MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2013 >>>

1. The first thing to catch the eye upon entering the gallery is a large, two-part print project created as a collaboration by printmaking students. A series of black and white prints - they look like etchings or woodcuts - fill two good-sized, unframed and unstretched canvases. The images range from Northwest coastal Indian masks to Beavis from the TV show Beavis and Butthead. It's a strong and impactful graphic image. The other drawings and prints in the Tacoma Community College Student Art Exhibition are inconsistent: some pretty good, some lame and everything in between. The photos, some of the sculpture, and the commercial graphic arts projects are much stronger. Ali Abedi's "Spring," wood, paper and plaster, is disturbing and impossible to ignore. It is a blood-splattered plaster hand with cut-off fingers. A powerful image. Check it out from noon to 5 p.m. Read Alec Clayton's full review of the Student Art Exhibition in Northwets Military's Music & Culture section.

2. The "World War II" exhibit at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum features the Japanese flag captured at the Battle of Okinawa and the navigator's flight log of the Enola Gay Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber at the time of its dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. See all the goods from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

3. Want to increase your energy, lose weight, and decrease inflammation? Join health and wellness coach Laurie Larson to learn how juicing and smoothies can positively influence your health and wellness at 6 p.m. in the STAR Center.

4. Tacoma Rainiers games are pretty exciting. At 7 p.m. the Rainiers battle the Sacramento River Cats at Cheney Stadium. Who wants to stick it to Sacramento?

5. The Jho Blenis and Shelly Ely Band will fill The Swiss with blues at 8 p.m.

LINK: Monday, June 3 arts and entertainment events in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area