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Los Folkloristas - the seven-piece Latin American band that perform songs from Jalisco, Veracruz, the Yucatan, and other regions of Mexico on more than 100 instruments (but we don't think simultaneously) - will draw from their 30 albums and colorful outfits Thursday night in downtown Olympia. The group of seven
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Who you want to idolize? Celebs? Reese Witherspoon? Tiger Woods? Barry Bonds? James Bond? As if. That British charmer has replaced the winks with a nasty slab of tightly wound violence. So we try to spin it back around, seek out real life superheroes. People who are visionaries. People who
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Exhibiting works by Northwest glass artists alongside selected works from their personal art collections is an intriguing concept for an art exhibition. This is what you can find in the Northwest Artists Collect exhibition at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. Seven favorite regional glass artists are shown with works
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BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan Tyack. 7:30 pm. Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Crazy Texas Gypsies Open Jam. 8 pm. Midtown Grill Bonney
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Centralia. Kendl Winter. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Oly Songwriter Circle. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. With Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino rockin' blues jam. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Grit City Comedy
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Peter Mayer. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$15. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Broken Tapestry, Light The Fire. All Ages. 7 pm. $6. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Climate Change. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Jim Page. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Pantages Theater
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Camille Coldeen, Mark Graham, Orville Johnson. All Ages. 8:30 pm. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Kendl Winter. All Ages. 11 am. NC. BLUES Treos Tacoma - Central. Nolan Garrett. All Ages. 6-8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Greg Parke. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Spar Cafe Olympia - Downtown. Kendl Winter. 8 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open
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Let us praise the Dockyard Derby Dames roller derby girls. They built a nice thing for themselves since first organizing in 2005, and they did it through hard, grass-roots work. Since then, the roller girls have been ubiquitous, constantly fundraising, contesting bouts, double-fisting beers in some South Sound bar while
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The growing population of hungry people in a country so full of food is a paradox that is being better understood each day. Despite the fact that the United States has the resources to provide everyone with nutritious and affordable food, 50 million Americans still don't know what their next
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The documentary A Place at the Table explains the issue of hunger in the United States and the social, cultural and economic implications that come with it. In the midst of many social and class related problems in the U.S., hunger should be among of the easiest
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N. Richard Nash's Rainmaker is just shy of 60 years old, but is it dated? Not a bit. It's the story of a young woman who sees herself as plain, a gruff deputy who wishes he could hold her attention, and a charismatic stranger who promises rain
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Forming in Bellingham, Wash. in 1998, Federation X has brought a generation of rockers a release from the daily grind with their raw brand of high-energy, low-fi, heavy rock. With a sound that leans toward tumultuous, this band has been compared to Black Sabbath and the Melvins. Thursday, May 2, Fed
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Fracking isn't magic. What the Frack? is. Friday, magic takes the form of music, dance and thought-provoking performance when Tacoma School of Arts Theater (SOTA) stages What the Frack? - a social commentary about fracking, which is the controversial use of hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from the earth.
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You're feeling kinda down but you don't know why, all these people talkin' at you and you just say bye. You're computer and phone always blinging and ringing while your eyes are out the window and the birds are singing. When you're trapped inside don't run and hide, why not
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It's just one of those days. You're 20 minutes late. You're cranking up 11th Street on your Schwinn because it's effing Tacoma Bike Month. Drenched in sweat you cross over Market Street on your way up to Hilltop Tacoma, cursing the fact that you went out for the fifth night
