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Everyone eats sandwiches. After all, it's hard to really screw up a sandwich, since it requires just enough skill to slap a couple of slices of meat and maybe a little cheese between two pieces of bread. But by the same token, it's also hard to elevate
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And if you desperately missed all the snow and ice denied us this season, or, like me, prefer watching all winter activities through an indoor screen, the Capitol Theater has an event that should make both camps happy. Friday, March 8, the Olympia Film Society and The
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Spar Cafe Olympia - Downtown. Kendl Winter. 8 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Triangle District. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm. Forza Coffee Fircrest. Larry Luvaul. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Curtis Salgado. 8 pm. $15. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Neil Brennan. 8 and
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For those looking for blues in our area need look no further than Friday's show at Jazzbones, when Portland-based Curtis Salgado takes the stage. As far as Northwest blues legends go, they don't get much bigger than Salgado, who served as the inspiration for John Belushi's creation of the Blues
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. Caleb Ross. All Ages. 7 pm. $6. Vashon Methodist Church - Vashon. Free Range Folk Choir. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Sylvia Herold & The Rhythm Bugs. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. COMEDY/GAMES Grit
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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. Vashon Maury Senior Center - Vashon. Great Singers Series: 3 Spanish Operatic Greats. All Ages. 2 pm. NC. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues
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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
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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 Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool
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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. Crazy Texas Gypsies Open Jam. 8 pm. Midtown Grill
Music
My first encounter with Red Hex's singer/guitarist Sam Olsen was at his home while he tested out his recently acquired reverb tank. I use the word "tested" loosely. The test consisted of Olsen plugging in his Epiphone Sheraton and kicking the absolute hell out of the surprisingly resilient piece of
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Grab the nearest mouth guard, roller derby is back in Tacoma. Actually, it has been here for some time. And, it's in Lakewood. That said, the Dockyard Derby Dames open its season Saturday night at the Pierce College Health Education Center. For the uninitiated, the all-female flat-track roller derby team
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It may be grayer than Bea Arthur's pixie cut outside, but not so inside King's Books Wednesday. The Tacoma bookstore's Scrabble Rabble tournament allows participants to establish their own skill levels and compete with others for glory. The Weekly Volcano has always enjoyed hanging onto the "Q," where it hangs
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ST. PATRICK'S DAY PREFUNK March 17 doesn't have to be the only day you celebrate libations brought to you by the Irish. Thursday, March 14 Boathouse 19 (9001 S. 19th St., Tacoma) will host a Jameson Irish Whiskey tasting event. From 6:30 to 9 p.m. you can sip on the brown
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You may not be familiar with the wrestling phenomenon known as lucha libre, but it's all the rage in Mexico, where its popularity lags only behind that of soccer. Like American professional wrestling, it has its heroes (técnicos) and its villains (rudos), and it attracts shapely women. Unlike WWE matches,
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Friday, at Urban Grace Church in Tacoma, The Warehouse kicks off its 2013 Candle Lit series with the super dynamic and super talented Damien Jurado with guests Jake Hemming and Amelia Saakian. "Damien Jurado is quite possibly one of the best singer/songwriters many of us get the pleasure of experiencing," says
Veterans
Rally Point 6 is a local and innovative service program and resource center for Servicemembers, veterans and their families expected to launch later this year. As "The Ranger" reported earlier, it will be a "one-stop-shop" that will house community based care, important resources and support in one convenient location. Rally Point
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At the opening for the art installation, "It's Alright To Cry," there will be performances from three Olympia mainstays who have nothing but killed it for a long time: Broken Water, LAKE and Karl Blau. I can't impress upon you enough just what a powerhouse lineup this is. In particular,
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Comedic country/western punk musicians Brent Amaker and The Rodeo are galloping into Olympia this Friday to turn The Royal Lounge into a corral of fun-lovin' rockers with the help of local bad boys, The Dirty Birds. Amaker and crew have just been signed to Fin Records and will be releasing
