We Recommend
For its first two decades the Hollywood Bowl was the home exclusively to symphonies and sopranos, but that all changed when Frank Sinatra performed with the L.A. Philharmonic on Aug. 14, 1943, marking its first performance of a pop musician. He caressed the mic, the down-beat dandy cooed softly -
We Recommend
Born Warren Anderson Mathis, Bubba Sparxxx grew up in Georgia, where a black friend turned him on to New York mail-order mix tapes. His introduction to rap was dominated by the booty-shaking grooves of 2 Live Crew and the brutal truths spit by N.W.A. Later, when he discovered ATL pioneers
We Recommend
Want to participate in a dairy goat milk tasting? Or maybe enter your kid in a youth tractor pull? How about witnessing a poultry costume contest? You can find it all at the Thurston County Fair. The fair starts Wednesday and provides five days of activities including musical entertainment, home
Stage
I often hear people defend flawed productions by protesting, "It's community theater," thereby entitled to amateur errors. I get that, and do assess productions according to what I know their participants can accomplish. The catch is I've seen some mighty fine community theater over the years. Scan my Carvy year's-best
Schools
It's official, there's a school in Lakewood serving civilian and military students that is on the cutting edge of education. Clover Park School District's (CPSD) Idlewild Elementary School recently announced its has authorization as an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School that implements the Primary Years Program (PYP). Idlewild is the third
Arts
There's a community brewing in Tacoma, and it's not beer. Tacoma's fashion-loving Gritizenry are roaming our urban streets looking for the next fix in the form of crazy-good vintage shoes, jeans that are pure perfection and lovingly worn concert tees that just beg to be snapped up. The best part? We
Music
The first song I ever heard from TV Girl was the title track from their 2011 EP, Benny and the Jetts. I didn't know, at the time, what an appropriate song it was to get introduced to this band. As the story of the song goes, a man is in
Critics' Picks
[INDIE POP] + FRI, JULY 18 Lately, I've been spending too much time thinking about the preponderance of math rock influences in local indie rock. I think I first noticed it during the last batch of Makeup Monster shows. Something changed in the SOTA music scene, and - as near as
