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Tacoma Art Supply Break out the party hats and cupcakes. There’s a celebration in the works at Tacoma Art Supply, whose owners recently celebrated surviving the first year of owning a new business. And while the actual “opening day” was July 27, with a couple of unofficial first sales even before the
Concert Alert
We list major concerts going on sale this weekend, as well as national touring acts performing in the Puget Sound this week and down the road. SECRET TICKET CODE TM = Ticketmaster, 253.627.TIXS, www.ticketmaster.com TW = TicketsWest, 800.325.SEAT, www.ticketswest.com TWEB = Ticketweb, 866.468.7623, www.ticketweb.com >>> ON SALE NOW Nellie McKay Seattle. Sept. 10-11 7:30 pm. $24.50
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As much as I've always enjoyed the tone of bluegrass, I've tended to think that a lot of the bands in that genre more often than not sound very similar. There's not much distinction, I've found. While The Bottlecap Boys are planted firmly in the bluegrass niche - with some
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Without slipping into needless hyperbole, I'm just going to go ahead and say that the Cutwinkles are a Tacoma institution. Formed at the Tacoma School of the Arts about a decade ago, they established themselves as a genuinely unique entity in these parts. Armed with an unhealthy preoccupation with video
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Imagine sitting close enough to a stage to feel the breeze off a dancer's pirouette, or to hear the shuffle of feet and the sound of bodies as they rise and fall. Now imagine watching these dancers on a 4-by-4 foot stage. This is the appeal of Ten Tiny
Food Matters
BEER & ICE CREAM Like beer? How about ice cream? How about combined? Pint Defiance (2049 Mildred St. W., Tacoma) hosts your perfect end of summer event. That's right, summer isn't just for the kiddos anymore. Pint Defiance is partnering with local hand-crafting, frosty treat geniuses Ice Cream Social to make
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The Vancouver, B.C., band's debut album, A Foot Was As Long As... A Foot!, is packed to the brim with odd ideas and unbridled energy. The songs whip by, with none of them even approaching the two-minute mark, riding high on punk rhythms and fiery accordion. "I'm stimulated by the absurdity
Music
All-ages venue Northern in Olympia hosts a cool event Friday, Sept. 6. Follow me on this one. The evening's event - deemed "Analogue Resurgence Tour" and brought to you by Three Peas Records - will be a musical and cinematic collaboration between the very talented Russ Forster and Skizz Cyzyk.
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French filmmakers' influence in shaping the world of cinema can't be overstated, and any effort to adequately convey the fullness of that influence within the limits of this article would fall far short. You'll just have to trust me when I say that it is a treat
Show And Tell
In a series of commercials for Paul Masson champagne, (which you should definitely look up on YouTube, but I digress), the late, great Orson Welles once opined, "Ah, the French..." and while Welles then went on to extol the virtues of moderately priced champagne that was somehow French despite being
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The Washington State History Museum is taking a step back in time to study one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries: the 1971 disappearance of skyjacker D.B. Cooper from a plane traveling from Portland to Sea-Tac. A grand opening public event of the Cooper exhibit will take place Aug. 24. The celebration
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Luke Winslow-King charms his way through a cross-pollination of rickety jazz, Delta-folk and gospel-blues that is both rustic and elegant. That's not a knock. Yes, he's charming, but the 30-year-old musician also has studied pre-war blues and traditional jazz relentlessly, gaining confidence and control that comes across effortless, as if
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It's time again for Oly's favorite backyard skate jam - the Stupid Fucking Ramp Party (SFRP) - a place for ripping, riding, and hanging out with beers, barbeque and bands. Fitz of Depression is playing this year with the Have At Its and DJs Mike Corvin and Dalton Goodwin spinning
Listings
ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Cascadia Grill Olympia - Downtown. Jeremy Serwer. All Ages. 6-9 pm. NC. Curran Apple Orchard Park - University Place. Summer Concerts, featuring 133rd Washington Army National Guard Band. All Ages. 6:30 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia -
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Matrix Coffee House Lewis County. Sharon Knight. All Ages. 8 pm. $7-$15. BLUES Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Jerry Miller. 9 pm. Olympia Farmers Market Olympia - Downtown. Scuff & Al. All Ages. 11 am. NC. Little Creek Casino Shelton. Sean Lewis. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Collin Moulton. 8
