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If we've already lost your mind to junior high level snickering, it's probably for the best. This event is too classy for you anyway. Sunday, in an extremely rare musical spectacle, the Seattle Men's Chorus and the Seattle Women's Chorus will join forces to offer what's sure to be a
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Even before the Weekly Volcano's Joe Izenman can review the play for print next week, check out local playwright Elliot Weiner's Brunch, opening Friday at Tacoma Little Theatre. A comedy built on friendships and the challenges they create, Brunch is the latest theater gem to come to us via Weiner,
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Mangan's paintings are inventive, thought provoking, humorous, technically marvelous and beautifully composed. What more can you ask of a painting? A painting can't feed the hungry of stop war or heal a broken heart, but it can remind us that the world we live in is not all humdrum
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Stop your goddamn giggling and get onboard with Pokey LaFarge. Yes, dagnabbit, his name IS Pokey LaFarge! Shilling a brilliant new record, Riverboat Soul, and coming the Mandolin Café in Tacoma Thursday and Olympia on Saturday with his band, The South City Three, guitarist LaFarge will bust out the old-time
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Here's what we know. Tacoma has this local, TW. He's mildly insane, builds kick-ass custom bikes, and rumor has it he's currently shooting the pilot for a reality television show based on him helping at-risk youths keep their noses clean through the magic of custom bike making. We also know,
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Lakewood nonprofit Rally Point 6 is about transition and community. A rally point is a location on a mission route where soldiers can link up to during the completion of a mission. The phrase "I've got your 6," means that your comrades have your back protected. Taken together, the name conveys that a
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Skansie Brothers Park Gig Harbor. Billy Farmer. All Ages. 12 pm. NC. A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Kevin Jones. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. The guitarist, singer/songwriter performs during dinner. All Ages. 7-9
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Open Mic, hosted by Steve Stefanowicz. 21+. 7 pm. N BLUES Red Wind Casino Yelm. Alice Stuart. 21+. 6:30 pm. Summit
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BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Cold Shot, A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan. 21+. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC The New Frontier Lounge Tacoma - Dome District. Grit Rock, with DJ Darren Selector. 21+. 9 pm. NC. O'Malley's Irish Pub Tacoma - Sixth Avenue.
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Bacon Moon's name may conjure up the fleet of psychedelic bands that sound as if they picked their names from words in a hat (Strawberry Alarm Clock, et al.), but Bacon Moon's music is firmly planted in the lo-fi alternative rock of the early '90s. Upon listening to Bacon Moon, after
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[INDIE ROCK] + FRI, SEPT. 5 Casey Neill and the Norway Rats are steeped in Portland's eclectic music scene. From dusty rockers to seafaring folk expeditions, the band comes across like the sort of people who gleefully dig through crates of forgotten troubadours from the '60s and '70s. Featuring the essential
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Thursday, June 17 New Label Releases tasting, 5:30-8 p.m., complimentary, Pour At Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Walter Dacon Wine Dinner, 7 p.m., $90, Dockside Bistro and Wine Bar, 501 Columbia NW, Olympia, 360.956.1925. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday,
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THE RED HOT ON TV The Food Network's crew filmed inside The Red Hot on Sixth Avenue in early for a Seattle/Tacoma production of their popular show Chefs Vs. City - in which two celebrity chefs compete against two local foodies. The show will finally air Friday, June 18 at 10 p.m.
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For me, there's been a particularly distasteful and wrongheaded aspect of the rampant - and cliché - shit-talking aimed at so-called "hipsters" and their music. Just to get the obvious out of the way, there is no such thing as a hipster. It's a made-up thing, and what little semblance
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INDIAN FOOD MARKET Bucks Fifth Avenue spice store (209 Fifth Ave. SE, Olympia) hosts virtual tours of world food markets. Saturday, Sept. 13, 1:15-3 p.m., expect to see, smell and taste an Indian food market. Watch a food demo by host Kavita Kamat and take home recipes and $5 worth of
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Walt McClements, formerly a multi-instrumentalist in bands such as Dark Dark Dark and Hurray for the Riff Raff, has struck out on his own with a one-man operation called Lonesome Leash. Armed only with drums (either preprogrammed or live), his voice and an accordion, Lonesome Leash achieves quite a great
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As a band name, Golden Hour sounds like it would give you a pretty clear idea of what to expect - when using the term for photography, golden hour (or magic hour or lavender hour) denotes the period just before sunset when everything is slightly aglow with a reddish hue,
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The Laughs & Lyrics Comedy Series highlights local and national comedians on a monthly, and soon to be weekly basis, at The Sampan Restaurant & Grill in Olympia. Laughs & Lyrics 5 features New York's Anthony "Harlem" Blu, Tacoma's Frank Brown (by way of Valdosta, Georgia) and another T-town (by way
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Ronnda Cadle. All Ages. 1 pm. NC. Engine House No. 9 Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Steve Stefanowicz. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Center For Spiritual Living - Tacoma. Teresa Tudury, JW McClure. All Ages. 7 pm. $15.
