FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 2011 >>>

1. With a few cable comedy specials under her belt, a role in Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, and even a memoir - 2009's Chocolate, Please: My Adventures in Food, Fat, and Freaks - to her name, insult comic Lisa Lampanelli is riding high and headed to Tacoma's Temple Theatre tonight looking for laughs.

2. Part of a benefit show at Hell's Kitchen tonight, along with the heavy rock of Tummler and Solomon and Sleight of Man, expect the expansive post-rock of Goldwing and the bizarro punk jug-band that is Swampy Draws. This show's got just about all the bases covered.

3. In solidarity with the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement and protests, and Occupy movements all across the country, T-town is getting in on the action and letting its voice be heard. Occupy Tacoma has been growing stronger by the day, and last weekend's march was just the start. Today, Occupy Tacoma supporters will march from People's Park to McCarver Park starting at 4 p.m. - bringing Occupy Tacoma to Hilltop. Next weekend look for Occupy Tacoma to march in the Lincoln District.

4. It's Friday, which means it's the perfect time to get your groove on when Bump Kitchen tears it up at Jazzbones in Tacoma tonight.

5. Comedian Carlos Alazraqui busts out two performances tonight at the Tacoma Comedy Club - one at 8 p.m. and one at 10:30 p.m.

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