SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 >>>

1. The Swiss hosts a Gayl Bertagni Culinary Arts Scholarship Benefit show from 3-11 p.m. featuring by Rosati and the Lonely Guy, The Lillie Bros. featuring the Stoned Evergreen Traveller, Heidi Vladyka, Deborah Page, Troy Hill, Last Chance Romeos, and China Davis. There will also be a large raffle. Bertagni was a former Swiss co-owner who died tragically in May 2009

2. Concise History of Northwest Art, the exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum that explores major movements, important figures, and pivotal moments in the art history of the Northwest closes today. Catch it for the last time from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

3. San Francisco Opera's Puccini's Madama Butterfly - the dramatic opera telling of colliding hearts and cultures set in nineteenth-century Japan - will be shown on the Washington Center's screen at 2 p.m.

4. Tacoma Community College Music Chair John Falskow leads Brass Unlimited, Sounds of Brass Players and trumpet soloist Tracy Hooker in Music from the Stage and Screen at 4 p.m. inside TCC Auditorium Building 3.

5. Holy Komodo and the Feelings pull off the impressive trick of feeling intrinsically Northwest while at the same time appealingly worldly. Their embrace of some of garage rock's tropes is cozy, while their subtle incorporation of things like Latin rhythms or zydeco flavor expands the music into something far more original. It's the kind of music you'd hope to hear at an all-night party by a bonfire, if anything that cool could ever happen around here. They perform with Palace of Buddies, Wisdom Teeth, and Girls From Mars at 10 p.m. inside Le Voyeur.

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