WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2014 >>>

1. The exhibition at Museum of Glass by Jen Elek and Jeremy Bert is a colorful and interactive show of glass sculptures combined with about 50 large, refurbished neon letters that visitors can rearrange to their hearts' content. "Look! See?" fills two of the larger galleries in the museum. It's like an interactive children's museum lifted from its site and set down the in the galleries. The day I was there, a large group of children of all age, plus a few adults, were moving the oversized letters around to write their names or make poems or other messages on the floors and the walls. Read Alec Clayton's full review of the show in the Music & Culture section, then take a gander from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

2. Pint Defiance celebrates Centralia's Dick's Brewing Company with a brewer's night 5-7 p.m. Dick's hit the beer scene in 1992, creating ubiquitous ales such as Double Danger and Dick's Cream Stout, among others. The Dick's crew will be in house with their IPA, Brown Ale, Pale Ale, Imperial Stout and Raspberry Triple Belgian Ale.

3. If you could ever wrap the matronly goodness of a mother's kiss, her love a tune of strength, her stories a place for the imagination to leap through the portal of everyday living and into the soundscape of music, riding the waves of Appalachian acoustics and vibrating on the end of a crescendo, then it would be in the soulful arrangements of Joanne Rand at 8 p.m. in the Urban Onion Lounge. Gabriel Wolfchild will open.

4. The Rock n Roll Lodge in Tacoma has a new jam night every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

5. RowHouse and Shrews will rock Magoo's Annex at 9:30 p.m.

LINK: Wednesday, April 9 arts and entertainment events in the greater Tacoma and Olympia area