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Two tapestry shows opened simultaneously in Tacoma. Small Tapestry International 3: Outside the Line at Handforth Gallery in the downtown Tacoma Library is a show of international tapestry artists, which will be on display until Aug. 3. TAPS Contained at Brick House Gallery features the works of local and regional
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[ALT ROCK} + FRI, JUNE 28 Some people just have it in their blood. It keeps them up at night, recalling a riff, imagining hook with melody, composing and writing and fretting until music simply explodes from them. Other people have it in their blood to take the dreams of those
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In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter poses this riddle: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Alice asks for the answer, at which point the Hatter admits that he has no clue what the answer is. Yes, readers said to Carroll, ad nauseam, but what really is the
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Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn. is rich with history. From the early 1900s through the '40s, it was swinging - every club and restaurant was filled with solemn saxophone, upbeat piano, gritty, soulful voices and even the occasional jug band. Jazz artists were fusing with blues legends like B.B. King, Muddy Waters
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Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn. is rich with history. From the early 1900s through the '40s, it was swinging - every club and restaurant was filled with solemn saxophone, upbeat piano, gritty, soulful voices and even the occasional jug band. Jazz artists were fusing with blues legends like B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Louis Armstrong to help
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The Weekly Volcano doesn’t cover much kid stuff, but that’s not because we don’t like kids. It’s just that there are so many adult things to do. So here’s an exception: Randy Oxford’s Blues Theatre Wednesday open jam allows kids to jump on the stage from 8 to 9 p.m. They
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All of you dearly-devoted readers know what a fierce advocate I am for public transportation, especially Pierce Transit. And hooray, I‘ve discovered one more way that Pierce Transit really, truly is the Scene of the Crime. The Husky, being of sound mind and body, offered us a public transportation concept that was
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,
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An almost too obvious entry point for the kind of satirical Americana of Shotgun Kitchen would be their spiritual forefather, John Prine. Just as Prine had a tendency to almost undermine salient points in his songs by making stoned-out, hallucinatory jokes about chasing rainbows down the street and nonchalantly tossing
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I suppose it's fitting that the Mormon Trannys will be gracing Olympia with their presence on a Sunday. I also suppose there's no way for me to really know if they're actually scorned former members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, like they claim, but what is utterly apparent
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The Raven and the Writing Desk are about confounding expectations. A six-piece outfit from Denver, the Raven and the Writing Desk's music initially conjures up connections to bands like DeVotchKa (another literary allusion) and Beirut - these purveyors of gypsy-and-otherwise-worldly musical strains. It's notable that the heart of the Raven
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A stalwart in the Tacoma community - as a musician, bartender and all-around good guy, Brian Redman was killed when he crashed his scooter in September 2009. In the years following his brother's death, Jim Redman and a circle of family and friends have thrown a benefit concert and poker tournament to
Food Matters
POURING PICASSOGet creative while sipping on Washington wine varietals when Art House Café (111 N. Tacoma Ave., Tacoma) presents "Pouring Picasso." Whether a newbie looking to express your creative side or a professional artist looking to sip some wine and meet new like-minded folks, Pouring Picasso is a great resource
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You're likely to hear lots of noise coming out of Olympia this weekend. While that might not be news to some, the strange sounds emanating from the city will be calculatedly noisy. In its 19th year, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival features bands from near and far who favor
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You're likely to hear lots of noise coming out of Olympia this weekend. While that might not be news to some, the strange sounds emanating from the city will be calculatedly noisy. In its 19th year, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival features bands from near and far who favor
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You're likely to hear lots of noise coming out of Olympia this weekend. While that might not be news to some, the strange sounds emanating from the city will be calculatedly noisy. In its 19th year, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival features bands from near and far who favor
Music
You're likely to hear lots of noise coming out of Olympia this weekend. While that might not be news to some, the strange sounds emanating from the city will be calculatedly noisy. In its 19th year, the Olympia Experimental Music Festival features bands from near and far who favor experimentalism, texture,
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Some people just have it in their blood. It keeps them up at night, recalling a riff, imaging hook with melody, composing and writing and fretting until music simply explodes from them. Other people have it in their blood to take the dreams of those musicians and polish, re-arrange, edit, and
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All you need is love, or so Lennon and McCartney would have you believe; and although the Beatles' 1967 ballad is nowhere to be found on the film's soundtrack, (Dean Martin's "That's Amore" does an excellent job serving as the film's leitmotif), it seems the Fab Four's sentiment remains intact
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New Orleans in the early 1900s was marked by extreme poverty among blacks and a brutal police force with a history of spying on African-American churches. Rural blues and the voice-like instrumentals of black church music poured into New Orleans like a river of polyrhythms, changing the European dynamics of
