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I only have one thing to say to you: OSCAR!! Well, I guess I can say a little more. (The Volcano does pay me by the word, you know, and doesn't cue the exit music when I ramble on.) But speaking of drawn-out speeches, the 85th annual Academy Awards has arrived,
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The Grand Cinema's annual Academy Awards Party is THE way to celebrate the accomplishments of people way richer than you'll ever be, and this year the party is bigger and better than ever. While watching the Oscars on your HDTV with a bag of microwave popcorn might sound appealing, The
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Spar Cafe Olympia - Downtown. James Coates. 8 pm. NC. Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Lewis County. Justin & Lucy Page. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic Night.
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Anyone who believes that Tacoma is still a blue-collar backwater town with few ties to the outside world had better stay away from the 11th annual Sister Cities International Film Festival, which launched two weeks ago. The experience might just shatter everything that poor soul holds to so misguidedly. Tacoma
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Spar Cafe Olympia - Downtown. Jabi Shriki, Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 8 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Lilly Moon. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. BLUES Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. OneNiteStand. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian
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Marissa Meyer is a YA author from Tacoma and a Pacific Lutheran University graduate. She's a fan of Firefly. She wrote Sailor Moon fan fiction for 10 years. Cinder, the first book in her Lunar Chronicles, is about an android Cinderella in futuristic China was on the New York Times
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COMEDY/GAMES Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. "All's Fair In Love & War" Burlesque, with TUSH and Gritty City Sirens. 8 pm. $15-$20. Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andy Woodhull. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Harrold Gomez. 8:30 and
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Hell's Belles returns to Jazzbones Saturday, where last November they blasted Bobble Tiki's eardrums and raised the Jazzbones' temperature to hell-like heat with its all-female brand of chugging, riffing rock. The all-female AC/DC tribute band gets 'em in the door, but guitarist Adrian Connor (Angus incarnate with more energy!) and
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"It is challenging to lose a band mate," says pianist Nathaniel Dybevik. "In a jazz band, the singer is like another instrument. It's an interesting endeavor because everyone brings something to the table, adds their own character and imparts their own influence on the direction of the music during a
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"It is challenging to lose a band mate," says pianist Nathaniel Dybevik. "In a jazz band, the singer is like another instrument. It's an interesting endeavor because everyone brings something to the table, adds their own character and imparts their own influence on the direction of
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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. Blue Heron Arts Center Vashon. Family Series: LP Pat Camozzi. All Ages. 1:30 pm. $5-$8. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by
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Good pie is important. It's unfortunate that very few places understand how important, which must be why most pie is, well, sad. Flabby, machine-made crust and Technicolor interiors are the least of it. The contestants participating in Saturday's Olympia Pie Fest understand the importance of pie. Otherwise, they'd be gardening
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Dave Randal. 9 pm. 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. The
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES King Solomon's Reef - Olympia. "Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary Film About A Band
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium District. Acoustic Underground Open Mic, hosted by James Coates. 8 pm. BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart Royal Wednesday. 7:30 pm. $5. Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South.
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Just what is electronic music, anyway? That phrase typically connotes electronic music, your techno/electro/electronica, untz-untz-untz and all that. Wednesday, Feb. 27 several musicians will explore the art of the tape loop at the all-ages club Northern in downtown Olympia. "The Yes And No in All Things: Magnetism in Soundcraft will
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Take an international cast, a rolling landscape in Flint, Mich., the thundering music of Red Hex and the twisted, talented mind of Isaac Olsen and you have German expressionist art film, Ich Hunger. "I've always wanted to something a lot more abstract and experimental," says Olsen, who has also directed the film
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HOMELESS OUT OF SEATTLE >>> The memory part of my ageing brain fails to dredge up a clear picture of where I first saw Mary Larson's portraits of homeless people in Seattle. I think it was some documentary on telvision, or perhaps I walked into some gallery in the
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Here are four reasons yo should head to Northern on Sunday to catch a live performance featuring R. Stevie Moore, LAKE and Visiting Nurses. 1. R. Stevie Moore! Moore is the kind of outsider-genius-weirdo-musician that consumes whole websites and books. The son of famed Elvis sideman Bob Moore, R. Stevie Moore
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What's your perfect day? I'm not asking a question; the question is the name of Argonaut's latest EP, released on Strange Earth Records. If your perfect day has anything to do with rock 'n' roll that's heavy in sound and heart, that's saturated with the sweat of hard and pounding drums;
