FRIDAY, JULY 30, 2010 >>>
1. Tacoma is often described as a city full of underdog freaks. If this is the case (and there does seem to be some truth to it), Tacoma will eat up the Hellzapoppin Sideshow Review, set to infest Hell's Kitchen with more bearded women, human pincushions and oddities than normal beginning at 8 p.m. Having awed and weirded-out audiences around the world, including on the Van's Warped Tour and Ozzfest, the traveling misfit hellions behind the Hellzapoppin Sideshow Review know a thing or two about capturing your attention. Bizarreness sells, and it's wildly entertaining.
2. The Here and Now show at Fulcrum Gallery from noon to 6 p.m. explores the parallels between young artists and professionally showing established artists. Read Alec Clayton's review of the show here.
3. The Olalla Community Club will host a fundraiser for this year's Olalla Bluegrass (& beyond) Festival at 7:30 p.m. featuring music by The Blackberry Bushes String Band and Asthmatic Kitty recording artist Shannon Stephens.
4. Chances are you've got a couple dumb friends. It's the law of averages. Well, Hamlet was no different; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may not have been the sharpest, but they were his buddies - even obliviously escorting him to banishment. The Outfit Theatre Project stages Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at 8 p.m. inside the Lakewood Playhouse. Read Joe Izenman's review of the show here.
5. A fundraiser for the Underground Derby League, an all female roller derby league, featuring R&B funk band Bump Kitchen as well as raffles, drawings, merchandise and information about the Underground Derby League will be held at 9 p.m. inside the 4th Ave Tavern in Olympia.
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