MICHAEL SWAN: HOW TO MAKE THE PERFECT STEAK >>>

LINK: Take dad out to eat

MICHAEL SWAN:MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2009 >>>

1. The Proposal is a movie about a couple who start out hating each other and end up liking each other. It’s a funny thing about that. Roger Ebert started out hating the movie and ended up liking it. Check showtimes here.

2. DJ Jason Diamond spins roots reggae during The New Frontier Lounge's Rebel Monday at 9 p.m.

3. DJ Doll Hands spins vintage lady country music at The Brotherhood Lounge around 9 p.m.

4, Jay Mabin and Hip Bone fill The Swiss with jazz beginning at 8 p.m.

5. Tonight is the Poor Man’s Club & Open Mic at Shakabrah Java beginning at 5 p.m.

LINK: Live music and DJs in the South Sound

LINK: Local movie starting times

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

LINK: Wine and beer events

NEWS TEAMS: GOOD MORNING SOUTH SOUND >>>

Booze: More is better.

Quit Your Bitching: Report analyzes Pierce County sheriff’s staffing levels.

Screw Gore: Scientists found a tight coupling between carbon dioxide and sea level rise.

Screw Paul Simon: Kodak's taking Kodachrome away.

Iran: hundreds protest in Iran, despite warning.

Uh Oh: Violence escalates in Baghdad.

All By Ourselves: Democrats may have to pursue health care reform without Republican support.

JAKE DE PAUL: MONDAY FOOD LINKS >>>

Outside The Box: Toscanos in Puyallup parties on the patio.

Arabica vs. Robusta: no contest

Be The Bee: rooftop bees give restaurant hyperlocal flavor

Today's South Sound Specials

$5 Wine Mondays, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., $5 glass of wines, Rosewood Café, 3323 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.752.7999.

Half-price Wine Night, Budd Bay Café, 525 Columbia St. N.W., Olympia, 360.357.6963.

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

WEEKLY VOLCANO: SONIC VIBRATIONS, MONDAY STYLE >>>

Sir Mix-A-Lot loves Burger King: The Seattle rap icon talks about this and other topics with Magnet Magazine.

A growing Hole: Melissa Auf de Maur talks about her relationship with Courtney Love and the Hole reunion.

Don't call it a comeback: Trent Reznor is back on Twitter.

Explosions and hot chicks: Green Day's video for "21 Guns" premieres.

Like father like son: The Wallflowers, including Jakob Dylan, were in Seattle last night.

Match made in heaven?: Kid Rock and Rick Rubin hook up.

Let the trial begin: MTV has insight about what to expect from the Chris Brown trial that starts today.

MICHAEL SWAN: HAPPY HOUR TOPIC OF THE DAY >>>

LINK: South Sound happy hours

MICHEAL SWAN: DEADLINE IS JULY 20 >>>

You may not think of yourself as an art collector, but if you’re one of those people who carefully pries the staples out of Beautiful Angle posters as soon as they hit the public spots, you just might be.

The same can be said about your collection of the Tacoma Film Festival posters. You have James Benders’ versions as well as last year’s poster by Laurie Davenport. You're an art collector.

Once again, The Grand Cinema will produce the Tacoma Film Festival bringing indie, foreign, arthouse and Northwest-produced films as well as many shorts to downtown Tacoma screens Oct. 1-8, 2009. And warm up your staple remover as The Grand is asking for official poster design entrees again.

Jump on The Grand’s Web site for the specifics and deadlines.

Photo: 2007 Tacoma Film Festival poster by Tacoma artist James Bender

MICHAEL SWAN: TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2009 >>>

1. Norwegian choir Hauka Mannskor from central Norway will sing lovely songs at 7 p.m. inside the Trinity Lutheran Church.

2. Rare documents and medical equipment help uncover a century's development of nursing in Washington as part of the Nurses at Your Service: A Century of Caring exhibit at the Washington State History Museum.

3. Tacoma Rainiers play the Las Vegas 51s at 7 p.m. at Cheney Stadium.

4. Hell's Kitchen meshes its Tightwad Tuesday night ($2 wells, $2 beers, $2 huge tacos) with a little Rock Band! Live on stage at 8 p.m.

5. Nate Jackson will be the headliner at Jazzbones' Ha Ha Tuesday comedy show at 8 p.m.

LINK: Live music and DJs in the South Sound

LINK: Local movie starting times

LINK: South Sound Restaurant Guide

LINK: Wine and beer events

JAKE DE PAUL: TUESDAY FOOD LINKS >>>

Farmers Market: Go local at North Pine Street at Sixth Avenue from 3:30-7:30 p.m.

Hello Sugar: Starbucks, Jamba sour on corn syrup

Dog Fight: The best hot dogs to grill at home.

Today's South Sound Specials

The rustic wine bistro Minoela is scheduled to open today next to The Grand Cinema. Occupying the location that formerly housed the Kickstand Café (and One Heart Café) Minoela will serve lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturdays at 604 Fawcett Ave. in Tacoma. Has a restaurant ever opened on time in this town? Maybe today's the day.

Yum, wine

Barbecue wines tasting, 5:30-8:30 p.m., complimentary, Pour At Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015.

Half-price wine night, Pacific Grill, 1502 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.627.3535.

LINK: Eat on a deck or patio today

NEWS TEAM: GOOD MORNING SOUTH SOUND >>>

Lakewood Wal-Mart Employee: Stiffer charges brought in death of armored car guard.

Watch Out: Jehovah's Witnesses to gather at Tacoma Dome to discuss “the end.”

Stay The Course: The White House has no plans to change stance toward Iran.

North Korean Missile Crisis: U.S. destroyer continues to shadow a North Korean tanker suspected of carrying weapons.

Tragic: Truck carrying 40K pounds of beer overturns in Vermont.

Riechen Sie Dieses!: Shot dog bites gunman.