Food Matters
BATES SIZZLES Bates Technical College hosts its 11th annual fundraiser "Bates Sizzles" at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18 inside the Pantages Theater (901 Broadway, Tacoma). Tickets are $60 if you're going stag or $100 per couple and include libations, nibbles provided by Pacific Grill and a silent auction and raffle event
Music
The quality of Tacoma hip-hop has really increased. There have always been talented artists doing their thing here, but even just a few years ago there was a lot less dopeness out there. I remember only being able to really like and appreciate a handful of the hip-hop that our
Stage
In 2010, Shakespeare expert Brean Hammond of Nottingham University declared that the 1727 Lewis Theobald play Double Falsehood was, as Theobald claimed, a reboot of an earlier play called Cardenio. What's the big deal, you ask? Cardenio is one of a handful of plays co-written by William Shakespeare but since
Features
Readers were asked to name the best, the tastiest, the most fantastic sandwiches in the South Sound to compete in the Tournament of Sandwiches, sponsored by Subway. Sixty-four sandwiches and three weeks of tournament-style voting later, it was a showdown between STINK's Stinker sandwich and Oliver's Sandwiches' lobster sandwich. The
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Mark Iler. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Little Creek Casino Shelton. Paul Davis. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. James King & The Southsiders. 8 pm. $6. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. 4:20 Comedy Showcase, with Travis Simmons, Nigel Larson, Fred Bowski, Boe Blast. 8:30 pm. $15. Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Shane Mauss.
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The first time I saw Hands In, it was in a basement in South Tacoma. All I knew about what I was going to see was that it was a one-man band from Portland. In practice, Hands Is made up of one guy, a series of pre-programmed beats and melodies,
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Before Tacoma's semi-longstanding, all-ages venue The Redroom closes its door for good April 27, Bleak Outlook Volume 1 will blow open doors and minds this weekend with a three-day fest that includes two kickin' shows at The Redroom and one at Fifth Dimension. Bleak Outlook? Is this about the fate of
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When you build your act and your music around theatricality, you quickly realize after making a few recordings that there is eventually no place to go but bigger and bigger. More hooks, more color, more eccentricity. Sabrina Chap has backed herself against this wall, but she continues to imbue her
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Longbranch Improvement Club. Blame Sally. All Ages. 8 pm. $15 adults, $8 teens and younger. Little Creek Casino Shelton. Paul Davis. 7 pm. NC. Lucky Eagle Casino Rochester. Songwriter's Circle, featuring Bobby Pinson, Jamie Paulin, Trent Tomlinson. 8 pm. $15. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Tommy Dean. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma -
Music
I need to get my hot little hands on the upcoming split 7-inch release by Mos Generator and Ancient Warlocks. If they can put all the power and straight fucking rock they pull at their live performances onto a little piece of vinyl, then I'm sold. I apologize for dropping the
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I need to get my hot little hands on the upcoming split 7-inch release by Mos Generator and Ancient Warlocks. If they can put all the power and straight fucking rock they pull at their live performances onto a little piece of vinyl, then I'm sold. I apologize for
Critics' Picks
>>> Friday, April 19 HANDS IN The first time I saw Hands In, it was in a basement in South Tacoma. All I knew about what I was going to see was that it was a one-man band from Portland. In practice, Hands In is made up of one guy, a series
Arts
American Voices: Invisibility, Art, and Educational Justice is a three-part series presented by Puget Sound University's Race and Pedagogy department. The series features educators, scholars, artists, and activists whose work stimulates critical intellectual engagement about issues of racial justice and educational reform. Thursday, April 25, the series culminates in a collaboration
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American Voices: Invisibility, Art, and Educational Justice is a three-part series presented by Puget Sound University's Race and Pedagogy department. The series features educators, scholars, artists, and activists whose work stimulates critical intellectual engagement about issues of racial justice and educational reform. Thursday, April 25, the series culminates
Military Resources
Some married couples fight to the point of screaming and yelling, which can lead to one side blaming the other. But in the nine-week ScreamFree Marriage course, offered by JBLM's Army Community Service, the focus is more on the individual rather than both people in the
