SUNDAY, JAN. 8, 2012 >>>

1. Blues vocalist Diunna Greenleaf and pianist Clay Swafford will make history with their first performance in the Northwest at 7 p.m. inside The Royal Lounge in Olympia when Greenleaf, a nominee for this year's Koko Taylor Award for Best Traditional Female Blues Vocalist and the Blues Music Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, joins Swafford, widely regarded as one of the best blues piano players in the world, will perform as a duo. The show will be taped so don't dress like a slob. Read Jake de Paul's full feature on the event here.

2. Today is the last day to bundle up, pinch your cheeks until they glow and strap on a pair of silver skates, Hans Brinker, for a glide across the frozen expanse at Tollefson Plaza. The Franciscan Polar Plaza, located on the corner of Pacific Avenue and South 17th Street ends today. Hit the ice from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. To read Paul Schrag's full feature on Polar Plaza, click here.

3. Photographer and downtown Tacoma resident Peter Serko loves the Museum of Glass. Loves it. Well, at least loves to shoot it. He's been capturing the many moods of the MOG since 2006. And MOG has been aware. Today is the last day to see Serko's Transformation: Art Changes a City at MOG. From noon to 5 p.m., see Serko's 18 photographs of both the Museum architecture and the Chihuly Bridge of Glass taken during different times of day throughout the seasons. Bonus: Peter Serko discusses the rebirth of Tacoma.

4. Born in Jackson, Miss., Patrick Lamb began paying his dues by playing roadhouse music as a teenager in the rural south when he heard the evocative sounds of James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Wilton Felder, of the Crusaders. At 5 p.m. inside the Marine View Church, Lamb will show Northeast Tacoma what he has learned over these many years, specifically awesome old school R&B soul tunes.

5. Funky blues band Bump Kitchen will perform at 7 p.m. inside The Spar in Old Town Tacoma.

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