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JUNE 11-13: OLYMPIA EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL If you're down with the bizarre, you're probably down with the annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival, which will impregnate Northern and the Capitol Theater with three days of sonic meanderings and audio oddities this weekend. With a worthy lineup (click here), all you need to
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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. BLUES The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Black River Blues. 8 pm. NC. Dave's of Milton Milton. Blues Jam, hosted by Doug McGrew. 7:30 pm. NC.
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VEGETARIAN ENTERTAINING Chef Kelsang Tsoglam will teach a class on vegetarian cooking Tuesday, June 15 at 6 p.m. at the Bayview School of Cooking in Olympia. The cost is $45-$55. For reservations, or additional information, call 360.754.1448. WORKING WOMEN'S WEDNESDAYS Every Wednesday in June, Brooke and Monti from Movin 92.5 FM will be
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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. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. C.I. Shenanigans Tacoma - Northend. Live music on the patio. All Ages. 7-10 pm. NC. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia -
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Thursday, June 10 Corvus Cellars wine tasting with food pairings, beginning at 5:30 p.m. and runs all night, Brix 25, 7707 Pioneer Way, Gig Harbor, 253.858.6626. Charles Smith Wines tasting, 5:30-8 p.m., complimentary, Pour at Four, 3814 N. 26th St., Tacoma, 253.761.8015. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50
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One of the things I love, and there are many, about our South Sound theater community is that it's big enough to allow a broad spectrum of material. Some, obviously, I like more than the rest, but that diversity means I don't have to watch Grease or
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One of the things I love, and there are many, about our South Sound theater community is that it's big enough to allow a broad spectrum of material. Some, obviously, I like more than the rest, but that diversity means I don't have to watch Grease or Annie every year
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Even after serving in the Army, Michael Viti still felt the need to make a difference.Viti's vision, Mike's Hiking For Heroes (MHFH), is now a Freedom Has A Face project dedicated to honoring the legacy of every servicemember who has been killed in action during the Global War on Terror
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Antique Sandwich Company Ruston. Ancient Victorys Open Mike. This quarterly historic Open Mike brings back some of the 3,000 acoustic music performers from open mikes run by Chris Lunn in CA and WA from the 1965 through 1990. All Ages. 7 - 10pm. $5.00 general, $3.00 members,
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In the newest decades, psychedelia has solidified into something of a memory of what psych rock should look and sound like. Reverb has run rampant across the genre, with hazy, druggy vibes surging underneath even the most straightforward guitar rock. Local bands like the Night Beats have made a career
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We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Eric Bibb, Paul Midon Seattle. Sept. 9-10 7:30 pm. $24.50 (Jazz Alley, jazzalley.com) Diane
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It costs about $60 for a family of six to visit the Seattle Art Museum. If that same family visited the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, the cost would be about $40. However, from now until Labor Day 2010 more than 700 museums spread throughout all 50 states are offering
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What is absolutely the scariest ritual you can participate in Tacoma's Proctor District? How's a virgin sacrifice sound? Have a friend who's a wuss? Well, pack your knapsack full of rice, toast, water pistols, toilet paper and playing cards, and prepare to send your friend running
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For a band that was essentially formed on the whim of two people talking in a bar, with one of them not really knowing how to play an instrument, Killer Ghost is as tight of a band as is going on in the psych rock world. Their recent EP, Sad
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WINE FESTIVAL The Red Lion Hotel (2300 Evergreen Park Dr. SW, Olympia) invites you to "wine down" from summer at their Corks, Forks, Wine and Food Celebration at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21. The featured menu highlights Cuban-inspired flavors paired with an extensive wine selection. There will be music, dancing and fun
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It's my understanding that some people really like summer. I can't fathom what's wrong with these people, so I'll just have to take their word for it. If you're one of these mixed up people, it stands to reason that you wouldn't want summer to end so soon (as much
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Here's a striking bit of weirdness. Garlic Man and CHIKN are a rap collective, made up of two women who not afraid of exposing every nook and cranny of their oddest and sometimes most off-putting ideas. From the bracingly upfront sexuality of "DTF" to "Watch You"'s creepy ode to the
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Neutral Boy has been on the scene for years, punk rock staples. If you opened a fridge labeled Northwest Punk, Neutral Boy would be in the crisper, right next to the tall boys. Except for a few bands (you know who you are, assholes) and a couple limp burritos, the
