SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010 >>>
1. Little Bill & The Blue Notes holds a CD Release Party at 8 p.m. inside The Spar in Old Town Tacoma.
2. Food and entertainment from local groups representing Cambodia, India, Hawaii, Korea, Philippines, Samoa, Tonga, Thailand, Vietnam, China and Japan are a part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Fircrest Community Center.
3. Join biologist and author Dr. Thor Hanson for pictures, music, and stories about his work with the mountain gorillas of Uganda and other rare African species at 2 p.m. inside the Tacoma Art Museum.
4. The Student Orchestra of Olympia - SOGO - is a pretty impressive outfit. Started in 2000, it takes high school kids from all over the South Sound and molds them into tight, impressive, non-traditional orchestra and ensemble performing badasses. Actually, the kids do it themselves, SOGO just makes it possible. Today at 4 p.m. SOGO throws down with Ives, Gershwin and Copland - for starters - inside the Washington Center.
5. Pacific Lutheran University Theater Department will stage Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Prof. Jeff A. Clapp, at 7:30 p.m. inside Eastvold Auditorium.