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Dry Powder is billed as a comedy, and yes, there is a lot of humor in this tale of high-finance shenanigans. But there's a lot of searing drama as well, as Jenny (the versatile Helen Harvester), Jeff (the comedic Ryan Holmberg), Seth (film actor Brian S. Lewis) and Rick (South
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There are men and then there are men -- and then there was Sam Shepard. He was the kind of stolid, square-jawed Midwesterner who seemed born to play Captain America, the Marlboro Man or, if realism is preferred, legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager. That, in fact, is exactly whom Shepard
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Military Life
It's no secret that getting older isn't quite what younger versions of ourselves hoped it to be. As years pass, bedtimes are traded for backaches; summer vacations are forfeited for overtime; and the youthful, spritely mentality we once took for granted wanes as our age makes the steady numerical climb.
Nightlife It List
You the know the kind of metal that fuels bands to rock out in some sort of industrial plant with sparks flying everywhere, rubbing bare shoulders and admiring one another's golden long locks and perfectly ripped jeans? That's not Metal Mondays at The New Frontier Lounge. No, for the last few months
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Sean Merrick. All Ages. 6 pm. Hi-Fidelity Lounge Bremerton. The Cave Singers. 9 pm. $5 / Military NC. BLUES Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC. Midtown Grill Bonney Lake. Wednesday Night Blues Jam. All Ages. 7-11 PM. COMEDY/GAMES Pints & Quarts
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Geoffery Klok. All Ages. 6 pm. 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. BLUES Olympic Club Hotel and Theater Lewis County. Jon Koonce. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Hip Bone. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge Yelm. Bar Bingo. 7 pm. NC. Harmon Tap Room Tacoma - Stadium District. Tap Room Trivia. $50 cash prize for the winner of each round. 6-8 pm. Farrelli's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Northern Pacific Coffee Co. Tacoma - Parkland. Jeriactric Jazz. All Ages. 11 am-1 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Robbie Laws. 8 pm. City Hall Saloon and Eatery Enumclaw. Rockin' Blues Jam Session. Hosted by Max
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC LakeBridge Forza Lakewood. Micah Wyatt. All Ages. 5-6:30 pm. Dreadknot. All Ages. 7-9 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Plain & Simple. All Ages. 8 pm. $6. Cafe Luna Vashon. Scott McDougal. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. The Rick Gonzales Band. 7 pm. NC. BLUES Mandolin Cafe Tacoma
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Dave McGraw & Mandy Fer. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Harbor Greens/Forza Wine Bar Gig Harbor. Kelsie Bahr. 7 pm. NC. Mandolin Cafe Tacoma - Central. Nick Deonigi. All Ages. 8 pm. BLUES The Spar Olympia. Billy D. 8 pm. NC. Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Blues Brothers.
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BLUES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Jerry Miller Band. Tacoma favorite Jerry Miller playing blues/rock. 9 pm. DJ/ELECTRONIC The Acme Grub Cage Tacoma - Downtown. Til Thursday with DJ Aaron Mack. Alternative 80s, and beyond. 9 pm. NC. WORLD BEAT Emerald Queen Casino Tacoma - Eastside. Thanksgiving Asia Fest, featuring Dan Truong, Truong
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Shift happens. Especially during the holidays. That's the message from local community-building non-profit Go Local Tacoma, as it joins more than 150 communities across North America in the Shift Your Shopping holiday campaign, an unprecedented national effort that encourages residents to take job creation and economic
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Shift happens. Especially during the holidays. That's the message from local community-building non-profit Go Local Tacoma, as it joins more than 150 communities across North America in the Shift Your Shopping holiday campaign, an unprecedented national effort that encourages residents to take job creation and economic concerns into their own
Guides
Parties in general, but holiday parties in particular, are tentatively negotiable fields of landmines. The added pressure of, let's say, out-of-town relatives being in attendance, or the murky phenomenon that is the work party, can turn an otherwise genial get-together into a perpetually self-regenerating faux pas machine. As a man
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You have the tree picked out, every box of yard decorations categorized, and the yuletide music at full blast. Now all you need are some choice movies to fully embrace the reason for the season. At this time of year, more than any other (with Halloween as a possible exception),
Arts
In January, one of Tacoma's most beloved family-oriented nonprofits, the Children's Museum of Tacoma (CMOT), will celebrate the opening of a bigger and more up-to-date space for community kids to play with. Located inside the United Way of Pierce County's downtown Tacoma building, on South 15th
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In January, one of Tacoma's most beloved family-oriented nonprofits, the Children's Museum of Tacoma (CMOT), will celebrate the opening of a bigger and more up-to-date space for community kids to play with. Located inside the United Way of Pierce County's downtown Tacoma building, on South 15th Street and Pacific Avenue,
Military Life
In the coming months, the Defense Health Agency will implement significant changes to the TRICARE health benefit which will affect many of its 9.4 million patients worldwide. A sizable number of these TRICARE patients -- more than 281,000 -- live in the Puget Sound area. Beginning Nov. 12, TRICARE patients may choose
South Sound Cinema
It's the spookiest month, and thus the spookiest Three Easy Pieces, where I examine a corner of pop culture from its birth to today. I'm thinking, now, of horror movies. While horror has classically been shrugged off by the snooty gatekeepers of fine cinema, there's one subgenre that's even more
