Food Matters
THURSDAY NIGHT THROWDOWN The folks at Valhalla Coffee Co (3928 Sixth Ave., Tacoma) take their roasted bean biz seriously and prove it by hosting #TNTNW - aka Thursday Night Throwdown Northwest - showcasing local barista talents making latte art from 7-9 p.m. Feb. 27. The $5-buy-in-winner-takes -all event is open to
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May as well get this out of the way right now: TBASA is not an acronym. Rather, it's a sort of convenient mashup of one guy's name. Tim Basaraba is a restlessly inventive singer-songwriter, beginning his musical life in Idaho as a punk singer, and subtly merging into a genre-hopping
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"Come out and get some Hugs" stated Big Wheel Stunt Show's Facebook, just above the link to the band's event page, "Last Ride of the Big Wheel. ..." Yup, the beloved trio announced it would disband earlier this month, and they're making good on their promise Saturday. But this is
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Look, at this point the Pacific Northwest - not to mention the current pop landscape in general - is choked with folk-rock revivalists. Bands like Mumford & Sons, the Lumineers and even American Idol winners (good lord, Phillip Phillips) have taken to appropriating folk and bluegrass and imbuing with a
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Seagull Invasion list their music as "funk slip slop slurp," and that's as good a place to start as anywhere. From the rubbery first beats of their song, "Oop," it's clear that Seagull Invasion are approaching everything from a skewed angle. Drum machine clatter is engulfed in elastic guitars and
Music
The notion of "ideas worth spreading" is a broad one, but it's one that will be explored when TEDxTacoma comes to the Theatre on the Square. TED, of course, standing for "technology, entertainment and design," these speaking engagements always draw a wide range of presenters with divergent backgrounds, all talking
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This week the entire bill rules. I wish I had room to dive into the history these bands have, how deep their ties to the music scene run, how stellar their dynamic is, like the patterns of a mandala, reaching into the organisms of time and space and stitching elements
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BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Billy Shew Band Open Jam Session. 8 pm. NC. Eagle's Hall Olympia - Downtown. OlyBlues Dance Night. Third floor, no partner necessary. All Ages. 9 pm. $5. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andy Haynes. 8 pm. $15.
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COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andy Haynes. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Rex Navarrette. 8:30 pm. $15. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Magic At Your Table, with Cary Durgin. 6 pm. NC. DJ/ELECTRONIC Blue Heron Arts Center Vashon.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Judy Fjell. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. Theatre on the Square Tacoma - Downtown. Project Trio. All Ages. 7:30 pm. $22-$36. COMEDY/GAMES Tacoma Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Andy Haynes. 8 and 10:30 pm. $15. Grit City
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. Open mic format with Pam Carter from Classic Case as the host. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Golden Bough. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$15. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Lacey Timberland Library Lacey. Joe & Paula McHugh: Green Fields Of America. All Ages. 4 pm. Metronome Coffee Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery. 6:30pm. NC. BLUES The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Blues County Sheriffs. 8 pm. Uncle Sam's American Bar &
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Acoustic open mic hosted by Leanne Trevalyan. 8 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Oly Songwriter Circle. All Ages. 7 pm. NC. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Open Mic Night. 9 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Northern Olympia - Downtown. Diane Cluck, Sondra Sun-Odeon, Eleanor Murray. All Ages. 8 pm. $5. Tugboat Annies Olympia - Westside. Irish Session. All Ages. 8-10 pm. NC. Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 pm. NC. BLUES The Spar Tacoma -
