WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 2011 >>>

1. The Scrabble Rousers will push the wood from 6:30-9:30 p.m. inside King's Books. Entrance fee is $10 per person with proceeds benefiting the Tacoma Community House Student Scholarship Fund. And since it's Banned Books Week, you'll be rewarded if you come dressed as your favorite character from a blasphemous book.

2. Join your peers for discussions on local, regional and national arts advocacy issues and updates from Pierce County and municipalities at noon inside the Tacoma Municipal Building. Panelists include Andreda Mensink, Business Development manager at Tacoma Regional Convention & Visito Bureau and Mark Gerth, the new executive director of the Washington Sate Arts Alliance.

3. The Kareem Kandi Band and jazz trumpeter Jay Thomas will fill Tacoma's Pour at Four wine bar with awesome jazz from 7:30-9:30 p.m.

4. Jazzbones' Wednesday Sessions hosts the Olivia De La Cruz for a night of soulful, lyrical and passion beginnign at 9 p.m.

5. A tall, bearded man who always sports a utilikilt, Rev. Colin possesses a wealth of oddball musical knowledge and a disarming ease for calling everyone "baby." Having hosted karaoke for a little more than 12 years, Rev. Colin will host 9 p.m. karaoke at Puget Sound Pizza with a sure hand and a sense of fairness with who gets to sing and how often.

LINK: More arts and entertainment events in the South Sound

LINK: Half-priced wine nights