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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. The Cantrells. All Ages. 8 pm. $10-$15. BLUES Red Bicycle Bistro and Sushi Bar Vashon. Black River Blues Band. All Ages. 8:30 pm. NC. Doyle's Public House Tacoma - Stadium District. Stagecoach Nettie & The Wolf Tones. 9:30 pm. NC.
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A proper burlesque show - in the vaudevillian sense of the term, not the hipster reclaiming sense - is all about excess and spectacle. It's a variety show, featuring not just the burlesque dancers, but music, costume contest, raffles and oddities. Tacoma's resident burlesque troupe, the Gritty City Sirens, will
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Bird lovers from far and wide will flock (get it?) to Tacoma for the 10th annual Bird Lovers' Weekend at the Museum of Glass. Events kick off Thursday with the opportunity to make your own glass bird from 5-7 p.m. in the Hot Shop, iittala master glassblowers Arto Lahtinen and
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Want to get the feel of Cuba? Go to Miami. Let's face it, with such a small Cuban population, Tacoma is typically deprived of the multitudes of cultural goodies that emanate from Fidel's little isle 90 miles off the Keys. But yearly, to the rescue comes the Tacoma-Cienfuegos Sister City's
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. Traditions Cafe and World Folk Art Olympia - Downtown. Bill Staines. All Ages. 7 pm. $10-$15. BLUES 2 Mile House Olympia - Westside. Blues Bentley Band Sunday Jam. 5-8 pm. NC. Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South.
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That big collective groan you may have heard or felt reverberating throughout Tacoma was for the loss of preeminent music promoter Ted Brown who passed away Sept. 25. He was 61. I can't remember the exact moment I met Ted because I feel like I've known him all my life.
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"Would you like a hand-washing and lotion treatment?" the Mary Kay representative asked me. Somewhat surprised as I stood in a sea of the fairer sex, I managed to say no. Undeterred, the woman continued to ask me if I would like the treatment. I gave in. My hands underwent a softening treatment,
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BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. Dean Reichert Band. 7 pm. NC. The Swiss Tacoma - Downtown. Phil Berchowitz & Ben Rice. 8 pm. Stonegate Pizza Tacoma - South. Rafael Tranquilino
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Technically, Oct. 5 was Star Wars Reads Day, a celebration of youth lit highlighting the "Expanded Universe" of books and comics set in that galaxy far, far away. The Puyallup Public Library may be a tad late to the game, but they're chiming in hardcore with
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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. BLUES Summit Pub Puyallup. Tim Hall & The Band Real Times. 7:30 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool
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Tacoma's Head Bookworm Erik Hanberg is everywhere. If he's not helping old ladies across the street, or building little houses for squirrels at every park in Tacoma, or designing a marketing program with his wife, or ballroom dancing to raise money for charities, or giving local dignitaries a ride on
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Ted Brown Music Company Tacoma - South. Uke 'An Jam. All Ages. 6:30-8 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. COMEDY/GAMES Cascade Community
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Amid body odor intensified by the moist New York City night and swirling booze breath, I sat mesmerized, paralyzed into reverence by the loud, heavy, emotional music. It was November 2004, a few days after stuffing myself with turkey and watching giant pretty balloons pass down Central Park West, I
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To acknowledge my bias up front, I could rant on for thousands of words about the reasons I hate C.S. Lewis. I find his Christian apologias patronizing if not simpleminded. His children's books, about an allegorical wonderland called Narnia, are as inconsistent and illogical as the stories on which they're
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The dress-code is as follows: Headsweats' Snowflake Performance Beanie, Long-Sleeve Crew Top from C9 by Champion, Sugoi's Sakura Arm Warmers, PDQ Hoodie, C9 Straight-Leg Fitted Running Pant and Trekker Fleece Gloves. This outfit will suffice to enjoy the Priscilla Dobler's textile art. You see, Dobler will be creating artwork for
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Little antique stores have their appeal, but sometimes it's nice to take a giant approach to antique shopping - that is, you stop at one big place and find everything. Sanford and Son Antiques stocks all sorts of old knickknacks and goodies in a three-floor maze of awesomeness. Griswold cast-iron
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Harlequin's production revives the set and concept of a '98 run, for which director Scot Whitney pared Shakespeare's cast down to six men and two women. The actors play actors, who spill out of a roadside pageant wagon. (Like Henry himself, the pageant wagon approach was centuries
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The first thing that has to be said about Henry V is it wasn't the first thing that had to be said. That's because it isn't a sequel, it's a fourquel, expanding on characters who first appear in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2. Luckily, as
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The 71 drawings in Marilyn Frasca's "Like This" at Childhood's End are stunning. It is an exhibition of drawings done since 2001. All of the drawings are done with pastel or other media drawn into monoprints. Each picture tells a story, be it the story of Squaxin Indians
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The 71 drawings in Marilyn Frasca's "Like This" at Childhood's End are stunning. It is an exhibition of drawings done since 2001. All of the drawings are done with pastel or other media drawn into monoprints. Each picture tells a story, be it the story of Squaxin Indians recreating an
