FRIDAY, JAN. 24 2014 >>>

1. "It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark ... and we're wearing sunglasses." If this quote rings a bell, you've probably seen The Blues Brothers (1980). As original cast members of Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi created the characters of Jake and Elwood Blues, leading to a successful live album, the film and two more albums before Belushi's untimely death in 1982. The Official Blues Brother Revue captures the original spirit of the film and those first albums, with Wayne Catania and Kieron Lafferty inhabiting the immortal Jake and Elwood, and backed by their eight-piece Intercontinental Rhythm & Blues Revue Band. Catch it at 7:30 p.m. at the Pantages Theater.

2. The Hands On Children's Museum has something new on tap from 6-9 p.m.: beer. No, really. The museum is launching Adult Swim, a quarterly adults-only night, with a beer-tasting event. True to the museum's mission, though, the idea isn't that museumgoers will simply guzzle beverages from eight craft breweries and one meadery. Rather, the party includes crafts and science experiments. Read Molly Gilmore's full story on Adult Swim here.

3. Rockwell Powers, Xperience and DJ Save1 will fill Tacoma's Bleach store with hip-hop beginning at 7 p.m.

4. Those of you who actually read your high school literature assignments should remember that Atticus Finch is the dignified Southern lawyer who defends a black man wrongly accused of rape in Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning 1969 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Set in 1935 Alabama, three children face the life lessons of good and evil and the power of convictions when small-town attorney Atticus Finch agrees to defend a black man charged with attacking a white teen-ager. Tacoma Little Theatre brings the literary classic to life, opening the stage version at 7:30 p.m. for a two-week run.

5. Professor Barry Goldstein and his bandmate Gen Obata are The Unassuming Beekeepers, an American roots band with shades of bluegrass, country, swing and rockabilly. They sing, strum guitars and know their way around a mandolin.  Catch the band at 8:30 p.m. in the Oppenheimer Café on the University of Puget Sound campus. Oh, bring your fiddles, guitars, banjos and that thing the goes "boing!" when plucked in your mouth as a bluegrass jam will follow The Unassuming Beekeepers.

LINK: Friday, Jan. 24 arts and entertainment events in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area