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Old Town is a cozy little business district that can be easily bypassed by those not in the know as they zip down Schuster to admire Ruston's waterfront attractions. Those that take the time to travel just one block up from Ruston to North 30th are in for a delightful
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Open Mic Night. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. Toscanos Cafe and Wine Bar Puyallup. Sean Lewis. 7 pm. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Amocat Cafe Tacoma - Triangle District. Amocat Live! featuring the Amocat House Band. All Ages. 7 pm. BLUES Vinum Coffee and Wine Lounge Tacoma - Downtown. Friday Night Blues, with T-Town Swing. All Ages. 8:30 pm. Rock The Dock Pub & Grill Tacoma - Downtown. Tim Hall Band. 9
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BLUES Little Creek Casino Shelton. John "Scootch" Cungo. 7 pm. NC. The Mountaineers Club - Tacoma. Old Town Rhythm & Blues Festival Mountaineers Stage, with Strange Nails, Gin Creek, Dean Reichart, James King & The Southsiders. 12 pm. Tacoma Music Society - Tacoma. Old Town Rhythm & Blues
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday Jam. 5-8 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Sunday
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The Tacoma Old Town Rhythm and Blues Festival, founded as the Tacoma Old Town Blues Festival in 1991 by Ted Brown and Mike Mitchell, will add more rhythm to the annual beloved blues festival. Saturday will find the festival back in Tacoma's Old Town Park on North
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This is a busy month for Old Town Tacoma. The Fourth of July drew thousands of South Sounders to the Freedom Fair along Ruston Way for an all-day celebration featuring live music, food vendors a spectacular air show - and, of course, the annual fireworks display off the barge. And
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Billy Pease, Paul Buck and Chris Gartland. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Palmer Junction. 8 pm. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino rockin' blues jam. 8 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Willoughby's Restaurant and Lounge
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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. Skansie Brothers Park Gig Harbor. Summer Sounds At Skansie, with 133rd Army National Guard Band. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. BLUES
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. St. Practice Day, with The Bog Hoppers. 9 pm. NC. BLUES The Royal Lounge Olympia - Downtown. Alice Stuart, with Dan Tyack. 7:30 pm. Charlie's Sports Bar and Grill Olympia - Downtown. Blues Jam with Blues Attitude. 9 pm. NC.
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Free stuff is good. Better yet, let's talk about free stuff for the entire family - Summerfest 2013. Tons of food, craft and nonprofit vendors will be on hand. (Read: more glass jewelry, organic food petitioners, and meat on a stick than your mom could ever dream of.) If you
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Will Farrell, Tom Hanks and Ernest Hemingway are born under the sign of cancer. In Olympia, Mark Bowen, of AKA and the Heart Hurt Goods, is a cancer too. Time to celebrate his 32nd orbit around the sun with an all out bash at The Royal featuring performances by Smoke of Old
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - A ready and resilient fighting force starts with a strong support system, and sometimes the best way to build that is by taking time off work to break out the grill. For military families, a party referred to as the Iron Luau, hosted by
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The bells ring at Mission San Juan Capistrano every spring to mark the day of the traditional annual return of the swallows to the city after the birds' journey of more than 5,000 miles from Argentina. The cash register rings at King's Books every summer to mark the day Pierce
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It's high time for a chicken-coop makeover. Just look at your coop with its rusty nails and splintery plywood frame, the dirty wire mesh walls and soiled dirt floor - none of it goes well with your teak loungers from Pottery Barn and copper birdbath from Smith & Hawken. You
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The original Flintstones TV cartoon series aired from 1960 to 1966 and was essentially an animated remake of the live-action sitcom The Honeymooners, which aired for the bulk of the '50s. In 1994, The Flintstones was turned into a live-action movie, which will be projected on a giant 40-foot outdoor
