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November 12, 2010 at 3:29pm

Nosh League recap: Don Julio tequila tasting at Masa

Don Julio tequila's new look was on display last night at Masa.

TEXT BOOK NOSH LEAGUE NIGHT >>>

For those who've never had the pleasure of attending a Weekly Volcano Nosh League event, here's the main concept at its most basic: We gather a bunch of people with an interest in food and drinks, and then see if we can have some fun and learn a little while discovering the affinities between particular foods and various beers, wines or liquor. Nosh League events are a chance to sample a range of a restaurant's menu offerings along with a variety of different libations, at a price that would be ordinarily impossible to pull off. That's because the restaurants and distributors are a) awesome, b) hope to build long term relationships with Nosh Leaguers, c) know Nosh Leaguers arrive early and stay late thereby spending more money, and d) they're really awesome.

This is exactly what went down last night at the Nosh League's Don Julio tequila tasting at Masa restaurant on Sixth Avenue. First, a shout out to the ownership and staff at Masa. The room setup, service and food were above and beyond the call of duty. We felt like VIPs. Second, Don Julio Ambassador Tierney Milton - who spreads Don Julio love across six western states - taught us the history, process and products of Don Julio in a lively atmosphere while pouring us five times the amount of tequila we expected - including a surprise Manhattan cocktail with a tequila base. The evening was ideal.

The Nosh League has developed a dinner party atmosphere so smiles appear when regulars walk through the door. We took turns taking trips to the food table to load up on goat cheese and chorizo stuffed arepas, steak and roasted yellow tomato crostini, bacon wrapped mesquite grilled dates and spiced candied pineapple skewers before Milton's class provided an opportunity to catch up on lives, and laugh over last month's conversational topics. This month sex and dating weren't the main topics of discussion - as they were last month's Nosh League event at TWOKOI Japanese Restaurant, which was also a very fun night.

Now I don't know about you, but I don't encounter tequila every day. I'm not an expert, and Milton discussed how most people's perception of tequila was formed during wild college years. That's part of the appeal of Nosh League dinners: You'll get to sample food and drinks that you might never consider ordering in a restaurant or buying in a store. These dinners expand our palate and knowledge at the very minimum by simply exposing us to the cuisine or libations, in this case high-end tequila, that we might not otherwise bump into.

Ultimately, tasting dinners are only as good as the expert in attendance - since he or she is essentially your host for the evening. So far, our hosts have been magnificent, including Milton who shared the process and secrets of Don Julio tequila without boring us to death with three hours of flowcharts. We learned in 2013 the price of tequila will rise due to a shortage of blue agave; baking the piñas longer at low temperatures produces the best flavor; Don Julio sells tequila in squatty bottles so Don Julio himself can see his family over the bottles at the dinner table as he must constantly sit due to a stroke; Don Julio products just went through a label design change; and Don Julio 1942 sells for $25 a shot and the smooth caramel and toffee flavor with vanilla fragrance is worth every penny. More details, which Milton covered last night, can be found on the Don Julio website.

Needless to say, I'm a Don Julio tequila fan now. While I wish I could shelf bottles of the $100-plus 1942, I'm happy to call Don Julio Anejo - the product used to make the Manhattan mentioned above - my new tequila of choice. It's butterscotch taste with light spices, coupled with a slice of orange dipped in cinnamon, will be my new go to drink for fireside chilling.

The next Nosh League event will be Thursday, Jan. 13 (too many holiday parties during December). Details will be posted on the Nosh League Group page soon.

LINK: Join the Nosh league here

LINK: More photos from last night here

Filed under: Nosh League, Food & Drink, Tacoma,

November 12, 2010 at 4:06pm

Tacoma restaurants win awards

I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT THIS >>>

Last night during the Weekly Volcano's Nosh League event, Masa co-owner John Xitco emerged from a secret room with a giant smile on his face. He announced that Open Table came out with its 2010 Diner's Choice Awards and Asado, his other restaurant - which celebrated its 5th anniversary last night - was voted Best Overall Restaurant in the greater Seattle Area. The Tacoma restaurant beat out Seattle restaurants Canlis, Cafe Juanita and Campagne. Tacoma's Over the Moon Cafe and Indochine took fourth and fifth, respectively. Asado also grabbed Best Food, and second for Best Service.

According to the Open Table members, here are the top 10 Tacoma restaurants.

Filed under: Food & Drink, Tacoma,

November 12, 2010 at 4:54pm

THE PREFUNK: Empty Bowls

Loud drunk alert!

BRING ON THE WEEKEND >>>

That nip in the air doesn't dampen the excitement: the weekend is upon us.

The fact it's dark by 3:30 p.m. doesn't diminish the possibilities: if you're a Monday-through-Friday, nine-to-fiver you've got two days of freedom starring you straight in the face.

Add all this together and you have the inevitable: it's time for another installment of The Prefunk - a weekend primer for you and your liver, with a picture of a alcoholic household pet thrown in for good measure.

Enjoy.

Empty Bowls @ Life Center Campus

Saturday, Nov. 13

The aforementioned nip in the air is no joke. Anyone as addicted to cigarette breaks as me knows this to be true. The season for sweaters and long underwear is practically here, and with the coldness comes necessity - you're going to have to stay warm. Hidden flasks full of bottom shelf vodka or Canadian whiskey are great for this.

But, truth is, soup is even better. The bonus is if your boss finds soup on you it wont result in your termination or inpatient rehab (unless it's some really fucking good soup).

Not only does the emergence of fall and the coming of winter mean it's time to bundle up, it means the holidays are also in the house - and, perhaps sadly, more than ever people will feel like being charitable.

Ignoring an obvious conversation about why folks are so much more willing to be charitable around the holidays, and how unfortunate this is the rest of the year, Saturday marks a fine opportunity to accomplish almost everything previously mentioned (except the secret drinking) all in one stop.

Stay warm. Eat soup. Do good.

Empty Bowls, from 1-4 p.m. at the Life Center Campus on Union Avenue in Tacoma Saturday, has it all.

Every year the Empty Bowls event - which raises money for the Emergency Food Network - combines local artists and local chefs for one of the tastiest and most handcrafted get-togethers of the year. Local artists design and sell handmade bowls of all kinds (this year starting at $10-$15), and local chefs offer some of the most delicious soups known to man (with every bowl purchased) - all the while raising money for an organization that's valiant objective, as explained on its website, is "... so no person goes hungry."

More background on the event and the organization behind it:

"100% of all proceeds from the event benefit Emergency Food Network. EFN is a local organization that distributes food to 65 food banks and hot meal sites in Pierce County. In 2009, EFN distributed 13.7 million pounds of food in Pierce County. For every $10 donated, EFN distributes $12 worth of food."

Go on. Get out and support a good cause.

PREFUNK: Well, now, this was too easy ...

You know what makes looking at handcrafted art and eating stuff (even soup) way more exciting?

Emptying a few bowls - that's what.

You know what I mean.

Go forth, munch, slurp, stare blankly at pretty tableware - and do it all for a good cause.

Filed under: Benefits, Arts, Community, Tacoma,

November 13, 2010 at 8:03am

5 Things To Do Today: Holiday Craft Fair, old school Steilacoom, Northwest authors in the House, jazz baby ...

SATURDAY, NOV. 13, 2010 >>>

1. When we walked into a department store last week and saw faux pine swags dotted with ornaments suspending from the ceiling we almost heaved. Even for a retailer trying to prime the holiday pump it seemed a tad early. There's no escaping the onslaught of seasonal festivities and buying opportunities. Should you want to dive right into the fray (and, in so doing, be able to avoid the mall entirely for the next two months) head over to the Holiday Craft Fair, a weekend-long crafts extravaganza, at Spanaway Lake High School. Today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. you will be able to wallow in stinky potpourri, scoop up armfuls of sparkly things you don't really need, and buy several jars of exotic holiday jams that no one will eat. But, hey, it's the thought that counts.

2. Walking back into history is an ongoing act of the local historical groups as they try to bring history alive by re-enacting life as it was when the area was raw and untamed.  From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. walk back into history with the Steilacoom Historical Museum Association inside the Pioneer Orr Home in downtown Steilacoom. Walk into the world of 1857, with the Indian Wars over and the rising tide of settlers flooding into the area. Joe Lawson and his team from Hamilton Auction will appraise general items from 12:30-2:30 p.m. And the Bair Bistro at the corner of Wilkes and Lafayette will be accepting reservations for afternoon tea

3. OK, you are now officially entering the month of November. No more waffling around. It's time to resign yourself - The holidays are on their way. All those people you talk to once every three months are now expecting to see you for an extended period of time. Maybe even multiple days. And they'll want to talk to you, make conversation.  They'll want to know how your life is going.  Uh-oh.  Better prepare yourself now. You need conversation topics. Sixteen local authors will be hanging out at Freighthouse Square from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Go, listen to them read, buy their books, have them sign them. Soak up their insights. Then go home and refuse to speak to any blood relations until it's time to open the presents. 

4. The Northwest Sinfonietta will go Gypsy jazz on your ass tonight and tomorrow. They'll performs a new Django Reinhardt-inspired composition by director Christophe Chagnard for three jazz guitars and orchestra at 7:30 p;m. tonight at the Rialto Theater and 2 p.m. at the Pioneer Park Pavilion in Puyallup. They'll also go old school with Shostakovich's Piano Concerto no. 1 with Mark Salman and Mahler's 5th Symphony Adagietto.

5. Jazz vocalist Dennis Hastings will join master pianist Joe Baque and basses Steve Luceno at Cicada Restaurant for a memorable evening of Jazz and popular tunes beginning at 8 p.m.

LINK: Empty Bowls is in our Prefunk

LINK: Rocket Races, Tellabration and Furniture Series dance in our Weekend Hustle

LINK: Concerts go on sale today

LINK: A bunch of wine tastings

LINK: More arts and entertainment events in the South Sound

November 13, 2010 at 9:03am

Night Moves: D.I., Gossip, Dustin Wong, Eddie Spaghetti, Shenandoah Davis ...

The Spins play The Spar in Old Town Tacoma tonight.

MOR ELIVE THAN YOU'LL EVER BE >>>

4th Ave Ale House Olympia - Downtown. Rikk Beatty, Sevencross. 21+. 9 pm.

Beyond the Bridge Cafe Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Lemolo, Shenandoah Davis, Ritchie Young and Valerie Warren. All Ages. 7:30 pm - 11 pm. $8 Cover.

  • Even without an actual warehouse, the collective that is the Warehouse continues to deliver musical awesomeness to Tacoma - this Saturday in the form of an intimate and surely remarkable show with Shenandoah Davis at Beyond the Bridge Café. – Michael Swan

Big Wheel Steakhouse and Lounge Tacoma - Parkland. Loose Gravel & The Quarry. 21+. 9 pm.

Bob's Java Jive Tacoma - Central. Run From Cover, Toward The Flame. 21+. 8 pm.

Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. Gossip, The Need. 10 pm. $10-$15.

  • The early years of this millennium's musical landscape were confusing. As is the case with the beginnings of any decade, bands began to shake loose the musical bloat of the mainstream and reach back into the past for influences, all while introducing new inspiration. Born out of this confusion was dance-punk and bands like Gossip. Now 10 years old, Gossip's dance-punk has become the exception, not the rule, of indie rock, and their sound has responded by becoming even more refined and laser-direct than before. As always, lead singer Beth Ditto's voice is an irreplaceable commodity for Gossip. She could have been a star in most any decade, in most any genre. Her voice is smoky, soulful, completely in control. When she says dance, it's hard not to listen. - Rev. Adam McKinney

Cedarwood Dome Milton. Eric John Kaiser, Portland's French Troubadour. 21+. 9pm - 12am. Free.

Cicada Restaurant Olympia - Downtown. Dennis Hastings, Joe Baque, Steve Luceno. 21+. 8 pm.

Cork! A Wine Bar Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. A Leaf. 21+. 7 pm. NC.

Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Eddie Spaghetti. 21+. 9:30 pm. NC.

Fred Oldfield Western Heritage Center Puyallup. Old Time Fiddle Festival & Contest. All Ages. 1 pm. $8.

Hell's Kitchen Tacoma - Downtown. D.I., The Piss Drunks, Red White & Die, The Dead Giveaways, Koozbane. 21+. 9 pm. $8-$10.

  • Hell's Kitchen has been bringing in influential, iconic, moderately legendary (at least to those who've ever passed a clothespin through pale flesh) punk bands since the day the club kicked open its doors. This week, with So-Cal's D.I. slated to drop by tonight, for a show that also features the Piss Drunks, Red White & Die, The Dead Giveaways and Koozbane, this fact is as true as ever. Read more in Bobble Tiki's column this week. – Bobble Tiki

The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. City Fair. 21+. 9 pm. NC.

Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. A Tribute to Led Zeppelin, with No Quarter. 21+. 9 pm. $15.

Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Wauntid. 21+. 9 pm.

Maxwell's Speakeasy Tacoma - Downtown. Buckshot Jazz. 6 pm. NC.

Northern Olympia - Downtown. Dustin Wong, Ben Kamen, Chung Antique. All Ages. 8 pm.

  • Infinite Love, the new record from guitarist Dustin Wong, may not be literally infinite, but it sure as hell is ambitiously epic. Clocking in at 1 hour, 20 minutes, Infinite Love is a double LP of visionary instrumental loopage in the Mark McGuire mode. A DVD with deeply psychedelic accompanying visuals comes part and parcel with copies of Infinite Love, and the vinyl version includes an entire EP of additional music called Indigo and Crystal. Taken all together, that makes for quite a hefty artistic statement. "I was just accumulating a lot of songs, and it got to a point where I had a lot, and I wanted to use all of it," says Wong, who first rose to popularity as part of fitful Baltimore act Ponytail, and with fellow guitarist Matt Papich in the far-out ambient group Ecstatic Sunshine. Tonight, Wong - a total shredder - will be at Northern in Olympia. - Jason Baxter

Rocket Records Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Cody Foster Army, Cities Without Ancors. All Ages. 3:30 pm. NC.

The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Jeremy Serwer, The Spins, Good Gravy. 21+. 8 pm. NC.

Tacoma Art Museum Tacoma - Downtown. Erik Steighner's Mighty Tacoma Saxophone Recital, featuring Daniel Goodrich, Fred Winkler, Karen Ganz. All Ages. 2 pm.

Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Righteous Mothers. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15.

LINK: More live music tonight in the South Sound

Filed under: Night Moves, Music, Olympia, Tacoma,

November 13, 2010 at 10:37am

PETTY QUESTIONS: Ready to start

Petty Questions: A weekly advice column about pet peeves and trivial matters

Hi! Welcome to Petty Questions - a new advice column about trivial things. Let's get started.

QUESTION #1

My brother sometimes uses BBQ sauce and I really don't like the smell. Help!

-C

We can't choose our family, in most cases. Orphans have a unique advantage in this regard.

But all kidding aside, it's time you found a new brother.

Here is a list of places loaded with extra brothers: Rose of Sharon Organization, Milton Hershey School, The Palmer Home for Children, St. Joseph's Village Rockleigh, Covenant Ranch, Stephen Wiggins Home for Boys, to name a few. If you're looking for a more international sibling - a lil' pip with zest - may I suggest: The Bishop Judith Craig Children's Village (Sierra Leone), God's Littlest Angles (Haiti), Ban San Faan (Thailand), Orphanage No. 12 (Ukraine), or Chongqing Children's Welfare Institute (China). You can find information for these homes and more on the Internet, a place full of links. You can find anything online.

But let's say you can't replace your current brother with a newer, quieter one. What do you do?

You could plug your nose with a clothespin, but this hurts and it damages you. Breathing out of the side of your mouth farthest away from your brother's BBQ sauce? That's one of the tricks of the trade I use as a germophobe, so normally I would wholeheartedly recommend it. However, you're probably sitting with votre frère and his hog sauce because you guys are eating dinner, family-style. If you're trying to breathe out of your mouth while you're chewing and swallowing, well, I've got some bad news for you. You're probably going to choke and die of brain problems.

Not to mention how gross you are for eating with your mouth open. Can you imagine how people would feel when you mash up all that food matter, smelling your saliva enzymes as they waft through the entire house? Why would you do this? What kind of a person are you? I feel like I've created a monster.

Look, you're brother isn't going to give up smearing BBQ sauce all over his spaghetti. I know how he feels. I personally love pouring ketchup over everything. My hamburgers and curly fries get so soggy I have to eat them with a fork and knife, like some stupid gentleman. But I'll never give it up: any Wednesday night you will find me in my favorite diner, drinking ketchup. That's the way it'll be ‘til the day I die of Type-2 diabetes.

The take-away is that, if I know the two of us (and to be clear I do not), no one's forfeiting his sauce anytime soon. My advice? Sit on the other side of the table! That way you can stare into your brother's eyes and have a meaningful conversation with him. Remember the summers you two spent idling away the days? Memories well up, hours wasted rock-skipping and tire-swinging on Lake Castawoganon. The famous last words of F. Scott Fitzgerald appear out of thin air, wisps of smoke hazing in and out of view:

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

This is the part where you steal all his BBQ sauce. Now you can eat in peace. Or you can sell the stuff back to him-for twice as much gold.

QUESTION #2

Why dose DT Tacoma not have a world class concrete bowl or skatepark??? With all the vacant lots and so called Parks you really cant skate anything in Tacoma with out getting some flack.... It would be sick to have one on the waterfront.....

-M

I agree, M! It would be rad to have a nice, multi-layer, trans-Commencement Bay roller-skating arena. Kickflips, toe-drops, ossies, back-slaps-bum a 450, Chet! We could have an area for battles and settle disputes of honor properly. Get in touch with the City Council!

Just another little brief thing, M. Hope this doesn't seem too nit-picky on my part:

 "cant" = can't. Come on, Cormac!

Hope this helps!

Coming up next week: Creeping Doubt. Personal insecurity or material insecurity? Joy Division or New Order? New Order or ELO? Shh...it's supposed to be a secret.

Please direct questions to: askpettyquestions@gmail.com

November 13, 2010 at 10:43am

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Yo Gabba Gabba!

THE KIDS (AND ADULTS) ARE EXCITED >>>

Yo Gabba Gabba Live! hits the Tacoma Dome today for two shows - one at 2 p.m. and one at 5 p.m. for the real party animals. All the regulars will be there, including THE REAL DJ Lance, not to mention the iconic Biz Markie.

Check out the Weekly Volcano's interview with show co-creator Scott Schultz here.

And view this video because it's awesome.

Filed under: All ages, Music, Tacoma, Pop Culture,

November 13, 2010 at 9:13pm

Yo Gabba Gabba Live! review

The delirium of Yo Gabba Gabba!, or: How to try (and fail) to not look like a creep at a children's show >>>

Upon my arrival at the Tacoma Dome, I immediately felt woefully out of place. A giant line wrapped its way around the sidewalk as hordes of adorable children and their equally adorable, 30-year-old, bearded parents waited for admission into the hippest kids' show around. I speak, of course, of Yo Gabba Gabba!-otherwise known as the clearest intersection between children and those most obsessed with children's culture: hipsters.

Boasting connections with a collection of some of the coolest musicians and artists of past and present (including Mark Mothersbaugh, MGMT, Biz Markie, Of Montreal, Paul Scheer and others), Yo Gabba Gabba! actually manages to deliver on the promise of other children's shows - by entertaining the parents as much as the kids.

The touring production of Yo Gabba Gabba! was subtitled "There's a Party in My City!" Host DJ Lance Rock (in all his orange-covered, uber-enthusiastic, messianic glory) did his due diligence by frequently complimenting Tacoma on being so smart and fun to be around.

"There's a Party in My City" was comprised largely of popular songs from the television show, and they were met with enthusiasm by the audience of very young people. The formula can effectively be boiled down to: DJ Lance Rock encourages people to dance, espouses the virtues of hugging and eating, and more than once has to cheer up his perpetually depressed green monster friend, Brobee.

Every now and again, confetti and streamers are jettisoned into the crowd. Balloons rain from the ceiling. Swarms of glow sticks are bandied in the dark. At times, Yo Gabba Gabba! resembles a kiddie bacchanal.

Without question, show highlights include the various guest appearances we were treated to. Multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams utilized a looping pedal to create his backing track, freeing him up so he could demonstrate how much he loves hula-hooping. Chris Ballew (of the Presidents of the United States of America, and his own children's music project, Caspar Babypants) dropped in to teach everyone a new dance and exited the stage with the hilarious non-sequitur, "Bye guys! Gotta go write a song about a marshmallow." Biz Markie taught kids how to beatbox...more or less.

In the end, "Yo Gabba Gabba: There's a Party in My City" was a fun-albeit unexpectedly short and tragically expensive-time had by all. Now if only watching Yo Gabba Gabba! didn't make me feel like such a weirdo ...

November 14, 2010 at 8:45am

5 Things To Do Today: Swiss Film Festival, Charlie Brown, Apolo Ohno and more ...

Rumor is that actor Dave Graham, star of "A Glitch in the System," will attend The Swiss Film Festival. No word yet if he will sign autographs.

SUNDAY, NOV. 14, 2010 >>>

1. There sure are a lot of film festivals out there, all pompous and bloated, stretching out through days or even weeks with "a bunch of great films." Well, The Swiss Film Festival - packing itself into three short hours tonight beginning at 7 p.m. inside The Swiss - is having none of it. What kind of film festival can you have in only three freakin' hours, you ask? Well, one featuring two films.  In this case, the homemade It Don't Rain on Sunny Days and A Glitch in the System. As if that wasn't enough, Doug Mackey will host the event, which also includes special guest Buddy Budman. If nothing else, there'll be a lot of booze on hand.

2. Vince Guaraldi's iconic jazz score will fill The Grand Cinema beginning at 10 a.m. when the Dugan Foundation presents A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas. The movie is free with one can of pet food or supplies. The Weekly Volcano will be there dancing like Chuck's classmates in the aisles.

3. Eight-time Olympic medalist and former Dancing with the Stars champion Apolo Ohno will sign his book, Zero Regrets, at 1 p.m. inside the Costco in Federal Way.

4. The Tacoma Youth Symphony leaves the gray, wet South Sound for "A Night in Madrid" at 3 p.m. inside the Rialto Theater. The concert will feature music by Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and guitarist Michael Partington in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. 

5. Rich Wetzel's Groovin Higher Orchestra will drop in on Stonegate Pizza jazz-rock to rock and jazz dinner show from 5-8pm.

LINK: Tacoma Art at Work events

LINK: More arts and entertainment events in the South Sound

November 14, 2010 at 9:14am

Night Moves: Hempfest Reunion Party, Gardens And Villa, Back To Beale Street Blues 2011 Fundraiser, Oregon Symphony ...

Sour Diesel plays Jazzbones tonight.

NO RESTING ON A SUNDAY WITH THIS LIVE MUSIC LINE-UP >>>

The Charleston Bremerton. TJ's Birthday Show, with D.I., Neutralboy, The Assassinators, Red White & Die, Potty Mouth Society, The Americommies. All Ages. 7 pm.

Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 21+. 8 pm.

Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Hempfest Reunion Party, with Sour Diesel, Grimmride, Pangea, The Bimm Quaid. 21+. 8 pm.

Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Gardens And Villa, The Soft Hills. 21+. 9 pm.

  • Gardens and Villa hail from sunny Santa Barbara, Calif. They have brightly-colored vinyl deckchairs for a MySpace background. Band photos feature them dressed hella casual in bright tones, hangin' on a porch. A year ago, these incriminating aesthetic details would have led uninspired critics to quickly label these guys "chillwave" and then move on, but the band is a prime example of how pervasive summery imagery can be a part of all kinds of music, from chillwave's hyper-compressed grooves to the kind of soaring SoCal pop that G&V specialize in. Their stock and trade are earworm simpatico melodies, falsetto vocals, funky bass warbles, electro-acoustic percussion, and - yes - downy adult-contempo flute flourishes.  Fans of everyone from Passion Pit to the Carpenters, take notice: Here Comes the Sun. - Jason Baxter

Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Tori Sparks. All Ages. 7 pm. NC.

Northern Olympia - Downtown. Malaikat Dan Singa, Maxines, Jenkins-Krausbauer Duo. All Ages. 8 pm.

Pantages Theater Tacoma - Downtown Tacoma. Oregon Symphony with David Ogden Stiers. 2 pm lecture, 3 pm concert. $19-$52.

  • After a seven-year wait, the Oregon Symphony returns to Tacoma this Sunday to perform Mozart's Symphony No. 38 at the Pantages, complements of the Tacoma Philharmonic.  Also on the bill is Maestro Carlos Kalmar's reportedly amazing integration of Shakespeare-related musical works and recited verse as written by Bill Shakespeare himself. The first half of the evening will be quintessential symphonic action from one of the West Coast's best outfits, while the second half (mixing music and theater) promises to be an experience better seen than described. Check it. – Michael Swan

Rhythm & Brews Tacoma - Downtown. Back To Beale Street Blues 2011 Fundraiser, featuring JD Hobson, The Cody Rentas Band, The Chester Dennis Jones Band, Maia Santell & Friends, The Red Hot Blues Sisters, The Randy Oxford Band. All Ages. 4 pm. $8-$10.

  • For those out of the loop, every year in Memphis the top blues act in the world gather for one of the biggest blues competitions known to man - on Beale Street, of course. Also, every year the South Sound Blues Association holds a competition (usually in June) to choose one lucky band to represent them and the entire region at said competition in Memphis. This, naturally, takes money - which is where today's fundraiser comes into play. But today's action at Rhythm and Brews isn't just about raising money - it's also about catching an amazing helping of local blues. The bill includes top-notch local blues acts like JD Hobson, the Cody Rentas Band, the Chester Dennis Jones Band, Maia Santell and Friends, the Red Hot Blues Sisters and the Randy Oxford Band. – Bobble Tiki

Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Mike Roy. 21+. 8 pm.

The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. 7 On 7. 21+. 7 pm. NC.

Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rich Wetzel's Groovin' Higher Orchestra. 21+. 5 pm.

Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Straw Hat String Band. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. The Righteous Mothers. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15.

Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Jam, hosted by Shelly Ely. 21+. 7 pm. NC.

LINK: More live music tonight in the South Sound

Filed under: Night Moves, Music, Olympia, Tacoma,

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January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
2006
March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December