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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC 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. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Seven's Revenge. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Rikk Beatty. All Ages. 8
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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. Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. St. Practice Day, featuring The Boys Of Greenwood Glen. 21+. 9 pm. NC. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. James May. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Phil Berkowitz & The Dirty Cats. 21+. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 21+. 7 pm. NC. Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Movie Night! 21+. 7 pm. DJ/ELECTRONIC Muckleshoot Indian Casino
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If you're at all interested in seeing next weekend's Music and Art in Wright Park festival, it'd be best for you to come to The New Frontier Lounge on Saturday, where you'll get to preview several of the bands that will grace the Wright Park stage - including Basemint, Cody
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Hall of the Woods Olympia. Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits. All Ages. 9-11:30 pm. $7. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Part Of Fortune. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Engine House No. 9 Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Steve Stefanowicz. All Ages. 5 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South.
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Thursday, Aug. 12 Half-price Wine Bottle Night with two appetizer purchases, Tides Tavern, 2925 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, 253.858.3982. Wine tasting, noon to 6 p.m., complimentary, Walter Dacon Winery, 50 S.E. Skookum Inlet Road, Shelton, 360.426.5913. Friday, Aug. 13 Fridays Uncorked, 5-7:30 p.m., $12, Bayview School of Cooking, 516 W. Fourth Ave., Olympia, 360.754.1448. Wine
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NEW DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT A new restaurants called The Office Bar and Grill has opened 813 Pacific Ave. in downtown Tacoma, the spot formerly occupied by Merende. The Office serves burgers, pizza, sandwiches, salads and such. It's open 11 a.m. to midnight Sundays-Thursdays and 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Fridays-Saturdays. SWEET Sugar, an old-fashioned candy store,
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QUESTION: I started seeing this amazing guy, but had to initiate most of the making out. He soon dumped me, saying he has little experience and was freaking out. (He's 40, and has only had three girlfriends.) We got back together, but he still wasn't initiating, and six months in,
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Alyssa Chambo Benefit Concert featuring traditional music of Scotland and Ireland with Jamie Marshall and Annie Henry of Jug of Punch, Red McWilliamst, violinist Sunnie Larson and cellist Betsy Tinney and group jam. All Ages. 6 pm. Donations. Cafe Luna Vashon. Damon Buxton. All Ages. 7:30
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The last time Tacoma's newest and most energized country bar, Big Whisky Saloon, held a 100.7 FM The Wolf-hosted "Redneck Parking Lot Party" over 800 people showed up to suck up live country music, dance on the outdoor dance floor, drink cold beer, eat barbecue and ride "Bubba the Mechanical
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Have you heard of this Twitter thing? Yeah, we hadn't either. Apparently, though, a whole bunch of people are into it, and it's supposed to be the next big thing ... or something. We're not sure. We don't really get it. Once we learned about Twitter, we discovered a whole
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Cell phone towers are everywhere. They're a manifestation of the world we've created, and the evolution of human interaction. You can look at this as good or bad. Matthew M Johnson chooses to look at it through traditional charcoal and watercolor portraits - the results collectively titled Impersonal Portraits. "As the
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A.K. Mimi Allin's 15-minute Seaside Opera was actually inspired by Tollefson Plaza. No joke. As Allin says of her poetic opera, now set to be performed daily in the place that inspired it, "I can smell the water from Tollefson and long for it. ... I wanted to capitalize on
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The third annual Hip-Hop In the Park Festival is set to go down in People's Park Saturday, filling the bowled grass and surrounding streets with all things hip-hop: dancing, rapping, poetry, singing, antique shopping. OK, so antique shopping isn't hip-hop unless you're Kanye West, but that's not the point. The
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Ever wonder what Music and Art in Wright Park might look like without the rock? Well, there's a good example at Monarch Sculpture Park this week. The Art in the Park open house will open a retrospective exhibit of paintings, prints and sculptures by Valentine Welman, who had a long
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We'll take Military Rumors for $200, Alex. During the past few years, the Internet has been buried in a blizzard of myths, legends and bizarre rumors about the U.S. military. Some of these even turn out to be true. How good are you at separating the real from the hoax? Here
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The Invisible The producers of “The Sixth Sense” bring a stylized thriller to the screen that bares the interesting tag line: “How do you solve a murder, when the victim is you?” Not quite as good as “I see dead people,” but it has potential. In “The Invisible,” Nick (Justin Chatwin)
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Cropsey is a documentary examining the concept of the bogeyman - as legend, as reality and as a combination of the two. On Staten Island in the '70s and '80s, a story was passed around by local children about a man who lived in the woods. This man was often
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. 41 Miles. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Cafe Luna Vashon. Ken Jacobsen. All Ages. 7:30 pm. NC. BLUES Capitol Theater Olympia - Downtown. Shemekia Copeland. All Ages. 7 pm. $15-$20. Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Billy Shew Band. 21+. 7:30 pm. NC. JR's Hideaway Belfair. Johnny Ray Band. 21+. 9
