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Lights! Camera! Acne! Here is a unique film event for local cinephiles to support. This could be your chance to meet the next Scorsese, or at least DePalma. The Tacoma School of the Arts seniors Dylan and Dustin Rich will produce the Tacoma High School Film Festival, in partnership with
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK/CELTIC Salty's at Redondo Beach Des Moines. Ayron Jones. 7 pm. Pig Bar at Southbay Dickerson's BBQ Olympia - Downtown. Michael Coucoules and John Croarkin. 8 pm. BLUES Jazzbones Tacoma - Sixth Avenue. James King & The South Siders. 8 pm. $7. COMEDY/GAMES Grit City Comedy Club Tacoma -
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Behind-the-scenes power dynamics of plays and movies are often more theatrical and intriguing than anything that happens in front of a paying audience. We've had, quintessentially, All About Eve, as well as dozens of movie musicals and - perhaps best of
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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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Beginning in 1981, front man Regan Lane, along with keyboardist Robert Richholt, guitarist Jesse Seales and bassist Bob D'Angelo (now of Mechanism) brought a certain power-pop, boy-band charm (complete with '80s hair) and danceable, relatable stories and music to their hometown of Tacoma, and then to the world. Fans in
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I mean no disparagement whatsoever when I say La Cage aux Folles is a musical populated mostly by drag queens. Its two leads are a gay male couple, Georges and Albin. They run a drag cabaret in Saint-Tropez, France, circa 1983. That was the year Allan Carr, producer
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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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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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Thought-provoking reading doesn't have to come from classic authors such as Dickens and Steinbeck. Young adult literature, which continues to grow in popularity, has been producing intriguing works about society that appeal to a wide audience - a fact that King's Books hasn't missed. The Tacoma Stadium District bookstore hosts
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Ever since Bob Dylan assumed the throne as the folk-rock-genius laureate of the 1960s, other artists have clamored to cover his songs. Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower" is one of the guitar god's most enduring hits, more famous than the original. From Peter, Paul and Mary to
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Whether you are a foreign threat or merely a trivia buff, the U.S. Army has more than its share of surprises. Did you know? The Army is older than the United States itself. During a Presidential campaign, Alan Keyes was once challenged to find a reference to God in the Constitution;
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University Place is like Tacoma's baby sister. The region boasts pockets of idyllic residential areas partnered with a bustling main strip that houses a staggering amount of credit unions and all of your creature comfort needs. Just a hop from downtown Tacoma and a bridge toll away from our neighbors
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During the Pleistocene epoch 25,000 years ago, a massive glacier - one of the outlet glaciers of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet - advanced down the Strait of Georgia and graced the shores of eastern Vancouver Island with a soft, rich sweep of sand. The embayments stretching from Deep Bay to Parksville acted
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Robert Fulghum wrote a witty book for us, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. That's funny, and true, too. Play fair. Don't hit people. Clean up your own mess. Goldfish and hamsters die, and so do we. Yep, you learn a lot when you go to kindiegarten,
