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The 25Z60 (Tacoma/Olympia/Lacey & beyond) chapter of The Universal Zulu Nation is hosting a free party in celebration of Hip-Hop History Month for any and everyone who respects and loves hip-hop. There will be MCs, DJs, B-Boy/Girls and visual arts/graffiti cyphers all night. The Zulu Nation and Temple of Hip-Hop
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Michael Moore is a legend to certain Gen-X liberals like myself. Just as mainstream journalism was beginning its downward descent into sensationalism, partisanship and - well, let's not sugarcoat it - outright lying, Moore came along. Combining investigative reporting with a sometimes-mischievous sense of humor, the documentarian from Flint, Michigan,
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"Pop Departures" at Seattle Art Museum is a look back at work by the leading pop artists of the 1960s and a jump forward to more contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons, Margaria Cabrera and Mickalene Thomas who continue to follow in the footsteps of those bad boys. There are whole
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At intermission, one of the patrons at St. Martin's University's production of Uncle Vanya said, "I hope there's a happy ending." "Sweetheart, please," his companion replied, laughing. "This is Chekhov. Chekhov never ends happily." Even casual theatergoers are familiar with the name of turn-of the-20th-century Russian playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Few, however,
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This is a huuuuuge week for live music in T-town, so when our esteemed editor insisted on squeezing in an obscure folk-and-blues band from Santa Cruz, I was intrigued. Then I listened to the album, and all became clear. Marty O'Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra is one hell of
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German Romantic composer who, all his life, aspired to be a Classicist in the Beethoven mold - to the extent that he refused to allow titles tacked onto any of his instrumental-genre works: symphonies, concertos, string quartets and quintets, piano trios and quartets, piano sonatas,
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Jackie Fender, Weekly Volcano cohort and one of the Gritty City's art scene and literary superstars, is about to step things up a notch. She and fellow Volcano scribe Joshua Swainston are releasing the first print collection of stories and poems from their online literary destination, CreativeColloquy.com. I chose this
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The holiday shopping season has likely already started for many, but really kicks into high gear with the rapidly approaching Black Friday, followed closely by Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. While Small Business Saturday has made a point of sticking up for local businesses, there's still a heavy focus
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Then there's Alice Cooper, born Vincent Furnier, who pretty much invented live heavy metal spectacle. Long before Britney Spears draped a serpent awkwardly about her neck, Cooper was welcoming us to his nightmare by tossing a live chicken (not, as press reports claimed the next day, biting its head off),
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I imagine there was a time when my parents lamented the passing of doo-wop from their radio dial. Then Bruno Mars came along. So perhaps one day, when I'm old and decrepit, I'll be surprised and delighted by the return of wailing, distortion-crazed electric guitars to popular music. As it
