SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2010 >>>
1. This month's installment of the Tacoma Cult Movie Club centers around "stop (the presses) motion animation" featuring films by Ray Harryhausen - including his last film, Clash of the Titans (1981) - beginning at 7 p.m. inside the Acme Grub Cage at 13th and Tacoma Avenue South. As always, the club will also screen its usual array of trailers, shorts, the ongoing Batman serial, and the always-random raffle.
2. Glass artist Gabe Feenan, who has been a gaffer and designer with the Museum of Glass Hot Shop team since 2002, will nestle up to the microphone for a 2 p.m. "Conversation With The Artist" event inside the museum. Meet Feenan and learn more about his work including slides of his artwork. Rumor has it that he will also share his original poetry.
3. Paradise Theatre will close its production of The Importance of Being Earnest with a final 3 p.m. show today.
4. Mandolin Café's all-ages open mic, hosted by Billy Farmer, has rapidly become one of the best in the South Sound. See why when it kicks off at 6 p.m.
5. Athens, Ga., band The Winter Sounds are beyond slick, as recorded. Layers and layers of churchly harmonies, chiming guitars and driving rhythms, dominate the band's songs, which can be heard, along with Parachute Musical and Ron Hexagon, at 10 p.m. inside Le Voyeur in Olympia.