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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. The Front. 7 pm. BLUES B Sharp Coffee House Tacoma - Downtown. The Boneyard Preachers. All Ages. 8 pm. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown. Comedian Dax Jordan. 8:30 and 10:30 pm. $15. Dave's of Milton Milton. Comedy Night, featuring
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Charlie's Restaurant Puyallup. Acoustic Jam Night. 6-9 pm. NC. BLUES Dawson's Bar and Grill Tacoma - South. Blues Jam, hosted by Tim Hall. 8 pm. The Spar Tacoma - Old Town. CD Woodbury. 7 pm. NC. Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Sunday Blues Jam Night.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Steilacoom Pub and Grill Steilacoom. Monday Music, featuring James Coates. 7 pm. BLUES Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill Spanaway. Blues Monday with Black Rose. 7 pm. NC. COMEDY/GAMES The Hub Tacoma - Stadium District. Bar Bingo. Cash prizes. 6-8 pm. Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma - Downtown.
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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. COMEDY/GAMES Westgate Bar and Grill Tacoma - Northend. Barstool Bingo. 6:30 pm. White Horse Tavern Yelm. Barstool Bingo. Prizes! 7 pm.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Le Voyeur Café and Lounge Olympia - Downtown. The Telephone Projects, Witch Prayer, Follies & Vices, Apollo Reid Sygmund. All Ages. 7 pm. A Rhapsody In Bloom Florist and Cafe Latte Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. Steve & Kristi Nebel. All Ages. 7 pm. Ted Brown Music Company
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Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound dedicates itself to protecting books, but come April 1 (no joke) it will eat them at the University's fourth Edible Books Festival. What is an edible book? Duh. An edible book is made of food and inspired by literary titles,
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Like controversy? We do. That's why we're pumped for playwright, comedian, actor and activist Peterson Toscano and his one-man play, Transfigurations: Transgressing Gender in the Bible, at the University of Puget Sound. What's controversial about a one-man play, you might ask. Oh, nothing - unless it "explores the life
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The longest running musical in the history of British theater has found its way to Olympia. Cats, which opened in 1981 in London's West End, and then became the longest running show on Broadway, is on a national tour. Based on the work of T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of
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Much to my surprise, Rent won me over in a way even the 2005 movie version, which featured most of the original cast members, could not. It's not that director Stephen Nachamie's version is any better produced, frankly, though in general it holds up fine. Mike Spee is perfect as
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"queen noun \'kw?"n\ 1a: the wife or widow of a king....3b: a goddess or a thing personified as a female and having supremacy in a specified realm...8 often disparaging: a male homosexual; especially: an effeminate one"-Merriam-Webster.com I mean no disparagement whatsoever when I say La Cage aux Folles is a musical
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(CONTEST CLOSED) For this week's Weekly Volcano Morning Quickie e-newsletter contest we're giving away another pair of tickets to see the rock band Green Apple Quick Step at Hell's Kitchen Friday. To enter the contest for the pair of tickets, send an email to feedback@weeklyvolcano.com. We'll randomly
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Scavenger hunts seem to be everywhere these days: museums, ballet companies and, of course, pubs. Many involved drinking booze and dressing like strippers and are not meant for kids, but street scrambles decidedly are family friendly. Typically, a street scramble is about navigating and discovering, which is exactly what will happen
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Picture your perfect Sunday night: the drinks are flowing, the tunes are cranking and you and your friends are dancing it up, having a grand old time. Now picture that evening exactly the same except you are covered in foam. We are not talking about the type of foam that
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As we take to the outdoors with friends and family this Memorial Day weekend to enjoy meat smoking on the grill, sun shining on our faces, taking dips in the pool and the other finer points of life, let us not forget the men and women who have died on
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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 Chick Corea, Gary Burton Seattle.
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I ride my bike to work just after sunrise. About a mile from home, past the fairgrounds and the cemetery, the street becomes a road and plunges into the rolling Palouse, skirting the Moscow city limits. Quail and pheasants spray from the ditches. Wooded hills rise to the north, south
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Despite my oft-noted vocabulary, I can't think of a word for ... What do you call a feeling of nostalgia for something you hated when it actually happened? The first time I saw Rent was in Los Angeles. Neil Patrick Harris played Mark the documentarian; Wilson Cruz played Angel the lovable
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Did you know the Blue Mouseketeers are Tacoma's oldest and only Rocky Horror Picture Show "shadow cast"? If you didn't, consider yourself informed. The Blue Mouseketeers started in 1989 as Enchante, performing at Lincoln Plaza. After relocating to Proctor's Blue Mouse in 2000, the troupe of cult-classic minions, whipping boys