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Time flies when you're having fun and doing something that needs to be done. So is the story of the Northwest Convergence Zone weekly podcasts, which will celebrate its first birthday Saturday with a big-ass throw-down at Stonegate Pizza featuring musical guests The Legend of Bigfoot, Big Wheel Stunt Show,
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Throwing a "@" in the name of something automatically makes it a little cooler. Just ask the Den. Tacoma Musical Playhouse and Lance Buller know this all too well, which may be why they call their annual jazz-tastic concert series jazz@TMP - hitting TMP Saturday and bring together the amazing
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While you may never become America's Next Top Poet -maybe you would enjoy checking out the monthly Speak Your Soul open mic - this month setting up shop at the event's new location, The Den @ UrbanXchange. Held the first Friday of every month - this month's Speak Your Soul
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The spirit of Brian Redman - musician, bartender, friend, superhero - still hangs heavy over Tacoma; it always will. The man touched so many lives, a fact evident long before the tragic scooter accident that took his life last September. Tuesday, Doyle's Public House will hold Rock in Peace 2,
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On Friday, Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist - who was appointed to the position after Gerry Horne retired last year - will kick off his first bid for official election with what we can only expect to be a star-studded "kick off party" - which in the business of politics,
Operation Family Support
Kim Roeddle loves to organize events. "It is a strength I have," she commented as she sat in a local coffee shop. "I like to think outside of the box." A veteran journalist and committed military wife, Roeddle is the driving force behind the area's first ever Liberty Natural Beauty Pageant. "This event
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When Olympia and public access television combine, well, the results can be downright spectacular - or, at the very least, pretty entertaining to watch when you're high. So is the story of Dance Oly Dance, the famed Thurston County TV (TCTV) show that features gyrating, Olympia absurdity at 8 p.m.
Veterans
The Defense Finance and Accounting will resume recoupment of military retirees' Voluntary Separation Incentive, Special Separation Benefit and other separation payments in August, the organization announced recently. VSI, SSB and certain other separation payments, such as severance pay, were offered to active duty military members in an effort to reduce manpower
Music
Pioneer is a not a title to be used lightly and tossed about like a Nerf ball, but those who earn the distinction should be recognized and respected for their accolades. Steve "O" Brown is one such pioneer. Specifically, Brown has been a major player in the Northwest music industry,
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Very few experiences make me appreciate where I live. I've traveled a bit, but not much around this country. I have discovered that Tacomans are not that different from anyone else, until last week when I traveled to the East Coast for my nephew's college graduation. I couldn't find a decent
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Skansie Brothers Park Gig Harbor. Billy Farmer. All Ages. 12 pm. NC. Sax Restaurant and Lounge Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Olivia De La Cruz. The guitarist, singer/songwriter performs during dinner. All Ages. 7-9 pm. Free. Hannah's Bar & Grille Olympia - Downtown. Open Mic. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC O'Blarney's Irish Pub Olympia - Eastside. Irish Sessions. Live traditional Irish music. 7:30 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Nick & The Jungle Band. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Open Mic, hosted by Steve
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BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Billy Roy Danger & The Rectifiers. 21+. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC Muckleshoot Indian Casino Auburn. Club Video. 21+. 8 pm. NC. Happy Days Casino Lakewood. DJ dance. Top 40. 21+. 9 pm. NC. O'Malley's Irish Pub Tacoma - Sixth
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If little red Porsches are for emasculated middle-aged men and monster trucks are for tattooed mullet-heads in muscle shirts, what rides do cool guys roll in? The answer idles among the motorcycles in the third annual Vintage Motorcycles Festival Aug. 23. That's right, see how they made them when they
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Dug out one of my old Soundgarden records this week. Not the obvious Superunknown. Not the purist Louder Than Love. Nah, I went for the big, bloated granddaddy of all grungedaddies Soundgarden album, Badmotorfinger - the masterwork that rates up there with Nevermind as one of the defining, sludgy, glorious
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Saturday Aug. 16, the Celebrating Military Service parade filled the streets of downtown Tacoma with military personnel and hardware. Hosted by the Daffodil Festival and the city of Tacoma, the parade was started to honor to service members in the area. This is the parade's second year. 2nd Lt. Sean Andrascik,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Engine House No. 9 Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Billy Farmer. All Ages. 6 pm. NC. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Makedonians. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Phil Hansen. All Ages. 1 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Chehalis. The Brass Menazeri, Mark Growden, Seth Augustus. All Ages. 8 pm. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill
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Though they never claim to be a goth band, C'est La Mort have been featured in a book about the subject, Music to Die For. Rather, C'est La Mort make a kind of music that is beholden to the ‘80s and ‘90s underground - incorporating elements of the dark pop and
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Originally hailing from Spokane, Pegasus Dream is an exciting synth-based pop outfit coming out of Portland. Their hook-based compositions immediately recall Of Montreal's post-Satanic Panic in the Attic electronics-infused rebirth (picture the obligatory glam, bedazzled phoenix rising from the ashes). The youthful trio - not content to simply roll out
