FASHION
Spring Fashion Preview
"Hip" is reserved for the young, and the people who are wise enough to encounter the young and learn the new style. I am not as young as I was, but neither is anyone else. When we are shopping for clothes, we wonder what people will think of us if we were to wear what we are about to buy. Even the youngest, hippest, coolest people wonder sometimes if they are really all that. I think this is why Julie Bennett opened urbanXchange.

Bennett is an innovator because she has done everything in her power to encounter the young and the new style. She listens to their music, asks them why they wear what they wear, gives them jobs, knows their dreams, asks for their stories and wants their hearts. She has created a platform, and much of Tacoma's young culture has sprung from it.

Bennett will showcase her knowledge and talent at her Spring Fashion Preview today at Masa Restaurant.

[Masa, 3:30 p.m., all ages, free, 2811 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.254.0560]

STAGE
The Ascetic
Theater Artists Olympia in association with Prodigal Sun Productions, and Northwest Playwrights Alliance is presenting its latest production, The Ascetic, a thought provoking black comedy by Phillip Atlakson, that is right up TAO's line of thinking when it comes to staging interesting works most other theaters try to avoid.

This show tells the story of Jerry and Sara, who travel to Eastern Washington on a day trip to see the Ascetic, a man who is said to have given up the pleasures of this world and been standing on a rock for the last 300 days. What Jerry and Sara find there is much more than they bargained for when they left their comfortable lives. The Ascetic will challenge their senses, their faith, their relationship and possibly even their lives.

The show stars Tim Samland, Tim Hoban, Pug Bujeaud and Paul Gisi. â€" Steve Dunkelberger

[Midnight Sun Performance Space, 8 p.m., $12, 113 N. Columbia St., Olympia, www.buyolympia.com]

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