€" Brad Allen

This Anglo never could get her hips to salsa. I tried. My college roommate â€" Angela de Sosa â€" was from El Salvador. She wore size-3 Jordache jeans when we hit the disco scene (the ‘80s thing to do). The music would play, and de Sosa’s hips would sway. She tried to show me how.  De Sosa got all the dates. I took up writing.

Latin Xtravaganza hits 21 Commerce tonight with everything Latino.  I’m going to give it one more shot. â€" Suzy Stump

[21 Commerce, 9 p.m., $10, ladies no cover until 11 p.m.]

COUNTRY
Hallow-hoe-down
If you’ve been wondering â€" as I have, honestly â€"where a good, local country & western show is, this Saturday at the Coyote Lounge is the place to start eyeballing. Guitarist Billy Farmer will be kickin’ it country with his Ramblers and special guest Shotgun Red.  Yes, the Shotgun Red who played with Buck Owens and knows a slew of old pickin’ tunes.  Anyway, Farmer is as respectable as Roy Rogers and as convincing country picker, too. He’s well versed in the swingin’ music that mirrors the rowdier edges of honky-tonk but can pick it new school as well. Expect Johnny Cash’s hits “Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison,” Tennessee Flat-top Box,” plus Hank Williams, Keith Urban, Brooks and Dunn, Garth Brooks and on and on. â€" Brad Allen

[Coyote Lounge, 9 p.m., inside Junction City Café, 19306 Mountain Hwy., Spanaway, 253.867.6001]

JAZZ
Native Blue
Performing in a similar style to Art Blakely’s Jazz Messengers, whom I have grown to love, Native Blue is rooted deep in traditional jazz as well as progressive jazz, but also offer up a combination of funk/jazz akin to such classic bands as Steely Dan and Average White Band. Perhaps this is why they appeal to me. Comprised of trumpet, sax, trombone, piano, bass and drums, the band’s sound is fat and rich but not overpowering. Each member is dedicated to the music and is allowed to showcase their chops during uncompromised solos while their arrangements are as tight as a snare drum. Check them out at nativeblue.org. â€" Tony Engelhart

[Ben Moore’s Restaurant, 9 p.m., no cover, 112 Fourth Ave. W., Olympia, 360.357.7527]

ROCK
Battle of the Bands
During round one, “the metal round” of Club Impact’s Battle of the Bands on Sept. 22, a band from Tacoma/Seattle called Embalmed arose victorious. During round two, “the punk-rawk round” on Oct. 6, Lakewood’s own Sane Through Disorder was the clear winner. Oct. 13, after the pop/rock/alternative round, Puyallup’s Return of the Bison took home the blue ribbon.

Tonight, these three bands will go head-to-head against each other in the finals for $1,000 cash and prizes such as drumsticks, guitar strings and gift certificates. â€" Angela Jossy

[Club Impact, Saturday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m., all ages, 754 Pacific Ave., Tacoma  253.274.1583]

MORE MUSIC: In the clubs tonight.

STAGE
“Striking 12”
We’re at the end of October, and already the stores are buzzing with holiday cheer â€" which too often takes the form of agonizing and repetitive Christmas tunes played on a seemingly endless loop. If you’re digging the season but not the fa-la-las, alternative rock group GrooveLily has an antidote. The band has created the concert-play “Striking 12” â€" against the backdrop of live vocals, keyboard, electric violin, and drums â€" about a grumpy, overworked New Yorker who tries to kick it alone on New Year’s Eve but an unexpected visitor brings him cheer. The hip soundscape combines classical, rock, folk, jazz, and pop. â€" Suzy Stump

[Theatre on the Square, Friday, Oct. 26 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27-Sunday, Oct. 28 3 and 7:30 p.m., $36, mention the Weekly Volcano for a 10 percent discount, 915 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.591.5890]

MORE STAGE: On local stages today.

I wonder if Magoo’s was empty last night.

Longtime Magoo’s bartender Jaime Kay Newton and Jason J. Jones opened their Top of Tacoma Bar last night to a who’s who in the Tacoma nightlife scene including many Magoo’s regulars and all the Weekly Volcano columnists.

Their first customer ever snuck in early, around 4:45 p.m., and ordered a Blue Moon.  It was delicious.

I poked my nose around the joint before the masses hit.  The atrocious ‘70s carpet, pressboard and free-standing toilet of the former tenant has been replaced with a mahogany bar, two pinball games, one pool table, a golden tee golf game, four televisions, jukebox, the only telephone booth in a Tacoma bar (right?), blown glass toy top lighting fixtures and local photography of Tacoma including many punk rock posters from the ‘80s and early ‘90s â€" several from the old World Community Theater down the road, and last a toilet that’s actually bolted to the ground.

By 9 p.m. last night the joint was packed.  Newton made several shout outs thanking the crowd, and a special thanks to the dude who shattered the first glass on the floor. 

Will Tacoma continue to support the Top of Tacoma Bar in a neighborhood that’s virtually dead of nightlife?  I remember the day The Swiss opened in a very sketchy neighborhood.  If you build it they will come â€" especially if it’s owned by beloved Jaime Kay Newton. â€" Brad Allen

JAM
Big Friction Jam
I’ve seen a lot of guitar players in my day, from Pete Townshend and Mike McCready to Blue Haired Dave and Kevin Day. Very rarely have someone’s skills struck me the way Danny Godinez’s have. Before seeing him, I read reviews with stuff like “Godinez is one with his guitar.” I chalked it up as cheese. After seeing Godinez in person, I quickly realized the cheese was well deserved.

Godinez and his acoustic guitar are a spectacle. Lots of people play the guitar, Godinez owns it. It’s as though his hands were meant to do nothing else. Throw in his above average vocal talent and you’ve got a local performer screaming for your attention. While I typically don’t recommend “jams,” the Big Fricition Jam tonight at Jazzbones featuring Danny Godinez is enough to make me reverse course. And that’s saying something. â€" Matt Driscoll

[Jazzbones, Sunday, Oct. 28, 9 p.m., all ages, no cover, 2803 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.396.9169]

MORE MUSIC: In the clubs tonight.

STAGE
"Striking 12"
We’re at the end of October, and already the stores are buzzing with holiday cheer â€" which too often takes the form of agonizing and repetitive Christmas tunes played on a seemingly endless loop. If you’re digging the season but not the fa-la-las, alternative rock group GrooveLily has an antidote. The band has created the concert-play “Striking 12” â€" against the backdrop of live vocals, keyboard, electric violin, and drums â€" about a grumpy, overworked New Yorker who tries to kick it alone on New Year’s Eve but an unexpected visitor brings him cheer. The hip soundscape combines classical, rock, folk, jazz, and pop. â€" Suzy Stump

[Theatre on the Square, 3 and 7:30 p.m., $36, 915 Broadway, Tacoma, 253.591.5890]

MORE STAGE: What's playing on local stages.